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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

3,820 stories in Riverina's papers · page 6 of 191

Earl De La Warr to Visit All States Desire to See Farming Conditions Fremantle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 8

Earl de la Warr (Lord Privy Seal in the British Cabinet) reached Fremantle to-day by the liner Strathnaver. He will attend the 150th anniversary as the…

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Wheat Position British Wheat Demand

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

British buyers have maintained interest in Australian wheat and have made further extensive purchase sales reported at the beginning of…

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Wool Report

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 6

The Runners & Graziers Co-operative live Co. Ltd. reports on the 11th inst We submitted at our sale on Monday, 3rd instant, a catalogue of 8,283 bales…

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Pastoral Conditions Feed and Water Scarce

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 6

Landholders western district on New South Wales are expecting great [?] account of [?] of grazing for their stars [?]…

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Wheat Position Australian Wheat. 50,000 Tons for Greece

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 4

The Greek Government has given permission for the importation 50,000 tons of Australian wheat including a proportionate reduction in…

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American Wheat Chicago

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

Chicago wheat options were quoted: May 965 cents a bushel, July 903, September 88½ cents. Winnipeg futures: May 126½ cents a…

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Wagga Stock Sales Fat Cattle Show Improvement

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

The associated agents of Wagga (Dalgety and Co. Ltd., S. V. Best and Co., the Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., Younghusband Ltd., and the…

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Brisbane Wool Sales Brisbane

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

Continental buyers, notably German, were active at the wool sales yesterday. First combings realised to 19[?]d per lb., the highest price of the series…

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Wheat Trade Review 1936-1937 SEASON. (By the Lindley Walker Wheat Co. Ltd)

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 4

The value of wheat statistics is always a guide to grain traders and flour. millers, but under existing world conditions they must be considered in…

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Markets Abroad London Wheat London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

Wheat cargoes were quieter to-day after an overnight setback overseas. American and La Plata were offered 3d to 6d down. Australians hesitatingly…

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Plant Breeding Importance to Wheat Industry

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 6

In a summary of the work of the plant breeding branch of the Department of Agriculture the Director (Mr Wenhole) claimed that plant breeding…

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Internal Parasites in Sheep Need for Better Animal Husbandry

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 5
Also in Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser

STOMACH worms, intestinal worms, lung worms and fluke are responsible for serious economic loss on the farm. The…

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Bleached Wheat Important Tests Some Dockages Not Justified

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

Research was carried out by Mr. L. S. Cayzer, M.Sc., Higher analysis to the Department of- Agriculture. likely lo result in farmers obtain…

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Production and Breeding Records Value to the Dairy Farmer

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 6

Many dairymen keep cows which are unprofitable in their herd simply because those cows are good-looking animals, or perhaps because in the…

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Wool and Cotton Price Factors Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 6

Wool has receded in value since December, but cotton has improved slightly, being quoted at 4.97d in English currency. The price of the…

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The Wool Trade Lower Market Half-year’s Turnover

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

Prices for superfine wools of good length were without quotable change last week's Sydney sales, but the market for all other classes showed a…

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Wheat News Prices Rise Last Friday’s Animated , Market Largest Turnover This Season

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 4

The Sydney wheat market, after a period of quietness, leapt into activity on Friday last, and more business was done than on any day since the…

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North West Wheat Equals Manitoba No. 1. “Quite Different Prom Ordinary Australian.”

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 4

A highly encouraging report has been received from Dr. D. W. Keat Jones, the English consulting cereal chemist, in reference to the milling…

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