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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

12,048 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 250

The Wheat Strike. Wages Board Appointed Six Months Ago

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 9

The assistant-secretary of the Storeman's Union (Mr. Pemberton) states that a wages board covering the workers concerned in the wheat trouble in…

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Wool-tops Firm. an Export Demand. London, Friday Morning

The Sun · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 9

A very good tone prevailed in the Bradford wool-top markets yesterday. There was a brisk demand for export. Topmakers were firm in their quotations for…

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The Bulk Handling of Wheat. a West Australian Contractors Experience

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 7

Now that the bulk handling of wheat is within the range of practical polities there are to be found, here and there, persons who are the prey to…

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The Soil. Transformed Trundle. Great Agricultural Progress. a Thriving Wheat Centre

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 6

A visit to Trundle is sufficient to suggest that the day of romance Is not past and gone. Within so brief a period as the last six years this district has witnessed a change which can…

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"Black" Chaff. the "Black" Wheat Question. New Plan of the A.w.u

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 8

WAGGA. Thursday.--A new development which fins taken place recently in regard to the "black" wheat trouble, has resulted in a considerable change of policy on the part of the Australian…

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Dairying How Bad Flavours Are Developed

The Land · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 4

It frequently occurs that butter kept in storage develops a flavour that was not expected, and the market value becomes less accordingly…

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Land Settlement. Murrumbidgee Irrigation Farms

The Land · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 2

Mirrool Subdivision, twelve farms, in areas ranging from 46½ acres to 153[?] acres, situated in parish Jondaryan, county Cooper; distant 7 to 11 miles…

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Dairying How Bad Flavours Are Developed

The Land · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 4

It frequently occurs that butter kept in storage develops a flavour that was not expected, and the market value becomes less accordingly…

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Farm Finance. Income Tax Returns. All Farmers Must Furnish Returns

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 4

Picton asks me if it is necessary for him to furnish an income tax return, irrespective of the amount of bis income. whether the land used in tins connection be Crown lease or freehold, to furnish returns, irrespective of the amount of income. The main…

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Why the Farmer Grumbles

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 1

HOW THE MILLIONS CLUB MAY LEARN THE REASON The Millions Club of Sydney has been advised by a well-known politician to arrange tours into the country to widen the acquaintance of members with rural affairs. The "Fanner and Settler" recommends that instead of "specially conducted" Government trips, with unlimited wine and cigars, the members…

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Bush and Farm Craft. Box Drains

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 4

Mr. E. J. Oinn told a meeting of South Australian farmers that he had been most successful in draining a peaty flat running down the middle of…

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For the Farm Table. Tennis Cake. Good For The Weekly Meeting

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 8

A delicious tennis cake may be made as follows:—Take [?]. flour, [?]. butter, [?]. castor sugar, [?]. cu[?]rants, 4oz. chopped glace cherries, 2…

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Queensland Farmers' Movements. South Darling Downs District Union and the Politicians

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 2

A meeting of the Council of the South Darling Douns District Union, connected with the Queensland Farmers' Union, was held at warwick last week, when the following delegates…

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Farmers' Movements

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 2

A branch of the Partners and Settlers' Association was formed last week at Redbank, with Mr. De Witt McKay as secretary and treasurer…

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The F.s.a.—liberal Coalition. Queensland "Dairyman" Condemns the Unholy Alliance

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 2

The Queensland "Danyman" offers terse comment upon the action of the executive of the N.S.W. Farmers' and Settlers' Association at the last State…

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Poultry on the Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 6

There should be one cock bird to every eight hens in the case of White Leghorn fowls. The average hen should lay between on and 120 eggs…

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Homestead Farms. Wyalong Land District

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 2

52,124 acres, in 62 blocks, ranging from 696 to [?] acres, parishes of Curnba, Tibeaudo, and Tuggerabach, county Dowling, Distant from 10 to 20 miles from town of Cargelilcus…

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The Farmers Uniting. to Fight the Workers' Unions

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 2

On Saturday Mr. W. P. Dyce presided over a meeting of 500 persons, mostly farmers, at Coolamon, for the purpose of combining to resist the…

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Farmers' Combining. Preparing for Trouble. Widespread Movement

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 8

News from country centres during the last six or ten days had told of great organising among farmers. The recent actions of the A.W.U., in…

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A Great Onion Crop

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 8

Sandy soil, slightly enriched with stable manure, without irrigation, in the Coomandook district, South Australia, grew an onion crop which…

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