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Farming & the land, 1929

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Homebush Sales Sheep Market Improves Cattle Prices Irregular

The Sun · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 14

A firmer tone characterised the opening of the sheep market at Homebush to-day, and the tendency was for prices to get nigher as the sales went on. The yarding…

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Sheep Scarce Goulburn Stock Sales Cattle Easier Goulburn

The Sun · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 19

With a yarding of only 327 sheep and lambs the Goulburn weekly fat stock market was lightly supplied. Lambs comprised the bulk of the offering. Older sheep were…

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Butter for Export

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 5

During the week ending January 12, the Commonwealth graders examined for export the fallowing butter, at Sydney:—…

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London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 20

LONDON, Tuesday.--The wool sales opened to-day, and will last eleven days. Home and Continental buyers were numerous. Competition was active. New South Wales offered…

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Commercial. Wool Report

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 42

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. report:—On the resumption of sales after the usual Christmas recess the question of values is one that is uppermost in the…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Quietly Steady

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 13

The wheat market opened steady yesterday, with buyers' general limits for growers' bagged lots maintained on the basis of 4/7[?] to 4/7[?] ex trucks Sydney, equivalent to 4/[?]…

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Wool Sales. General Competition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 13

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 11,656 bales, and the sales, including private transactions,…

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Wild West at Cattle Sale Rockhampton

Evening News · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 15

EXCITING SCENES were witnessed at a big cattle sale at the Agricultural Society's Grounds yesterday, the heat driving the beasts frantic…

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London Wool Sales London

Evening News · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 10

At the wool sales this afternoon [?] bales, including 4832 bales from Australia and 2010 from New Zealand, were submitted. There was a good selection of merinos suitable for…

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Southern Railway Division. Wheat Handling Record

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 9

GOULBURN.—The district railway superintendent states that in the handling of wheat in the southern division the department has established a record, the number being…

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Record Albury Wool Sales Albury

The Sun · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 19

Last year Albury was allotted six wool sales of 10,000 bales each. Because of the shipping strike, however, only two sales of 15,000 bales each…

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Commercial. the Wool Outlook. Artificial Silk

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 30

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—Before the war the world grew the equivalent of 10,151,491 bales of wool annually. The latest available figures…

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Wool Sales Brisk Bidding German Activity

Evening News · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 13

BIDDING was strain brisk at the wool sales this afternoon. Germany paid 34d. [?]d. and 34[?]d for [?]lections of AAA ewes and wethers, grown at…

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Wheat Market Little Change Despite Freight Reduction

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 18

Reduction in parcel freight rates has had little effect so far on the price of wheat in' Sydney. Buyers yesterday were disinclined to offer more because of the easier trend in…

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Wheat Parcels. Merchants Surprised. London, Jan. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 11

The news cabled from Sydney of the reduction of freights on wheat parcels to 32/6 a ton has caused some surprise to the general mercantile community, who are disposed to…

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Exploiting the Public Dealings in Butter Famine Price Levels

The Labor Daily · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 4

SUPPLIES of butter on the Sydney market are steadily increasing, but the arrivals, according to distributors, fall short of requirements…

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Big Increase Albury Wool Sales Albury

Evening News · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 14

It is expected that the business at the local wool sales this season will amount to more than 60,000 bales. worth more than £1,00,000. This is an increase of…

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11,591 Bales To-day's Wool Sales Good Clips

The Sun · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 13

Two agents offered a total of 11,591 bales of wool at the sales held in the Royal Exchange to-day. The first seller was the Country…

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Oversea Market Cables. London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 13

At the first series of wool sales for the current year, 7427 bales wore offered, of which 6153 were Australian and 1022 New Zealand. There was a good attendance from all…

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Offset to the Big Bite Freight Reduction Our Wheat and Flour

The Labor Daily · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 1

The Shipping Ring in receiving no kudos for its decision to reduce the freights on wheat and flour. The move is regarded solely as one…

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