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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1937

3,937 stories in Riverina's papers · page 13 of 197

Price of Wheat Drops 6d a Bushel Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 1

The price of wheat has dropped 6d a bushel in the last week, a further fall of [?] taking place to-day. The decline was due to selling pressure from…

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£16,000,000 For Wheat Italy's Huge Purchase Australian Supplies Rome

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 4

Through Genoaese brokers Italy has bought 24,600,000 tons of wheat, mainly from Australia, Rumania, and Hungary. As the…

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Old Man Drought Took Heavy Toll in Queensland 3,500,000 Sheep Lost Last Summer

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 1

Experience gained from previous droughts indicates it will take several years for Queensland to recover fully from the effects of the very severe…

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Japanese Appeal to Import More Wool Trade Bureau Not Favorable Tokyo

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 6

The "Asahi" says that a deputation appealed to the Trade Bureau that; whereas the programme is to buy 740,000 bales of wool during the…

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The Harvest Effect of December Rains Growth of Skeleton Weed Promoted Advantages of Mixed Farming Policy

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 3

The senior agricultural instructor for the Southern Slopes district (Mr. L. Judd) in his report for the month of December, points out that the…

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Results of Experiments at Government Experiment Farm Valuable Information For Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 2

The fifth article on results of experiments at the Government Experiment Farm, Wagga, is given below. As the information is of great value to…

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Sheep and Cattle Sale

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers' Cooperative Co. Ltd., Wagga, and Edward Wilkinson and Son, Tumut, report having held a successful special…

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Pastoral Cup

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 8

The Wagga reserve team, Which won the Pastoral Cup from Turvey Park Mast Sunday, will be called upon to defend the trophy on Sunday against…

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Wool Report

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2
Also in Adelong and Tumut Express, Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review, Cootamundra Herald

The Farmers & Graizers' Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 15th instant: In the absence of the buyers who…

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Ambulance Wheat Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 4

A further donation of three bags of wheat was received yesterday from Ladysmith, per G. P. Clipsham, the donors being Messrs. A. Joss, J. Woods…

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World Wheat Shipments

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

World wheat shipments for the week ended January 14 were heavy, aggregating 1,510,000 quarters, of which 1,355,000 [?] were for European…

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Outlook for Wheat

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

A message from London on 16th January state that the wheat market was [?] resellers [?] sales of Australia and Argentine wheat…

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Wheat & Flour Exports

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

Exports of wheat [?] flour four from Australia to the week ended January 19, showed a substantial increase compared with those of the previous…

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Alleged Wool Stealing

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

At the Leeton police court yesterday, before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., Thomas P. O'Reilly was charged on two counts of stealing 160 lbs of…

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Sydney Wool Report

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

The Country Producers' Selling Co., Ltd., reported on 21st: Upon the resumption of sales in sydney after the buyers return from Brisbane, values…

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Queensland Drought Heavy Sheep Losses

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 1

Drought conditions in 1935 reduced the number of sheep in Queensland by 3,327,029. This represented 7[?] per cent, of the total loss of 4,488,006…

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29 Sheep Killed by Lorry

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 4

About 6 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Frederick George Bye, of Tumut, was moving a flock of about 800 sheep to the Wagga saleyards. When about…

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