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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

3,278 stories in Riverina's papers · page 28 of 164

Need for Network of Dams Farmland “Defences”

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 5

All the armaments Australia can make or buy will be if little use to her or the Empire in a crisis if the great farmlands and sheep runs are…

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Wool Report

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 4
Also in Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser

The Farmers and Graziers' Cooperative Co. Ltd. reports on the 27th ult.:-- We submitted at our sale on…

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Special Sheep Sale Next

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 2

The Cootamundra Associated Agents will hold a special sale of store sheep on Friday next. The splendid rains throughout this State and Victoria…

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Wool Outlook Yorkshire's Trade

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: the wool market has retained its freedom from quotable variation, but Continental top markets have not been as…

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Wagga Sheep Market All Classes Dearer

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 2

The associated agents of Wagga (the Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co., Dalgety & Co. Ltd., the A.M.L. & F. Co., S. V. Best & Co., and…

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World Wheat Conference London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 6

The Secretariat of the Wheat Advisory Committee issued a statement that it is anticipated that the committee will meet when the preparatory…

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Wheat Bounties Payment Direct to Farmers Statement in Assembly Western Lands Administration SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 1

The payment of wheat [?]ties will be made direct to the farmers in future and not to any supervisors. This statement was made…

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Markets Abroad Liverpool Wheat Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 2

A private wheat agent in Sydney received the following cable from Liverpool: "Western Australian afloat 22/3, steady, Spain bought to-day…

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Wool Sales Sydney Market Unchanged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 6

At to-day's wool sales, under good competition, the market showed no change from yesterday's auctions. Greasy merinos sold to 24[?] for five…

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Graziers Meet Southern Riverina Association Wool Publicity Increased Levy Favored

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 7

When the annual meeting of the New South Wales and Southern Riverina Graziers' Association was held at the Australian Hotel, Wagga, yesterday Mr…

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For the Man on the Land Artificially Dried Grass Valuable Concentrate Restoration of Soil Fertility in Wheat Districts

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 7

Artificially dried young grass is a valuable concentrate for stock, and the utilisation of pasture in this form is receiving increasing consideration from farmers in Great Britain. The main obstacles to the wider adoption…

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Farmers' Relief Payment Direct to Farmer

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 2

The Treasurer (Mr. Mail) said in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday that he believed it was the intention of the Farmers' Relief Act that…

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Dairyman's Truck Overturned Accident on Wet Road

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 3

Returning from Narandera on Sunday evening, Mr. H. A. McDonald, of the "Glenrock" Dairy, Leeton, and two passengers, had a narrow escape…

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Junior Farmers' Club N S W

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 7

Edgar Harper, who won the wheat growing State championship two years ago, has repeated this performance. He has just been acclaimed the…

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Wheatgrowers' Union Seeks Free Railway Passes for Farmers Grenfell

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 4

The New South Wales Wheatgrowers' Union carried a resolution to-day asking the Government to grant to any farmer who might be disposing of his…

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Care of Eggs on the Farm

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 2

The method of storing eggs on the farm, awaiting despatch to market, often leaves much to be desired. The room in which the eggs are kept…

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The Dairying Industry

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 5

It is safe to say that 50 per cent. of the dairying industry in Australia, particularly that phase of it which is comprehended in the term "mixed…

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Motor Engineering and Farm Mechanics

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 1

THE Mobile Workshop of the Technical Education Branch will arrive in Leeton to-morrow (Saturday) and remain here…

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State Marketing Bureau Review of Potato Crop Conditions Batlow

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 1

Advices received from this district are to the effect that following 130 points of rain received on 17th and 18th February a further 220 points…

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