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Farming & the land, 1934

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Sheep for Western Australia

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 8

The attention of persons desirous of shipping sheep to Western Australia is again directed to the fact that if on arrival in that State the…

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Italian Wheat Campaign

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 11

According to an overseas report considerable success still attends the efforts of Signor Mussolini to encourage the home production of cereals, his wheat campaign having caused…

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World Wheat Position

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 11

According to statistics collected by the British Ministry of Agriculture, the 1933 wheat crop in North America amounted approximately to 360,000,000 bushels less than in…

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Freight Concession on Stud Sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 10

The Australian Society of Breeders of British Sheep, with headquarters at Wagga, has been advised by the Railway Department of a concession…

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Breadstuffs. Pacific Wheat Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 11

Purchase and sales of approximately 750,000 busheb of wheat for export from the Pacific north-west region of U.S.A., were concluded early in November by the North Pacific…

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Wool Sales Resume To-day

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 8

THE wool sales will be resumed to-day, when the second half of the suction for the 1933-34 season will…

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Wool Adviser Tokio Appointment Unlikely

The Sun · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 6

Well-informed Federal circles do not consider that Mr. W. P. Devereux may be appointed Australian adviser on wool and the wool trade in…

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U.s.a. Winter Wheat Acreage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 11

The calculations of private crop observers for Chicago grain houses indicate strongly the possibility that winter wheat acreage in the United States may be virtually as large as last…

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London Prices Too Low Butter Production Is High

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 8

BUTTER production is being steadily maintained in most dairying districts in N.S.W. but on account of the dislocation of traffic…

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Wool Leads Bradford's Rise LONDON

The Sun · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 1

BRADFORD, the wool manufacturing centre of England, shows the greatest improvement in business as indicated by the…

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Wool Industry. "Prices on Favourable Level."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 8

"I would not like to see the price of Austrillan wool rise above the present level," said Mr. A. E. Hill a prominent Queensland brazier on his return to Sydney yesterday by…

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Field Wheat Contests. Successful Series Near Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 7

The senior agricultural instructor for that part of the central western wheat belt of which Parkes is the centre has summarised the results and lessons of the field wheat…

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Up and Down Higher Average For Wool

The Sun · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 8

In keeping with the optimism of the New Year, substantial rises were recorded in various sections at the resumption of the wool sales to-day…

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World's Surplus Wheat. China Helps to Solve Problem

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 3

In a report on the Chinese trade recently, the Department of Overseas Trade declares that China, hitherto a rice-eating nation, is now consuming…

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Sheep Improvement. Expansion of Department's Work. Trials with Branding Specifics

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 7

In outlining some aspects of the work done by his department during the year, Mr. E. A. Elliott, sheep and wool expert, said that various sheep branding specifics were tested at Trangie…

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Still Higher Wool Prices Forecast of Returning Grazier

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 5

Returning by the Cathay from England yesterday, Mr. A. E. Hill, a Queensland grazier, said there was reason to believe that even better…

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May Advise on Wool From Tokio But Why?

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 7

IT is suggested in Melbourne that Mr. W. P. Devereux may be appointed to the projected, or possible, Australian legation…

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Serious Market Problems Herds Locked Up in N. AUSTRALIA Salvation May Come From Sheep

The Sun · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 9

NORTH AUSTRALIA, including the Northern Territory (which comprises Central Australia), the two Kimberleys of W.A., but not North Queensland, runs about 800,000 cattle, and in present…

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Wool and Gold. French and American Purchases. Bradford's Views on a Complicated Problem. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Bradford, Nov. 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 11

The currency developments in the United States and their possible effect on the value of the French franc are still being closely witched in Bradford. It is being asked…

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Dairy Produce Quotas. Criticism in Britain. "Foolish Foreign Treaties."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 14

Since the beginning of December the campaign in Britain in support of quota restrictions on imports of dairy produce from the dominions has been carried on with…

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