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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

10,465 stories in Sydney's papers · page 75 of 250

Granville's Bug-bear Costs Cattle Owners £12 10s

Evening News · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 11

Granville suffers considerably from [?] straving cattle nuisance, and this [?] has been fined before The two [?] relate to only a few…

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London Wool Sales All Glasses Lower

The Sun · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 7

Daigety and Co.. Ltd., is in receipt of the following cable:-- "There was a fair selection of wools at the sales which opened in London…

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Price of Wheat. Flour Mill to Close

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 8

TOCUMWAL, Wednesday.--On Saturday Wise Brothers' Tocumwal flour mill will close down, owing to the dullness in export trade, and all employees will be discharged. The mill is…

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Sussex-street Trade More Butter Arrives Points of the Markets

The Sun · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 5

Increased business was negotiated, in all distributing centres today. Prices held firm for dairy produce, and there were good clearances of butter,…

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Archbishop Duhig. His Lenten Pastoral. Material Prosperity Alone—a. Foundation of Sand

The Catholic Press · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 12

The following is the Pastoral Letter of his Grace the Archbishop of Brisbane to the clergy and laity of the Archdiocese on the season of Lent…

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Wool Sales Seventh Series Closed 4404 Bales Offered

The Sun · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 7

The seventh series of the Sydney wool sales was concluded at the Royal Exchange this afternoon. There was a large gathering of buyers, all the…

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Milk Famine. Dairy Farmers' Withhold Supplies

The Australian Worker · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 9

The country dairy farmers have, entered upon a deliberate policy of preventing milk supplies from reaching the Sydney metropolitan area unless they are paid…

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Exchange and Trade Wool Prices Decline. London, February 22

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 5

Bankers consider that the Australian exchange problem is easing slowly, and hold out hope that the position will right itself as exports increase from Australia, but they are of…

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London Wool Sales Values Show Reduction LONDON, February 22

The Sun · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 5

The second series of colonial wool sales opened today. The catalogues comprised 7300 bales of freo and 6100 bales of Government wool. There…

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Oversea Market Cables. London Wool Sales. London, Feb. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 11

The wool sales opened to Blow bidding, and prices showed a ton to fifteen per cent, decline. There was a good attendance. In all 7315 bales of free wool were…

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On the Land. English Wool Teade. Operations During 1920. a Year of Boom and Slump

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 7

Summing up the wool position in England, our special Bradford correspondent writes:—The year 1920 will go down to history as one in which a boom and a slump occurred in the wool…

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Whole Farmyard! Demanded by Employees Ridiculous, Say Employers [?]

Evening News · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 7

The [?] exten[?] Lau[?] have been made on [?] but the strikers at a [?] to ask…

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Western Farming. Narromine's Encouragement

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 8

DUBBO.--After a hiatus of four years the Narromine A., P.. and H. Association has decided to hold a show on May 10 and 11, It will thus fall in with the main western roster--…

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WHEAT———— World's Wheat Crops

The Land · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 6

The secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance, and Agency Company, Limited, states that their London…

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Cattle

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 10
Also in The Land

About 2550 yarded. Quality medium Market dearer. There were 2548 cattle, including about 680 from Queensland, yarded, out…

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Liens on Wheat Crops

The Land · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 6

The Minister for Agriculture desires it to be explained that no difference is being made in the treatment of those whose liens are…

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Wheat Dockages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 7

Mr. Geo. E. Petersen, Gleewong, Gregra, writes:—A few days ago in your paper I saw a statement made by Mr. Dunn, Minister for Agriculture, that farmers are being paid more for their wheat over f.u.q., on…

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Clarendon Wheat

The Land · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 6

Clarendon wheat, an early maturing, general purpose, medium softgrained variety, is a Departmental crossbred which has been found…

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Wheat Sold Three-quarters of Crop

The Sun · Friday 25 February 1921 · page 2

"When I stated at the Leeton settlement the other day that three-quarters of the wheat had been disposed of, I meant not three-quarters…

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