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Farming & the land, 1928

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Commercial Wagga Cattle Market

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 8

The Wagga Associated agents, the Australian Mercantile L. and F. Co., Byrnes, Best and Co., Whiticker, and Wilks, Salmon, Hanrahan and Co., and…

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Geelong Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 8

Dalgety and Company, Limited. Wagga have received the report from the firm's Geelong office:—"At the Geelong Wool Sales we offered 6900…

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Butter and Cheese. Stabilising Prices Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 4

At a meeting of the Australian Stabilisation Committee to-day, recommendation for establishing an all-Australian price for butter and…

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London Wool Sales Competition Keen London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 6

At the London wool sales to-day 9302 bales were offered, of which 176 were Australian and 3046 New Zealand. There was an average selection…

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Markets Abroad. Primary Products in Other Countries Liverpool Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 6

A private wheat agent in Sydney yesterday received the following cable message from Liverpool: "Australian wheat, January, valued at 51/;…

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Experiment Farms. Reclassification Begun. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Thoriby, who has just returned from a tour of the country believes that various Government experiment farms…

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Debt Bureau to Believe Farmers Canadian Innovation

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 2

For the man that is heavily embarrassed by debt, the Canadian Government has opened a way whereby he can be relieved of much worry and anxiety…

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Stabilising the Butter Market

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 2

At an inter-State conference of dairymen held in Melbourne on Friday, recommendations for the establishment of an all-Australian price for…

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Commercial Pitt, Son, & Badgery, Limited. Wool Report

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 4

We submitted a catalogue of 5,319 bales at our sale this afternoon, comprising an attractive selection of clips, drawn chiefly from the…

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Sydney Wool Sales Particularly Strong Competition Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 5

A good selection, totalling 10,214 bales, was offered at the Sydney wool sales to-day. Of this number 9853 bales were sold at auction, white…

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Prison Farms

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 2

"It is my intention to extend the system of prison farms and afforestation camps." said the Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) yesterday…

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Murrumbidgee Development Scheme Co-operation of All Sections Needed Wonderful Possibilities for Wealth Production Views of a Practical Farmer

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 1

In the following letter Mr. Laurence Cox discusses in an interesting manner the wonderful possibilities for expansion within the area properly described as the Valley of the Murrumbidgee…

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Butter Factory Accident Mudgee

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 2

Harry Rope, manager of the Mudgee butter factory, received severe burns when a discharge of ammonia occurred while he was adjusting a screw in…

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Wheat Returns Doubled Henty

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 1

The wheat silos at Henty closed last week with receive[?]s totalling [?] 48,598 hags [?] represents double the quantity last year…

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London Wool Sales London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 3

At the London wool sales to-day 7764 bales were offered, of which 6550 were Australian. The offering of merinos chiefly attracted…

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Pastoral Fat Lamb Production Results of South Australian Experiments

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 3

A series of experiments is in progress at Roseworthy Agricultral College, in SOuth Australia, to determine the relative merits of the…

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Wheat Growing Sow Only Pure Graded Seed

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 6

The complaint is frequently made by farmers that the seed of a variety of wheat that they have been growing, for years has "run out," or that some…

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Wheat Stacks Damaged Heavy Losses in Temora District TEMORA

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 1

Many of the wheat stacks in the railway yards at Temora and adjacent districts, were severely de[?] daring the recent heavy rain storms…

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Wheat Harvest. Poorest Yield for Eight Years. Dry Conditions Responsible. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 3

The estimates of the wheat harvest for the season 1927-28, as announced by the State statistician, Mr. T. Waites, to-night show the poorest yield…

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Land for Dry Farming

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) said on Saturdey that it had been, decided to make available for settlement 72,000 acres of land at…

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