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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1919

8,991 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250

On the Land. Seed Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 5

It is to be hoped there will be no undue delay in the administration of the Department of Agriculture's scheme for the distribution of seed wheat to necessitous farmers. The…

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The Wheat Pool. Review of Operations. Huge Sums Involved. Rates for 1916-17 Crop. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 6

A review of this operations of the Australian Wheat Board has been issued by the Assistant Minister (Senator Russell), who is vice-chairman of the board…

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Terrific Hail Storm Cattle Dug Out of Ice Brisbane

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 2

There was a cloud-burst yesterday afternoon over parts of the Warwick district, the storm being accompanied by a phenomenal fall of hall…

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South African Wool And Imperial Purchase CAPETOWN. Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 1

A port Elizabeth message states that the registration of wool under the imperial Government's offer to extend the time for its purchase to December…

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1917-18 Wool Valued at £40,624,060 MELBOURNE

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 5

In a statistical bulletin of the wool season 1917-18, issued under the authority of the Central Wool Committee, the analyses of types of the whole…

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Our Wheat 50,000 Tons Sold Norway Pays 5s 8d MELBOURNE

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 5

Senator Russell, Minister in Charge of the Wheat Board, stated to-day that the sale of 50,000 tons of what to Norway had been effected at a price…

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Indian Rice Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 8

The first forecast of the Indian rice crop for the year 1918-19 has been issued by the Department of Statistics, India. The total area sown is given as 70,952,000 acres, which…

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Dairy Produce

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 3

Butter:—Choicest in 561b boxes 172s. 8d, plus cartage, and boxes, 175s; second 165s Sd; third 15Gs 4d per cwt Retail prices for choicest in…

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Farm Produce

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 3

Potatoes.—Manhattans £23 to £25, new Tasmanian Bismarcks £10, Brownells £20, Victorian Pink Eyes £22…

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If Rain Should Come. Summer Crops and Silos

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1919 · page 3

The Victorian Department of Agriculture is making opportunity of the possibility of a break this month In be dry conditions to strongly urge farmers to wherever possible…

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Wheat for Starving Sheep. Information for the Country. Stockowners' Experiences

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 2

Stockowners in a number of districts are considering the question of feeding stock on wheat. The drought is nearly everywhere. Agistment country is…

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Seed Wheat. Helping Necessitous Farmers

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 2

The conditions under which sued wheat will be advanced this season to necessitous tanners, of purchased by the Department of Agriculture for…

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Wheat Growing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 5

Writing regarding the official estimate of the cost of producing wheat published in a recent article in these columns, Mr. Gordon G. Bateman, Turramurra, considers the figures…

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Field, Orchard and Garden Crops Wheat-growing Supplies of Seed-grain for Farmers in Need. Departmental Assistance

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 7

The N.S.W. Department of Agriculture has announced that the following arrangements have been made in connection with the distribution of…

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Sheep in New Zealand

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 8

"Live Stock Journal" notices the changing of conditions in sheep-breeding in New Zealand, and considers that the pendulum will swing back again…

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Quirindi Wheat Plots

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 3

Considering the adverse season, good results, much above the district average, were obtained from the wheat experiment plots supervised by the Department of Agriculture on the farm of…

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Financing New Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 3

CULCAIRN.--The wheat is now coming in, but no financial arrangements have yet been made for paying the guaranteed prices, and farmers are complaining. The sample is very…

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Financing the Wheat Pool. Payment for the New Crop

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 5

A conference was held in Sydney on Friday last between the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) and the Governor of the Commonwealth Bank (Mr…

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The Small Farmer. What of The Wheat. a National Problem

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 2

Cut off from his markets, for four years by the war, for several years repressed and depressed by unsympathetic aud often inept administration of the…

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Shipping Wheat in Bulk

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 10

Recent events have indicated clearly that the time is rapidly opproaching when large quantities of Australian wheat, if not the major portion of it,…

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