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Farming & the land, 1938

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Cattle Stud Farms Wagga Jerseys Prominent

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 3

Listed among the most prominent of the Jersey studs in N.S.W. is that owned by Mr. A. R. Martin, of "Narooma." Wagga. Many excellent…

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Valuable Beef Cattle Arrive From America

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 13

Thirty-two head of polled shorthorn beef cattle, claimed to be the biggest and most valuable shipment of the kind ever to enter Australia…

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Wool Sales London Prices Firm London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 5

Firm limits continued to prevail at the wool sales to-day. Bidders were anxious to buy and withdrawals were negligible. Continental buyers were…

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London Wool Sales Rise of 5 Per Cent

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 12

The first series of London wool sales opened on Tuseday and most of the 7792 bales offered were sold. There was keen demand, chiefly from…

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600 on Strike at Homebush Abattoirs Few Sheep Killed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 5

Refusing to agree to me re-arranged system of killing chains, 600 men stopped work at the Homebush abattoirs to-day. Twenty thousand sheep…

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Wool Publicity Meagre Resources Far Behind Rayon Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 6

In a report to the Australian Wool Board the International Wool Secretariat points to the relatively meagre resources for its campaign of publicity…

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American Drought Fears u Wheat in Danger New York, Jan. 20

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 3

A drought similar to that of 1934-36, which desolated large sections of fertile land and cost Farmers thousands of millions of dollars, is…

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Wool Market May Be a Carry Over Council Chairman's Statement Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 6

If the necessity arises the Australian Wool Growers' Council will this season carry over a portion or the clip and will possibly adopt…

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Polled Cattle Important Purchase for Wolseley Park Bald Blair Stud Stock to Be on View in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 8

Local Aberdeen Angus cattle enthusiasts no doubt have already seen the full report of the dispersal sale of the world famous "Bald Blair"…

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Feed for Dairy Cows the Neglected Claims of Silage

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 13

Although there is a progressive increase in the quantity of [?]ilage made each year, the total quantity of fodder conserved is quite…

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Melbourne Wool Auctions

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 7

The Melbourne woolbrokers report that, the average price realised for greasy wool sold in Melbourne during the week ended January 22 was 12.24d…

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Increasing Italy's Wheat Output Rome

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 4

Newspapers state that signor Mussolini aims at raising the Italian wheat crop to 100,000,000 quintals in 1938 (compared with 80,000,000 last year),…

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Wool Position Changes Production And Consumption

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 4

If consumption were normal wool would be worth more money than it is at present. It was estimated that the current…

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Hard Wheat Millers Offer Bonus Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 7

A strong demand has set in from millers for hard wheat for blending purposes, mainly with Ford variety, of which there is a preponderance in…

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London Wool Sales Beneficial Russian Influence London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 1

The general opinion in Bradford is that the heavy Russian buying saved wool prices from declining at the recent London sales. The Russians…

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Drought Over U.s.a. Plains Growing Wheat Killed

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 2

The Washington correspondent of the New York “Herald-Tribune” writes that a drought, similar to that which occurred in 1934-36, which…

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Empire Farmers Lord Wakehurst to Open Conference

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 7

The draft agenda for the Empire Primary Producers Conference, which will be opened in Sydney by the Governor (Lord Wakehurst) on March…

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Migration in Ideal Form Farmers in the Making a Picton Picture

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 7

Stanley Baldwin, sunburnt to a nigser brown, and clad in nothing more than a pair of khaki shorts and boots, stood solemnly beside his wheelbarrow…

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Laxton Jury Open-field Farming a Survival of Medieval England

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 6

A ceremony unique in England took place recently in the Nottinghamshire village of Laxton. It was the election and swearing-in of the Jury to…

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Junee Sheep Killed

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 4

Dogs created havoc amongst two mobs of sheep about daylight on Saturday morning. The dogs went down through the "Monte Christo,"…

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