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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

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The Wool Scheme Speedy Agreement Probable Shipping via Torres Straits LONDON

Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 1

Negotiations between the Imperial and Australian Government continue [?]ding the wood realisation scheme…

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Queensland Maize Crops. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 7

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Gillies) stated to-day that the question of drying maize grown in Queensland prior to marketing it had been carefully considered. At…

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Money in Sheep 37 Per Head for Wool FORBES

The Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 6

Mr. A. W. Scott, of Milong Station, Young district, a noted strong wool merino breeder, recently visited Forbes district, and in a chat with a "Sun"…

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Wheat Dockages. Cowra Farmers Protest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 9

COWRA.—At a meeting of the local branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association the new scale of dockages for wheat under the f.a.q. was prominently before the meeting…

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Butter and Cheese

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 8

Returns supplied by the Commonwealth Dairy Branch Department of Trade and Customs, Brisbane, showing movements of butter and cheese…

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Wheat Plot Yields

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 10

An average of 37 bushels 241b. per acre was harvested from the farmers' experiment wheat plots on the farm of Mr. J. Parslow, Kelvin, Gilgandra. The previous crop on the…

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Breadstuffs. World's Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 12

The Lindley Walker Co-operative Wheat Company advises that it has received a cable from its London correspondent, stating: —"Wheat prices, United Kingdom, further…

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Wool for Antwerp

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 8

Wool has been shipped from Australia to Antwerp in considerable quantities this year, the total from 1st January last being 170,535 bales. In…

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Butter and Cheese From New Zealand

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 8

A record shipment of butter from Auckland was taken by the Gallic, which left there recently for London. The shipment consisted of 137,000…

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The Wheat-growers' Reward: a Forty-million-bushel Yield After Years of Crop Failures

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 18

The prospect of a magnificad wheat harvest in New South Wales was never brighter. Nearly half the crop has already been secured under ideal conditions, and the yields everywhere are better than were…

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The Wool Position. Explanation Wanted

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 10

The Yorkshire Wool Federation interviewed Lord Inverforth on Wednesday regarding the wool position. The deputations requested a…

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Wool Scheme. London, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 11

Negotiations between the Imperial Government and the Australian Government continue regarding the wool realisation scheme, and are being conducted in the most friendly…

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Harvest Number : in the Wheat Country

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 1

cover Design (drawn from a photograph) : Finishing a Stack Near Millthorpe, N.S.W…

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The Soil. the Wheat Position. Payments and Deductions

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 10

The president of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, Mr. W.W. Killen, made a statement yesterday regarding the wheat position and the outlook generally, in the following…

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Wheat and Oat Trials. Satisfactory Yields in the West

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 9

Though in some cases the yields in the wheat variety trials conducted by the Department of Agriculture in the central western district were lower than those in the…

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Victoria's Wheat. Estimate Likely to Be Exceeded. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 11

According to a steatement made to-day by Mr. D. Oman, Minister in charge of the wheat pool, the estimate of 42,000,000 bushels of wheat for the coming harvest in Victoria is…

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Poultry Farmers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 4

The numerous poultry farmers in this district had a much more contented Christmas this year than last. At Christmas time, 1919, the outlook before this…

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"Napier Lion's" Motoring Notes. More About Tractors on the Farm

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 37

ONE can hear a faint voice hailing from Leonora—where there are still a few wild blacks, from all accounts—another from Burnie, in Tasmania, and still…

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New Zealand Honey Crop. Prospect of Good Season

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 12

Mr. T. W. Kirk, director of the horticultural division of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, has received from the apiary instructors the…

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Farm Produce

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 2

Forage and grain lines were also dull. Maize of choice quality was steady at 7/, and good lots were quoted at 6/9…

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