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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

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Wheat Position. Special Features. Australia's Export Surplus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 6

The 1926-27 wheat season of New South Wales has several special features associated with it. The yield throughout Australia is one of the heaviest that the Commonwealth…

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Wool Demand Customers' Needs the Japanese Factor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 22

The demand for wool this season is consistently strong and well distributed, and every section of buyers has shared in the sale-room activity, the…

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Wool Sales in 1926 Calendar Year Calculations

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 17

It is customary in Australia to calculate the wool year as from July to June rather than the calendar year, and there are sound practical reasons…

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Meeting the Wool Market Sound Policy for Growers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 22

The stabilisation of wool values in 1925-26 after' the "boom" and disastrous slump of 1924-25 was due very largely to the common-sense attitude…

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Still at It "Artificial Wool" Success for New Method? London

The Sun · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 16

The Lyons correspondent of the "Westminster Gazette," states that artificial wool has been produced as a by-product of artificial silk, by a…

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Wool Sales Fine Bouyeo Cup Two Catalogues 10,287 Bales Offered

Evening News · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 9

TWO catalogue representing 10278 bales were offered at the continuation of stool sales at the Royal Exchange this afternoon…

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On the Land. Wheat Pool Ballot. F. and S. Executive. Recommends Voting "No."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 9

After careful consideration of the vital clauses of the new Marketing of Primary Products Bill and the principles involved in that measure, the executive committee of the…

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Australia's Golden Fleece £53,000,000 in Wool Wealth Record Clip Sold in Stable Market

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 16

Commonwealth wool, selling centres disposed of 2,493,960 hales in 1926, and the wool cheque was £53,177,839. The official wool "season" is the financial year July to June. For the first half of this season 1,173,873 bales have netted £26,637,028. Practically half the clip was sold at Christmas. The balance is the best half, and is meeting…

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Australia's Abundant Wheat Harvest Nearly 34,000,000 Bushels From N.S.W. Detailed Estimate for 1927

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 17

The wheat yield for the Commonwealth during the 1925-26 season totalled 113,443,304 bushels, to which the States contributed in the…

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Farmer Collapses

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 1

A dairyman named Luke, of Seven Hills Road, Seven Hills, collapsed on Sunday afternoon in Hammer's-road Northmead. He was attended by Parramatta and…

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Marketing Produce Farmers' Organisations Active

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 6

Australia, with its meagre population and great resources, is facing an increasingly difficult problem in regard to the disposal of her primary products. In dairy products in…

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Hunter River Millet. Crop of Excellent Quality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 9

In a report upon the broom millet prospects in the Lower Hunter, Mr. H. Wenholz, B.Sc (Agr.), special agricutural instructor, states that early in December well-grounded…

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Tried to "Put One Across" Ex-worker's Lapse Used Farmer's Name

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 1

After years of working for a farmer at Bowral, a bush-worker threw his job up last week and came to Sydney determined to put…

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Quarrel on W.A. Farm Two in Hospital Perth

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 5

Inspector [?]nouiatmn, police officer in charge of Northan District, received a telephone message on Saturday afternoon. stating that a shooting affray…

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Millet Crops Astounding Recovery on the Hunter

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 4

The broom millet crops on the Hunter River, despite fears of their failure through dry weather in the early part of December,…

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Maize Crops Improved Prospects

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 4

The maize crops on the North Coast have revived to some extent, as the result, of the rains last month, reports Mr. H. Wenholz (maize expert, of the…

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Rural Interests RECLASSIFICATION Irrigation Farms Settlers' Requests

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 4

A further series of requests in regard to the adjustment of the position of settlers on the Murrumbidgee irrigation areas, on behalf of the…

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Wealth From Dairying Export Control Board's Work Summary of Results

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 19

The Dairy Produce Export Control Act came into force on February 23, 1925. Before the Act operated, a poll of producers of butter and cheese was…

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Pastoral Problems In Western Division

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 11

A conference attended by delegates of Pastures Protection Boards of the Western division, and by other pastor[?]at Wilcannia, at the request…

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Compulsory Wheat Pool. Ballot Papers Issued to Farmers

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 4

Ballot papers have been issued to the farmers in connection with the proposal to form a State compulsory wheat pool. The farmers are asked to vote for or…

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