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Farming & the land, 1934

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Cattle Sale at Nowendoc

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 13

NASH & McKENSEY, auctioneers, Walcha, advertise in this issue a new venture—the holding of cattle sales on Nowendoc Station…

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Peak Hill Sheep Sale

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 13

A SPECIAL sale of 10,000 sheep by Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co., Ltd., in conjunction with Messrs. Roach and Matthews, will be held at Peak Hill on…

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Monday Sheep Market Irregular

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 25

In view of the sharp increase in the values of sheep skins, and the moderate supply of sheep and lambs forward, it was generally expected that values at Homebush on Monday…

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Sheep Sale at Goulburn

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 13

AT Goulburn next Tuesday (January 16) W. H. Wheatley will offer 20,000 wellbred store sheep, including lines of breeding Merino, Corriedale, and first cross…

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Wheat Fleet Mustering

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 7

MASTERING in South Australia for the wheat race to Europe, the windjammers' ranks are thinning. The last big fleet…

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Sydney Wool Prices

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 11

Following are wool prices current in the Sydney market:- Greasy extra super merino fleece (free or nearly), best to /36[?]…

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WHEAT Overseas Market Dull (By Our Wheat Market Correspondent.)

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 25

WEDNESDAY.—The overseas wheat market continues dull, although the undertone is quietly steady. European supplies appear to be diminishing as there is less tendency to…

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Coming Sales Western Sheep Sales

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 13

SPECIAL sheep sales will be held at Forbes on Tuesday, January 23, and Parkes on Wednesday, January 24. At Forbes the Farmers and Graziers'…

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Wheat Stocks in Elevators

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 11

Up to January 10, deliveries of new season's wheat to New South Wales Government grain elevators in country centres amounted to 20,024,000 bushels, and 519,000 bushels at extra…

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Wheat Inquiry. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 8

Public evidence will probably be called about the beginning of February by the Royal Commission appointed by the Commonwealth Government to inquire into the wheat industry…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Inactive

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 11

Conditions in the city wheat market yesterday were unaltered. Trade in parcels was inactive. The value of bulk wheat was nominally 2/7[?] for prompt delivery. The position…

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Pastoral Workers Declare Situation Favorable for Struggle

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 6

THE recent annual Conference of the Pastoral Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia, held in Sydney, was the must successful yet held. It was held in a period when the union had come through a period of great difficulties, a period which…

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Cattle King's Voyage on Ths Nils

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 15

SIR SIDNEY KIDMAN, who is known throughout Australia as "the cattle king," has returned to Adelaide after an eight months'…

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Stud Stock Record Cattle Shipment Australia

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 10

A shipment of stud cattle by [?] steamer Tairoa, which reached [?] mantle on Monday, is said to be [?] largest which has ever passed thro[?]…

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Cattle Tick Stockowners Blamed for Apathy

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 3

"Ticks in the Cangai district (where they were first discovered on the Clarence River) are particularly bad," said Mr. W. M. Hughes, the…

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Hand Knitted Wool Jersey

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 12

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Haunted Huts and Ghostly Cattle Camps

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 14

ON bush tracks where settlers' homes were widely scattered, one frequently came upon a "haunted hut," not only in the big timbered regions of the eastern side, where mysterious sounds and weird bird cries kept the lonely camper listening, but far outback where those sounds were absent. On the long stock routes there were…

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Rain-resistant Wheat in Riverina

The Land · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

A REPORT from Finley, where rain has caused great delay in harvesting, states that despite the rain which has fallen on the…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 3

The State Marketing Bureau Department of Agriculture, New South Wales, advise the following:— Liverpool Values…

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