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Farming & the land, 1918

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Cattle

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 14
Also in The Land, The Land

Fairly heavy supply. Quality generally good. Market opened weaker, but improved, and generally firmer on the day…

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Sheep

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 14

Moderate supply. Quality fairly good. Market irregular, and generally lower during the morning, but bettor in the afternoon…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 7

OLEN INNES, Thursday.--Michael Joseph Hanley, charged with stealing six sheep, the property of Finley M'Innes, of Marouan station, on about December 20. was committee…

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Wheat Silos

Evening News · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 5

[?] Wales Ministers this morning professed themselves in entire ignor[?]ce of the reported intention of the Commonwealth Government to interfere with the tenders already…

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Wool Appraisements

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 8

The secretary of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales writes:- Sir,—Having had its attention called to a letter of Messrs. John Bridge and Co., Ltd., appearing in…

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The Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 19

Satisfactory headway continues to be made in dealing with the wool clip up to the present, the arrangement of the Central Committee which provides for…

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Goulburn Wheat-stacking

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 8

GOULBURN.--At the beginning of the present week there were close upon 2,000,000 bags of wheat stacked at the South Goulburn railway yards. There were considerably over 200 trucks…

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Wheat for Flour

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 6

The secretary of the State Wheat Office reports that the price of wheat for flour has been altered to the following:--For export to --general Eastern ports, 6s 4[?] per bushel…

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Stock and Wheat

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 11

Mr. H. S. Henley, Bassett Downs, Cowra, writes:—It is a public scandal for any Government to encourage the set clement of returned soldiers on the…

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High-priced Dairy Cattle. a Clearing-out Sale at Casino

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 6

A clearing-out sale of Mr. W. [?] dairy berd at [?] (N.S.W.) was conducted by Mr. J. B. M'Dougall, [?] sold at £33, springers to £23, and yearling [?] to £10. Colonel [?]…

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Sydney Wool-Selling Brokers' association Wool Reports

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 19

The work of preparing catalogues for appraisement, arranging for the proper showing of the wool, appraising, and subsequently delivering the wool, has…

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Cattle Swept Away. Rockhampton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 7

The Fitzrey River fell over a foot to-day, and continues to fall slowly. When the western waters nrrived, however, there is bound to be another rise. Water has now…

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Substitute for Wheat Board

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 8

PERTH, Thursday.--The Chamber of Commerce has decided to ask the Premier to abolish the advisory board tor the wheat scheme, and substitute an executive of two…

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Wheat Camble Who Knows?

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 17

The harvest in France and Italy this season is turning out unsatisfactorily. Suppose that the next European harvest is more or less of a failure—what…

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Shall it be Wheat or Sheep? the People May Propose, But the Power Is with the Government

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 1

To plough or not to plough—that is the question. Ought the wheat-growers of Australia to turn their arable land into pasture, and to breed sheep?—the…

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Going in for Live Stock Temora Farmer's Experience the Wheat Camble

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 10

Having gone in for wheat and livestock, having the capital and the land, Mr. W. J. Cartwright, of Boundary Villa, Temora, prefers live stock. He…

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Wool in West Australia

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 9

In the course of his presidential address at the annual meeting of the Pastoralists Association of West Australia Mr. F.F.B. Wittenoon…

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Hereford Cattle History of the Breed

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 15

The history of the modern Hereford, like that of the improved Shorthorn, does not run back Hindi beyond a century As in the case of the sister…

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