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Farming & the land, 1927

9,231 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 250

The Letter Bag Can This Cruelty Be Avoided? Cattle Suffer in Transit Country Killing To the Editor

Evening News · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 4

SIR.—Under the heading "Can This Cruelty Be Avoided?" Mr. O. Lindsay Thompson draws attention to the awful suffering inflicted on the unfortunate cattle sold at Flemington…

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Heard by the Way Hairbreadth Escape—Scars of Battle—Robbed a Rectory—The Ways of Corpses—Cumberland Sheep, etc. Carinthia Party at Log House

Nepean Times · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 1

THE Carinthia party to the number of 35 had breakfast at the Log House on Saturday morning, on their way to the Mountains. They visited…

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Fall Into Boiling Offal. Poultry Farmer's Death

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 17

Edward George James, aged 46 years, poultry farmer, of Pittwater-road, Brookvale, slippedand fell into a 60-gallon trough half full. of boiling offal on December 26 last, and…

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Broadcasting. Farmer's Service. 2Fc.—wave Length, 442 Metres

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 10

7 a.m.—Chimes. Music from studio. 7.10.—Weather, astronimical memoranda, shipping, mails. 7.25.—State market, metal quotations…

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When the Gong Goes the Boxing Game Great & Small a Barren Crop

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 8

RECENTLY deceased 1926 Anno Domini was not a banner year for Australian bruiserdom. The firmament of stoush revealed not a single…

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SPORT and Sportsmen Fools and Their Sweep Money Easy Money Prizes That Go As Swiftly As They Come How Carbine Bought Farm and Pub

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 5

SWEEPS sometimes afford a rise for the wise man that will carry him on to continued prosperity. BUT how many instances are there of the squandering of the "easy money" thus gained?…

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Lectures to Farmers

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 7

The Department of Agriculture has arranged for the following lectures and demonstrations during the ensuing week, under the auspices of the…

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Staffed by Experts "Better Farming Train" Tour to Start Soon Travelling College

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 5

COMMENTING on the proposed Better Fanning Train, the Minister for Agriculture slated yesterday: In dealing with this project, many…

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Better Farming Preparing the Train Minister's Opinions

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 9

Commenting yesterday upon the proposed better fanning train, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) said that in dealing with the project…

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Wheat Weaker Chicago

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 5

Wheat prices declined a half-penny a pushel, as a result of foreign cables. BUENOS AIRES. Saturday. It is announced that Argentine wheat…

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Down a Penny Butter Prices Drop N.z. Imports

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 4

Butter will be reduced by 1d a lb. to 182s a cwt--is 712 a lb, wholesale--tomorrow. In view of the rapid increase in…

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"It's True" Butter 120Z. to the Pound Roland Green's Rejoinder

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 5

"It is true. It actually happened, and it was because I realised it was so damaging to the Australian trade that brought it under the notice, of a…

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Britain Buys Most of Our Butter and Cheese Output Melbourne

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 1

A report issued by the Department of Marketing to-day shows that during the half-year ended December 31,629,941 boxes of butter and 6655 crates of cheese…

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Our Wool Guthrie Answers Bradford, Better and Better Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 5

Every day in every way our wool Is getting 'better and' better. Replying to allegations from Bradford that there was an average…

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Encourage Scientific Farming

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 4

The Premier's somewhat extraordinary request for the cooperation of the Press in the proposal to equip and maintain a "better farming" train brings under conspicuous notice a subject of vital importance, too long neglected in this State…

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Mr. C. W. Cropper

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 11

AT 3 p.m. on Tuesday, at Tattersall's Club, Pitt-street, the committee representing A.J.C. registered bookmakers will make a…

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Two Shots for Jealousy Grim Climax to a Farmer's Fears "I've Shot My Wife!"

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 14

THIS is the story of a farmer, John Samuel Gill, of Donnybrook, Western Australia, his wife, and a climax in their lives that meant an early grave for the woman and a police cell and a murder charge for the…

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Butter Markets

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 10

Prescott, Ltd., reports on the butter markets as follows:-- Sydney.--The benefit of the December rains is being shown in the improved output, which…

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Butter Down

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 8

BUTTER will be 1d cheaper at 17[?] a lb. wholesale to-day. Retailers should not charge more than 110[?] a lb…

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Wool

Evening News · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 8

The deterioration in the Australia merino wool noted by Mr. S. B. Hollings in an address to the Bradford Textile Society is no new phenomenon Australia can still grow fine…

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