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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

9,236 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 250

Minimum for Wheat Mr. Campbell Wants 4- Encouraging Farmers Production Cost Too High

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 2

Mr. Campbell, secretary of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, claims that unless the minimum is raised wheat farmers will be forced out of the business owing to inability…

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The Sheep Fly. Breeding Im Decayed Grass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 5

In connection with the statement published in regard to sheep maggot flies, that a somewhat unusual condition had been reported in regard to the propagation of sheep maggot…

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Homebush Fat Stock Sales. Prime Sheep Cheaper

Evening News · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 5

At Homebush fat stock [?] sheep were listed from of [?] was well suited to [?] opened 1s to 1s [?]…

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Wheat Payments First Instalment To-day Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 5

This morning a beginning was made with the payment by the wheat pool of the first instalment of 2s 6d per bushel. The Minister of Public Health has received…

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Oversea Market Cables. Wheat. New York, Jan. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 9

Chicago futures are quoted thus:—May opened 100 cents, closed 1[?]3[?] cents a bushel; July opened 158 cents, closed 148[?] cents. LONDON, Jan. 13…

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Wheat Problem. Nationalise the Shipping. Business Man's View

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 6

Mr. K. N. Carruthers; a director of Messrs. Lindley, Walker, and Co., Ltd., who has returned to Sydney after a seven-months' tour of England, and America, had something to…

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The Soil. English Wool Trade. a Booming Market

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 3

LONDON, November 10.—The sales are finishing in a most remarkable way, and Coleman Street has never witnessed a livelier time and certainly never seen such a high level of values…

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Price of Butter Increase Asked For an Unsympathetic Minister "Might Have Been 1- per lb." MELBOURNE

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 5

A proposal by the Butter Advisory Committee of Victoria, that an increase should be permitted in the price of butter, equalling 1½d per lb., was coldly received by Senator…

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Crops and Stock

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 3

ALBION PARK.—At a meeting of the committee of the Albion Park A. H. and I. Association Mr. John Timbs, of Mount Terry, exhibited a sample of Sudan grass, 7ft. high for…

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Bush Fires. Wheat Crops Destroyed

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 7

About 600 acres of wheat crops were destroyed by fire on Wednesday at Daysdale in the Berrigan district. The outbreak occurred in the stubble…

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Cattle in Brazil

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 6

In the House of Commons last month, Mr. W. Thorne asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, seeing…

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Representation. Farmers and State Wheat Board

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 7

Mr. A. K. Trethowan, M.L.C., President of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, is to have a seat on the New South Wales Wheat Board as the…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Wheat Guarantee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 5

The announcement by the Minister for Agriculture that he intends to propose to the Cabinet that the Government should guarantee wheatgrowers a minimum net…

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Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep Lower

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 9

About 12,800 sheep and lambs, out of 13,000 mentioned on the sale list, were orward at Homebush saleyards yesterday. These were consigned from 52 owners in all parts of the…

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Wheat Crop. Lifting It on the Railways. Next Season's Price

Evening News · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 5

One of the burning questions of the day is the wheat crop-past, present, and to come. Mr. Herms, the officer from the Agricultural Department in charge of the wheat…

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GUARANTEE. Net Return of 3s. ON 1917-18 Wheat Crop

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 3

It is probable that the New South Wale Government this week will announce a guarantee of a net return of 3s to farmers on next season's wheat…

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Wheat Harvest Statistician's Estimates

The Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 3

The Government Statistician's estimates of the forthcoming wheat harvest in the State are as follow:-- Grain, 42,817,000 bushels hay, 918,600 tons. The average grain yield per…

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The Wheat Crop. Official, Estimate of Yield. 42,817,000 Bushels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 5

The Government Statistician, Mr. John B. Trivett, has furnished an estimate of the wheat crop yield for 1916. He puts the total estimated production from 4,500,840 acres of…

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Butter Prices. an Increase Asked For

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Batter Advisory Committee of Victoria waited on Senator Russell (Minister in charge of foodstuffs) to-day with the request that the price ef butter…

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Price of Butter. Proposed Increase. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1917 · page 7

The Butter Advisory Committee of Victoria to-day urged the Federal Minister controlling price-fixing (Senator Russell) to increase the price of butter in Victoria, New…

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