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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

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Colonial Wool Avoiding Price Slump Sir A. Goldfinch's Advice LONDON, January 31

The Sun · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 1

Sir Arthur Goldfinch, Director of Raw Materials, says that the Colonial Wool Association must insist that at least two-thirds of the wool offered in…

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Glen Innes Experiment Farm

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 28

The work of the various Government experiment farms in New South Wales is not nearly as widely known as it deserves to be. Although the main object of each farm is to carry out experiments…

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Market Report Sussex Street. Dairy Produce Steady

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 3

The market for dairy produce lines was without alteration in the wholesale markets of Sussex Street yesterday…

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Warwick Farm. Entries for Feb. 12. Maiden Handicap. Six Furlongs

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 5

Cheros. Delusion. Going Up, Lugana, Larch, Connie Doris, Lutewyn, Akbar. Mountside, Royal Coin, Hell[?]rn, Mary Medwin, Flaw. Ennis, Battleaxe…

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Good Sugar Crop. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 14

Reports from Bundaberg sugar district state that from the growers' standpoint the conditions at present are all that can be desired, and the prospects for the coming…

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Farm Labor Dearth

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 7

The difficulty of overcoming the dearth of trained farm labor and the steady annual migration to the cities of a useful proportion of the rural population is a problem that is not…

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Increased Rates. Protest Bt Farmers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 5

DAPTO, Tuesday.--Farmers in the Control Hlawarra Municipality express indignation at the 40 per cent. increase in rates, and an indignation meeting is to be held. Last year the rate…

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Wool

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 31

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. report:— The opening sales of the year are looked forward to with great interest. Catalogues are now in course of…

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Bleached Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 7

"Unfortunately," said one of the members of the Wheat Board yesterday, "the amount of bleached wheat now coming forward is far in excess of what was…

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Commercial. WOOL

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 23

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report:— Competition brightened at the first Sydney wool sales of the New Year, held on Monday. Japan and America…

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Record Wheat Loadings

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 4

Two records have been established by the Victorian Railway department in connection with the loading of wheat on vessels in port at Melbourne…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 10

The Wool Sales were continued in Sydney yesterday, when the quantity offered was 4725 bales. A good clearance was made. The selection consisted of good medium wools,…

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Wheat Supplies. Millers Want Increase

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Victorian flour millers are again urging that more wheat should be made available for gristing; also that it should be supplied to them at 9s a bushel,…

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Wollaroo Dispute. Wheat Loading Delayed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The Wallaroo waterside workers held a meeting yesterday. The secretary said he had interviewed the Port Pirie Union, which had decided that, in the…

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Heavy Wheat Yields Dunedoo

The Sun · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 4

The following wheat yields have been harvested:--J. White (Leadville), 990 bags from 62 acres; 8. Lynch (Leadville), 745 bags from 70 acres; R. Croft…

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The Wool Trade. Stabilising Values

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 4

Sir Arthur Goldfinch, Director of Raw Materials, explained to the Colonial Wool Merchants' Association the proposals of the Realisation…

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Wool Realisation. London, February 1

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 5

Sir Arthur Goldfinch (Director of Raw Materials) explained to the Colonial Wool Mordants' Association the proposals of the Realisation Association regarding the disposal of old…

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Wheat Glut. Orders to Stop Trucking

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 8

It was announced yesterday by the State Wheat Board that it had reluctantly been compelled to discontinue trucking wheat from the country to Sydney. All stations,…

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Price to Wheat Growers. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 9

The conference between the Wheat Board and the millers last night tentatively arrived at the basis of understanding by which the growers will receive the full 9/ a, bushel at…

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Butter. Prospects and Prices. Supplies for the Winter

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 5

The Imperial Government contract for the absorption of New South Wales surplus butter runs out on March 31, and there is considerable speculation in the trade as to what turn the…

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