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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

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Thursday's Fat Stock Sales. SHEEP

The Land · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 14

There was a falling off in the number listed as compared to the heavy penning of late, the number being 43,520 grown sheep and lambs, from 238 consignors. There…

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State Wheat Office Returns

The Land · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

The following returns were issued on the 15th by the, State Wheat Office:— Quotations. Wheat for flour for export to the East:…

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Veterinary. Horses Gorging Wheat

The Land · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 15

A.Y.Z. writes:—I had 11 horses on my farm, which got into a shed at some wheat. They consumed three bags between them. I gave them a drench of…

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The Wool Appraisement Season

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 18

Appraisement No. 72, the twelfth round of the season and the second since the Christmas recess in being finalised to-day. The series has been…

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Answers to Questions. Soiling Diseased Cattle

The Land · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 3

T.H.R. writes:—I sell a man a number of stcera as stores, and after he gets them homo he writes me that one is apparently "lumpy," and if it proven to be later on…

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HOMEBUSH. Monday's Fat Stock Sales. SHEEP

The Land · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 14

The sheep market was excited at the opening at 'Homebush on Monday, owing to strong buying from Brisbane. From the very beginning the values rose as compared…

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Cultivation. Wheat Pool in Credit

The Land · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

The Australian Wheat Pool is now in credit £262,000. The balances of the various sections are as follows:—New South Wales credit., £592,000; Victoria…

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Breadstuefs. the Price of Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 8

Owing to the depleted stocks of inferior wheat in New South Wales, the Wheat Board has decided that the remaining stock is to be used solely for poultry feed, and no further…

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What is the Wheat Shortage?

The Land · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

The State Statistician estimates that during the present year 2,000,000 bushels of wheat will need to be imported into New South Wales to make up…

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Australian Wool Profits. Government profiteering

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

Mr. Mackinder, the Yorkshire warehouseman, who, in reporting the results of the official sub-committee's investigation into the price of wool on…

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Wool Industry. Conference of Delegates

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Joint conference between delegates appointed by the organisations representing woolgrowers in the different States and representatives of the…

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Australasian Wool. Imperial Government's Profits

The Land · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 13

Cables from Loudon this week state that the question of wool profiteering continues to excite the greatest interest. The Profitcering Committee on Trusts in considering…

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Timber for Butter Boxes. Victorian Mountain Ash Suitable

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

Careful experiments have proved that Victorian mountain ash is in every way suitable for making butter boxes. Mr. H. R. Mackay. a member…

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Field, Orchard and Garden Crops Wheat-handling the Proposed Compulsory Oo-operative Scheme. Conference on February 3

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 7

At a meeting of the Melbourne Chamber of Agriculture last week Mr. W. G. McRobert submitted a report upon the scheme formulated at the…

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Wool Clip. Scheme of Marketing. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 7

Although not yet complete in detail a scheme for the marketing of the next wool clip has been drafted and will soon be submitted to the woolgrowers for their approval,…

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Wool Profiteering Government Charged LONDON, January 20

Evening News · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 1

Addressing a public meeting at Bradford. Mr. Mackinder, M. P., said that the Government was the biggest profiteer in wool…

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Wheat Handling. Co-operative Movement. Conference of Growers

The Land · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 11

A wire from Melbourne states that at a meeting of the Chamber of Agriculture last week Mr. W. G. McRobert submitted a report on the scheme formulated at…

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Wheat for East. Japan Offers 81012 Per Bushel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--An offer of 8s 10 12d per bushel for 250.000 bushels of third quality wheat for Japan has been made to-the Victorian Wheat Commission…

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Drought-time Fodders. Crops at the Coonamble Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 7

The irrigated lucerne patches at the Coonamble (N.S.W.) experiment farm have returned well on the last cut. The hay was fine and leafy the color good,…

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Rhodes Grass. Remarkable Results in Queensland. Cattle Industry on the Coast

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 7

A well-known Queensland glazier, passing through Sydney this week, told a "Stock Journal" representative of remarkable results secured on Rhodes…

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