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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

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Export Butter Farmers Suggest Retalliation Against America

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 8

Tweed River dairy-farmers are incensed at the increased duty placed on Australian butter by the United States, and at the annual meeting of…

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North Coast Butter

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 8

The chairman of Nore[?], Limited, states a few days ago that the North Coast was now producing a light-colored butter of a superior flavor and pasture, [?] which those was a…

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Cattle Market Irregular

The Land · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 8

All classes of cattle opened cheaper, but as sales progressed values for good and prime' firmed to about late rates. Medium and plain, however, were 10/ to 15/ per head cheaper…

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Sale of Wheat

The Land · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 16

"Old Subscriber" "writes: Last November I sold and delivered to a local agent 200 bag of hard wheat. It was bought for a milling company on the…

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Wheat and Co

The Land · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 14

This new firm, of 42 Bridge Street, Sydney, advertises second-hand chaff bags in this issue. The personnel of the firm is well-known to us. and…

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Orderly Wheat Market

The Land · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 4

The Canadian wheat pool authorities might well take pride when British wheat merchants compare the present organisation of wheat marketing with…

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Young Men That Get Bumper Crops "Digger" Wheat Farmers Swords Beaten into Ploughshares for the Arts of Peace Scientific Husbandry Ensures Crops of Prime Quality

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 11

Since the dawn of history, the greatest husbandmen have been those that have beaten their swords into ploughshares and, after war's…

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Remarkable Yields Wheat and Oat Crops in Gilmore Valley

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 11

A wheat crop estimated to yield 55-bush, an aero him been produced this season in the Gilmore Valley, a few miles south of Tumut, by Mr. A…

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Heavy Yields Wheat and Oat Tests Temora Farm Experiments

The Land · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 6

A number of heavy yields were produced by wheat and oat varieties under test at the Temora Experiment Farm this season, two…

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Workless Herded Like Cattle Brisbane

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 5

The Under Secretary of the Home Department has issued to the press an “official” denial of the charge that there is congestion at the relief Department…

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Prizewinning Crops Heavy Yields of Nabawa Wheat on Light Rainfall

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 11

Winner of the Temora district crop competition and third in the Riverina Royal Show championship. Mr, J, D. Crowley, of "Erin Vale," has just…

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Wheat and Flour Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 4

Wheat and flour shipments reported during the week ended January 3 from the Commonwealth amounted to 4,126,225 bushels, as against 1,897,444…

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Wheat Stocks in Elevators

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 15

According to a return furnished by the silo authorities wheat stocks in Government grain elevators in the country on January 10 totalled 110,250,895 bushels, and there were…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Quietly Steady

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 15

There was very little change in the wheat market yesterday beyond slight variations in quotations for farmers' bagged lots, average limits of millers and shippers being on…

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GENERAL Wheat for Identification

The Land · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 16

G.H. forwarded a specimen of wheat for identification, reporting it as a stranger among "Waratah" this season. It was far ahead of "Waratah"…

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Pastoral Industry. Prosperity Threatened. Increased Production Costs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 11

The British Economic Mission in its report states that the prosperity of the pastoral industry in Australia is threatened by a full in world prices and a steady increase in the local…

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Kosciusko Refuge for Drought Weary Sheep

Evening News · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 1

Great flocks of sheep are being driven from the drought-stricken areas in the country to well-water lands of Koscinsko for relief. There is abundance of water and grass on the high ranges. The shows a flock crossing Spencer Creek, eight miles from the summit…

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Flemington Stock Sales. Sheep. Market Unaltered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 15

There was a penning yesterday at the Flemington stock sales of 45,250 sheep and lambs. The quality was fair, and, notwithstanding the heat, the sheep arrived in good condition. There was the…

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Pastoral Interests Development of Northern and Central Australia

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 3

The Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Abbott) has arranged for a conference to be held at Canberra on 30th January, with representatives…

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Wheat Transport. Heavy Railway Loadings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 11

The New South Wales railways, since the beginning at an unexpectedly early season, have brought more wheat'to the seaboard to date than the railways of any State in the…

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