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Farming & the land, 1936

4,059 stories in Riverina's papers · page 38 of 203

London Wheat London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1936 · page 6

Wheat cargoes on the London market were easier following reactionary tendencies of closing foreign cables and bearish reports of spring sowings…

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Chicago Wheat Chicago

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1936 · page 6

Chicago wheat options were quoted: May, 99½ cents a bushel; July, 89 5-8 cents; September 88½ cents. Winnipeg futures: May, 84 3-8 cents…

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Markets Abroad Liverpool Wheat Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1936 · page 6

A private wheat agent in Sydney, received the following cable message from Liverpool: "Unchanged; sold parcel South Australian afloat, 30/3;…

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Wool in Favor General Supporting Factors

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 12 March 1936 · page 7

Statistically wool has been in a strong selling position this season [?]nd that fact has assisted to a great extent in providing a strong selling…

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London Wool Sales Active Competition LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 12 March 1936 · page 1

Active competition prevailed at the wool sales to-day, and holdings, sold well at yesterday's opening rates…

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Wool Sales London Prices Up 5 Per Cent. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 March 1936 · page 6

The second series of the London wool sales for 1936 opened today. Prices ranging from par to 5 per cent, increase were a feature of the sales…

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Wife Helps Farmer

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 12 March 1936 · page 2

Says the "Bulletin": "Eight years ago Mr. A. T. Kerr left Hurstville, and, with very little capital, took up 560 acres near Quandialla. He was told…

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Wheat Position. World’s Wheat Crops

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 3

Review a revised estimate of the world’s wheat crop this season, the “London Grain Reporter” says: “The September forecast was slightly on the…

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Wool and Sheep Classing Application for Instruction at Coolamon

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 2

At yesterday’s meeting of the Coolamon branch of the F. and S. Association, Mr. J. Dredin said that instruction in sheep and wool classing was being…

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Wool Report

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 6
Also in Adelong and Tumut Express

The Farmers a [?] Co-operative Co. reports on the 6th that: We submitted to the rule on Thursday 5th instant, a [?]…

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Estimated Wheat Surplus

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 3

The stocks of old season’s wheat and flour held in New South Wales at the end of November, 1935, were (in equivalent wheat) 5,980,000 bushels…

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Wheat for New Zealand

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 3

Although New Zealand may have to import wheat from Australia, this year, it is not regarded to the trade that the quantity required will be very…

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London Wool Sales Prices Favor Sellers LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 1

At the wool sales to-day 9584 bales were offered, and of these 8481 were sold. New South Wales submitted 665 bales. Competition was active with…

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Wool Sales London Market Continues Firm London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 5

The second series of the London wool sales continued to-day and remained firm at yesterday's opening rates. Buyers had 9603 bales from which to…

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Fat Lamb Breeding . Eliminating Haphazard Methods Sheep and Wost Epert, Department of Agriculture

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 4

A decided charge in stock manage and agriculture generally has, in recent years, been most noticeable in the Southern Tablelands and higher…

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Tumbarumba in Retrospect Golden Years of Progress From Sheep Run to Thriving Town Wealth Won From the Soil and the Ground Settlement and Progress of Tumbarumba

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 3

The settlement of New South Wales was inevitably and naturally a slow process. In the early days of the colony attention had to be devoted to the areas immediately surrounding Sydney, with the pathetic little group…

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Farmers' Relief Grants for States for Debt Adjustment

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 3

In the Loan (Farmers' Debts) Adjustment Act, which will be brought before the Federal Parliament shortly, State and Federal legislation…

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For the Man on the Land Turkey Breeding in Riverina Great Importance of Industry Intensive Farming Activities Comments by Poultry Expert

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 6

The article given below, the fourth and last of the series, by the poultry expert of the Wagga Government Experiment Farm (Mr. G. W. Smith) deals with very important factors in turkey breeding in Riverina…

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Australian Crop

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 3

The latest estimate by the Common wealth Statistician (Mr. E. T. McPhee) of the area under wheat for grain in Australia for the season 1935-34…

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