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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

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Wheat Charters. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 3

Charter arrangements for the shipment of a large portion of the new season's wheat have been completed. More than a month ago the activity…

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Price of Wheat in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 3

Wheat buying agents at Wagga yesterday were quoting 3/10½ per bushel for f.a.q. wheat. This' price shows a decline on Tuesday quotations of id…

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Chicago Wheat Options. New York

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 3

Chicago wheat options are quoted as follows: December 1701 cents, a bushel, May 174[?]cents, July 150½ cents…

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United States Wheat. Cost of Production

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 1

The Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture has issued some interesting figures on the cost of producing…

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Overseas Wheat Position. What Will Next Year's Prices Be!

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 1

Messrs. Lindley Walker Co.op Wheat Co. write as follows:—"A glance at the world's shipment since August is some indication of the…

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Wool Prices. Suggestion for Financing Scheme. Buyers' Company Proposed

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 7

Proposals for the stabilisation of wool prices by flic regular fixing of reserve limits and the creation of a fund from which advances could be…

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Wheat Market. 6/6 Offered to Victorian Growers. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 3

The highest wheat offer of the season was. made at Williamstown to day when the price of 6/6 nett return to the grower was offered…

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New Wool Pack Proposal Opposed by Graziers' Association. Strong Objections. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 2

The executive committee of the Graziers' Association has issued a statement in which it is stated that Bradford'e suggestion for a new wool…

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Opportunities to Secure Farms. Effect of New Act. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 7

The Government is following its advice to young men to "go on the land" by providing them with the opportunity to do so. Under the Crown…

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Wool Reports

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 3

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report:— 1925 opens with encouraging augury both as regards wool and wheat, but conjoint financing of both…

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Commercial. Price of Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 4

The price of wheat at Williamstown quoted at 6/6 nett return to growers in yesterday's "Daily Advertiser" was based on a message which evidently…

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Wheat Position. Prices and Production in 1924

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 1

The world's wheat position of 1924-25 throws a good deal of light on the mutual interaction between price and supply. For the cereal year ending on…

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The Need for Wool. Consumers' Requirements Unsatisfied

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—At closing December wool sales some irregularity was at times evident in bidding and a number of lots…

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A Farmer's Challenge. and a Plea for Farm Women

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 1

"The man on the land may make a periodical valuation of his live stock and dead to determine his financial position. He will write off a certain…

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Selecting a Dairy Cow the Necessary Characteristics

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 4

In a commercial sense the dairy cow is a machine for the production of milk and butter-fat and the reproduction of other machines of her…

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Lifting Tangled Crops

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 3

The tangled condition of many wheat crops this season has forced farmers to a general use of false combs, and other appliances for lifting the fallen…

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Header's Job. Part in Harvesting Wheat Crop. Big Cost

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 6

One listens to the song of the headers as they plough their way through forests of golden grain. On every farm in every part of the…

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Wheat Price at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 1

The price ruling for wheat in Wagga yesterday was 5/11…

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Farrar Wheat. High Appreciation in Victoria

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 7

Victorian wheat-growers have a high appreciation of Farrer's Federation wheat. "William Farrer," says the…

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Wagga Crop Competitions Awards and Judge's Comments Best Cultivation Methods for the District Advice Concerning Wheat Varieties

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 3

As in his judging, Mr. R. G. Downing, B.Sc. (Agr.), chief experimentalist of the Department of Agriculture, is most thorough in his report of the 1924 Wagga growing crop competitions. The report shows that in the…

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