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Farming & the land, 1923

8,531 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 250

Queensland Wheat 1,500,000 Bushels TOOWOOMBA

Evening News · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 3

The Queensland Wheat Board, after allowing for losses by hall and also for what growers kept for seed, now expects to receive 1,500,000, bushels of…

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Berrima District Farm and Dairy Company, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 15

The fifty-fifth half-yearly report of the Ber[?] District Farm and Dairy Co., Ltd., covering the period ended December 31, 1922, states that, apart from the additional butter…

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On the Land. Wool Freights. Protest to Prime Minister

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 11

A deputation from the Producers' Associations' Central Council, consisting of Mr. James Kidd (vice-chairman), Dr. N. W. Kater, and Messrs, A. K. Trethowan, M.L.C., W. W…

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Oversea Market Cables. Bradford Wool Market. London, Feb. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 15

Bradford wool prices are unchanged, but business is very small. GOVERNMENT WOOL STOCKS. Replying to a question in the House of…

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Wheat Handling in N.s.w. Rates and Conditions of Agreement

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 23

1. Wages.—For lumpers, landers, stackers and lifters, 7/9 per 100 bags. If the total wages received for ordinary hours under the piece-work contract and…

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Sugar Crop. Surplus Over Consumption

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 4

According to the annual report issued by the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations the cane crop in Queensland for 1922 is expected to yield 2,194,712 tons. This…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 15

A steady trade was done in dairy produce lines in Sussex-street yesterday, and values were steady. Supplies of cheese were sufficient to meet all demand, and most houses…

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Training Immigrants. Proposed School Farm at Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 11

INVERELL.—At a large and representative public meeting, presided over by the Mayor, a proposal to lease Arrawatta (Mr. T. Bowling's dairying property) to the Government was…

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Machine Farming Parkes

The Sun · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 10

A returned soldier from this district, who was attracted by the cotton boom in Central Queensland, gives some interesting details of his experiences this…

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Rural New South Wales Settlement and Production Wine-goweks the Hunter Crop Clean and Rich Vineyard and Cellar

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 5

The prospect of a highly satisfactory vintage in the Hunter Valley--wines of outstanding quality and more than average bulk--was indicated in a…

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Butter Factories

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 8

EDEN.--During January the Towamba Co-operative Creamy Company manufactured 8379lb. of butter, which realised £591. Suppliers were paid 14 per lb…

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Sugden Wool Co

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 7

The nature of prospective activities of the Sugden Wool Scouring and Carbonising Co., Ltd., is implied in the title of the concern which is being formed with…

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Jersey Cattle Advancing the Breed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 8

A meeting of the council of the New South Wales branch of the Australasian Jersey Herd Society agreed to a request of the Casino committee, to…

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Wool Sales. Market Fully Firm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 11

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 5968 bales, and the sales, including private transactions,…

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London Wool Sales London, Wednesday Evening

Evening News · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 5

The quantity of wool available for the London wool sales commencing on March 6 comprises 60,000 bales of Barwa wool and [?] privately…

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Commercial American Wool Consumption Market Prospects

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 31

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:— Demand continues keen at the Sydney wool sales. Late figures have been firmly maintained. Very faulty merinos and medium to coarse…

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Archbishop Duhig. Lenten Pastoral. the Dangers and Needs of the Day

The Catholic Press · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 20

The following Lenten Pastoral Letter of his Grace the Archbishop of Brisbane (Most Rev. Dr. Duhig) was read in all the Catholic churches of the Archdiocese…

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Archbishop Duhig's Lenten Pastoral. He War Divorce, and Dearth of Catholic Marriages

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 23

His Grace Dr. Duhig, Archbishop of Brisbane, has issued a Lenten Pastoral Letter. Among other topics, he discusses the effects of the war. He writes:— It has been said that rank materialism…

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Cattle Industry. Serious Outlook. Economic Existence Threatened. Value to Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 8

Two years of the severe post-war depression have served seriously to [?] the cattle industry of Australia, and the heavy losses already sustained by…

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Egg Pools And the Farmer Does He Benefit?

Evening News · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 5

Co-operative firms are unable to dispose of all thier eggs daily. Proprietory houses, on the other hand, report [?] floors at the end…

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