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Farming & the land, 1924

9,687 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 250

Primary Production in Australia Wheat and Sheep Interesting Records of a N.S.W. Farmer's Work Turning the Area to Good Account

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 4

As a rule, book-keeping is not one of the farmer's strong points; too frequently indeed, he manifests a happy-go-lucky indifference to the value of…

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War Wool [?]

The Land · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 17

Proble [?] to the purchasers [?] is the [?] [?] the war will [?] mo[?] annual to the [?]…

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Wheat Compensation Farmers' Claim. Placed in Hand

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 15

"The Farmers and Settlors' Association has completed its case in the claim on behalf or wheat-growers for payment of compensation for loss and…

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Wheat Farming the American Crisis Congress to Assist

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 14

The failure of numerous banks in certain sections of the north-western portion of the United States, owing to their heavy advances on…

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Oversea Wheat Position

The Land · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 15

[?]dley Wather Co op. Wheat Co. report: Our London cable of to day re[?] "General demand [?] Kingdom…

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Stripping Wheat a Tractor Harvester an Ingenious Farmer

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 10

Mr. W. Richardson of Wangaratta (Vic.), has invented a device by which a Fordson tractor can be driven direct from a Massey-Harris repear-thresher…

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Five Year's Wool

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 16

From Goulburn:— Five years ago Mr. William Lang, of Rocklily Station, near Wombeyan Caves, lost fice…

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Cattle Losses in the Argentine

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 12

A recently lengthy spell of bad weather characterised by wind, rain, and in many parts snow, caused very great mortality to live stock in different…

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Farmers' Case Wheat Payments 'To Growers Only' Additional to Overpayments

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 8

"We are unable to find, and we claim that it is impossible to find, any reference to any person who was in a position to make any determination, that…

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Wheat Markets Values Firm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 9

Business was again on the quiet side on the Sydney wheat market yesterday. Very fow parcels chanced hands, quotations, nevertheless, were firm at into levels, parcels being held…

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Pastoral Deal. a Million Acres. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 14

The biggest sale of pastoral property negotiated in this State was completed by Dalgety and Co. yesterday, when Towera and Lyndan stations, 180 miles north-east of…

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Dairying and Pig-rearing Industries Butter-fat Tests Queensland Scheme Some High Yields

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 15

Notwithstanding the fact that the last season in Queensland was one of the worst experienced by the dairy industry, the secretary of the Ilawarra…

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Sale of Diseased Cattle. Fine Imposed

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 3

Ernest Cox of Wingham was charged at the Wingham Court with having exposed a diseased animal for sale on November 15…

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Wool and Closer Settlement

The Land · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 18

Agricola writes:—Attention cannot be drawn too frequently to what the general community owes to our wool industry. At the same time,…

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Cattle from Queensland the Tick Menace

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 15

There is still no official statement as to just what are the intentions about, the bringing of cattle from the tick areas of Queensland to Homebush…

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Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep. Market Dearer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 13

Sheep and lambs at the Homebush stock 'sales yesterday totalled about 32,444. It was rather a plain class of sheep that was forwarded, and was not quite equal to late pennings. All classes were represented…

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Big Wheat Delivery at Wellington

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 7

WELLINGTON, Thursday.--Despite the bad Reason, the wheat harvest in this district has exceeded all expectations, and is now being delivered…

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Exports of Wheat and Flour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 13

Exports of wheat from New South Wales ports for the week ended January 19 amounted to 306,660 bushels and for the period December 1-January l9 to 397,585 bushels. Flour…

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Mustering the Cattle The Great Day on an Australian Cattle Run Wonderful Men and Horses

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 8

The are not many big cattle runs in New South Wales to-day. The march of closer settlement has broken up most of the big holdings where…

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Butter Market New York's Supplies Australia's Chance

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 7

An Australian Press Association cable tram London states the New York market is ready to absorb 300,000 cases of Australian and New…

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