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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

9,907 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 250

Marketing Board Wanted for Wheat Victorian Move

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 6

THE Wimmera district Council has decided to bring before the annual conference of the Victorian Wheatgrowers' Association a proposal for the…

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Walteela Hereford Stud Cattle Sold by Auction at Wagga

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 25

The Walteela Hereford Stud, the property of the Scottish Australian Company, was submitted to auction at Wagga on January 28 by the…

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Stock Sales. Prices al Flemington. Sheep Irreguur, But Dearer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 10

The sheep market at Flemington stock sales opened yesterday to the keen competition which has been so characteristic of recent auctions…

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Wool Sales. Market Closes Firm. Continental Support

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 10

At the wool sales in Sydney yesterday 11,799 bales were catalogued. The clearance, including private sales of passed-in and fellmongered wools, amounted to 11,140 bales, as…

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Wool Cheque is £10,000,000 Less

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 8

RETURNS from wool sold in Australia during the first seven months of the current season were £10,000,000 below those of the corresponding period…

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Draft Allowance on Wool. British Importers Oppose Abolition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 11

LONDON, Feb. 9.—Wool importers and the British Wool Federation at Bradford adopted a resolution emphatically protesting against Australian, New Zealand, and South African…

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Alive to Needs of the Industry Raising Butter Output Per Acre

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 10

THE need for improvement in the per-acre yield per cow in the dairying districts of this State, particularly on…

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"Barely Enough Wheat for World's Needs."—U.S. Report

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 6

AN American wheat authority states that the requirements of wheatimporting nations for the last half of the European crop year, amounting to about 250,000,000 bushels, can just about be met by the surplus in Canada, Argentina, Australia, and the Danube basin…

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On the Land Bovine Tuberculosis. Cattle Interests Confer. Far-reaching Suggestions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 11

A representative meeting of cattle interests, held in the rooms of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales, recommended proposals which it is believed will have far-reaching…

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Letters Wool Prices. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 8

Sir,—Under the shelter of a nom de plum[?] "Lanital" attempts to disparage the suggestion to secure some stability in our wool prices and limit extreme fluctuations, "slumps…

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Talks with Japan. Wool and Shipping. TOKYO, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 13

Mr. Tatsushima, director of tne trade bureau of the Foreign Office, said to-day that negotiations for a trade treaty were being delayed because Australia wanted Japan to…

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Reform of Wool Council is Urged by W.A. Growers

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 3

STRONG criticism of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council was voiced by members of the Primary Producers' Association of Western Australia at a…

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Wheat Trade. Lively Market. Bids at Best Level for a Month

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 19

After a period of quietness, the Sydney wheat market leapt into activity yesterday. Exporters advanced their bids lo the highest level for more than…

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This Week's Sydney Wool Sales Values Firm Keen Demand, But No Price Changes

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 30

As result of the maintenance of Japanese competition and good bidding on Yorkshire and Continental…

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Details of Wood Market Stabilisation Scheme Grower-Control to Prevent Violent Price PSuetuation Nock's Plan for Wool Council

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 3

ANNOUNCING details of the wool stabilisation scheme, which, with the approval of the Farmers and Settlers' Association's executive, he will submit to the meeting of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council…

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Master Farmer Field Day at Wagga Next

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 3

A LARGE attendance of Riverina farmers is expected at the monster field day at Wagga Experiment Farm next Friday, February 18, when trophies won in connection with the Master Farmer Competition will be presented by the Minister for…

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Timely Rain on Potato Crops

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 14

DRY conditions prevailed, until well into January, when a somewhat critical position was relieved by timely rains, which were mostly in the nature…

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For the Tractor Owner and Power Farmer Pioneer of Tractors

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 17

WE have received some details from John MCGrath Ltd…

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With the Junior Farmers Clubs Current News and Notes Educational Tour

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 17

THE first junior farmers educational tour arranged by the North Coast…

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Briitish and N.Z. Lads to Studay Our Farming

The Land · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 5

TO take part in the Sydney Royal Show 150th Annivertatives of the National Federation sary Celebrations, four represen…

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