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Farming & the land, 1924

9,687 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

The Australian Vegetable Garden the Genial Climate Ensures Crops All the Year Round Two Crops of Potatoes Annually

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 9

The glorious, sunny climate of Australia makes it ideal for vegetable growing, as in very few parts is the winter cold enough to stop growth. In…

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Training Immigrants. The Arrawatta Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 17

Lost year the N.S.W. Government secured a lease of Arrawatta Farm, in the Inverell district for the training of migrants. The Government has now…

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Dairying in Queensland Unequalled Opportunities for Expansion Agricultural Council's Advice

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

The special committee of the Queensland Council of Agriculture has issued a pamphlet dealing with that State's dairying Industry. The committee…

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Running Costs Tractor on the Farm Riverina Records

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 11

Motor traction on the farm is becoming lnuch more popular particularly in the Riverinn. In the Berrican district…

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Farm Factors

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

Correspondence is invited. All questions on agriculture will be answered in these columns. Address: Mr. Robert Kaleski, "Stock and Station Journal," 17 Castlereagh-st, Sydney ROTATION OF CROPS…

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Dairy Industry Stabilisation Board. Nominations

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

Nominations have now closed for the election of representative to the conference which will be held to consider a stabilisation scheme for the dairying…

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

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 25

Two prices rulled in Sussex-st. on Tuesday. The "street" quoted eggs 1[?]7 per doz. and reported a shortage, while one of the large co-operative houses,…

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Boy Immigrants. Training As Farmers. Wellington (N.z.)

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

The Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union to-day discussed the immigration scheme under which secondary school boys were being brought from Great…

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Produce. Dairy

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

Owing, according to reports, to natural seasonal falling-off in supplies, new-laid eggs were advanced to 1/9 per dozen throughout the Sussex-street markets yesterday. That…

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How the Agent Robs the Farmer. A Typical Case

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 2

The following from the “Guardian” speaks for itself:— Rose-tinted Apples from Hornsby. At 8½d. a Case…

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Their Only Hope is Return of Labor Government 1917 Victims Despair of Fair Treatment by Anti-Labor Administration There Are "Sheep" and "Goats" in the Rail and Tram Services--men Are Humiliated to the Dust--employees with 30 AND 40 Years' Service See Youths Rushed to Seniority--hopeless Outlook for Many

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 1

Remarkable instances of the hardships suffered by the victims of the 1917 Railway and Tramway Strike are quoted at Darling Harbor. Although there is a clause in the regulations governing service dealing with "expiation of offences." there is apparently little hope of some…

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The Land "Nations may battle and the world rock with revolution, but the land will care for him who cares for it." ADDRESS: 7 O'connell Street, Sydney. Telephones: B2534. Works: 880 Redfern. Telegrams: "The Land," Sydney. Friday, February 1, 1924. The Privy Council and the Wheat Compensation Case

The Land · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 10

IN the course of an interview with the representative of the "Northern Daily Leader," the Minister for Agriculture suggests that the "honourable course" is to leave the wheat compensation case in the hands of the Auditor-General…

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A Good Save Wheat Crop Burned ADELAIDE

The Sun · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 6

The fire which broke out on the farm of Mr. B. O. Henig, at Hynam, destroyed 117 acres of wheat before it was subdued. At one period it looked…

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Week in Wheat

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 3

A slackness in overseas demand was noticeable about the middle of last week, but since then selling has been more…

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Farmers' Claims. Wheat Compensation. Mr. Chaffey Defers Comments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 17

In the course of an Interview yesterday the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Chaffey) made reference to the complaints made by the Farmers and Settlers' Association executive,…

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Adelaide Wool Sale

Evening News · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 6

Eider. Smith and Co. Ltd. have received advices from Adelaide that ar the local soot sales there was a large attendance of buyers. all sections of the trade being…

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More Milk and Better Butter

Nepean Times · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 7

The above is the aim and object of every progressive dairyman. He is always considering ways and means to increase his output of milk, because it…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. West Maitland, [?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 18

Eric Joseph Duff, cattle dealer, of East Maitland, was charged at the Gresford Court yesterday with stealing three cows, the property of three different owners, and valued at £[?]…

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Compulsory Wheat Pools' Accounts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 19

The final summarised statement of income and expenditure of the five compulsory wheat pools of the State—viz., these of 1815-16, 1016-17, 1917-18, 1918-19, 1019-20, and 1920-21—…

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Wheat Markets Mill Offal Reduced

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 9

The New South Wales Flour Mill Owners Association has reduced the price of mill offal by 10 a ton, bran being quoted at £55 and pollard £6. Bran was meeting with good…

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