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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

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Hunger for Wheat Needs of Europe Speculators Gain London. January 30

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 February 1925 · page 1

Reviewing the week's remarkable total of 80 wheat cargo sales, the trade journal "Grain Reporter," alludes to re-sales and mentions a…

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Overseas Messages Wheat in London Cargo Market Uncertain. London, January 30

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 February 1925 · page 8

The market to-day for wheat cargoes was more uncertain owing to wide fluctuations in Canad an and American options. However, sales were made at good…

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Prosperous Dairymen Along Bellinger River BELLINGEN

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1925 · page 4

The aggregate output for December of the Upper Bellinger River Butter Company, and the Releigh Butter Company, the two factories on the…

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Farmer Drops Lead

The Sun · Monday 2 February 1925 · page 13

Adamina by, Monday, -- James Gare house an elderly farmers, dropped dead in Main street…

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Copra Crop Lack of Rain Affects

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 February 1925 · page 3

Lack of rain in the Gilbert Group has had a serious effect on the islanders' staple trade -- copra. The rainfall which usually is plentiful in the South…

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Homebush Sales Sheep Cheaper Cattle Market Firmer Sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 10

Although sheep were generally about 1 to 2 cheaper at the Homebush stock sales yesterday there was not any quotable change in mutton values. The decline in skin values…

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Wheat Silos Western Farmers Complain

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

TEMORA.--A representative meeting of farmers of Quandary, Pucawan, and Bectric districts unanimously decided to appoint a deputation to wait…

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Commonwealth Wheat

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 8

West Australia, the Cinderella Statue of the Commonwealth, with its agricultural affairs directed by G. L. Sutton—a favourite associate of the late…

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More Wheat Charters

The Sun · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 15

Tonnage amounting to 84,700 gross was chartered over the week-end to load wheat from Australian ports for overseas…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 10

Wool auctious were resumed to-day, when [?] brough, Mort and Co. and Australian Estates and Mortgage Co. submitted catalogues which totalled 2578 and 3758 bales respectively. The offerings…

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Sorghum Poisoning Cattle Losses Department's Reports

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

Cattle were recently poisoned in the Wellington district from eating Sudan grass. In investigating this matter. Mr. J…

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Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep. Market Lower

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 11

There was a penning yesterday at the Homebush stock sales of about 9000 sheep and lambs. The quality was only fair. While there was a good sprinkling of prime sorts, there were quite a number of old…

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The Scramble for Wheat Who Deserves the Profits Farmers Hit by Freights

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 6

Is it Commonwealth policy to extort from the producers the highest possible freights that can be imposed for the carriage of wheat,…

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Handling the Wheat Railway Records

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 3

It is officially pointed out that the Railways Department has done this year inbu[?]tely more work in the transporting of wheat than its best previous…

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Freight Market. Animated Wheat Chartering

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 4

In view of the recent sensational rise in wheat prices, the chartering of tonnage for wheat loading at Australian ports was animated towards the close…

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Victoria's Wheat Harvest. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 10

Figures issued by the Railway Department show that since the beginning of [?] season, 4,128,397 bags have been loaded at different centres in the wheat belt. A [?]…

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Wheat Lumping in S.a

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 3

At Kadina on Friday. Dr.T. Hewitson Deputy President of the industrial Court, took evidence in the case referred into court for a compulsory…

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Families Burned Alive Russia's Peasant Tragedies No Wheat for Crops London, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 1

The Soviet authorities at Stavroapolsk, report six cases of peasant families having, after abandoning hope of receiving wheat to prevent…

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Brisbane Wool Sales Brisbane

The Sun · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 9

The wool sales opened to-day. Competition was better than expected, with all countries operating. Good to average fleeces were down 10 per cent on last sales…

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