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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

12,513 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

Farmer's Bad Luck Barred from Competition by a Misunderstanding

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 3

Mr. L. B. Boxsell, of Cherry Grove [?] had and back in not [?] his crop pledged in the [?] It was not [?]…

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The Farmer Pays Customs Duties Increase Prices of Farm Machinery

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 16

Whatever may be the ultimate result of the recent advances in the tariff, the immediate died is to raise prices, and especially the prices of articles that are…

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Swine Breeding and Feeding Important Purchases of British Stud Stock for the State Piggeries Prospects for the Bacon Industry Specially Written for the "Farmer and Settler" by E. J. SHELTON, H.D.A.

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 8

The instructor in pig raising of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture (Mr. A. F. Gray) returned to Sydney this week from his visit to England, where…

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Care of Cream Efficient Coolers Should be on Every Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 8

Referring to the care of cream on the farm, the senior dairy instructor for the Riverina (Mr. J. W. Scott) stated in his report for December that the quality of…

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Laborious Country Life. To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 18

Living in the country is far cheaper limit the city. Women's work in the country is far more laborious than the city housewife's, and I envy her the case…

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Is It Desirable to Provide Maternity Hospitals in Country Districts? Old-time Nursing a "Home from Home" With a Capable Nurse Letters From Women Home or Hospital Nursing. To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler"

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 18

In record to the great mortality of mothers in maternity my opinion is this, that at the present, birth control methods are moro generally practised to-day then…

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Maternity Homes. To the Editor, "Farmer and Se[?]

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 18

I have had a more agreeable experience of private hospitals than some of your correspondents have. It is ten years now since I first went…

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Avenged Father Son Waited More Than a Year Fight Sequel Killed Farmer But Spared Boy [?] BERLIN

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 1

THE amazing story of how a young police constable shot an old farmer, to avenge the death of his father, startled the country to-day. IN 1928 the police at Cassel surrounded Frankdort and made his way to…

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War on Dingoes Farmers Organise Dorrigo

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 7

FARMERS at Fernbrook have decided to organise for the purpose of combatting the ravages of dingoes, which are particularly daring just now, killing pigs…

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Dairy Produce. Hawkesbury College Course

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 13

The special course in dairy produce manufacture, which was inaugurated at Hawkesbury Agricultural College last January, is to be repeated this year, and will commence…

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Sheep Station

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 2

PEAK HILL, a town 30 miles from Parkes is experiencing a mild gold rush. Several prospectors believe that they…

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On Sheep Station

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 2

JUST let me tell you how happy country girls and boys can be. For three years I have lived with my people on a sheep station, 14 miles from the…

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Wheat Pool? Federal Govt. Scheme Moloney's Forecast Narrandera

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 2

A wheat pool, organised by the Federal Government in cooperation with the State Governments, was foreshadowed last night in a public…

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Fixed Price? Canadian Wheat Hopes London Conference Winnipeg

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 4

"We have no fantastic idea that we can dictate world prices," said an official of the wheat pool, reviewing the situation which is culminating in the…

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Fun on a Farm

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 2

I AM at present enjoying a holiday on a farm near Ariah Park. I am having a good time riding, carting hay fallowing, droving sheep and cattle,…

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New Crop of Brilliant Track Records Athletes' Day Clarice Kennedy, World-beater Carlton's Splendid Dash

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 26

Track runners made athletic history, at the Sydney Sports Ground yesterday, to here the International gala produced a crop of brilliant records, despite drizzling rain. The premier performance of the day, was that of Miss Clarice Kennedy, who proved herself a World's champion. She clipped three tenths of a second from the World's 80 metre…

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A New Pest for Farmers Onion Taste: Known in U.S. as "Wild Garlic"

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 3

If your bread tastes of onions do not blame the baker; blame Allium Vinealle, a new weed, found on the southern…

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Show Sheep and Ticks

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 17

ARMIDALE.--The District Veterinary Officer (North), Mr. Blumer, has agreed to an easement of the drastic tick regulations in so far as they…

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Wheat: Flour Exports

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 4

For the week [?] export a wheat from Australia accounted to 1,136,399 bushels and 11,245 ton of [?] were also [?] so that total exports were…

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