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Farming & the land, 1937

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Trade in Wheat Was Depressed Reflex Of Overseas Reports Flour Quiet

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 10

CABLED reports of a smaller general demand and falls in options on the principal wheat exchanges of the world had a depressing effect…

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Wool Prices Rise at Brisbane 10 To 15 Per Cent. Above December Levels

The Sun · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 10

Japanese were the principal buyers at the Brisbane wool sales to-day, but competition was more general than at the Sydney auctions…

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Snowstorms in California. Fruit Crops Damaged. Motorists Marooned. Los Angeles, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 10

Snowstorms are causing serious damage in southern California, and crops, chiefiy of citrus fruits, are being endangered…

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Mixed Farming. Extension of Lucerne Urged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 7

Mr. L. Judd, senior agricultural instructor, considers that only by more extensive plantings of lucerne on the southern slopes and in the Wagga district will a proper mixed…

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Finding Farms by State Survey Govt. Wants Full Productivity

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 5

A COMPLETE survey of the State to ascertain what land is available for closer settlement will be…

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Heating Orchards To Save Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 3

LOS ANGELES, Sunday.--Citrus growers in Southern California are heating their orchards at a cost of £250,000 every night in a desperate…

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Decline in Wheat

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 8

Quotations in the Sydney wheat market declined 12d a bushel for all lines to-day on receipt of reports of easier markets and options overseas,…

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Antwerp Wool Futures

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 14

The reopening of the new year in the "future" market revealed the influence of Japan's co-operation in Australia. Although this feature seems to have been anticipated…

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Wheat Harvest. Grenfell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 9

Harvesting operations throughout the district are nearing completion. Some of the wheat was slightly bleached by the recent rain. Up to the present…

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Wool Boards to Meet

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 10

The first of its kind, a conference of representatives of the Australian, New Zealand and South African wool boards will be opened in Melbourne…

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N.z. Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 12

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. -- Prices at today's wool sales were 1 to 1½ and in many cases 2½, above those of December…

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Wool Firm in Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 13

BRISBANE, Monday. -- Japan re-entered the wool market here today and secured a large proportion of the offerings. The market was very firm compared with…

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Tuberculosis in Cattle. Responsibility of Notification

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 9

Commenting on a statement of a "Herald" reader that all veterinary surgeons should be forced to notify the department of the detection of any cattle suffering from tuberculosis,…

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On the Land Junior Farmers. International Cattle Judging in England. Effort to Send Three Lads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 9

A challenge issued to Australian junior farmers to pit their skill against young stock experts from many countries has been accepted, and efforts are being made to raise…

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Firmer Tone in Local Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 14

Finning on the improved option position overseas, the local wheat market advanced approximately 0½ a bushel yesterday…

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Wheat Harvesting Australian Record Claimed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 9

TOCUMWAL, Monday.—A remarkable day's harvesting has been carried out by R. Stillard, a share farmer on Barooga station. In one day, with a McKay auto-header, he took…

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Wheat Vessels Loading at Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 3

The steamer Tymeric was due at Sydney last evening from Newcastle, under Charter to L. Dreyfus & Co., to load a cargo of wheat for the…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Very Quiet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 13

The city wheat market opened a shade firmer yesterday on the Improvement in oversea options, but conditions were very quiet, owing lo lack of demand for Australian wheat…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 3

The State Marketing Bureau (Department of Agriculture) advises as follows regarding local and overseas wheat values and sales…

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Empire Wool Conference Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 8

Delegates to the Empire Wool Conference, which will commence in Melbourne on Thursday, arrived in Melbourne to-day and were given a…

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