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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

9,236 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 250

The American Demand for Wool

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 13

American woollen manufacturers were more exercised over the embargo on colonial wools when the last mail left than over the Presidential and Congressional elections, or…

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Wool Trade Review. Local Opportunity

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 3

The Commonwealth authorities, having accumulated an abundance of woollen materials for the use of the troops, have decided to relcase practically all the Australian woollen mills…

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New Season's Wheat. Grades and Values

The Land · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 11

The low standard of the Now South Wales wheat crop this year is surrounding the question of a working basis of values with many difficulties. The…

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The Wheat Available. Government Statistician's Figures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 9

The Government Statistician has prepared a statement pointing out that owing to the record harvest during the 1915-16 season, and the difficulties attending the disposal of the…

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The Wool Acquisition. an English View

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 12

Discussing the taking over of the Australian clip at the end of November, the "Yorkshire Post" said:— The one fact of which those engaged in…

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Wool. Influencing Factors of the Deal

The Land · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 15

The first lot of appraisements of New South Wales and Victorian wools are now all cleared off, and during the greater part of hist and this week the experts were busy at…

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Oversea Market Cables. Wheat. London, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 9

The wheat market is firm for good qualities, and there is good inquiry. Parcels of Australian wheat which have arrived have been sold at 82/6 a quarter. The value of parcels of…

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Cattle Dogs. Fight with a Dingo Pack. Tenterfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 7

The agitation in regard to the destruction of dingos makes the more interesting an incident which occurred at Moball, Tweed River, the other day. Mr. T. Griffin was mounted…

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Homebush Sales. Monday's Fat Stock Sales. Sheep and Lambs

The Land · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 16

Thirty-seven consignments, representing a supply of 10,250 sheep and lambs, were listed for sale. It was a small offering, and proved insufficient for requirements…

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'Best Security in Australia' Suggestion for Wool Growers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--In Australia, said Mr. Poynton (Commonwealth Treasurer) to--day, there are 21,000 wool growers with 500 sheep and upwards, producing approximately…

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The Sydney Wool Trade. Brokers' Association Expels a Firm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 4

Hitherto the destinies of the Sydney wool trade have been more or loss guided by the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association, with a large measure of responsibility attaching…

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The Sheep Show Sheepbreeders and The R.A.S. Under Joint Auspices

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 14

The question of the New South Wales Sheepbreeders' Association and the Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W. joining hands to run the Sheep Show…

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Draft on Wool. Why Is It Allowed ? an Old Trade Custom

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 8

A sheepraiser writes:—"You are always doing your bit in the interests of the man on the land, and I think you might help him materially if you…

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Wool Appraisements Sydney Again Next Week. Limiting the Lots. Payment Soon Now

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 13

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report: "Appraisements in the Sydney stores will be resumed nest week. Catalogues to be submitted will be restricted to…

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Bulk Handling of Wheat. Tenders for Erection of Elevators. Is It Preference to America?

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 7

As everybody knows by now there is a lot of dissatisfaction in local circles over the way in which tenders have been called for the erection of grain…

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A Great Co-Operation Farmers of All Australia

The Land · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 3

The wheat farmers of the State have for many years been dallying with the question of co-operation. Spasmodic "get-together" movements have been…

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Crop Agreement

The Land · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 3

"Subscriber" writes:—I have let a portion of land to be cropped on half-shares. The tenant is not harvesting to satisfaction. The agreement ends on February 1, 1917, Kindly…

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Cultivation. the Season and the Crops

The Land · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 11

Albury: As harvesting progresses in the district, reports are coming to hand of the reduction in yields in places caused through the prolific growth of…

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Patriotic Farmers

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 5

A message from West Wyalong says that twenty-five acres of crop grown by Mr. P. H. Thomas, Medel, returned 115 bags of wheat; and 50 acres on…

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Called Up. Workers on Farms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 7

Lord Derby (War Minister) and Mr. Prothero (President of the Board of Agriculture) state that the urgent military situation requires the taking of men under 25…

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