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Farming & the land, 1938

9,907 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

Wheat Grain Display. Strong Support for the Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 9

Support offering in the wheat section of next Royal Easter Show is so encouraging that the Royal Agricultural Society has decided to extend the closing date for entries to…

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Stock on Agistment. Over 80,000 at Coonabarabran. Pastoral Difficulties. Coonabarabran

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 9

The Coonabarabran district is carrying over 80,000 sheep and cattle on agistment from parched western areas. Most of the country leased is stubble land, which responded to…

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Launceston Wool Sales. Lower Values Rule. LAUNCESTON

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 8

Although the Australian record price for the season of 33½d per lb was equalled, the average rates at the Launceston wool sales to-day were 10 per cent below the reduced…

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The Catholic Man on the Land Production and Breeding Records. Value to the Dairy Farmer

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 41

Many dairymen keep cows which are unprofitable in their herd simply because those cows are good-looking animals, or perhaps because in the past they have…

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Over 4,000,000 Sheep Are Sold Annually at Homebush Saleyards

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 4

Mr. J. MERRETT.(Metropolitan Meat Commissioner), the man in supreme…

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6,500,000 Bushels Of Aust. Wheat Sold In London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 27

Nearly 6,500,000 bushels of Australian wheat have been disposed of in three days in London. On Tuesday, the third day of heavy sales…

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Vigorous Development Needed State Herdmaster Examines Faults in N.S.W. Beef Cattle Production

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 5

THE State Herdmaster, Mr. C. G. Grant, stated yesterday that the whole question of the production of beef for chilling and export in New South Wales needed the most careful consideration, What was wanted was a frank discussion of the reasons why the industry was not developing as…

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Rugging of Sheep Tested Limited New England Trial Should Be Supplemented by Fuller Investigation

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 9

RESULTS of a teat at Col. H. F. White's property, Bald Blair, Guyra, last winter, suggested that rugged sheep was not profitable under New England Conditions, especially as the rugged sheep lost body weight, stated the district sheep and wool instructor (Mr. J. C. Cotsell). However, the trial was for only one type of winter, included only twenty sheep, and seventeen…

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London Wool Sales. Catalogue of 16,200 Bales. London, Jan. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 13

The dist series of the London wool sales for 1938 will commence on January 18, and conclude on february 3. The catalogue totals 118,200 bales, and…

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Central West Wheat Decline and Rise of Super. False Economy In Bunt Treatment

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 14

WHEATGROWING competitions in the central west during the past fourteen years have made possible a rapid spread of knowledge. Their value lay in direct demonstrations, of which the most impressive lessons came from the angle of what not to do, said Mr. H. Bartlett, senior…

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The Cattle Industry Needs Re-organisation Australia will Lose all Trade Preferences Unless Action be Taken Now

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 1

AN uneasy feeling is abroad that there will be a modification of the terms of the Ottawa Agreement before very long, the result of which…

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Sheep Men Hit Heavy Losses Caused By Bad Dry Spell In West Stock Hand-fed, Water Carted

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 7

GRAZIERS in the Western Division of the State are spending large sums of money on fodder…

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Cotton Wool in Ears But S.A. Stopper Still Heard Sister May Do Better

Referee · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 10

EARLY in his career there was not a faster horse over a short course in South Australia than Le Leo. He could go off at a…

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Our Country As I See It Snake-bite— Gas Masks— Wheat Prices— Postal Profits— Infantile Paralysis— Tung Trees

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 1

A DEATH from snake-bite at Jasper's Brush last week, and several other cases of attacks by snakes on people,…

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Wool Utilisation As a Standard of Civilisation Modern Political Control. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Bradford, Dec. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 9

Adaptation of fibres of various kinds to human clothing is one of the oldest activitie of the human race. For hundreds, if no thousands, of years certain parts of the…

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Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Co., Ltd

The Catholic Press · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 33

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-Op. Co., Ltd., reports: We submitted at our sale on Monday, 3rd inst, a catalogue of 8283 bales, comprising an average to good selection. There were a…

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MOTORS and Motoring Tractors on the Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 13

WITHOUT dismantling the whole of the engine it is nor easy to determine whether there is any play in the connecting red bearing, but…

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Dry-district Clover Farmers Advised Co Consider Early Strains

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 14

WHEN districts have received ample rains and the subsoils contains plenty of moisture, condition generally are ideal for sowing subterrancan clover. March…

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On the Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 15

[?] The wheat was very heavy last year and yielded splendidly. We stripped at the beginning of December and cleared nearly four hundred bags. Dad…

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A Dairyman's Note-book Interstate Conditions

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 10

RAIN is needed in practically all Victorian dairying districts, reports Prescott Pty., Ltd. Extremely hot and dry conditions prevail in Queensland,…

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