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Farming & the land, 1937

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Wool Goes to Japan 6 Fiery Bidding at Sales

The Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 7

JAPANESE buyers again dominated the Sydney wool market to-day. Prices were fully…

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Bulk Wheat System In Favour. Large Deliveries. Steady Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 17

It is estimated that when deliveries of bulk wheat cease this season—probably in a fortnight's time—about £6,500,000 worth of grain will have been handled…

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Demand for Wool Should Hold Trade Is Optimistic Of Future

The Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 7

Wool should meet, in the next few months, a demand as strong as that which at yesterday's sales lifted prices from 5 to 15 per cent. This…

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Wool Price Rises. Japan Buys. 10 to 15 Per Cent. Increase. Keen Bidding

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 11

Values for average ordinary fleece wools and for skirtings suitable for Japan were 10 per cent. and occasionally 15 per cent. above closing…

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Financial. Wool and Textiles. a Continental Review. Heavy Demand and Rising Values. (From a Correspondent.) By Air Mail. BREMEN, Dec. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 13

The state of the German trade at present is difficult to determine accurately. On the one hand is a general advance of the foreign primary markets; and on the other hand…

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Japanese Buyers Skyrocket Wool Price Re-enter Market To Brisk Bidding Effects of Govt. Action (Great Loss To Australia 15 p.c. RISE

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 5

RE-ENTERING the wool sales yesterday in Sydney end Melbourne for the first time 7 months, Japanese buyers, in brisk competition with…

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“Farm Workers Organise Union Headquarters in Country

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 4

PERTH.—A meeting of farm workers at Lake Grace, the centre of an extensive wheatgrowing district. held early in October,…

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Poultry Farmers Fight For Democratic Control OF N.S.W. Egg Board

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY.—The poultry farmers of N.S.W. are engaged to a struggle against the Stevens government bureaucracy in control of the…

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Collstar Raced for Last Time Broke Down While Competing At W. Farm Talking Worked

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 2

COLLSTAR'S failure to finish in a prominent position in the Warwick Farm January Handicap on Saturday was popularly attributed…

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Phaedius at Top of Form Warwick Farm Run Splendid in Two Races

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 2

PHAEDIUS is entered for two events at Kembla Grange this afternoon--Welter Handicap, of six furlongs, and South Coast Mile--and…

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Expanding Demand for Fruit Huge Imports Into England During Year Apple Crops

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 7

THE United Kingdom last year imported nearly 1,500,000 tons of fresh fruit, which was a record, writes a London correspondent…

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A Broker To His Client Farmer & Co. Ltd

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 12

CLIENT: For the fourth year in succession Farmer and Co., Ltd., has shown steady improvement in results. Pre-depression profits, however, have…

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Frog Farming---a New Industry in Australia. What Has Been Done in America

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 10

THE freighter Forthbank, which arrived in Sydney from New Orleans recently, brought a consignment of 15 specially bred giant frogs which will be used for the breeding of frogs for food purposes on farms at Burwood and at Orange…

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Skeleton Weed. Rapid Growth in December. Value of Competing Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 9

Reviewing the conditions in skeleton weed infested areas as on December 31, Mr. K. G. Carn, weeds officer of the department, said that wheat farmers in the south-west and…

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Progressive Farming. Pastures and Conserved Fodder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 9

Mr. C. E. Ahrens, B.Sc.Agr., who was recently appointed principal of Navuso Agricultural College, in Fiji, gave details yesterday, of progressive farming methods employed…

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On the Land Farm Efficiency. The Women's Share. Miss Lorna Byrne's Tour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 9

Interesting information regarding the training of rural women for greater efficiency in the home life on the farm in various parts of the world is…

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Japan Buys £170,000 Worth Of Wool Return to the Market Lifts Prices 10 TO 15 P.C. Continued Demand And Record Cheque Likely

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 2

JAPANESE buyers, bidding at the Sydney wool sales yesterday after seven months' silence, bought about 7000 bales -- half the day's offering -- worth about £170,000, and raised prices from 10 to 15 per cent…

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Rush of Ships on Sydney Loading Wheat & Wool

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

More than 30 ships are at present berthed in Sydney Harbor, the greater number of them either loading wheat or wool for transport to the United…

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Butter for Export

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 5

During the week ended Jan. 2, 1937, the Commonwealth graders examined for export the following butter:— Sydney: Salted, 2452 boxes;…

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The Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 15

Recent rains were well spread over all New South Wales dairying districts, and pastures are already responding, reports Prescott, Ltd. An improvement in production is already…

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