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Farming & the land, 1928

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Dairy Supervision Transfer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 10

KIAMA.--The Gerringong Municipal Council has decided to leave the matter of protesting against the proposed transfer of the administration of the…

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Winter Green Fodders For Dairy Cows when Pastures Shorten Oats for the Coast

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 10

In all the dairying districts, except the Lower South Coast, as indicated yesterday, conditions are most favorable as regards fodder supplies and…

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The Land and the Producer Unified Marketing Scheme for Dairy Produce Producers' Control, All-Australian Price and Export Equalisation

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 10

A strong movement has been launched to eliminate inter-State boundaries in the marketing of dairy produce, and to establish an all-Australian price and regulated export on a pool basis…

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Farming Implements

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 6

Does Mr. Webster possess an aquarium from which he constantly withdraws one of those thirst-giving delicacies, a red herring? In five recent…

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Bigger Crops Transplanting Wheat Chinese Method

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 10

A new chapter in agriculture in Great Britain is expected as a result of the introduction into England from China by way of Germany of a new…

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Wool Sales. Evenness of Wool Prices

The Land · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 13

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: It is doubtful if Australia has ever experienced a wool season when values have kept on such an even basis as during: the current selling…

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Sheep Drowned in Storm

The Land · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 7

About 300 sheep, portion of 1,100, travelling to Dalby from Moree, became hopelessly bogged and were drowned at Dalwood, during a heavy…

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Dairying, Pig Rearing and Poultry Butter Prices Stabilisation Sought Checking Importation

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 8

A conference of dairymen from the butter-producing States of the Commonwealth held in Melbourne on Friday made recommendations for the…

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Wheat Trials Experiments at Cowra Early and Late Crops

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 10

The results of the wheat variety trials conducted at the Cowra (N.S.W.) experiment farm this season, indicate that the yields in many…

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Wheat and Flour Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 5

Wheat and flour shipments reported during the week ended January 27 from the Commonwealth amounted to 3,279,018 bushels, as against 2,976,709…

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Wheat Stocks in Elevators

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 15

According to a return furnished yesterday by the si[?] authorities, wheat stocks in Government grain elevation totalled 6,067,450 bushels, as against 11,772,008 bushels at the…

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Wheat Yield. Queensland Record

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 10

What is claimed to be a record wheat yield is reported from the Warwick (Q.) district, where a farmer named Bradfield has reaped a…

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Tribute to Good Farming. Mr. McDonald's Comments on Wheat Harvest

The Land · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 5

Commenting on the wheat, harvest estimates, the Director of Agriculture, Mr. McDonald, stated that he was extremely gratified with what mupt be regarded as a very excellent year, considering the weather conditions which prevailed throughout the greater part of…

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Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep. Market Unaltered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 15

About 50,[?]16 sheep and lambs were penned at Homebush ycsteiday. The general quality was not up to the average of Monday's offerings. The market opened with brisk bidding, and, except that some…

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Albury Wool Sales. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 15

At the Albury wool sales to-day catalogues representing over 8000 bales, were submitted by the Albury Wool Brokers. The selection of woola was splendid, containing as usual at this time of the year…

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Pickling Seed Wheat. a Seasonable Warning

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 10

Every wheat farmer anticipates that his next season will be an extraordinarily good one, but with the early rains, following an…

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Wheat Prices Lower Vancouver, February 2

The Sun · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 2

Chicago wheat averaged lower prices despite rallies on reports that frost had damaged winter crops in the Middle States. The determining factor in the market was the…

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Produce Markets. Butter Is Down Potatoes May Advance

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 8

BUSINESS in dairy products was brisk yesterday. Heavy supplies of all communalities were received, and dealate the strong inquiry there was in most lines,…

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Charge Breaks Down Alleged Sheep Stealing Moree

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 8

At the Quarter Session before Judge Mocalia the case against George Allen Byron a grasper of Morrer who was charged with scaling 12 sheep, the property of…

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Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Feb. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 15

Chicago wheat options are quoted:—March, 130[?] cents per bushel (up ½ cent); May, 131 cents (up ¾ cent); July, 128[?] cents (up 1 cent)…

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