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Farming & the land, 1925

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A Big Wheat Cargo Sydney's Obsolete Loading

The Labor Daily · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 5

The largest vessel that has yet taken a full cargo of wheat from Sydney the Federal [?] Navigation Company's Cambridge of [?] tons gross [?]…

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Damaged Wheat. Million Bushels. a Proposed Pool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 10

About 1,000,000 bushels of damaged or "shot' wheat in New South Wales was garnered from the last harvest. This estimate was placed before the Premier (Sir George Fuller) by…

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On the Land. Wheat Testing. New Miniature Mill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 7

An interesting ceremony was held yesterday afternoon in the office of the chief chemist to the Department of Agriculture. Ever since about the year 1906 wheats sent to the…

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The Wheat Season Berthing Difficulties Many Ships Waiting

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 3

Each year the export of Australia's wheat harvest brings to these shores many steamers which, after one or two trips, are not seen again until a year later…

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Wool Sales. Good and Medium Sorts in Demand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 11

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 7645 bales, and the sales, including private transactions…

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High Production Queensland Jerseys a Pound of Butter a DaY

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 10

Exceptionally high yields have been obtained from Young Jersey heifers in Mr. A. W. Kibble's had at wood-stock, Tumbouriue (Q.). Mr. Kibble…

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Wheat Harvest. Australian Needs. Fear of Shortage. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 6

When in Melbourne recently the Premier brought under the notice of Federal Ministers the fact as placed before him by Tasmanian millers that fully 85 per cent, of…

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New Wheat-testin G Mill for R.a.s

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 7

The new wheat testing mill installed by the Royal Agricultural Society at the Department of Agriculture was officially Opened yesterday by Mr. Chaffey. The mill is based on the design of the first mill used by the Department over 30 years ago, and since has been adopted in America, Canada, and England…

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An Australian Question Export of Stud Sheep Should Embargo Be Imposed?

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 1

IS it necessary, reasonable, or fair to impose an embargo on the export of stud sheep from Australia? The overwhelming majority of our stud-breeders would answer emphatically, no! Almost all of the stud sheep exported from Australia go to South…

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Wool Brands and Marks Bradford's Experiments Where Australia Comes in

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 18

Bradford Chamber of Commerce recently decided to circularise the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies of Australia, pointing out "the losses sustained to both the wool-growers and the wool trade generally by the use of brands or marks which will thoroughly dissolve in the process of…

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Better Wheat The Milling Test Work of the R.A.S.

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 2

A couple of years ago the "Royal Agricultural Society, in agreement with the Department of Agriculture, imported from America a wheat testing mill,…

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Rural Movements and Progress the Wool Market Stabilising Prices Reducing the Offerings

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 16

At a joint conference in Melbourne just week of the Australia Wool. growers Council and the National Council of Wool-Selling Brokers of…

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Cheap Western Property 128 miles from Sydney. 681 ACRES C.P. & C.L. Suitable sheep or cattle. Permanent water supply. Price £450. Lease of house adjoining can be obtained. Full details from PITT & East-. Way, 12 O'Connell Street, Sydney

The Land · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 5

Commenting upon the condition of the tobacco crops on the Murry and Tumut rivers, Mr. Lough, buyer for the British Tobacco…

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Rural Interests Settlement and Production the "Rot" Stops Wool Values Hold a New Programme

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 2

The past has been an eventful week in the wool trade, and developments, on the whole, have been satisfactory. It cannot be said that the price level…

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Milk and Butter-fat Yields Cows that Completed their Tests during January Success of tHE Jerseys and Ayrshires

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 10

The dairy branch of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture has supplied the following particulars of the cows that completed their milk and…

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Homestead Farms

The Land · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 11

Land District of Hillston.—Setting apart ten blocks, ranging from about 1,795 acres to 5,325 acres, parishes of Bogia, Bunda East, etc,…

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Dairying. Physiology of the Udder

The Land · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 21

A few years ago we thought we would see what percentage of the fanners out of 100 believed that the large veins on the belly of the cow,…

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World's Flax Crop

The Land · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 1

An increase in world flax fibre production of at least 17 per cent, over the 1923 crops is now in prospect, says "Crops and Markets."…

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Irrigation Farming

The Land · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 1

A useful bulletin on "Irrigation Farming in New South Wales" has been published by the Department of Agriculture. The author is Mr…

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Farming Methods

The Land · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 23

Farming methods in the Albury district will to some extent be revolutionised next year as a result' of this year's experience, and the…

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