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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

9,231 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 250

Power on the Farm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 4

A Twin City Kerosene Tractor harvesting an 18-bag wheat crop…

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For the Experimenter German Engineers Find Means of Improving Farming Conditions with Aid of Radio

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 3

B.C. listeners of Germany have their troubles, but for once they are said to have sped ahead of Australian ingenuity and turned their radio diseases…

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Wheat Loadings and Stackings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 17

For the week ended January 15, 1927, the quantity of whent despatched from country stations was 495,731 bags, making a total of 4,381,442 bags for the season, as compared…

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Wheat Markets Position Quiet

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 19

According to private cables, the European wheat markets are quieter, with little doing. A cargo, January loading, was sold, at 536 per quarter, while parcels were said to be…

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Wheat Rises Again Chicago

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 7

Wheat at Ch[?]ge was 1 12 cents higher. Liverpool 12d lower. Buenos Aires 12 cent, higher, and Winnipeg 12 cent higher per bushel yesterday…

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Wheat Lower Chicago Calm Chicago

The Sun · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 2

Wheat prices turned fractionally lower in a quiet market…

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On the Land. the Wool Trade. Buoyant Values. Fine Wools Wanted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 13

Competition has gathered further strength at the Sydney wool sales of the week. French demand became keener. Evidently the stability of the franc, which has hovered around…

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Travel Impressions an Argosy of Wool Life Aboard a Cargo Steamer a Study in Relative Values King George's Deputy & Sung Wu No. 1

Evening News · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 6

"THE MOST exciting moment of the voyage," said the doctor, at we leant over the bridge deck rail and watched the final preparations before tatting off on the long trail from Melbourne to Dunkirk…

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Did he Take Possession? a Farm Transaction

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 2

Did Alexander Larkin take possession of the farm, at Castlereagh, that he purchased from Charles Holswich?…

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After Many Years. Farm Passes Out of Family

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 5

Mr C. J. Welch had a successful auction of the whole of the estate of the late Mr J. W. Colless, at Emu, on Saturday last. The homestead farm was bought…

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Helping the Farmer. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 9

Sir,— "Herald" is to be commened on the excellent sub-leader under the above heading on Wednesday last. Those farmers who were foolish enough to place mr.lang…

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Farmer's Cottage Burned. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 16

A weatherboard cottage owned by Danfel Hamllton, a farmer, on the Winton road was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday. The house which was valued at £600, was…

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Farmer Burnt Out Deniliquin

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 3

The home of Mr. Gilmour, a farmer, residing 16 miles from Deniliquin on the Finley Road, was totally destroyed by fire. Mr. Gilmour was out in the paddock when…

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World's Crops Are in Danger Chicago

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 7

THERE will be no summer this year, according to Mr. H. J. Brown, the noted ocean meteorologist, when…

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Sparks From Train Farmers Stop Fire JUNEE

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 4

After the south-western mail had passed his property, between Junee and Marrina, today, L. Eisenhauer saw that sparks had caused a fire on…

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Wheat Firm London

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 5

Cargoes are firm, as a result of better North and South American advices, Apart from a sustained Indian demand, inquiry for Australian cargoes in quiet owing to…

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New Sheep Scientists Invent Them Pigs, Too

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 24

THE dream of the sheep farmer-- a perfect mutton sheep on which he can grow Merino wool in abundance and one which can be rolled upon to…

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When a Cattle Station Was First Prize in a Lottery Bank of Australia's Run of Bad Luck in Early Days

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 3

The proposal made recently that the N.S.W. Government should conduct a State lottery on similar lines to that of the Queensland Golden Casket, to place the financing of our hospitals upon a…

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Mr. C. W. Cropper Honored Big Gathering at Tattersall's Club

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 8

The function at Tattersall's Club on Tuesday, when Mr. C. W. Cropper, secretary of the Australian Jockey Club, was honored by Sydney bookmakers prior to his going on an eight months' holiday, ranks as one of the most outstanding presentations given a sportsman in Sydney…

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Our Farm Boy (With apologies to Sir Walter Scott.)

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 3

Oh our youngest farm boy comes out of the West, Of all the farm horses his steed is the best…

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