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Farming & the land, 1929

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Mixer Mounted on Springs Churns Butter and Foods

The World's News · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 16

A SPRINGMOUNTED churh food and drink mixer now on the market…

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Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Feb. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 19

Chicago wheat options are quoted:—March, 123¾ cents per bushel (up [?] cent); May, 128½ cents (up [?] cent); July, 130[?] cents (up [?] cent)…

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Suggested Levy. on Surplus Sheep. to Support Canning Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 15

FORBES.—The frequent slumps which occur at the Flemington stock markets are still causing much concern in the pastoral industry. The members of the Forbes Graziers'…

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Western Australian Wheat. F.a.q. Standard Fixed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 15

PERTH.—The f.a.q. standard of Western Australian wheat for 1929 has been fixed at 62½lb per bushel…

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Forbes Graziers Alarmed By Sheep Market Slumps Stabilisation Scheme Suggested

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 19

FORBES, Tuesday--Local graziers, alarmed at the frequent slumps in the Sydney sheep market, carried a motion at the last meeting which amounts…

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Three Sellers Big Wool Offering 12,092 Bales

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 14

Top-making wools comprised the bulk of to-day's offering at the sales, where three agents operated with an aggregate of 12,092 bales…

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2,000,000 Bushels Austn. Wheat for Abroad One Day's Sales Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 13

About 2,000,000 bushels of Australian wheat were sold overseas yesterday. This is the largest quantity disposed of in one day for many years…

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Honey! Two Crops a Year

The World's News · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 35

BUSY bees puzzled with a double summer may also be fooled into producing two crops of honey annually, instead of one, declares Amos Gregg, apiarist, of Elma (U.S.A.)…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 19

All city dairy produce houses reported a shortage of eggs yesterday. Some houses were forced to ration out their supplies, finding it possible only to half satisfy each client's…

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Indented Labor? Australian Farms an Anzac's Protest (To the Editor)

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 6

Sir.-- The [?] prared in an English paper for which have a copy. of December 22, 1925: MEN (19-35) wanted for Australian…

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Stock Killed by Sorghum Poisoning Danger of Feedins-off Immature Crop Departmental Warning

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 19

An Albion Park dairyman recently lost 14 cows that broke into a sorghum paddock and ate the young crop. Such reports; are received practically every…

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Australian Banana Crop

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 19

MURWILLUMBAH. -- The Tweed Banana Zonal Committees' Association has decided to advise the Federal authorities that the production of…

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Butter Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 13

During the week ended February 9 the Commonwealth graders examined at Sydney for export 17,118 boxes of butter, which included 15,790 boxes of salted butter, and 1328…

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Butter for Export

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 4

During the week ending February 9, the Commonwealth graders examined for export, the following butter:— Salted, 15,790 boxes; unsalted, 1328…

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World Wheat Production

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 9

According to a statement issued by the United States Department of Agriculture the 1928 wheat production in 42 countries was 3,590,822,000 bushels, as against 3,425,409,000…

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Wheat and Flour Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 5

The wheat and flour shipments reported during the week ended February 7 from the Commonwealth amounted to 4,323,092 bushels, as…

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Primary Production. Butter, Eggs, and Fruit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 4

Dairying is the State's third greatest primary industry, and it has the advantage of encouraging a greater moasure of closer settlement than either wool or wheat. The…

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Butter Imports. Australian Treaty. Vancouver, Feb. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 11

Mr. Berry, president of the Western Canada Dairy Convention, now in session here, said that the drop in the production of butter was caused by the loss of three cents protection…

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