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Farming & the land, 1926

9,032 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 250

Wheat Cargoes Quiet at Close London, February 12

The Sun · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 5

The market for wheat cargoes opened steady, sellers occasionally requiring higher prices. Buyers, however, did not respond, and the market closed with a quiet tone at…

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Butter Export. Restriction Partly Lifted. Lower Grades for Shipment. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 16

The Dairy Produce Control Board has decided that all butters under first grade which had been withheld from shipment under the order of the board from February 8 to…

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Late Commercial. Christchurch Wool Sales. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 16

The third Christchurch wool sale concluded to-day. Bidding was erratic, cut at times animated, eapecially for good classes. Bradford provided the principal buyers. Most classe[?] showed an appreciation on Timaru…

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Rural Interests Settlement and Production Sheep-fly Pest Moree Experiments Data and Conclusions

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 4

Further details are now available of the extensive and valuable investigations in regard to the range of flight and longevity of sheep blow, flies,…

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Wheat Wizard of N.S. WALES "Smith's" Discovers a Second Farrar

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 9

OUT ON THE Coradgery Road, 11 miles from Parkes (N.S.W.) and 281 miles from Sydney, lives Sinclair Plowman, a rugged, sunburnt farmer of 64 years. HIDDEN AWAY between the hills and pine scrubs, he is…

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On the Land. the Wool Trade. High Prices for Choice Wools. Merino Tops in Bradford

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 13

So far as best fleece wools, skirtings, and lambs were concerned, no lack of strength was evident in bidding at this week's Sydney wool sales. As a result of a keen demand…

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Loss to the Farm the Problem of the Rural Exodus

Nepean Times · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 5

The increasing city-ward drift of our rural population is a subject of such seriousness as to have been very, anxiously discussed in recent years,…

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Nepean Dairy Company

Nepean Times · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 5

The continued dry and excessively hot weather is drying up pastures, and consequently milk supplies at the local dairy company's depot are falling off…

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Diggers First for N.Z. Farms Land Is Limited Auckland (N.z.)

Evening News · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 6

REPLYING TO A deputation of Presbyterians, asking the Government for assistance in placing young men from overseas on farms…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 17

Business in eggs cantinued dull amongst city dairy produce houses yesterday. Fair sales of new-laid nice graded were reported, but medium, pullet, and case, which last…

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Palace—"the Farmer's Wife."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 12

Only six more night remain of "The Farmer's Wite" at the Patuca, as on Friday next the season will close in order to make way for previous bookings, The amusing comedy will then be taken to New…

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Trundle Farmers Make History Refused to be Pessimists

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 9

HAD Frank and George Berry, of "Wood View," Trundle (N.S.W.), listened to the F. N. Yarwoods and all the other pessimists…

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Farewell to the Farm

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 10

THE COACH is at the door at last, The eager children, mounting fast And kissing hands, in chorus sing, Good-bye, good-bye, to everything…

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"The Farmer's Wife?" -- Palace

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 19

"The Farmer's Wife" season closes on February 19, to make way for other attractions. Sydney playgoers may never again have the opportunity of seeing so many imported artists…

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Woman Attacked Farmhouse Burned Wellington (N.z.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 4

A half-caste Maori is alleged to nave attacked and wounded his wife and mother-in-law at a farmstead at Awahuri, and burned the house and fled…

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Canada Farms As Lure for Youthful Britons Ottawa

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 February 1926 · page 13

Solution of Britain's unemployment problem through establishment of training centres to fit young Englishmen for agricultural careers in Canada will be…

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Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 10

More than half the receipts into store of the present wool clip in Australia has been sold. The receipts have been 2,006[?]718 bales, and the sales in Australia…

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Wheat Easier

The Sun · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 9

The local wheat market, in sympathy with the London market, was weaker, sellers offering supplies at 5s 11d a bushel, Sydney basis--a reduction of a penny…

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Produce. the Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 13

Production on the Northern Rivers is being well maintained; in other centres supplies are falling off. The market is unaltered at 177/4 por cwt. Prescott, Limited,…

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Australian Wheat and Flour

Italian Bulletin of Australia · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 2

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