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Farming & the land, 1938

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Wool Values. Sydney Prices Current

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 10

Followlng are wool prices current in Sydney:- Greasy merino fleece (free from fault), best to /25¾, good /18 to /20…

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How Wheat Triumphed After Many Setbacks

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 11

SECOND only in importance and wealth to the great sheep and wool industry, wheatgrowing in Australia did not reach large proportions until the end of the last century. The history of wheatgrowing, from the time the first seed was sown by the settlers who came with the first fleet, until the present day, is a story of severe setbacks and remarkable achievements in which the agricultural scientist, aided by the courage and…

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World Wheat and Likelihood of Crisis

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 27

A NEW crisis in world wheat through over production may follow a dangerous policy of drift, declares the secretariat of the wheat…

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Wheat Surplus Part of World Tragedy

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 27

DISCUSSING a suggestion that a crisis through over-production of wheat could be created in the next three years, the president of the…

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61 sf Anniversary Machine Pioneers of Sheep Shearing

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 23

THIS year of celebrations marks also the 61st anniversary of the British firm proudly bearing the name the inventor of the shearing…

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Home Notes Icing and Filling for Cakes Flavored Butter Icing

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 4

2 oz. butter, 6 oz. icing sugar, flavoring. Crush and sieve the sugar. Add the butter and beat to cream. Any flavoring desired—vanilla, lemon, coffee,…

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Albion Park Staged Fine Cattle Display at Fiftieth annual Show

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 31

Dairy cattle made the usual fine display at Albion Park's fiftieth annual Show, with the…

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Wool and Produce Firm's Great Record of Service

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 22

NO name is more closely linked with the wool and livestock industry of Australia than that of Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., which has been associated with these industries for nearly 50 years. The firm was launched under the…

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Wool Publicity to be lanched Abroad this year

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 32

PROPOSALS for world publicity and technical research in regard to wool are to be initiated in Great Britain this year, after a special…

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North Coast Dairy Farms. Production at a'Good Level

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 11

LISMORE, Thursday.—For the dairy farmers of the Far North Coast 1938 has started much better than 1937. Last year the district was just recovering from a…

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Wool May Be Held. Decline in Prices Causes Concern

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 14

The executive of the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers has not yee received a request from the Australian Woolgrowers' Council for a conference to review the…

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Stock Sales. Prices at Flemington. Prime Sheep 1/- TO 1/6 DEARER

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 11

Keen competition prevailed in the sheep section at the Flemington saleyards yesterday and values advanced on last Thursday's rates—the last comparable auction—as…

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Squatters Would Betray Australia for a Few Bales of Wool

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 2

THE Graziers’ Association has come out with a statement in reference to the refusal by the Sydney waterside workers to load Japanese ships with war materials. The Graziers’ Association says that these materials, iron,…

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£5,000,000 Loss If Wool Prices Don't Improve

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 7

AUSTRALIA will lose about £5,000,000 this season if present wool prices do not improve. Prices at the Sydney and Brisbane sales this year have fallen…

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Played a Big Part in the Development of Aust. (Contd.) Pioneer Maker of Sheep Dips

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 24

THE washing and dipping of sheep is no new thing, but it was not until the last century that the primitive began to be replaced by the…

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Wool for Japan. Purchases This Year. Stocks Running Short. Tokyo, Jan. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 14

It is learnt on good authority that the Ministries of Finance and Commerce and Industry intend to permit the importation in 1933 of 450,000 bales of wool, of which about…

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This Week's Sydney Wool Sales Prices Down Good Clearances at the lower Levels

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 46

THE opening of the second series of the Sydney wool sales for 1938 was…

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Action Wanted to Cheak Wool Speculators Uneasiness Among Growers Trend of Market Creates Council Chairman on Position

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 24

THERE is growing uneasiness among growers at the trend of the wool market, and suggestions for introducing some measure of control, in order to check the operations of speculators, are gaining support…

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May Not Attend Empire Parley Graziers Undecided About Big Sydney Conference of Producers But Wool Will Be Discussed

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 25

IT is expected that the Australian delegation to the British Empire Producers' Conference in Sydney during March will comprise 50 representatives of the producers' organisations in the various States…

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Pioneering a Great Industry that has Yielded Huge Dividends to Australia Wool—and the Men Who Made It

The Land · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 6

IN the short space of time since the first sheep were brought tc Australia by Phillip and the members of the first fleet in 1788, followed a little later by importations on behalf of Captain John Macarthur and…

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