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Farming & the land, 1939

3,278 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 164

Wheat for Spain a Suggestion

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 3

Arising out of a statement recently published by Mr. G. W. Walker, of the Lindley Walker Wheat Co. Ltd., the Spanish Relief Committee…

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Wagga Sheep Sale Hours

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 4

Sales of store sheep at the Wagga fortnightly market will in future begin at 12 noon. The luncheon adjournment will in future be from…

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Serious Decline in Butter Production Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 4

In view of the serious decline in the production of butter in Australia, the Australian Dairy Produce Board has decided to reduce the weekly…

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When Dipping Sheep Practices to Be Avoided

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 7

Discussing recently a case of mortality in cheep following dipping, the Chief Veterinary Surgeon of the Department of Agriculture stated that…

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Markets Abroad Liverpool Wheat Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 3

A private wheat agent in Sydney received the following cable from Liverpool to-day: "Nominally unchanged, flour 16/6, U.S.A. winter wheat belt…

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Old Silo Wheat Holders Notified to Sell

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 7

There are still about 1,000,000 bushels of wheat of the 1937-8 harvest in the Sydney terminal elevators. A circular has been sent by the silo authorities to…

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Wool Sales New Series Opens Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 1

The fifth series of wool sales opened in Sydney to-day Unler keen competition from the Continental section, and with good support from…

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Tableland Farmers Turnips As a Catch Crop

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 2

The cheapness of the seed, and the ease with which a crop of swedes can be grown in the tableland areas, offers considerable inducement to those…

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Price of Wheat Millers and Growers Differ Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 4

The Queensland Wheat Board and the Queensland millers remain at variance over the price of wheat. The point at issue is the cost of…

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Problem of Soil Fertility Main Wheat Belt Mb. A. H. E. M'donald's Views

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 3

The Director of Agriculture (Mr. A. H. E. M'Donald) states that the restoration and maintenance of the fertility and cultivation and grazing lands…

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Wool Tariff U.S.A. Growers' Desire Exclusion from Australian Treaty Negotiations New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 4

Exchanges of correspondence between the Acing-Secretary of State (Mr Walles) and Senator O'Mahoney disclose that the United States wool…

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Dairying Industry in Riverina and South West Slopes Detrimental Effects of Present Conditions

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 4

Mr. A. L. Astbury, center dairy instructor in charge of the Dairy Branch District of Riverina and South-west Slopes, with headquarters…

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Dairy Factories New Registration Law

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 2

The Dairy Industry (Amendment) Act. 1938, the object of which is to provide for the licensing or registration of new dairy produce factories…

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How to Make Whitewash Many Uses on the Farm

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 2

Obtain, if possible, large pieces of fresh [?ump lime, place them in a very large bucket or other suitable container, and into this [?]our hot water…

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Potato Shortage Queensland Crops Ruined Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 7

Brisbane is suffering a severe Shortage of potatoes. Severe drought has ruined the crops here. Local lines of onions to-day sold up…

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Light and Power for 65,000 Farms Ambitious Snowy River Scene

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 3

New South Wales proposes to harness the Snowy River and to gain great power supplies from its turbulent waters…

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Wool Is Cheap Prices And Buying

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 3

The closing months of 1938 provided some indications of a revival in the world’s wool trade. Great Britain is the best guide…

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"Wheat Treaty" Solving World Glut London Meeting Washington

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 3

Preliminary efforts to explore international wheat questions before the forthcoming meeting of the International Wheat Advisory Committee in…

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TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY "Prison Farm"

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 2

A new side of prison life in America, that of the backward and inhuman prison camp, is revealed to the public for the first time by…

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Science on the Farm Electricity Works A Miracle

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 5

In 65,000 N.S.W. farmhouses the State Government should be reachng heights of popularity to-day. They are the homes to which, according to…

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