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Farming & the land, 1937

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Recovery in Wheat Prices

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 2

After a week of falling prices, wheat recovered 2[?] d to 50½ a bushel, yesterday. The sale of two cargoes, totalling…

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Albury Wool Sales Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 29

The fourth series of the Albury wool sales was held on Wednesday, 3rd instant, when the Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd. offered a catalogue of 6000 bales. The…

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Special Wrapping Prevents Butter Storage Taint

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 11

EXPERIMENTS conducted by the Department of Agriculture indicate that the injurious effects on butter arising from packing in…

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Malnutrition Affects Wool Fibre

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 8

UNIFORMITY and strength of wool fibre depend on adequate nutrition. Malnutrition of the sheep leads to…

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New Type Artificial Wool

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 8

The importation of a new type of artificial wool, "Asalfa," from Italy has begun. It is selling in America at 40 cents (about 1/8) a lb. duty…

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City Milk Threat Cattle Fever Spreading

The Sun · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 12

THE rapid spread of three-day sickness or ephemeral fever among dairy herds supplying Sydney's milk is…

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Noogoora Burr Menaces Good Sheep Lands

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 8

A grave warning that unless Noogoora burr, which is infesting the banks of the Macquarie River, is immediately controlled thousands of…

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Wollongong's Fine Show of Dairy Cattle Leading Breeds Were Well Represented at Sth. Coast Exhibition

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 12

WOLLONGONG, although only on the fringe of the South Coast dairying country, is justified in claiming to have one of the best dairy cattle shows on the coast…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 5

Values elsewhere than in Sydney ore expressed in English currency. Liverpool Values: March delivery—closed at 5/0 1/4 per…

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F.a.q. Wheat Standard

The Sun · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 1

Determining the f.a.q. standard of the 1936-37 wheat crop at the Chamber of Commerce to-day. On the left is the chairman of the Grain Trade Sectional Committee (Mr. J. S. Cameron), and, on the right, the Government inspector of weights and measures (Mr. H. T. Tuck)…

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Recovery in Price for Wheat

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 12

FOLLOWING the sharp advance in options overseas, wheat on the local market under keen speculative buying rose 2[?]d. a bushel yesterday…

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Increase In Weekly Butter Quota for Export

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 3

THE Australian Dairy Produce Board has increased the weekly shipments of butter from Australia from 1500 tons to 2000 tons. The…

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Higher Eastern Wool Freights Feared

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 8

The president of the Graziers' Association of N.S.W. (Mr. J. P. Abbott), commenting this week on a report that the E. and A. shipping line had…

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Bencubbin Most Popular W.A. Wheat

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 6

BENCUBBIN wheat, produced at the Merredin (W.A.) Research Station, is now the most popular variety in Western Australia and is attracting…

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Sharp Rise in Local Wheat Prices

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 22

Further sales of Australian wheat took place overseas yesterday, two New South Wales cargoes passing at 416, and another at 414½…

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Planes May Carry Cattle Disease Virus To Australia

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 24

EXPERIMENTAL work is being undertaken in Queensland to endeavor to find the agent responsible for transmission of the three days' fever in cattle which is believed to be a mosquito brought from Java and adjacent countries…

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Goulburn Store Sheep Sales. High Prices for Corriedales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 9

GOULBURN, Thursday.—Corriedale sheep bred by Messrs, C. E. Prell and Sons, of Gundowringa, topped the market at Mr. W. H. Wheatley's special store stock sale at the Goulburn saleyards, when…

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Wool Sales. Fresh Season's Sydney Record

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 8

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 12,825 bales, and the clearance, including private sales, of passed…

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21b a Bushel Loss In Riverina Wheat

The Land · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 6

ACCORDING to Mr. T. P. Taylor, district agricultural instructor, nearly all the wheat harvested in the Western Riverina…

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Wheat Standard Fixed Today Second Grading Likely

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 22

The fixing of the State wheat standard (f.a.q.) will be conducted by the grain section of the Chamber of Commerce this morning…

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