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Farming & the land, 1923

8,531 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 250

Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep. Market Firm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 11

About 48,000 sheep were in the pens at Homebush yesterday morning, comprising all descriptions from heavy sheep, with fair skings, down to small suckers, There was a good proportion each of merinos and…

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Prickly-pear As Fodder for Sheep

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 6

According to Bulletin No. 4, 1922, of the South African Department or Agriculture, preliminary investigations at Grootfontein School of Agriculture…

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Bushel of Wheat. Adelaide

The Land · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 14

The corn trade sectional committee of the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce fixed the standard sample of wheat for South Australia for…

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Latest Charters. Coal and Wheat

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 4

Bertha, sh, 1842 tons, Newcastle to West Coast—coal. G. D. Kennedy, sh, 1355 tons, Port Pirie to U.K. or Continent—wheat…

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Thursday's Homebush Stock Sales Sheep and Lambs

The Land · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 1

The market yesterday (Thursday) was again heavy, there being 48,548 grown sheep and lambs listed, from 281 consignors. The supply of lambs…

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Record Sheep Sale. a Big Queensland Purchase

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 10

At Hughenden (Q.)on Saturday last 20,000 weather from Afton Downs four months off the shoars were sold at 26/ a head to Mr.Terry owner of…

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Wheat-growing in the North-west

The Land · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 14

Giving evidence at Moree before the Public Works Committee Mr. J. Maunder, of Pallamallawa, said he had been cropping continuously for…

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Butter Market Controlling the Supply the Winter Prospects

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 4

Mr. C.J. McRac President of the Primary Producers Union [?] to the movement to organise the dairy representative yesterday that through…

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Sheep Rearing Merino Rams for Britain Important Experiment

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 10

An Important experiment to improve British wool was decided upon in the textile department of Leeds University recently, when a meeting of…

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The Wool World Market Very Firm

The Land · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 17

Keen as wiih the demand at the closing of the December series, the remarkable competition which has been established since the present…

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Wheat Harvest an Optimistic Estimate Conflicting Views

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 12

In a preilminary estimate of the current sesson's wheat harvest in New South Wales the Government statistician (Mr. H. A. Smith) Places the…

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Last Season's Wheat. Voluntary Pool's Final Payment

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 12

The committee of the N.S.W. voluntary wheat pool for the final payment, to be made on 16th January…

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The Red Poll Dual Purpose Cattle Progress in Britain

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 10

In a communication to "Garden and Field," the secretary of the Red Poll Cattle Society of Great Britian states that the great progress of the milk and…

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British Cattle Embargo. May he Lifted for the Exhibition

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 10

It was stated recently in a cable from London that the embargo upon the importation of Canadian cattle into England had been lifted. As the…

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Nardana's Fast Passage. Season's Biggest Wool Shipment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 10

The strainer Nardana, running in the interests of the Austral European line, carrying wool and general cargo from Australian ports, arrived at Dunkirk on Monday after a fast passage of 40 days from Sydney…

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Butter Stabilisation THE P.P.U. SCHEME Hunter Factories Approve

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 11

In connection with the scheme for the stabllisation of the butter Industry, the president of the Primary Producers Union (Mr. C. J. McRac)…

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Enoggera Sales Sharp Advance for Cattle Many Lambs on Offer

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 6

At the Enoggera (Brisbane) live stock markets on Wednesday 4900 sheep were penned The Majority of the sheep were good to prime Merinos…

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London Markets N.Z. Cheese Weaker Unsalted Butter Up London, January 17

The Sun · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 7

The butter market was firmer, Australian salted was quoted at 194s to 196s, while unsalted moved up 4s at 192s to 194s a cwt. N.Z. salted advanced 2s at 198s to 200s,…

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On the Land. Butter Pat Production. a Wohld's Record. Melba Xv.'s Achievement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 7

What must be classed as a triumph of breeding and trading is the world's record in butter fat production put up by Melba XV., the property of the Scottish-Australian investment…

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World-beater Champion Butter Cow Melba Xv. Wins Out Honor to N.s.w

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 8

A New South Wales cow has eclipsed the world's record in butter production. The Australian Milking Shorthorn cow, Melba XV. of Darbalara,…

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