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Farming & the land, 1937

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Commonwealth Export of Wheat and Flour. 22nd JANUARY

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 5

During December last a total of nearly 5 million bushels of wheat, and flour the equivalent of 2,325,000 bushels, were exported from the…

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Wheat Position (Provided by the State Marketing Bureau on the dates stated.) China’s Winter Wheat Production. 25th January

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 5

Advices to hand from Nanking give the final official estimate of 1935-36 season winter wheat production in China as 847,961,000 bushels, an…

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No. 11 Wheat Fertiliser Trial Early Sown Hay Section, 1936

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

This experiment was sown on April 20, using 60lb of Zealand seed per acre. Plots were l-40th acre, randomised and replicated four times…

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This Season's Wheat 29,232,000 Bushels Received Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 1

The quantity of the 1936-7 season's wheat received at counter, silos is 29,090,000 bushels, and at the Sydney terminal elevator, 142,O00 bushels,…

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Wool Sales London Series N.S.W. Greasy Merino to 23 1/2d LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 3

Strong Russian inquiry at the wool sales to-day resulted in a good demand for better-class wools. Inferior sorts were mostly withdrawn. A moderate…

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Dairy Industry's Claim for "Yes" Vote

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 7

The official case for the dairy industry in support of the referendum has been prepared in consultation with the Primary Producers Union, and…

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Results of Experiments at Government Experiment Farm Valuable Information For Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

The eleventh article on results experiments at the Government Experiment Farm, Wages, is given below. As the Information is of great value, to…

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Flax Crops Possibilities on Irrigation Areas Departmental Experiments

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

The Under Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. G. D. Ross) has informed the P.P. Union that field experiments are still being carried out at the New…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association the Rock Branch

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

A meeting of The Rock branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in Mr. J. Semmen's office on Saturday. Mr. J. H. Tutty occupied…

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Stubble Sown Oats Remarkable Crop

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2
Also in Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review

A yield of 4 tons 13 cwt. per acre of hay has been obtained on stubble ploughed land on the property of Mr. H. Rodham, at Uranquinty, near…

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South-west Farmers Meeting at Rankin's Springs Government Criticised

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

The committee appointed by a mass meeting of farmers held at Hillston on June 6, 1936, in the Roxy Theatre met at Rankin's Springs on Saturday…

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For the Man on the Land Junior Farmers Training in England Minister's Address On Rural Activities Abroad

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

Reference was made at the quarterly meeting of the council of the New South Wales Junior Farmers' Club movement to the project of sending two boys from this State and Victoria to the Royal Show in England. The…

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Junior Farmers Quarterly Meeting in Sydney Rural Activities Abroad

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 3

Reference was made at the quarterly meeting of the council of the N.S.W. Junior Farmers' Club movement to the project of sending two…

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Wheat at Country Silos

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 8

As was predicted at the beginning of the season, the total number of bags of the 1936-37 season's wheat delivered at the Coolamon weighbridge…

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Merino Wool At 41¼d

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 8

One star lot of super merino at the Hobart wool sales on Monday brought 41¼d lb. Average prices, for merinos were disappointing, but…

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Wool For The East Market for Australia

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 8

Sir Norman Cater, in a speech at a dinner given by the Graziers' Association of N.S.W. in Sydney, expressed the opinion that the great…

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Perennial Wheat Important Discovery Fodder and Soil Protection

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 3

The Federal Department of Agriculture announces the evolution by its plant-breeding experts of a type of perennial wheat which it regards…

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12 Fertiliser Trial with Wheat Mid-seson Grain Section, 1936

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 4

This trial was sown on fallow land on May 11. using 70lb of Dundee seed wheat The plots were l-40th acre, randomised and replicated four times,…

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French Pessimism Fears for the Wool Industry Paris, Jany. 25

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 14

"It is undeniable," states M. Robichez, director of the Central Wool Committee, "that certain branches of industry have enjoyed for some…

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