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Farming & the land, 1928

9,809 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250

Pastoral Conditions. Improved, with Few Exceptions

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 13

Reports from the stock inspectors generally throughout the State for the month of December, with a few unfortunate exceptions, speak cheerfully of the vastly improved conditons, both as regards pastures and water supplies, which, in many districts, to have escaped…

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Adelaide Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 13

The Sydney office of Elder, Smith, and Co. received the following telegram yesterday from its Adelaide office:—"Very good sale to-day. Slightly easier tendency, although very little alteration in values compared…

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Wheat Pool for Argentina

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 7

The first wheat pool to be, organised in the Argentine commences with this season's harvest, and expects to handle one million bushels. The organisers…

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N.z. Wheat Marketing

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

A. meeting of Otago and Canterbury wheat-growers, last week, passed a resolution favouring the establishment of a co-operative wheat marketing…

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Wheat Stocks in Elevators

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 13

According to a return issued by the silo authorities yesterday, wheat stocks in Government grain elevators in the country totalled 5,303,700 bushels. In addition there…

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Cheaper Butter Down ½d on

The Sun · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 9

The Butter Advisory Committee decided to-day to reduce the wholesale price of butter by ½d to 1s 7d a lb…

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Butter Export Bonus. Stabilisation Committee's Decision

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 7

The decision of the Australian Stabilisation Committee to revert to the bounty of 3d per lb. on butter exported as from 1st January was expected. It…

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Wool Sales. Buoyant Tone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 13

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 11,101 bales, and the sales, including private transactions,…

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H0mebush Stock Sales. Sheep. Values Unaltered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 13

There was a penning yesterday at the Homebush stock sales of about 46,000 sheep and lambs. The quality was an average one, and all classes were represented in the pens. The attendance of buyets was large, and…

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Fluke in Sheep. The Drug Treatment

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 18

A remedy for fluke in sheep is required by a Bourke subscriber. Answer.—The modern method of treating fluke in sheep is by the use…

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Lower Freight on Seed Wheat

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 16

An important concession, which will prove of considerable value to wheat growers, has just been made by the Hail way Commissioners in the way of…

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Victorian Butter Complaints From London Slight Defects

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 7

Complaints were received in Melbourne recently regarding the quality of the first shipment of Victorian butter this year. Reference to those…

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Butter Test Minimum Water Content Distribution in Pals

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 7

The shipping of butter to London in granulated form and with minimum water content (about 10 per cent.) is expected to save Australian producers…

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P.D.S. Column. "Kangaroo" Butter in London

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 11

The Press has recently published several cables from London. that the butter from one or two Victorian factories, bearing the national…

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Millions of Sheep. Last Year's Sales at Homebush

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 3

The number of stock sold at the Homebush saleyards during 1927 was 11,674,872 sheep and 299,99d cattle, as compared with 3,250,150 sheep and…

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Wheat Exports. From Sydney Elevators. Speedy Loading

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 12

In' emphasising yesterday the advantages of shipping wheat in bulk instead of bags, the manager of the Government grain elevators (Mr. E. Harris) said that, in view of the…

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Riverina Wheat Inadequate Facilities a Bumper Harvest

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 8

Wheat-growers in the Riverina (N.S.W.) district are complaining that the authorities have not made sufficient provision for the expeditious…

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Wheat Stubble Burning Off Favored Departmental Advice

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 8

Wheat-farmers have many times questioned the wisdom of ploughing in their stubble in preference to burning it off, and with the harvesting of…

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Beer and Sheep Mixed Capsize of Lorry Goulburn

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 4

Several sheep, cases containing bottles of beer, and a "speed waggon" were thrown into a confused heap on the Main Southern Road between Yarra…

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Wool Organisation Brokers' Farewell to Mr. Moore

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 6

Mr. E. R. Graham (New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.) presided at a luncheon given Mr. A. H. Moore (Goldsbrough, Mort), by the…

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