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Farming & the land, 1937

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 5

Values elsewhere than in Sydney are expressed in English currency. Liverpool Values: March delivery—closed at 5/1¾ per…

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China Will Buy More Wool

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 5

"CHINA has trebled her imports of wool from Australia in the last three years, and she will increase them in future."…

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London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 19

The London wool sales were continued to day with an offering of [?] bales of which 8145 were sold. The catalogue included 2209 bales from New South Wales, 1181 from Queensland, 2263 from…

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Oversea Market Cables. Bradford Wool Tops. London, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 19

The Bradrord wool tops market is firm, Machinery activity is maintained. Quotations: Merinos, seventies /41 per lb (down /1 on the week), sixty-fours /39 (down /1);…

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Antwerp Wool Futures Official Quotations (In English Pence per lb)

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 3

The Australian Producers' Shipping Agency, agents at Sydney for Antwerp Wool Futures Pty., Ltd., Melbourne, advise the following official…

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On the Land the Wool Trade. Values Easier. Commonwealth Exports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 14

Bulky sales of wool were effected at this week's Sydney auctions, but the market dio not show the extreme buoyancy for inferior to average fleece wools and skirtings…

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Referendum "Yes May Mean Chaos in Wheat" G. W. Walker's Warning

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 5

TO meddle with section 92 of the Constitution might quickly bring Australia's wheat industry into chaos, said Mr…

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£1,500,000 Gain From Wool Sales Big Advance in N.Z. Cheque Auckland

The Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 4

Woolgrowers in new Zealand nave already received more than £1,500,000 more from the first six wool sales of the season than from the…

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PRODUCE. Special Sides and Flitches Advance. DAIRY

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 19

As from this morning special bacon sides and flitches will be advanced [?] making sides 1/ and flitches /10 per lb. The Egg Board reports that during the…

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Wool Imports to Japan Extra 100,000 Bales Authorised Tokio

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 13

The Wool Industry Control Association has decided to apportion quotas for import of an extra 100,000 non-Australian bales of wool on the…

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Big Wool Cheque in N.Z. Six Sales Show Gain of £1,500,000 AUCKLAND

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 3

From the first six wool sales of the season, woolgrowers in New Zealand have received over £1,500,000 more than from the corresponding sales…

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Two Dairymen Fined Dead Flies In a Milk Can

Truth · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 14

WHEN Daniel Currie, a Milk Board inspector, examined a cart and milk containers, being used by a milk carter at the…

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Cattle Dearer at Homebush Irregular Market In Sheep Section

The Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 7

There were 12.530 lambs. 18,206 sheep, and 3070 cattle forward at Homebush to-day for sale. The sheep market was irregular at…

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Butter

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 3

The London butter market is dull. Danish is nominally quoted 108/ (o 110/; choicest salted Australian and New Zealand 93/ to…

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Cattle Disease

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 15

GRAFTON, Sunday. -- Three-day cattle sickness has broken out in the Clarence district. Many dairy herds have been…

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Wheat

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 3

The local wheat market last week was very quiet. On Thursday silo wheat, January delivery, was offering at 4/11 1/2, but sellers…

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Wool

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 3

Last week's wool sales opened to a very strong and general competition, but prices for all but the best descriptions ruled from…

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Butter and Cheese Quotas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 7

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Main), on the recommendation of the New South Wales Dairy Products Board, has decided upon the following quotas: Butter, 38 per cent.; cheese,…

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Produce. the Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 11

All dairying centres in New South Wales report a steady increase in output which should continue providing the extremely hot weather experienced during the last week does…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Weaker

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 11

The oversea wheat market closed very weak on Friday. There was heavy liquidation, and there were not many buying bids. The local market reflected these conditions on…

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