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Farming & the land, 1920

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Australian Wheat Board

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 5

According to figures supplied by the Australian Wheat Board, the quantities of wheat handled throughout the Commonwealth for the seasons…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 7

There was a full attendance last week at the Antwerp sale of Australian wool and of the 12,900 bales offered 11,200 bales were sold…

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Australian Butter. What English Parity Means

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 7

While Australian butter producers cannot take exception to meeting the contract entered into with the Imperial Government for the surplus…

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Our Short Story : the Black Sheep

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 19

IT was the big overseer who made Delia's eyes light up most, and who took her under his special protection. Conroy was a smart man, thorough and painstaking in all his ways, and a clever horseman to boot. There was…

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English Wool Sales London

Evening News · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 1

There was a poor selections of merinos at to-day's wool sales. Prices were unchanged. The Continent is operating freely on crossbreads, which…

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Commercial Intelligence Marketing of Wool

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 7

The scheme propounded by the council of representatives of the wool growers and selling brokers of Australia for the control and marketing…

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Wheat Pool Losses. Board of Assessment

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 7

The personnel of the board which is to take evidence and assess the share of the Government's responsibility in connection, with the loss in the 1916-17 and 1917-18 wheat pools is…

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English Wool Sales. London, February 16

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 9

There was a poor selection of merinos at the Government wool sales to-day. Prices remained unchanged. Continental buyers operated freely for crossbreds, which advanced…

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Wheat Pools. Payment of £3,200,000

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 7

The Australian Wheat Board sat in Melbourne on Thursday, and at the conclusion of the meeting, an important statement was issued by the…

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Supply and Demand: Why Wool Prices Are High

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 27

A plain statement in regard to wool values at this juncture may remove a good deal of misunderstanding. The real reason for the high prices now ruling is the extraordinary…

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Sale of 1920-1921 Wool Clip Details of New Scheme

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 7

Further details were made available on Wednesday regarding the scheme of wool control recently drawn up by a conference of woolgrowers and wool…

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Compensation to Farmers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 9

The Assistant-Minister for Agriculture is now in a position to indicate the personnel of the board which is to take evidence and assess the share of the Government's…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 12

Trade in dairy produce was brisk yesterday, and despite the high prices asked for almost all commodities, big sales were effected. Interstate cured bacon was fairly plentiful, and…

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Farm, Field, and Orchard Topics

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 26

THE Australian rabbit has practically covered a continent. Judging by the extraordinary demand for fur overseas, it looks as it it may yet cover the heads and…

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Warwick Farm

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 6

Six events will provide the afternoon's sport at Warwick Farm on Saturday, March the 6th next. Entries are timed to close at 4 p.m. on Monday next, and…

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English Wool Sales

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 19 February 1920 · page 4

There was a poor selection of merinos at Tuesday's London wool sales. Prices were unchanged. The Continent is operating freely on…

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A Dangerous Wool Scheme

The Australian Worker · Thursday 19 February 1920 · page 11

SOME of the wool-growers and wool brokers of Australia have formed what they call a "Joint Australian Wool Council," consisting of five…

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Wheat-lumpers' Demands. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1920 · page 8

Another lumpers' strike has developed at Bunbury, where 2000 tons of wheat in trucks for shipment by the Wheat Scheme Board are held up. The lumpers demand 2/6 an hour,…

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Greater Wheat Production. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1920 · page 6

In view of the rapid depletion of stocks of wheat in Australia, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Oman, to-day conferred with departmental officers in Victoria on the…

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Wheat Production. a Victorian Campaign

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 February 1920 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Minister for Agriculture said to-day that in view of the rapid depletion of stocks of wheat in Australia he had discussed with officers of the…

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