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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

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

Sheep Have Fungus Disease "Fatten for the Butcher"

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 17

The fungus disease of the skin of sheep, technically termed mycotic dermatitis, has recently been reported from several localities in the…

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Wool Sales Not So Keen To-day's Bidding

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 9

COMPETITION was not so keen as on former sales at the commencement of Winchcombe Carson's offering at the wool sales this afternoon, but Bradford livened…

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Fire on Goods Train Furniture and Wool Destroyed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 11

GOULBURN, Tuesday. -- Three trucks of a goods train were damaged by fire to-day at Pish River. A van containing furniture and a…

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Wool Fabrics Revue in New York New York

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 1

The Wool institute is opening golden fleece fabric fashion revue at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for the stimulation of the sale of manufactured…

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Fine Lots To-day's Wool Sales 10,889 Bales

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 12

Mainly average lots were offered at the wool sales today, but there were soma clips in very fine condition. The…

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Russia May Re-enter Wheat Market As Competitor With Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 4

TAMWORTH, Tuesday.--"America has secured an order for 30,000,000 dollars of agricultural machinery for Ukraine," said Mr. F. Milner, of New…

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Duty on Wool Yarn. United States Increase. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 15

By 35 votes to 29 the Senate agreed to increase the duty on wool yarn worth a dollar to a dollar and a half a lb, from 40 per cent. to 45 per cent…

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On the Land English Wool Trade. Levels Maintained in London More Wool Fabrics for Women. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Bradford, Dec. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 13

The final series of London sales for this year must be regarded as creditable. It is true that the auctions have finished with values not quite as high as at the beginning,…

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Needy Farmers Diggers See Thorby

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 9

"THIS is no time for extravagance," said the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Thorby, to-day, to a deputation from the Returned Soldiers' League, which…

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Ear Almost Off Farmer's Injuries. Orange

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 5

JAMES HENRY ASHBY, a share pea farmer, of Browne's Creek, near Orange, had one car almost torn off, several ribs fractured, and his head and…

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How They Finished at Warwick Farm

Referee · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 8

Top: Cleave (W. Johnstone) had something in hand to beat the favorite, Newsore (W. Matthews) in the Sefton Handicap on Saturday. Ascalon (T. O'Bryan) came home better than the others in third place ahead of Gritall (outside), Ila Tait, Beckwith, Bonnie Marjorie and Bunkum. Centre: Though she cost only 45 guineas as a yearling, Sunder…

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English Visitors at Warwick Farm

Referee · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 5

Trainer J. Barden and his promising apprentice, J. Pratt, snapped at Warwick Farm, with Mr. Herbert O. Carter (centre) of "Everybody's Weekly," London, and Mr. Jacobson (right), of London…

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Big Crop of Millionaires. What American Taxation Returns Disclose

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 17

How great American fortunes are piling up, so that incomes of £1,000,000 a year are enjoyed by a group of ll men, while those having over £200,000 a year number…

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Collective Farms. New Soviet Decree. London, Jan. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 15

In furtherance of the campaign against well-to-do peasants in Russia and because of the failure of the present harvest, the Soviet has decreed that all grain land must be…

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Farming Machinery. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 9

Sir,—In a discussion on the tariff and its relation to the cost of farming implements, Mr. Milton Stevens intervenes, accusing me of not only misleading statements, but of…

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Farm Tragedy. Boy Migrant Drowned. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 15

A drowning tragedy occurred at the farm of Mr. A. E. Milner at Borderton on Sunday. The body of George Chambers, a boy migrant employed by Mr. Milner, was recovered from a…

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Farmers and the Milk Board. Practical Men Wanted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 13

BOWRAL.—At a meeting of milk suppliers on the southern tablelands, held at Bowral under the chairmanship of Mr. Joseph Wills, considerable opposition was shown to the…

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Australia Waking Up Dairying Industry Lessons From N. Zealand Auckland

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 6

"AUSTRALIAN dairy farmers are at last working up to what New Zealand is doing," said Mr. E. F. Voysey, sales manager of…

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Mick Deegan of Goolgowi Boy Farmer and His Team Do the Big Jobs

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 18

The lure of the city strikes no responsive chord in the breast of Mick Deegan. In his fifteen-year-old wisdom he plumps for the life on the…

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Butter for Export

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 13

During the week ended January 4 the Commonwealth graders examined at Sydney for export 14,729 boxes of butter, comprising 11,678 boxes of salted and 3051 boxes of…

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