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Farming & the land, 1930

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Wheat Overseas Sydney

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

A private wheat agent In Sydney to-day received the following cable from Broomhall: "January 493 Westralian sold to Bombay…

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Butter Bounty No Alteration MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

The Australian Butter Stabilisation Committee, sitting in Melbourne, decided that the export bounty on butter for 1930 should, remain unaltered…

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Commercial Wheat Rising Sydney

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

The local wheat market is firm. Bulk wheat to-day sold at 54 per bushel, and bagged at 55 per bushel…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 3

At Die first wool sales of the year to-day, an average section was offered, comprising 10,692 bales. Of this number 9,8.30 bales were sold at auction,…

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Wheat-growing Competitions Their Value to the Industry

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 7

"While it is recognised that the carefully conducted field tests carried out by the Department on farmers' experimental plots are the…

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Wool Sales Resume Market Very Firm Sydney

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

At the first wool sale of the year to-day an average selection, totalling 10,692 bales, was offered. Of this number, 9,830 was sold at auction…

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Butter Bounty to Remain at 4½d. Per Lb. Melbourne

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

The Australian Stabilisation Committee, sitting in Melbourne, to-day decided that the export bounty on butter for 1930 should remain…

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Assistance to Necessitous Farmers Availability of Departmental Officers

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 3

With a view to the more expeditious handling of applications for assistance, and, in order to enable intending applicants to explain their…

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A Good Crop

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

Cr. Geo. Jones had an excellent crop this season, garnering about 6000 bags, and the sample was equal to anything ever seen in the…

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Prospective Fruit Crops. The Advantage of Thinning

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1

There are many commercial varieties of apples and pears which require thinning, under only exceptional circumstances. On the other…

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No More Waste on Farms. Australia Falls Into Line. Interesting Factory

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

The fields are full of grain; man has planted the seed, and then he waits for nature to do her share; after the natural forces of rain and…

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Fruit Crop Prospects

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 3

From a report issued in November by the Tasmanian Dept. of Agriculture, prospects for the coming season apple crop are that it…

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Dairyamen Fined

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

Two dairymen each pleaded guilty to a charge of having sold adulterated milk. One, whose sample showed a deficiency of solids equal to 6.7 per…

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South African Farmers to Visit Australia Producers' Conference Cape Town

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1

The South African contingent of fanners visiting Australia sailed by the liner Runic. The chairman of, the delegation is Mr. Allan, who is the…

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Farming Experiments Results at Milbrulong Nabawa Again Top

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

For several years Mr. J. M. Gollasch, H.DA., has carried out a series of experiments each year on his term at Milbrulong in conjunction…

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Adulterated Milk Two Dairymen Fined

The Daily Express · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

Two milk vendors appeared yesterday at Wagga Police Court charged with having sold adulterated milk, Mr. D E. Lewis, Municipal Health…

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Wheat Farmer Loses Eye

The Daily Express · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 2

Mr. W. Devitt, farmer of Barnawartha, Victoria was on Monday mending a belt of a harvester when part of a copper rivet struck his…

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Wagga Butter Co-operative Dairy Company Captures Local Trade

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 2

As the result of being able to capture the whole of the Wagga trade the Murrumbidgee Co-operative Dairy Company had no surplus for export last…

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Wheat Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 1

The local wheat market was firm yesterday. Bulk wheat in parcels sold at 6/4 a bushel, and bagged lots at 5/5½…

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