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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

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45 Bushel Crop

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 2

CANOWINDRA.--Mr. D. W. Shearing of Woodstock Road, delivered to the voluntary wheat pool 527 bags of wheat, stripped off 36 acres. When…

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Bellinger Dairying

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 2

BELLINGEN.--The Upper Bellinger Butter Factory during November paid cream suppliers a total of £3922 for 43,910lb. choicest, 6770lb. first, and…

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Wheat Pool Payments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 11

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. F. A. Chaffey, M.L.A.) stated yesterday that he wished to remind all growers interested in the 1917-18, 1918-19, and 1919-20 wheat pools, that…

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Wheat-weighing Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 5

ALBURY.--Fanners are indignant at the charge of 3d per ton weighing charges imposed by the Railway Department on wheat and a united…

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A Splendid Combination on an Ariah Park Wheat Farm

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 18

By means of the tractor and 12-foot-cut reaper-thresher this farmer (R. G. Goulter) harvested his seven-bag crop in record time. Although two men and a boy were on the machine when the photo was taken, Mr. Goulter actually runs the entire plant himself, guiding the tractor with one hand and controlling the reaper-thresher with the other. The second man in the picture is the bag-sewer, while the boy is a passenger…

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Melbourne Sheep Market. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 14

About [?] fat sheep were yarded at Flemington to-day, good and prime qualities being fully represented. The general tone of the market was exceedingly active. Quotations: Prime crossbred wethers 33/…

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A Co-operative Sheep Dip

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 31

THE first co-operative sheep dip in New South Wales has beem built on the Forbes-Stockinbingal stock route. It was brought into being by seven small…

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N.S.W. Wheat Dispute. Farmers to Move at Last

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 2

Following on the failure to secure the Auditor-General to prepare their case in connection with the wheat dispute, the N.S.W. Farmers and Settlers' Association…

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Wool Sales. Spirited Competition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 15

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 7150 bales, and the sales, including private transactions,…

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Wheat Markets Millers Buying Freely

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 11

Active business in new season's wheat was passing yesterday between farmers and millers on the basis of 4 a bushel at country stations, or 47. ex truck. Sydney…

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The Crop of Wheat That Won the R.a.s. Competition for James Simpson

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 31

Of Weerona, Grenfell, who scored 142 points with his College Purple variety, which was estimated to yield 27 bushels to the acre…

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Wool Tops Firm London, January 7

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 9

At Bradford prices for wool tups are firm, but there is more inquiry than actual business…

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Wheat Freights "Unprofitable" Rates How It Came About

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 8

Difficulty is being experienced by Sydney exporters In securing adequate freight space for cargoes of wheat and flour for shipment to the United…

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Wheat Trials Queen Fan and Onas Win MUDGEE

The Sun · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 8

Queen Fan, a variety of wheat, Which has given the best results in experiments carried out locally in conjunction with the Department of…

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In the City To-day Little Demand Poultry Cheaper More Butter to Hand

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 5

For the week's succeeding Christmas the demand for poultry always shows a decided fulling-off, and as the supply during the past week has been good…

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The Cost of Harvesting Wheat What Machinery has done for Australia

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 29

IT is a proven fact that there is no country in the world where wheat may be harvested at, so little cost as in Australia, and this is due in great measure to the perfection of harvesting machinery. Australians…

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A Thirty-two Million Bushel Wheat Harvest in New South Wales

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 20

The harvesting of the wheat crop in New South Wales is almost complete. When the seed was sown in the winter, followed by splendid rains in June, the statement was heard on every hand that a record crop was assured. The subsequent rainless period…

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Wheat Harvest. Splendid Pictures in the "Sydney Mail." Week-end Sport

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 12

The "Sydney Mail" estimates that this season's wheat yield in New South Wales will not exceed 32,000,000 bushels, averaging somewhere about nine bushels to the acre—the…

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Wheat Pools. Final Payments. Over £1,300,000 in Victoria. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 12

The manager of the Victorian Wheat Commission (Mr. H. J. Baker), announced that from to-morrow final payments will be made in respect of the balances due to scripholders…

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The Pastoralist High Wool Values — Regulation of Offerings Country Buying — France's Position

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 27

HIGH as wool values are to-day, it, is generally conceded that they rest upon a very solid foundation. Once the textile trade recovered from the slump of three years ago it began…

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