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Farming & the land, 1937

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World Wool Publicity Establishing Empire Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Delegates from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa today decided to establish the…

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Homebush Stock Sales Thursday's Market Sheep Weaker; Lambs Unchanged

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 28

The demand for grown sheep was again weaker at Homebush and values throughout for all descriptions were decidedly in buyers favor. Lambs, however, were in good…

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Sheep-raising German Four-year Plan. Berlin, Jan. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 12

Statistics issued by the Bremen chamoer of Trade reveal that Government subventions resulted in an increase of 500,000 in the number of sheep in Germany. The total now is…

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Stock and Property Market Auction Sales to Come Sheep

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 30

FORBES.—Fortnightly, Tuesdays. Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co. Ltd. and W. K. Garnsey, Ltd., Senr., Forbes, in conjunction. Next sale, January 19…

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Pioneer Dairy Farming Family of the West

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 11

THE Muldoons, of "Ethelton" Vale Road, Bathurst, are justly entitled to recognition as one of the pioneer dairying families of the…

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Riverina Crops. Good Prices Help Farmer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 9

ALBURY, Thursday.—Wheat deliveries at the principal receiving centres in the Riverina show that the crop weight is much heavier than anticipated from early estimates. Most…

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Receivals at Wheat Silos May Reach 30 Million Bushels

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 5

THE manager of the Grain Elevators (Col. Holborrow) stated on Wednesday that so far 28,332,000 bushels of wheat…

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Demand for Wool Increased by Rearmament. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 12

The Department of Agriculture reports that foreign rearmament programmes indicate that wool prices will remain on high levels for the next few months, for the increased use of…

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Long-Range View of Wheat Still "Bearish," Says Pool Man

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 5

"THE average Australian wheat price for the last 75 years is 4/8½ a bushel so that there is really nothing unusual about the…

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To Protect Wool Industry Against Substitutes Dominions Unite in Campaign

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 8

EFFORTS to formulate a common policy for the development and protection of the Empire wool industry are being made by the Dominion Wool Conference which was opened in Melbourne by the Prime…

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Increased Wheat Sowing on Skeleton Weed Land Would be Harmful District Correspondent

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 12

WAGGA, Tuesday.—The note of warning sounded by Mr. E. Field, vice-president of the Farmers and Settlers' Association and former general president, in last week's issue of "The Land" should be taken to heart by the wheatgrower in skeleton weed infested…

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On the Land Skeleton Weed. Seed from Wheat Graders. Means of Dissemination

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 9

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. H. Main) said yesterday that because imperfectly cleaned wheat graders had in some cases been responsible for the spread of…

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Smaller Wheat Yield. Estimate for 1936-37. Six Per Cent. Decline. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 11

Final estimates for the 1936-37 wheat season, issued to-day by the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. Roland Wilson), state the area under wheat for…

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Wool Fund. International Plan. Empire Conference. Appeal for Freer Trade. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 12

Representatives of woolgrowers in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand decided at the Empire Wool Conference to-day to establish an…

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Fund for Promotion of Wool Decision Of Empire Conference Advertising Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 12

THE Empire Conference of Wool-growers, which opened to-day, decided to create a fund to be called the International Wool Promotion…

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Market News and Reviews of the Week Finance Letter a City Man Writes to His Country Cousin Higher Wool, Wheat, and Metal Prices Engender Confidence — Business Men Expect a Good Year Pitt Street, Sydney, January 12, 1937

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 27

Dear Tom,- It will interest yon to know that everywhere I go in the city—and my peregrinations take me to a good…

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Best in North, New Yards Can Accommodate 50,000 SHEEP Enterprise of Manilla Auctioneer Large Gathering at Inaugural Stock Sale

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 16

THE new saleyards at Manilla were officially opened on Friday last. By far the best in the north, they are comparable with: the most up-to-date country saleyards in the.State... Convenient, efficient, and serviceable,. they..are.capable of accommodating 45,000 to 50,000 sheep…

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A Modern Farm Juggernaut Twentieth Century Harvesting Methods in the Central-west

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 1

A power farming plant harvesting wheat at "Edaville," the property of Mr. R. Penfold, near Quandialla…

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Successful Aboriginal Farmers of North Queensland

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 15

THERE are four Government aboriginal settlements in Queensland —the (most native…

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Gleanings from the Grain World Prize Crop Taken Off

The Land · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 5

A 100-ACRE block of wheat which won for Mr. W. J. Steer, of Calleen, first place in the West Wyalong crop, competition, has returned a yield of 1238…

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