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Farming & the land, 1929

10,039 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 250

Wool Store Fire. £30,000 DAMAGE. Two Firemen Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 15

A fire which gutted one section of the wool store of the Australian Wool and Produce. Ltd., Beauchamp-road. Botany, last night, caused damage estimated at about £30.000…

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To Keep Wheat Healthy Money From Pools Proposals for Research

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 1

Unclaimed moneys in connection with the wheat pools for the years 1916-21 if distributed, would he allocated at the rate of 02436 of a penny…

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Produce Markets. Potatoes Are Still Too Dear Cabbages Scarce Butter May Be Cheaper

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 8

DESPITE an all round reduction in the several varicities of poststoes, yesterday's demand was not so keen as anticfipated. The suggestion that a further…

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Top Making Wool Fine Glen Innes Clip To-day's Sales

The Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 12

Topmaking wools comprised the bulk of to-day's offering at the sales, at which Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., and…

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Abrekerk Leaves Sydney. Takes Big Wool Cargo for Continent To-day

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 4

At noon to-day the Holland Australia steamer Abbekerk will be despatched from Sydney with 15,147 bales of wool and will proceed direct…

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On the Land. R.a.s. Activities. Record Wheat Entries. Pasture Improvement Competition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 13

At a well-attended meeting of the council of the Royal Agricultural Society, over which Sir Samuel Hordern presided, it was reported that entries in the wheat section for the…

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Huge Glass House for University Wheat Diseases to be Fought With Pool's Surplus

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 2

Between £20,000 and £30,000, the undistributed surplus funds from old wheat pools, will be devoted to agricultural research…

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Chinese Peasants Starving. Crop Failures and Heavy Taxation

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 20

Reports reaching Pekin from a dozen Chinese provinces tell of crop failures in the interior which have caused great suffering to thousands of Chinese peasants…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 17

At the all round advance of /1 per dozen for now-laid eggs, bright business was done by city dairy produce houses yesterday. Some houses were finding it impossible to supply…

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Dairying Conditions. Transformed on North Coast. Unchanged Elsewhere

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 13

The reports of the dairy instructors for January indicate that in the Tweed, Richmond, and Clarence River districts the position has been completely altered as the…

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France's Wine Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 14

The French wine crop for 1928 was one of the largest for many years, exceeding 1,928,000,000 gallons, an increase of 202,000,000 gallons compared with that for…

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Big Money From Small Farm Fertile Area in Gosford District

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 17

An example of what can he grown on a limited area of ground has been supplied this season by Mr. H. Eastwood, of Tascott, in the Gosford…

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Farmer Bought Blocks of Land Says He was "Taken Down" by Agents

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 10

With little knowledge of reading and less of writing, a farmer who had been involved in an intricate series of land deals alleged at…

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Homebush Sales Keen Sheep Demand Cattle Sell Well

The Sun · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 14

Despite the fact that some states of plain sheep were inclined to be lower at Homebush to-day, values generally showed little variation from late rates. The yarding was bigger than…

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Butter Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 15

During the week ended January 26 the Commonwealth graders examined at Sydney for export 15,295 boxes of butter, which included 14,845 boxes of salted, and 450 boxes of…

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Butter for Export

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 6
Also in Daily Commercial News and Shipping List

Of the [?]225 boxes of butter examined for export by the Commonwealth graders at Sydney during the week ended January 26, 14,[?]45 boxes were salted and 480 [?]ted…

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Wool Sales Roster

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 15

Following is the roster of the sixth series of Sydney wool sales,March 4 to 26, comprising; 154,000 bales. SALE CATALOGUE No. 15. Monday, March 4.—Commonwealth Wool and Produce…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Easier Tone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 15

The wheat market was at a standstill yesterday, neither millers nor shippers being interested. A slightly easier undertone was manifested, in sympathy with oversea…

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American Wheat London

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 6

Wheat options are quoted at March, 1214 cents a bushel—up 2 cents: May, 1271 cent.— up 1[?] cents. July, 122, cents—up 2 cents…

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