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Farming & the land, 1930

12,513 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 250

Butter Outlook Production Maintained

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 6

Prescott, Ltd, report on the butter market:-- Sydney: As a result of beneficial rains over most of the dairying centres…

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Record Season ? Supplies of Butter

The Sun · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 5

New South Wales expects to have one of the best dairying seasons on record. Butter production is increasing by…

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Wheat Prices. Decline in America. Prospects for Growing Crops. New York. Feb. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 11

The Chicago correspondent of the. New York "Times" says: "The eight months effort by speculators and the grain trade in general in the United States and Canada to…

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Homebush Sales More Stock Available Cattle Still Dear

The Sun · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 10

Big consignments of sheep continue to arrive at Homebush and to-day buyers had 54,950 to choose from. At the early sales competition was a…

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North-western Wheat. Wide Variations in Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 9

The past season has disclosed some marked contrasts in wheat yields in the Inverell district. Varieties which have topped the yields in some trials have been the lowest in others…

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Future of Wool. a Western Australian View

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 9

PERTH, Saturday.—The president of the. Pastoralists' Association of Western Australia (Mr. Ernest Lee Steere) said he did not view the decrease in the price of wool in a…

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Bright Prospect for Dairying Rain Transforms Pastures and Fodder Crops

Daily Pictorial · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 16

The recent heavy coastal rains have considerably relieved the anxiety of dairymen in those parts of the State, and the outlook for the next few…

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The Good Farmer Wins Out Ten-bag Crop Every Year

Daily Pictorial · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 15

Advanced methods play the big part nowadays in successful wheat-growing. Consistently good wheat returns as…

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Produce Markets. Egg Prices Advanced Butter Is Still Unaltered Potatoes Are Dearer

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 8

ALL lines of eggs, with the exception of the second grade medium variety, will be [?] a dozen dearer to-day. As there has been a seasoned shrinkage of supplies in Sussex Street, and an unabated demand during the past week or two, the increase or two the increase in prices will not occasion surprise…

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Wool Prices Big Purchase Proposed Stabilisation Plan Toowoomba

The Sun · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 5

The Australian Graziers', Industries Defence League, which recently waited on the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin), regarding the wool position, pointed out that unless action…

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The Land and the Producer Concentration Upon Higher Wheat Yields Scientists Evolving New Methods and Seeking Better Varieties

Daily Pictorial · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 15

Stimulated by the successes already achieved in raising the standard of wheat yields, an elaborate scheme off investigation and experiment is being developed on the State farms, with a view to further increasing returns in the outer districts…

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Wool Market Rigged by Exploiters? Industry Facing Ruin Startling Disclosures by Federal Minister Sinister Deputation Canberra

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 5

WITH THE WOOL INDUSTRY in such a precarious situation that every business organisation is looking at it askance, and every Government in the Commonwealth is regarding it with frightened eyes, quiet and unofficial investigation by Labor…

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Did Secret Documents Have to Do With Suicide of Young Bridegroom? Prices Up Wool Market Firm Improved Bidding Germany, Bradford Buy

The Sun · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 9

Competition was more general at the wool sales to-day, and the bidding showed an improvement en that of last week. Prices were…

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"Avoid Panic," Says Scullin: Things Might Be Worse Bad Times But Pessimism Won't Assist Wool Outlook Federal Cabinet to Talk Coal

Evening News · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 1

REFERRING to-day to Australia's financial and economic position, the Prime Minister, Mr. Scullin, strongly counselled the community not to view the outlook through dark glasses…

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Dry Land Farming

Evening News · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 6

[?] yesterday o[?]fort becoming [?] most p[?]tce, to [?] end…

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Breadstuffs. U.s.a. Farm Board's Task

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 13

Mr. Samuel R. McKelvle, a member of the United States Federal Farm Board, in an address to millers at the Millers' National Federation at Chicago, said that: "The…

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Milk Prices. Dairymen Want Increase

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 9

WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.—The Aberglasslyn and district branch of the Country Milk Suppliers' Association unanimously carried the following resolution, to be forwarded…

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On the Land Dairying Prospects. Recent Improvement. Hopes of Record Output

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 9

While parts of the dairying districts of the State are still dry, the Richmond and Tweed area, which is responsible for a very great proportion of the butter production, has been…

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Farmer's Death

The Sun · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 10

Albury Monday.--The death has occurred of Mr. Adolph Herman Gabriel a resident of Gerogery, for 63 years. He was a well known farmer. He is…

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Pastoral Problems. To-day's Momentous Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 9

Ways and means of improving the wool marketing position will be considered in Melbourne to-day at a meeting of delegates from the Australian Woolgrowers' Council and the…

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