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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

9,182 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

The State's Golden Harvest Sixty Million Bushels of Wheat Worth Over £17,000,000 to the Farmer

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 1

The Government Statistician, Mr. H. A. Smith, yesterday completed his preliminary estimate of the New South Wales wheat harvest for the current season, based on returns supplied by growers throughout the wheat…

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New Zealand Wool Sale. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 16

At the Wanganui wool sale the prices were very satisfactory, all though not as high as at the first sale in November. Fine wools sold at about par with the December sales, any change being in sellers'…

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Overseas Messages Slump in Butter Heavy Shipments for London. London, January 8

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 18

Butter has slumped heavily, owing to the large quantities afloat. It is estimated that the total supplies from all sources to arrive within the next six weeks will exceed the…

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Butter to Be Cheaper Penny a Pound Less Wholesale London Market Slumps

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 10

It has been decided by the advisory committee, in relation to butter, that the wholesale quotation for choicest grade is to be…

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Wheat Harvest. 60,832,000 Bushels. Second Highest in State's History

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 15

The Government Statistician (Mr. H. A. Smith) has estimated the yield of wheat for the present season at 60,832,000 bushels, and…

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On the Land. the Wool Trade. Sales Next Week. Market Prospects

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 13

The Sydney market reopens next Monday, January 12. Auctions in Hobart did not quite provide the cheery guide which wool owners and sellers may have hoped. A 5 per cent…

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No Money in Meat 'Australian Producers' Complaint Wool Ousts Mutton London, January 9

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 1

In the course of his evidence before the Royal Commission on Food Prices, Mr. A. R. Hassan representative Australian Meat…

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Governor's Advice. To Farmers. "Conserve Fodder." (By Our Special Representative.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 14

At the Albion Park Horticultural and Agricultural Society's show yesterday, the Governor, referring to bad times in the past, said that those periods of depression moved…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 17

Reduced rutes ruled for pig products in the Sussex-street dalry produce market yesterday. Supplies of bacon continued on the increase, and in sympathy with the recent…

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Rural Interests Settlement and Production Farmers' Problems The Aids of Science More Trained Workers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 2

Special attention, the Minister for Agriculture rightly enough claims, has been given by the Fuller Government to the matter of inceasing the field…

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Wool for Japan

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 7

BRISBANE, Saturday—The Madras Maru left Brisbane to-night carrying a record, cargo of wool amounting to 8780 bales for Japanese ports…

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Sterling Buoyant Wheat in Sympathy New York, January 9

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 2

The rate of exchange of the pound sterling was 4 dollars 78 cents to-day, and closed at 4 dollars 79. Many industrial, stocks advanced…

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Italy World's Harvest Wheat Equals 89 percent of 1925 ROME

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 4

A survey of the harvest of the world, issued by the International Institute of Agriculture, shows that the wheat yield for 1924 is equal to 89.01…

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Did Stony Stockbroker Dive from Danger? Wollongong Businessman's Futile Effort to Successfully Float Wool-Buying Company Body Discovered off Cremorne

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 9

In Bankruptcy.—Before the Acting Registrar at the Supreme Court Buildings, Elizabeth-street.—At 10 a.m.—Public Examination: Re Samuel Brown Henderson…

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The Garden Fertilisers for Crops Useful Recipes

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 9

Crops are usually grown in continuous succession in a garden, and this intensive system of cultivation can only be practised with profit by the…

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The Butter Industry

The Labor Daily · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 4

Sir,--In your issue of January 3, I notice in the Produce Market column a letter from Mr. E. Searle dairymen of the North Coast, to the butter…

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Wheat Harvest. High Estimate

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 4

The Government Statistician (Mr. H. A. Smith) has estimated the yield of wheat for the State of N.S.W. for the present season at 60,832,000…

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Wheat Production. World's Estimate

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 4

The estimate of world wheat production for 1924, compiled by the London "Grain, Seed, and OH Reporter," is of particular interest to Australian…

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Wool Store Destroyed.[?] Delegate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 10

A building owned by Mrs. Jacob Goodman, and occupied by Messrs. Jones and Aspinall as a wool and skin store, was, with its contents, destroyed by fire last night. The…

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Wheat Handling Rates. New Phase of Trouble

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 9

A new factor entered into the waterside war to-day in the form of a dispute concerning the rates to be paid to wharf labourers for handling the Benson's wheat…

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