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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

9,687 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 250

Science on the Farm Improving Pastures American Methods

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 12

The scientific improvement of pasture lands is apparently being taken up in earnest by those interested in the American pastoral industries. In…

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Dairying and Pig-rearing Industries Concrete Floors Use in the Dairy Hints on Mixing

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 11

The best methods of mixing and setting concrete for use in cowbails and dairies are described by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture…

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Foreign Editor's Dairy Notes on Cable News Rum—Running Treaty

Evening News · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 1

BRITAIN: The appointment of Mr. J. O'Grady to be first British Ambassador to Soviet Russia. When resognition is accorded. will…

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Splendid Crops West Wyalong

Evening News · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 9

Magnificent crops have just been harvested. Messrs. Thompson and Patton of Baroons. secured an average of 11 hags from 300 acres of…

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Flourishing Maize Crop

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 3

The maize crops on the Macleay look magnificent, says Mr. J. M. Pitt, agricultural instructor, in a report on conditions on the Central North Coast…

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The Child and the Farm American Organisation. It Is Worth Thinking Over

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 3

"Wherever club work has been pushed by our agents," wrote the United States Secretary for Agriculture, discussing the value of boys' and girls'…

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American Farmers Going Bankrupt

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 3

In the annual report of the United States Secretary for Agriculture, he directs special attention to the affairs of the farmers of the United States…

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Farm Experimental Work

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 3

Some interesting details of the investigations and experiments' carried out at Rothamsted Experimental Station are given in the report for…

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Farm Factors

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 3

Correspondence is invited. be answered in these columns. "Stock and Station Journal," All Questions on agriculture will…

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Bad Dairying Season on the North Coast

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 3

When will the city people wake up and realise what the producers are going through? One of the leading men in our dairy world, Mr. Arthur…

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Farm Produce Markets Sussex Street & Alexandria the Week's Sales Day by Day

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 25

Quiet conditions have ruled in the dairy produce section of the Sussex-st. wholesale markets during the week, quotations in all cases remaining…

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Dairy Company's Decision. Liquidation Owing to Dairy Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 9

KANGAROO VALLEY.—Thursday.—At an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Barrengarry Dairy Co. to-day it was decided to go into voluntary liquidation owing to…

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Kiama Crop Contests. High Yields of Maize and Potatoes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 9

KIAMA, Thursday.—In the crop competitions, despite the adverse weather conditions, there has been good entry for the Kiama Show, to be opened by Sir George Fuller…

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On the Land. Federated Farmers. Melbourne, Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thursday. —Many matters affecting the primary producers of Australia are set down for discussion at a conference of the Australian Farmers' Federal Organisation,…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 13

Demand for butter, choose, and eggs again fell much below the supply in dairy produce houses yesterday, and surpluses were consigned to cold storage, prices remaining…

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Cold Storage and Big Prices Dounteous Seasons--lead to Storing--farmer Hangs Back From Glut--speculator Scores. Dealing in Apples

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 7

To the public the system of cold storage is a curse. To the speculators and trading companies its introduction…

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Week in Wheat

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 January 1924 · page 2

Fair business is being done in Australian parcels and cargoes to Europe for Jan. and Feb. shipment. Parcels are realising up…

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Wheat Pools No Help From Banks Farmers Indignant

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1924 · page 7

The refusal of the Associated Banks to assist in financing State voluntary wheat pools was the subject of adverse comment at the inter-State conference…

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Invercargill Wool Sale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1924 · page 15

At the invercargill wool sale there was keen competition, prices ruling on a [?]ar with those at Christchurch last week, though there was a hardoning in some lines. The top prices were:—Halflred, /28½;…

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Invercargill Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1924 · page 8

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--At the Invercargill wool sales, geod competition ruled, and last week's Christchurch prices were main, mined, with a hardening tendency…

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