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Farming & the land, 1938

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Overland from Perth to Forbes in Eight Days Veteran W.A. Farmer's 2,492 Miles Trip

The Land · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 12

ACCOMPANIED by his wife, a 68-year-old West Australian farmer, Mr. Charles Smith, has just completed a strenuous 2492 mile motor tour right through from Weirmonger (W.A.) to Forbes, in eight days…

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For the Tractor Owner and Power Farmer New Diesel Power Unit

The Land · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 12

IN view of the great interest which is now being taken in Diesel…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 15

A stight decline in egg production, coupled with the effects of an exceptionally good demand over past weeks, resulted in the Egg Board cutting down their supplies to some…

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Fairbridge Farms Praised. Earl De La Warr's Views. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 12

Earl De [?] Warr [?] last night from an aeroplane flight to the Fairbridge Farm School, established by the late Kingsley [?]airbridge, which was the model for two…

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Scalded and Scorched. Crops and Foliage on M.I.A. Heat Wave Experienced. Griffith

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 11

The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area has experienced a severe heat wave this week, temperatures of 101, 104, and 107.8 degrees having been recorded during the last three days…

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Stricken Farmers Need Aid Approach To Labor DEPUTATION To Stevens Government

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 4

From all quarters of a large area in southwest N.S.W., 600 men gathered at Lake Cargelligo recently to devise methods to cope with conditions arising from disastrous crop failures, and stave off the ruin that has been threatening them for the past…

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Delegates for Farm Congress

The Sun · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 8

The Minister in Charge of Celebrations (Mr. Dunningham), has received the names of delegates from overseas to the Empire Producers'…

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Minister on S.w. Farmers

The Sun · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

CONCERNING a leading Ld article in "The Sun" on Wednesday on the plight of the farmers in the South-West of the State,…

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Wheat Charters

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 4

The barque Archibald Russell has been chartered by John Darling & Son to load 3550 tons of bagged wheat at South Australia, lay days March 1 to…

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Big Wheat Increase

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday.--An increase of 11 per cent. in the acreage sown to wheat for the 1937-38 season was announced by the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr…

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Wheat Loadings and Stocks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 13

During the week ended January 8, 236,167 bags of wheal were despatched from country stations, making a total of 6,331.765 bags for the current season, compared with 5,820.777…

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Breadstuffs. Firmer Tendency in Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 13

Trading was quiet in the Sydney wheat market yesterday, but there was a firmer tendency. Odd sales of bulk percels for delivery in January were made shortly after the market…

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Big Wheat Surplus Canberra

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 12

IT is estimated by the Commonwealth Statistician that 13,748,000 acres will be sown to wheat in Australia during the 1937-38 season. A conservative estimate places the yield from this acreage at 161,781,000 bushels…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8

Values elsewhere than in Sydney are expressed in English currency. Liverpool Values: March delivery—closed at 4/6 5/8 per…

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Canadian Wheat Exports. Ottawa, Jan. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 12

The Bureau of Statistics announces that, in 1937, wheat exports totalled 96,000,000 bushels, valued at 124,439,000 dollars (£A31,109,750)…

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Record Wheat Harvest. Inverell District's Successful Season

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8

[?]VERELL, Friday.—As a result of higher yields and a greater area under cultivation, the wheat harvest of the Inverell district has reached record figures…

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Oversea Market Cables. Bradford Wool Tops. London. January 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 17

The Bradford wool tops market is steadler. Users are well covered. Topmakers are holding off but Inquiry is improving Quotations:—Merinos, seventies /20 per lb (down /l[?]; sixty- fours,[?]…

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Australia's Wheat Harvest. Heavier Yield Expected. Increased Area. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8

Australia's wheat harvest for the current season will be considerably greater than earlier estimates indicated. The Commonwealth Statistician, Dr. Roland…

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On the Land the Wool Trade. Sales in Brisbane. Japan Quiet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8

No quotable change was experienced in wool values at this week's opening Brisbane sales, but any alteration in prices was in favour of buyers,…

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U S. and Japan Stop Buying Wool Slack Days In Bradford LONDON

The Sun · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 5

THE drop in wool prices is disappointing because the statistical and technical position of the raw wool market is perfectly sound, comments the "Financial News." The chief reason is the restricted American and…

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