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Farming & the land, 1927

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Comeback and Crossbred Very Attractive Clips Wool Sales

The Sun · Wednesday 23 February 1927 · page 11

Attractive clips from the, New England Yass and Goulhurn districts were included in to-day's aggregate of 10,159 bales of wool put up for auction at the Royal Exchange by…

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P.P. Board Temora Wants Abolition Wheat Pool Temora

The Sun · Wednesday 23 February 1927 · page 18

A meeting of the Temora District Council carried a resolution asking the control executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association to make representation for the abolition…

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Large Estates Tax of 2½ TO 6d Stud Sheep Stations Exempt Grazing Lands. Also

The Sun · Wednesday 23 February 1927 · page 11

It was officially stated to-day that the Agricultural Settlement Promotion Bill, to be introduced into Parliament this week by the Minister for…

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Scratched To-day Warwick Farm

Evening News · Wednesday 23 February 1927 · page 13

Ingleburn Nursery Handicap: Collegtate, Minto Handicap: Don Moon…

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On the Gib Home and Farm Lots

The Sun · Wednesday 23 February 1927 · page 14

Mountain home sites and farmlets in the Mittagong-Bowral district are to be sold by Messrs. Arthur Rickard und Co. at a special private sale on the ground next Saturday…

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Protection and the Farmer

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 February 1927 · page 8

Under the national policy of protection the progress of the Commonwealth has been so remarkable that one rarely hears anything nowadays…

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Wool and Wheat What Bishop Learned Young

The Sun · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 23

While at Young the Bishop of London, Dr. Ingram, stayed at the house of his piece, Mrs. Morgan, at Spring Valley, Marengo, near Young…

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Butter for Export

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

During the week ending February 19, the Commonwealth graders examined, for export, the following butter:— Sydney: Salted, 20,384 boxes;…

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Coolamon's Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 7

COOLAMON.--Wheat carting is practically finished. The total number of bags passed over the railway weighbridge at Coolamon and adjunct…

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Wool Report

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 37

Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd. report:—Our catalogue for Monday week contained 6079 bales, which included in the Merino section a very attractive…

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Cables and Wheat

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 8

S.S. FARADAY. Cable ship, recently engaged in the construction of new cables round about Suva. has now been chartered to load bulk wheat for United Kingdom or…

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1000Lb. Butter Cow Another Jersey

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 7

Mr. A. Booker, of Kelvinside, Alston-ville, has added another cow to those with official test records equal to 1000lb, or more of butter in a full…

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Cattle for Manila Darwin

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 8

It is understood that the shipping of live cattle export trade with Manila now passes from Vesteys to H. C. Sleigh, of Melbourne, who originally…

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Wheat Loading. Pool Interests Active

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 4

Additional wheat fixtures mentioned yesterday included the Houlder liner Gambia River, loads 6500 tons at Western Australia during March or…

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Butter Production. Australian Record. Alstonville Jersey's Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 7

What is believed to be an Australian Jersey record for a 365 days test has been established by the six-year-old cow Tidy's Pride of Kelvinside, owned by Mr. A. Booker, of…

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Melbourne Wool Sale. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 11

Woo1 auctions in Melbourne to-day covered 4574 bules, submitted by the Victorian Producers Company, Ltd., and 3390 bules by Younghusband, Ltd. The market was [?] prices being fully on a par with those…

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Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Feb. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 11

There were no wheat transactions to-day, owing to the holiday in commemoration of the anniversary of Washington's birthday…

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Homebush Sales 40,000 Sheep Penned Medium Qualities Easier

The Sun · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 14

With nearly 40,000 sheep In the penn at Homebush to-day, and buyers operating with more freedom than last week. values for good trade lines were quickly placed…

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Commercial. Consistent Wool Demand. Critical Points Passed

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 32

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:—With close on 800,000 bales of wool already sold and about 260,000 bales awaiting sale, the Sydney market can be…

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