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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

9,236 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 250

Cattle Scalded

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 14

Government Dip Mixture. COMPLAINTS FROM TICK AREA. A meeting of seven branches of the Primary Producers' Union at Kyogle this week discussed the Government mixture in the tick dips…

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The Sheep and Wool Grower The Sheep Show. From The R.A.S. Need for Earnest Move

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 8

As reported in our last Friday's issue, there is a proposal on foot to bring the Sydney Sheep Show under the joint auspices of the Sheepbreeders…

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£53,000,000. for Wool and Wheat. a Generous Buyer

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 11

Speaking at Albury this week, Mr. A. H. Poynton, Federal Treasurer, said it was pitiful think that the farmers of Australia were crying out because…

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Farmers' Experiments. Wheat Plot Results

The Land · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 11

The following further results of the harvesting of farmers' experiment wheat plots under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture bear traces of…

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Wheat. Farmers' Position. Harden Resolutions

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 7

The following resolution were carried at a meeting of the Murrumburrah branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, held at Harden on Saturday,…

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The Worst Pastoral Pest

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 6

The blowfly post correspondence appearing in our columns makes very interesting reading, and is attracting great…

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Australian Pastoral Association Profits

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 13

The annual report of the Australian Pastoral Association showed a profit of £76,368 of which £13,000 is placed to the reserve fund. £5000 against…

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Sheep in Japan

The Land · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 4

The Japanese Department of Agriculture and Commerce is about to spend 30,000 yen (about £3,000) annually on the rearing of sheep, beginning with the…

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Fires in Wheat Crops. Deliberate Incendiarism

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 7

On Thursday afternoon a fire started in the crop of a sharefarmer oil Bland, 23 miles from Wyalong. Several neighbors galloped to the scene and…

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Government Wheat Farming. The Tullamore Failure

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 3

The N.S.W. Government has decided to relinquish its wheat-farming enterprise, after one year of drought and one year of abnormal rainfall, and Woodlands,…

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Field, Orchard and Garden Crops. the Wheat Pool The farmers Dissatisfied Private Purchases Outside the Pool

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 7

In reply to a resolution of the Berrigan (N.S.W.) branch of the Fanners and Settlers' Association drawing the attention of the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) and…

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Wool Appraisers

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 5

A proclamation in the "Commonwealth Gazette," issued on Friday last, notifies the appointment of the following additional wool appraisers for New South Wales:—…

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The State Wheat Board. Farmer' Representative Appointed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 7

The president of the Farmers and Sett-lers' Association (Mr. Trethowan M.L.C.), has been appointed by the N.S.W. State Cabinet as the…

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Sheep-Breeding. Building Up

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 8

Prospects for sheep and wool are tile best ever! The flocks are down in numbers. The business is to breed up. The temptation is strong to breed from…

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Patriotic Wheat Growing

The Land · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 11

West Wyalong.—Twenty-five acres of crop grown by Mr. P. H. Thomas, Mildel, returned 115 bags of wheat; and 50 acres on Mr. John Catties farm yielded 333…

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The Wheat Position. Attitude of the Harden Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 7

At a meeting of formers in the Murrumburrah district, held at Harden (N.S.W.) on Saturday last, the following resolutions were carried:—…

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London Wheat Market

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 7

Under date London December 1st, 1916, W. Weddel and Co., Ltd., report on the wheat position:—The world's shipments to Europe have…

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Wheat Elevator Tenders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 9

"Argus" writes:- New that public attention been called by Mr. Wil[?], president of the Masters' Association, and others, to the tenders for wheat elevators, with…

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Bradford Wool Market

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 12

The "Yorkshire Observer," reporting on the wool market at the beginning of December, says:— It is, perhaps, too soon to give an opinion,…

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Wool Appraisement Trouble

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 4

PERTH, Wednesday.--The Pastoralists' Association is still dissatisfied with the Federal arrangements that all wool be classified at Fro- mantle. The secretary (Mr. Noble) says there…

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