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Farming & the land, 1930

12,513 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250

The Wool World. Maintained Frices for Good Wools Strong General Competition

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 10

Strong general competition has been experienced from Japan, Yorkshire, ltaly, and Belgium at this week's Sydney wool sales…

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Answers to Questions Legal Machinery Left on Farm

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 20

"Grassier" writes in regard to the sale of machinery and other thing's left on a property willed to a son by his mother: (1) Can a tank, holding…

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Rural Industries Craftsmen Defined Skilled Farm Worker Not Involved

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

To clear up an element of doubt that arose out of an amendment relating to craftsmen inserted in the Act abolishing awards in rural…

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Farmers and Settlers Murwillumbah Branch of the Association

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 8

A well-attended meeting of Murwillumbah branch F.S.A. discussed matters of local interest and some of national importance, including two or three separately reported in this…

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The Farm Garden A Scheme of Blues

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 14

Window-box and rockery gardening is a delightful department of the flower lover's work. If you have a number of petrol tins, or an old cask or two, or…

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Pigs on the Lachlan Opportunity for Forbes District Farmers

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 18

Now that there is a possibility of a butter factory being established at Forbes, farmers in the Lachlan Valley are advised to turn their attention to…

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The Farmers Are the Editors

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 4

"The Land," as the official organ of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, and the authoritative voice of the Man on the Land, desires to give the rural view on all public questions affecting primary production and the primary producer. Every reader is a co-editor, entitled to express his opinions in these columns…

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Dairy Produce

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 9

The following prices ruled for dairy produce in Sussex Street yesterday, as ascertained by the State Marketing Bureau:- Butter: Choice. 189/2, first quality 184/6,…

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Brisbane Farm Produce

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 9

BRISBANE, Thursday.—The following prices were realised at this morning's sales: Lucerne chaff from £6/10/ to £8 per ton; lucerne hay, £6 to £6/10/; oaten chaff, Wagga, £9/10/,…

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Farm and Country Mirror News Items from "Land" Readers

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 7

Boree Creek ("Rosebud," 29/12/'29): We had 37 points of rain on Friday, which was all right for water; some rain water tanks were getting rather low. The river is very low…

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Dry-farmed Lucerne Wonderful Results by Advanced Parkes Farmers

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 6

Most of the paddocks inspected would have been creditable in a normal season, but when it is remembered that the district has passed through one of the driest periods in its history, they can be considered really remarkable, and will probably have the effect of considerably…

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Dairying on the Clarence. Increased Outputs Reported. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 11

The present season is proving very favourable for the dairying industry, and butter factories report substantially increased outputs. Although the December…

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Necessitous Farmers. Officers to Visit Country Centres

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 11

To enable necessitous farmers to explain their cases personally, arrangements have been made for representatives of the rural industries branch to visit wheat-growing…

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Collective Farms (From the “Sydney Morning Herald”)

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5

LONDON, Jan. 6.—In furtherance of the campaign against well-to-do peasants in Russia, and because of the failure of the present harvest, the…

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Good Crop

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 13

Junce, Friday.--From 120 acres of Nahawa wheat, C. J. Shultz, of Junee, has harvested an excellent crop of 1440 bags, averaging 36 bushels to the…

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Farmers Confer on Fodder Basis of Handfeeding

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 17

PARKES, Thursday.--Eighty representative farmers attended the conference convened by the local Agricultural Bureau on fodder…

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Farmer Organiser

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 17

While working his Callowrie Farm, Oatlands, methodically and successfully, Mr. J. L. Harvie finds time for the organising…

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Headington Hill Dairy

The Biz · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 3

Mr. Fred Gottling, ex-A:I.F., has a notice in this issue with reference to the above dairy, at Palmerston-rd., Fairfield' West. Phone, Liv. 304…

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Poultry Farming the Chicken Pox

The Biz · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 6

Chicken pox in some parts has already stopped in, The following few lines on the disease and its prevention will be ot use to poultry…

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Warwick Farm Jockey Injured

The Biz · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 4

Last week-end, Albert Wood, an apprentice jockey, residing in Cabramatta, met with a painful accident that will cause him to be…

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