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Farming & the land, 1937

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Insuring Share-farmer

The Land · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 17

"D.W.": I have a share farmer working here and I would like to know if I have to insure him. Could he claim compensation from me if he…

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Apple Crops Heavy

The Land · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 3

Reports received by the Victorian Fruit Marketing Association indicate that apple crops in all the States are heavy. It is expected that 3,800,000…

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Young Farmers In England Receive Wide Support

The Land · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 7

A RECENT conference by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, with the concurrence of the Ministry of Agriculture, discussed the…

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Pigs as a Farm

The Land · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 10

THE growing importance of pigs as a farm sideline on the North Coast is well illustrated by the progress of the pig treating department…

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Huge Drought Losses of Old. Dairymen

The Land · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 10

ACCORDING to the chairman of the Australian Dairy Produce Board (Mr. T. F. Plunkett), it will take, with good…

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Europe's Farm Lesson for Australia

The Land · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 12

THE Minister for Education Mr. Drummond) told the council of the N.S.W. Junior Farmers' Club movement this…

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Prize Crop Stripped 12 Bags

The Land · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 11

THE crop of Dundee with which Messrs. C. Dudley and J. Piric won the Finley district crop competition stripped 12 bags per acre…

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Dairymen Should Watch Herds Closely for Three-Day Sickness

The Land · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 22

WHILE three-day sickness or ephemeral fever appears to be spreading southward from Queensland, where it has occasioned much concern to stockowners and some losses among dairy herds, the outbreaks in New South Wales so far are said to be only isolated and of a nature not to…

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A Section for the Poultry Farmer Start of 1937 Show Season Young Bird Display at Parramatla First Event

The Land · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 23

THE 1937 show season opened with the Parramatta and District Poultry Society's Fifth Annual Young Bird Show which was held at Granville Showground last Saturday. The entries totalled 160, a falling off from last year when 200 birds were entered…

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Referendum. Farmers' Rights. Mr. Bruxner's Plea. "Yes" Vote Advocated

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 12

Strongly supporting the marketing proposals of the Federal Government at the Referendum, the Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) said yesterday…

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PRODUCE. Special Flitches Up /O¼. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 15

As from this morninff special brands of bacon flitches will be advanced /0¼ to /10¼ per lb. Dairy produce agents reported an…

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On the Land Dairy Produce. Butler Consumption Rises. Expansion of Empire Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 11

The continued expansion of milk production, which has meant a greater relative increase in the output of milk products, chiefly butter, is revealed in…

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Poultry Farmers Confer. Steps to Check Disease

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 11

An industry conference further to that convened in November by the Egg Marketing Board to discuss pullorum (B.W.D.) disease in poultry, was held in Sydney yesterday…

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Junior Farmers. Support to Send Boys to England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 11

"It now appeals that sufficient financial support will be forthcoming to enable the Junior Farmer's Club Council to send a team of boys to England to participate in the…

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Vote “No” to Referendum Voluntary Co-Operation Would Increase Farmers’ Income Lyons Aims at Bigger Profits for Rich

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 3

Although Australian capitalism is recovering from the economic crisis which it endured along with the rest of the capitalist world, there is scarcely any improvement in the conditions of the masses of small fanners. The greater part of the…

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Breaches of Act Alleged Dept. And Returned Soldiers on Govt. Farm

The Labor Daily · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 8

SERIOUS complaints that the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Main, is countenancing breaches of the Returned Soldiers' Preference Act in his…

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Sheep and Wool Men's Annual Dinner

The Sun · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 8

The Sheep and Wool Graduates' Association, will hold its second annual dinner at Sargents, Market-street. on Friday, Mr. G. E. Cowley…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Easier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 19

In sympathy with the easier tone of all oversea grain exchanges, the city wheat market opened weak and quiet yesterday. Silo parcels, January-February delivery, were…

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Wheat Loadings and Stocks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 19

For the week ended January 23, 404,215 bags of new season's wheat were despatched from country railway stations, making a total of 6,859,979 bags for the new season, as…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 4

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

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