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Farming & the land, 1930

12,513 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 250

Butter Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 13

During the week ended January 11 the Commonwealth graders examined at Sydney for export, 17,460 boxes of butter, consisting of 14,138 boxes of salted, and 3322 boxes of…

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Butter for Export

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 4

During the week ending January 11, the Commonwealth graders examined at Sydney the following butter for export:— Salted, 14,138 boxes;…

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Wheat Ouiet

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 16

With ruling prices well above overseas equivalent, there was little disposition on the part of local wheat buyers to operate yesterday. For silo parcels. February…

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Motorist Kills Sheep. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 12

Travelling at a fast rate along Sydney-road, near Newmarket, a motor car ran into a mob of sheep, which were being yarded for the sale at Albury. Eight were killed, and 15…

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Wheat Prices Down 1d

The Sun · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 4

In the local wheat market to-day, prices were reduced by 1d., to 5s 2d ex trucks Sydney, and 4s 7d bushel an country stations…

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Wool Demand Very General

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 35

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd, report: —Competition was widely distributed at our first Sydney wool sale of New Year. Demand has not shown better breadth…

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On the Land Sheep on the Farm. Some Economic Aspects. Need for Fodder Reserves

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 9

Several plainly-expressed home truths characterised a paper on "the economic aspect of fodder conservation for sheep on a farm," by Mr. David Kelly, of Wongarbon, at the Parkes…

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Back to Wheat and Sharefarming

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 17

WAGGA.--Present indications in Riverina are that many men may this year get a start as share-farmers. It is probable that big areas of land will…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Quiet But Steady

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 13

The wheat market was quiet but steady yesterday. A parcel of bagged wheat for January-February delivery was sold at 5/4¾, trucks Sydney, basis. There were buyers of silo…

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Poor Outlook for Sheep Men Drought : Depression

Evening News · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 17

NO indications are in [?] produce improvement in wool [?] the immediate [?] Winchcombe, Car[?] Ltd…

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Research in Wool. Graziers' Requests

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 9

The last annual conference of the Graziers' Association carried a resolution recommending the British Research Association to inquire into the cause of the "prickly feeling" of…

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Russia Back in Wheat Mart Berlin

Evening News · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 12

RUSSIAN wheat has been arriving on the German markets lately. The actual amount is unknown, but it must be…

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Queensland Wool Freights. Request for Reduction. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 9

Replying to representatives of the wool industry who waited on him to-day and asked for a reduction in the freight on wool, the Minister for Railways (Mr. Morgan) said that…

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Oversea Market Cables. London Wool Sales. London, January 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 13

The quantity of wool available for the first series of wool sales, commencing on January 21, will be 164,000 bales, of which the new arrivals of Australian comprise 97,900, New…

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Steamers Start Race to Europe Quietly Slip to Sea With Wool Cargoes

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 13

Laden with wool and general cargo, the, steamers Buteshire and City of Roubaix, have started a race to Europe…

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Wool Outlook Trade Commissioner's Report Fall in Price "Cut Costs or Produce More" London

Evening News · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 1

IN his report on the economic and trade conditions in Australia the British Trade Commissioner in Sydney. Mr. R. W. Dalton makes an exhaustive survey of the sheep and wool industry…

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Farmer Killed. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 12

Ralph Dorrington, 34, farmer, of McKee's Hill, died from injuries received in a motor car accident this afternoon, three miles from Lismore on the Lismore-Coraki-road…

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Lucerne Does Better When Sown Alone Smothered by Cereal Cover Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 17

In order to obtain accurate information of the question of sowing grazing lucerne with wheat or oats as a cover crop on old cultivation land,…

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Young Farmer for Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 17

FORBES, Wednesday. -- Leonard Bryant, a young English share farmer, has been committed for trial on a charge of inflicting grievous bodily…

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Branding Sheep

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 10

Details of experiments with a new mixture for branding sheep, which it is claimed will not wash out of the wool, Were given in a…

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