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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1919

8,991 stories in Sydney's papers · page 70 of 250

Rain-soaked Wheat. Conditions at Darling Island. Shortage of Tarpaulins at Country Stations

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 8

Through the inability or neglect of the Railway Department to provide tarpaulins, about 70,000 bags of wheat have been soaked with rain at. Darling Island…

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Berrima District Dairy Company's Profit

Evening News · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 6

The Barrima District Farm and Dairy Company, Limited, had a credit balance of £2024 17s 2d for the half-year ended December 21 last. The directors propose to pay a…

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Dairying at Yanco

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 9

The bacon factory erected at Leeton by the Irrigation Commission has during the past half-year joined the number of industrial undertakings on the Murrumbidgee irrigation…

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The Unprofitable Units of Production. Stock and Crops That Do Not Pay

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 8

Elimination of waste is the great essential on the land, as it is in the office and the factory. Unproductive units, whether they be stock, or fowls, or wheat, or fruit trees, must go if the producer is to continue to hold his own in competition with the world. The day of the scientist and the specialist is here, and, whether he likes it or not, the man on the land must bow to their findings, so that the earth may continue progressively to support the ever-growing population that inhabits it. IT is often said that the agriculturist is in the habit of…

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Winter Dairy Show

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 5

The annual conference and show of the Cooperative Dairy Factory Manager:- Association will he held this year, as usual, at the Royal Agricultural Society's showground. The…

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Record Sale of Dairy Herd

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 5

ALBION PARK.--Messrs O'Gorman and Buras report the private sale of the dairy herd of Mr. D. Fraser, Croome. at the high average of [?]20 per head, to Mr. Hurt, Unanderra…

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Scientific Farming

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 39

Mrs. Bowser: "Really. Mr. Hayseed, your prices are getting exorbitant." Farmer Hayseed: "Well, mum, it's this way. When a chap 'as to know the…

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Farmer and Company

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 12

Farmer, and Company, Sydney, have decided to remove all debris caused by the fire in George and Market streets, Sydney. and prepare to build a massive…

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Pioneer Farmers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 11

Werrimee: The earliest attempts of the venerable pioneers, who are so often quoted to us present-day Australians as grand old men to make something grow…

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Country Chat Phillip Farmers and Settlers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 12

At the annual meeting of the Phillip branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Union the following officers were elected: -- President, Mr. J. B. Warner;…

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Kyogle. Dairying

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1919 · page 13

Kyogle Dairy Company, for, the January February month, struck the pay at 1s 4⅞d per lb for choicest. 1s 4⅜d for first-class, and 1s 3⅞d per lb for…

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Wool

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 31

Messrs. John Bridge and Co., Ltd., report: The Government wool appraisers will leave shortly for Brisbane to conduct appraisements of wool in the northern market. On…

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Argentine Wheat

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 3

For the first eight months of last year exports of wheat from Argentina were 2,551,494 tons, which exceeds the very large figure reached in the same…

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Wool Report

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 27

John Bridge and Co., Ltd. report under date February 25.:— Appraisements.— The Government wool appraisers will leave shortly for…

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The 1916-17 Wheat Pool. Farmers and the Position

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 3

A Ganmain farmer writes in reference to the financial position of the 1916-17 N.S.W. Wheat Pool:— Surely the Minister for Agriculture can make…

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On the Land. Back to Wheat. Farmers' Plain Duty

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 5

That the whont industry so far as production is concerned, has ronchod a critical stage must be clear to anyone who takes the trouble to probe beneath the surface. There was a…

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Dipping for Cattle Tick. Compulsion Abandoned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 3

The compulsory dipping of the cattle within the Tweed quarantine area, exclusive of the Burringbar portion, between the dates March 10 lo June 9 next, was recommended in the…

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Wheat-lumpers' Claims. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 9

In the printing of a plaint by the Australian Workers' Union against the Adelaide Milling Company and others the names of the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria…

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Butter Famine. Feared in Queensland. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1919 · page 7

The Queensland section of the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Pool Committee has had returns supplied by various cheese and butter factories, which show a heavy falling…

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