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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1923

8,531 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250

The Week in Wheat

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 3

The overseas demand is practically idle. Sales of Australian wheat have been made at front 49- to 496 c.i.f., mostly on…

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Breadstuffs. Pool Wheat Reduced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 17

Very little business was done locally in wheat yesterday. Many holders who on Thursday were willing to trade at 5/4½ per bushel on rail Sydney, asked 5/5, but millers in most…

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Wheat Pools Finality Sought Minister's Promise

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 7

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Chaffey) yesterday affirmed his determination to have financial matters in connection with the wheat pools…

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Wheat Pools. Request for Finality. Minister's Reply

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 17

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Buttenshaw, M.L.A. (president of the Farmers and Settlers' Aasociation), Sir Arthur Rickard, Mr. Trethowan, M.L.C., Mr. Hunt, M.L.C., Mr. E…

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Wheat Market Pool Reduction to 58 Bushel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 9

The Voluntary Wheat Pool yesterday reduced tho quotation for wheat for local consumption to 58 bushel, Darling Island basis, and for export trade to 55…

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Bunny Thrives While Sheep Starve Trappers' Harvest Mudgee

Evening News · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 6

Sheep and cattle are [?] in the west, but still the rabbit [?] and everywhere trapping operations are proceeding on on…

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Dry Conditions Dairy Farmers Troubled West Maitland

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 8

Eccleston is passing thorugh a record season of heat and drought, such as has not been known for more than 50 years. Dairymen are finding it…

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London Markets N.S.W. Wheat Freights LONDON, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 2

N.S.W, wheat freights for April were quoted at 34s a ton. INDIAN EXCHANGE (Reuter's Telegram)…

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On the Land. the Wool Trade. Values Generally Firm. the Position Abroad

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 13

Ample inducement has existed to tempt buyers to bid at the past week's Sydney wool sales. Catalogues have largely consisted of clips from the New England, Yass, Monaro,…

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Dairy Company Meeting

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 4

A meeting of suppliers and shareholders of the Nepean Dairy Company will be held in the Masonic Hall, on Thursday next, 15th inst., at 11 a.m. to…

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To-day's Dairy

Evening News · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 4

Solving the Domestic Problem.—Novel Alarm "Clock."—Reduced Tram Fares. THE man behind the scenes in the campaign for the reduction of tram fares was Mr…

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Deadly Lightning Farmhand Killed Wellington (N.z.)

Evening News · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 8

During a thunderstorm at North Canterbury yesterday a farm laborer was struck and killed by lightning…

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"Walking" Farm Tractor Digs Its Spurs Into the Ground

The World's News · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 10

Loss of tractive power resulting from the slipping of tractor wheels on soft or muddy ground is almost entirely eliminated in a new walking" tractor that literally thrusts…

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"Any Shares To-day, Lady?" Australia's Crop of Insurance Bantlings the Door to Door Canvass Its Success -- and Its Perils

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 10

The past two years have produced a crop of general, life and fire insurance companies in the Commonwealth. Is there room for them all? Each of these new companies must employ a big field and administrative…

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Promise of the White Crop Rapid Progress on the Bellinger

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 13

Six months ago cotton as a crop was unknown on the Bellinger River. To-day about 100 farmers are growing experimental crops, varying in size from a quarter of an aero to six acres…

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Immigrants. Proposed Training Farm. Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1923 · page 16

Mr. Wearne, Minister for Lands, accompanied by Col. Bruxnor, inspected Arrawatta estate yesterday. On his return he said that there was a…

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More About Sheep

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1923 · page 7

Seaweed writes: "I have been spending a month of my Christmas holidays on a large sheep station at Narrawa. We were 30 miles from any town, and…

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Invalid Treatment Treasures of Tutankhamen Lint and Cotton Wool London

The Sun · Sunday 11 February 1923 · page 1

The small shrine, resembling a cabinet, which was the 108th object removed from the tomb of Tuntakhamen, is one of the finest objects…

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HAYMARKET Nice People on a Farm

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1923 · page 3

Even really nice people sometimes have to do things that are considered infra dig, hence Teddy Gloucester (Bebe Daniels) and Billy Wade (the late…

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Wealth in Farming

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1923 · page 13

Issued by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, the farmers' Hanabcok (fourth edition) is more than handbook; it is an encyctopaed. a for the practical…

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