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Farming & the land, 1930

12,513 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250

Record Wheat Load Corowa

Evening News · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 13

A [?] of wheat was brought to Corowa railway station, when Jamieson Bros, delivered 172 bags, which averaged [?] to the bushel. The previous…

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Country News and Personal Notes Northern Junior Farmers Keen Rivalry in Wheat Competitions

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 18

Schoolmasters in country districts can be a power for good in the Junior Farmers' Club movement if their interest in this laudable scheme is keen…

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Riverina Wheat Yields. Railway Estimate Reduced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 9

ALBURY, Monday.—The Railway Department expected a wheat yield for the Riverina district of 3,395,027 bags; but late frosts resulted in a decrease of 623,627 bags. The…

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Marketing of Wool. Federal Minister's Inquiries

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Exception was taken to-day by the Minister for Markets and Transport (Mr. Parker Moloney) to the statements made in Sydney that neither the…

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Wool Sales Bradford Buys Quirindi Clip

Evening News · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 9

THE wool sales this afternoon opened to brisk competition. Bradford bidding well for the first lots, which came from a Quirindi clip, marked Cressfield over [?] over LL…

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Central Western Wheat. Some Heavy Hay Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 9

Harvesting in the grain-growing portion of the central western district extended weil into the middle of December. It was delayed somewhat owing to second growth and…

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Butter Export Bounty To Remain at 4 12d lb

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 16

The Australian Stabilisation Committee, at a meeting in Melbourne yesterday, decided that the export bounty oil butter for 1930 should remain at 4 12 a lb…

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Levy and Bounty on Butter Existing Agreement to Continue

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 17

The levy and export bounty on butter under the Paterson scheme are to remain at 1 34d and 4 12d per pound respectively…

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Butter Export Bounty. Maintained at 4½d Per Lb

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 9

The Primary Producers' Union received a telegram from Melbourne yesterday that at a meeting of the Australian Butter Stabilisation Committee, Just held, it had been decided to…

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Ruining Shows and Sheep Sales Armidale and Tick Regulations

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 17

ARMIDALE.--The Armidale P.P. Board carried a motion urging easement of the sheep tick regulations, on the ground that they were…

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Average Lots Wool Offerings 10,494 Bales

The Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 12

Wool lots of average quality were offered to-day, the clips coming from many parts of the State and also from…

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No Alteration Needed Bounty on Butter Margarine Protest Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

THE Victorian Advisory Dairy Board at a meeting to-day, decided that the present bounty of 4½d. a pound on Lutter exported from Australia should…

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Japan First in at This Year's Wool Sales

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

Japan scoured the first lot of wool sold in 1930. paving 16½d for 13 bales of first ewes, branded WK conjoined over Mudgee yesterday…

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Fine Yields Wheat in Riverina Record Load Albury

The Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 8

The wealth of the wheat belt in the Southern Riverina is indicated by the huge accumulation at various centres. At Balldale Station, up till closing time…

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Killing 20,000,000 Sheep Killen, M.p., Shines Crackpot Economist Better Prices?

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

MR. W. W. KILLEN, M.H.R. for Riverinal has roused the ire of many people, by advocating in the "S.M. Herald" of Thursday last, that…

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Socialist Farms Moscow

Evening News · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1

IN [?] of the campaign against [?] peasants, coupled with the failure of the present harvest, the Soviet [?] that all grain land must be…

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Costly Turf Sewerage Farm Damage

Evening News · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 11

HILTON ROBERTSON a [?] carrier, was fined £5, at the Kogarah Court, for having maliciously damaged property at [?], owned by…

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Dominion Farmers. South African Contingent. CAPETOWN, Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 11

The South African contingent of dominion fanners, which is visiting Australia, sailed by the Runic The chairman, Mr. Allan, who conducts a large co-operative creamery in…

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Dairying Prospects. More Rain Needed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 9

While conditions in the dairying centres have substantially improved since the recent rains much still depends upon the arrival of seasonable falls during this month and tha…

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Down on the Farm Pratt and His Pets Where's the Elephants ?

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

DOGS, cats, fowls, turkeys, parrots, magpies, cows and horses. You can have your pick at Bill Pratt's RandwicK farm-yard…

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