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Farming & the land, 1936

4,059 stories in Riverina's papers · page 56 of 203

Wool Publicity Appeal £50,000 a Year for 5 YEARS

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 7

Leaders of practically all wool interests in Victoria and Southern Riverina conferred with Mr. R. Wilson, the representative of the…

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Melbourne Wool Auctions

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 5

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that the average price realised for greasy wool sold in Melbourne during the week ended April 4th,…

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Pastoral Notes Stomach Worms Now Active Symptoms

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 3

The symptoms of infestation with the common fourth stomach worm are very distinct and characteristic. The skin loses all vestige of colour…

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Cost of Sodium Chlorate Concessions to Farmers

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 1

Where sodium chlorate is used for the destruction of noxious weeds, and a certificate is given to this effect, its importation is allowed…

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Australian Sheep Shipment Arrives in Japan Tokio

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 April 1936 · page 1

The Genzan Maru to-day landed at Yokohama 765 Australian sheep, being the first instalment of 4200 which the Mitsui Benevolent Society is importing…

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Gold Nugget Ploughed Up on Farm Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 April 1936 · page 2

While ploughing on his father's farm at Armstrong, near Ararat, Stewart Hurnall, aged 19 years, unearthed a nugget of gold…

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Pastoral Notes to Poison Green Timber An Autumn Operation

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 16 April 1936 · page 7

The best time to carry out the work of poisoning green timber is when the trees are passing into the dormant stage, that is, when the sap…

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Rotation of Crops Benefits the Farm and the Farmer

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 16 April 1936 · page 6

Plants are composed of a great many compounds of substances, but of the eighty or more elements known commonly found in plant material…

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Farmer's Losses

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 April 1936 · page 4

A large shed owned by Alfred Lazarus, in Mowatt-street, Queanbeyan, containing a quantity of lucerne, hay, and machinery, was destroyed by fire…

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Lecture on Sheep

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 2

The lecture by Mr. Yeoman, which we published in our last issue, was given to members of the sheep and wool class, conducted by Mr. Board…

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Tenders for Sheep Show

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 2

The sheep show this year promises to be the greatest show yet, already many Inquiries having been made. Tenders for the luncheon booth rights…

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Canadian Wheat Supplies

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 3

Canada it was recently reported is beginning to feel to feel easier about her position to the wheat market. Week by week the soiling policy of the…

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Russian Wheat Production

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 3

The organ of the People’s Commissioners of Agriculture of the United Soviet States of Russia “Socialist Agriculture” cites interesting material…

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The Skeleton Weed Problem "Cost of Specialised Wheat Farming"

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 3

"The cost of specialised wheat farming" was the judgment of the Weeds Officer of the Department of Agriculture (Mr. K. G. Corn) in a recent…

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Sheep Parasites a New Aspect

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 6

IN recent years there has been a tendency to attribute almost any ill thirving condition of lambs to worm infestation. So much so that in many cases lambs are probably being treated for worms, when their discased condition is due to quite other causes. It is probable that the…

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Wheat Stock in Canada

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 3

Advices from Ottawa state that wheat stocks in Canada on March 21 were estimated at 246,000,000 baskets as compared with 282,000,000 baskets…

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London Wheat London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 5

Wheat cargoes on the London market to-day continued to be steady in sympathy with closing foreign advices. Quotations were fully upheld. The…

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Markets Abroad Liverpool Wheat Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 5

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

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Welfare Farm Fire Destroys Buildings LEETON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 1

A sudden outbreak of fire completely destroyed an old block of buildings at the Riverina Welfare Farm yesterday afternoon, Including the dormitory and…

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Welfare Farm Fire Destroys Buildings Lefton

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 1

A sudden outbreak of fire completely destroyed an old block of buildings at the Riverina Welfare Farm this afternoon, including the dormitory and…

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