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Farming & the land, 1926

9,032 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 250

Dairy Produce Control Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 13

A London firm handling Australian and New Zealand dairy produce extensively writes:- We shall watch closely the methods adopted in time goes on, for the improvement of telling, but…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 13

Pullet eggs were offered at 1/ per dozen on all city dairy produce floors yesterday. Arrivals were heavy, and sales stood in need of some stimulus. Medium lots also moved…

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A "Duck Farm" Ten for None Grafton

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 8

There was an unusual ending to a cricket match between two teams at Whiporie in Grafton district. Maher's team batted first and compiled 55 runs…

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Guarding Their Homes Farmers Watch Bush Fires

The Sun · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 11

Bush fires prevented deputation from the Wagga district waiting on the Minister for Lands (Mr. Loughlin) to-day, regarding tho spread of…

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N. Coast Dairying Record Season Urunga

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 7

In December the Upper Bellinger Co-operative Dairy Company paid suppliers the record amount of £302[?] 59 for 154,641 lbs. of butter, at the…

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Warwick Farm Races Entries for February 20

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 2

FEBRUARY HURDLE, about Two Miles and a furlong.--Double Escape, Master Buck, Flerabras, Glen Song, Bungarly, Brown Spur, Sir Joynton,…

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Came a Cropper at Croppa Creek Moree

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 7

At the beginning of the 1924-25 cricket season, Mr. R. S. Woods, of Tackenbri, Moree, presented a cup for Moree Cricket Association for district…

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W.a. Cereal Crops Revised Estimates

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 7

PERTH.--A revised estimate of the cereal yield, shows:--Wheat, 18,275,200 bushels, a decrease of 2,516,800 bushels on the December estimate; and oats,…

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Rice Crops "Dependent on Market"

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 7

There is a great future before the Murrumbidgee irrigation area in the production of rice, if only a suitable market can be found for it, reports…

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Butter Exports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 17

The New South Wales Advisory Dairy Board announces that the butter shipped to the United Kingdom from all States for the week ended January 30 amounted to 62,863 boxes,…

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Victorian Dairy Production Increase in Butter Totals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 13

According to figures issued this week by the Assistant Government Statist of Victoria, the production of butter in 19[?]4-25 in that State showed a big increase over that of the…

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Artificial Wool

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 1

Specimens of artificial wool fibre, with corresponding wool equivalents, are on view in the vestibule of "The Daily Telegraph"…

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Wool Stabilisation

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 33

THE "round table conference" which Sir John Higgins suggested to the Yorkshiremen with a view of arriving at some theoretical basis of stabilising wool values has, as everyone anticipated, ended…

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An Australian Cattle King

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 2

"GIVE a dog a had name and it will stick to him." How often has this been proved to be the case among pioneers in every walk of life! Because…

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Choice Wool Clips

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 8

Catalogues totalling 10,210 bales were offered at the Wool Exchange yesterday by Schute Bell and Co., and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co…

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Wheat Markets Decline Again

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 10

Another downward movement is in process in the wheat markets. Private cables from London say the market there is dull, with nothing doing. Monday's market opened steady,…

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Wheat Prior Lower Locally

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 6

A fall of 1d a bushel occurred in the price of wheat in the local market. Shippers are now offering at the rate of 6s a bushel, Sydney basis…

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Delayed Wheat Cargoes. Fremantle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 19

The freighter Tresillian, which was berthed along North Quay in readiness to load a cargo of wheat on January 14, commenced work yesterday, after a period of three weeks…

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Esperance Wheat. Direct Overseas Shipment

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 4

The Co-operative Wheat Pool of Western Australia, after prolonged negotiations, has arranged for the German auxiliary sailing vessel Carl…

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Wool Stocks, Values, and Prospects

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 35

In a little more than three months the Sydney wool-selling season will come to an end, and unless something altogether unforeseen occurs we shall be congraiulating ourselves upon having dealt with a record volume of wool. The season has pot been without minor fluctuations, but results up to the present have exceeded anticipations, and the outlook for the balance of the season is hopeful.—By "Warp." THE demand for wool at the moment is very widely…

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