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Farming & the land, 1937

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Wool President

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 12

London, Tuesday.--Mr Dudley Ackroyd, a director of Ackroyd Bros., Ltd. of Bradford has been elected president of the British Wool…

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Wool Expert

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

MR. T. WASHINO, buyer for Mitsubishi. one of the largest Japanese buyers of Australian wools, and one of the keenest experts, examining…

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Fears of Cattle Disease May Reach Coastal Dairy Herds

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 15

Alarm at the rapid spread of three-day sickness among cattle in Queensland is felt by officials of the New South Wales Agriculture Department…

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Wheat Values Recede

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

Heavy liquidation of wheat stocks overseas, particularly on the part of the Argentine, was stated in cables received to-day by Sydney wheat…

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Wool Sales Continue

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 10

BUYERS INSPECTED WOOL at Goldsbrouffh, Mort Ltd.'s Pyrmont store yesterday before the sales began. A section of the store, showing the lines of wool bales…

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Butter Marketing. Victorian Makers' Intentions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 11

LISMORE, Tuesday.—Mr. J. J. Hayter, chairman of directors of Norco Co-operative Company, Ltd., stated at a meeting that the Equalisation Company had received notifica…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Quietly Steady

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

The tone of the local wheat market was quietly steady yesterday, and values were practically unchanged. At the opening sellers asked 5/6¼, for silo parcels, January delivery,…

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Overseas Disease In Cattle BRISBANE

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

Official of the Department of Agricultural said to-day that the Three Days Sickness that spread through cattle herds in Queensland at an…

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Wheat Steady But Trade Inactive

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 14

The local market for new wheat experienced another quiet day, and quotations were unchanged, with sellers offering at 56¼ a bushel and buyers…

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Trading in Wheat Was Lifeless

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 10

BUSINESS in wheat on the local market was quiet. Shippers and millers would not advance their prise offers and farmers were holding off…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 3

The State Marketing Bureau (Department of Agriculture) advises as follows regarding local and overseas wheat values and sales:— Values elsewhere than in Sydney are expressed in English currency…

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Disease in Cattle. Rapid Spread in Queensland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 11

BRISBANE.—A large proportion of the dairy herds of Queensland have been affected by a malady known as "threeday sickness." Officials of the Depart…

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Wool Sales. Average Sorts Higher

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 10

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 12,135 bales, and the clearance, including private sales of…

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World's Wheat Trade an Annual Review

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 1

The Lindley Walker Wheat Company's annual review —World's Wheat and the Trade Outlook—reads: Having confidence in the ultimate value of wheat statistics,…

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Bradford Wool Tops. London, Jan. 4

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

Bradford topmakers have completely withdrawn merino quotations, private cables suggesting that Australian wool sale prices will cause sixty-fours to cost /40 to /4l per lb…

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London Wool Sales London, January 5

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

The first series of the London wool sales tor 1937 will commence on January 12 and conclude on January 27. The catalogue totals 106,800 bales and…

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Wheat for Italy Rio Dorado Leaves Melbourne

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 4

The British steamer Rio Dorado was despatched from Melbourne on Monday by J. Darling & Son with 7500 tons of wheat for Italy…

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Will the Japanese "Make" the Wool Market?

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 38

The Japanese, for the first time this season, are in the auction room buying Australian wool. Apparently they want as much of it as they cart get, and are prepared to pay…

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Supplies of Merino Wool Bright Selling Outlook

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

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd.'s special weekly report states that provided the cost of merino wool does not rise to a level which checks sales of mill products, a strong demand appears to be assured for it. More than half the current Australian clip has…

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Wheat Price Stable World Harvest Outlook London

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 13

THE wheat statistics of the International Institute of Agriculture support the expectation of stability…

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