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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

9,182 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 250

The Iron Road Bourke to Barringun the Pastoral Aspect

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 8

Giving evidence before the N.S.W. Public Works Committee last week, Mr. J. W. Allen, general secretary of the Graziers' Association of New South…

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The Wheat World Local and Overseas

The Land · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 16

The local market for the farmers' lots is now unchanged at 6/6, equal to 5/11 per bushel to growers, who sold sparingly. A parcel was…

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Wheat Silos. Lack of Storage Facilities

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 12

A representative meeting of farmers of the Quandary, Pucawan and Boctive districts last week unanimously decided to appoint a deputation to wait…

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Ice and Butter by Air. Cargo for Camooweal

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 8

A cargo of ice and butter was landed at Camooweal (Q.) last week from the de Haviland aeroplane, with which Mr. L. Brain Inaugurated the Cloncurry…

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Pool for Under-Quality Wheat Important Meeting

The Land · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 16

During last week the general secretary of the Farmers and Settlers' Association received a request from the Trundle branch of the association, through the president, Mr. H. R. Miller, asking for assistance to farmers in the marketing of wheat that has…

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Wheat Market Prices Fluctuate Local Business Quiet

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 7

A representative of one of the leading grain and flour merchants in Wellington (N.Z.) said on Wednesday that undoubtedly there was a big shortage…

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Wheat Markets Business Quiet Prices Again Easier

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 10

With the overseas wheat markets weak and inactive, business was practically at a standstill locally. Quotations for growers' lots receded 2d, to 63 a bushel,…

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Wheat Lumpers' Strike. Trouble at the Silos

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 4

Wheat-lumpers at the White Bay alios chose an opportune time this week, when the State's enormous crop of wheat has been reaching the alios at…

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Railway Notes Big Wheat Traffic Advertising Australia

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 3

In an earnest desire to serve the readers of the "Farmer and Settler," the Publicity Officer to the Railway Commissioners has arranged to…

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F.A.Q. Standard Complaints Bleached Wheat

The Land · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 16

Besides delaying the harvest the torrential rains experienced during the past month in the Illabo district, also proved detrimental to the farmer…

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Zara Tasmanian Sheep That Sale to South Africa. the Facts

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 18

There has been considerable newspaper discussion over the reported sale of Zara Tasmanian sheep to smith Africa. Herewith…

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Crops and Pastures Heavy Crop Sixty-Two Bushels Wimmera Farmer's Feat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 12

Farmers in most parts of Australia speak in bated breath of men that obtain fifty bushels of sheat from an acre of land. Anything over that is…

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Noxious Weeds. a Menace to the Pastoral and Agricultural Industries To the Editor "The Land."

The Land · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 4

Sir,—As a reader of your columns and an old bushman, I most heartily endorse the remarks of Mr. Ross, of the Wagga Experiment Farm,…

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Wool Sales. To Be Curtailed. Fifty Per Cent. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 9

At a joint conference held to-day of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council and the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia, which was attended by…

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Australian Wool Bradford's Big Problem Stocks Diminishing London, Friday Morning

The Sun · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 8

Merchants, commenting on Australia's decision to halve the wool offerings, consider that growers will probably succeed in their object of…

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Smaller Wool Offerings Auction Lists Revised Conference Decision Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 7

At a joint conference held to-day of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council and the National Council of Wool-Selling Brokers of Australia, which was…

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Damaged Wheat Proposed Formation of a Subsidiary, Pool the Problem of Finance

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 2

Owing to the heavy rains at the latter end of the harvest, many N.S.W. farmers have found themselves with quantities of damaged grain on hand…

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On the Land. Wheat Competitions. Final Reports of Judges. Comments on Cultivation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 7

The Royal Agricultural Society has printed the final reports of the Judges who adjudicated in the field wheat competitions in November and December last. In their…

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The Sydney Wool Trade An Irregular Market Fine Wools Firm Other Sorts Weaker

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 30

At the opening sales of the ninth series in Sydney this week, Japanese and Continental buying was the mainstay of the market, but the…

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Rural Interests' Settlement and Production Wool Weaker Where Prices Stand Offerings Reduced 50 Per Cent

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 2

Clouds of uncertainty still disfigure the wool horizon, and February prices are down another 5 per cent, to 15 per cent. The essentially fine wools have…

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