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Farming & the land, 1929

10,039 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

The Wool World. Values Generally Maintained Good Fleece Wools in Demand at Brisbane

The Land · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 10

The Brisbane wool sales opened on Tuesday. The auctions continued until Thursday, 45,000 bales being submitted. Values showed no quotable change compared to the prices ruling in December. Good class fleece wools were in particularly strong demand, and sold at full…

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The Wool Clip Over a Million Bales for Auction tho Next Half Year

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 7

The National Council of Woolselling Brokers has complied a statement setting out the quantities of wool that will be available for auction…

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Sales to Resume Next Week Solid Prospects for Wool Market All-round Demand

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 17

The outlook for the opening auctions of the second half of the wool selling season in Sydney, due to take place on Monday afternoon, is…

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Wool Growing on the Coast Serious Risk of Heavy Loss Expert's Warning to Landholders

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 1

Despite the apparent success of wool-growing on the coastm a note of warning has been sounded by the sheep and wool expert of the N.S.W…

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Wool in U.S.A. Great Development Since the War. "Sounder Basis Than Ever Before"

The Land · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 10

"Fundamentally the woolgrowing industry of the United States is on a sounder basis to-day than ever before," states an American writer in a review of the progress of wool in the U.S.A. since the postwar slump…

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Crash at 80 Miles Per Hour Bolting Trucks Pigs and Sheep Cut to Pieces in 5Th. Australian Hills Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 1

BREAKING away from a stock freight train at Mr. Lofty about 1.30 o'clock this morning. 21 trucks and a guard's van dashed wildly…

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Keep Sheep Free of Stomach Worms There ore Many Kinds of Worms, but the Common Stomach Worm is the Worst

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 7

Worms in the stomach are the sheep's greatest trouble. There are several kinds of sheep worms. All do damage, even to killing lambs and…

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Better Pastures Desired by Every Stockowner Subdivision of Paddocks Careful Management Doubles the Sheep Carrying Capacity of the Land Excellent Results at Crookwell

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 12

The agrostologist of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture (Mr. J. N. Whittet) was greatly impressed during a recent visit to the Crookwell…

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Junior Farmers' Clubs

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 1

NO movement started in the interests of country people is more likely to meet some of our needs than that devoted to the…

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Amalgamation of Factories An Important Movement for the Stabilisation of the Dairy Industry on the North Coast

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

In a review of the dairy industry for the past year, and the prospects of the future, the N.S.W. dairy expert (Mr. L. T. M'Innes) said that…

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Motor Cars and Motor Cycles For the Farm or the Road, Business or Pleasure Sydney's Great Motor Show Exhibits Valued at Over a Million Sterling Cars to Suit All Tastes

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 15

The motor show at the Royal Agricultural Society's grounds in Sydney was opened to-day (Friday), and no doubt will attract large crowads…

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Poultry on the Farm Developed from Jungle Fowl to the Monarch of the Christmas Table

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 13

To the average person the history of the domesticated fowl is somewhat obscure, and if the question were asked at the Christmas dinner table…

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The Junior Farmers' Page Progress of the Clubs Valuable Gifts of Land and Stock to the Movement by Prominent Farmers School Teachers Assist

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 18

Already there are seventeen Junior Farmers' Clubs in existence in New South Wales, and this after only a few months of organising…

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Latest News From Other States Crops Ruined by Hall

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 2

So severe was an electrical Storm at Otago (N.Z.), that crops were stripped and motor car hoods find roofs riddled by jagged pieces of ice…

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Junior Farmers' Club

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 18

Has a Junior Farmers' Club been established in your district? Have you joined up? Write and tell me about it, Every other Junior in the…

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Agricultural Credits Government Loans for British Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 1

The Baldwin Administration in Great Britain cannot afford to claim the sympathetic consideration that farmers have upon it, despite the…

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Bellinger Farmer

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 12

MR. J. H. YOUNG. Of "The Meadows." [?]ellinger River. Uncle Wiseman visited Young Bros.' farm a little while ago, and he says of…

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The World Is My Farm The Smallest Share Farmer in the World the Man and the Mango Tree

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

Knowing hundreds of farmers who claim that they cannot live on 100 acres of good Australian lund, Hatab Din sounds like a dream. I met him…

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Motor Cars and Motor Cycles For the Farm or the Road, Business or Pleasure Hints for the Tractor Farmer The Constant Explosive Mixture and the Cooling System

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 16

The amount of work that a tractor can perform on the land during the course of an average working day depends, of course, upon the nature of…

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Blazing Inferno Bush Fires Menace Townships and Cause Great Destruction of Crops and Stock Hawkesbury College in Danger

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 4

The exceptionally hot and dry weather of the past week hag resulted in an unusually largo number of bush and grass fires, involving serious…

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