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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

12,513 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 250

Pastoral Research Fund Trust

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 17

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The chairman, Mr. George Aitken, announces that the Australian Pastoral Research Fund has been…

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Wheat Growing. Farmers' Returns. Claim for Guarantee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 9

In his paper at the Merriwagga conference on mallee farming, to which reference was made in this column yesterday, Mr. H. K. Nock, the president of the Farmers and…

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The Wheat Paradox

Evening News · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 10

If an outsider were to say about the wheat industry what the wheat-farmers say of it—when asking for a State guarantee of price—that outsider would…

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Commercial Wool Auctions

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 35

The Secretary Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Coy., writes: On the 29th January, we offered 6,994 bales representative of a wide area of the State,…

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£285,000 for Wheat

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 17

JUNEE.--The wealth of the Junee district is indicated in figures supplied by the Railway Superintendent, showing that 476,553 bags of…

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Wheat Down in London

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 16

LONDON, February 4.--The fall in American wheat prices was reflected by a decline in quotations of cargoes from 6d to 1, with inquiry in abeyance. Parcels opened 9d…

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Wool Sales Brisk Bidding

Evening News · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 12

BUFERS had not long to wait for an attractive clip at the wool sales this afternoon a Windeyer slip branded [?] over Mudgee being listed early in the Farmers and…

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Improving Demand for Wool

The Sun · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 4

"Like old times," was how one prominent buyer described the competition at yesterday's wool sales. The bidding was an…

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Country News Stabilising Wool

The Sun · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 30

GOULBURN, Thursday. -- That representations should be made to the federal Government, with a view to stabilising the wool market, was the…

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Motor Traction Indispensable to the Merchant the Biggest Wheat Farm on Earth

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 5

In a previous issue of this journal a brief reference was made to the gigantic scale on which wheat is grown in the State of Montana by the…

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Southdown Sheep Bred by the King Arrive

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 7

Mr. Thomas Hogan, of Merriwa, has imported fifty Southdown owes bred at Sandringam: also a stud ram of the same type, bred by Lady…

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London Wool Sales London

Evening News · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 6

Included in the 12,663 of wool offered at the sales to-day were 4610 from N.S.W. [?] from Victoria 2424 froM Queensland [?] from South Australia 683 from West…

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Wheat Pooling. Conference Arranged at Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 9

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—State Ministers for Agriculture, the Federal Minister for Markets (Mr. Parker Moloney), and representatives of the wheat farmers will confer at…

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London Wool Sales. London, Feb. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 11

At yesterday's wool sales 3097 bales were sold from New South Wales, 1405 from Victoria, 393 from Queensland, 1581 from Western Australln, 330 from South Australia, and…

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Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Feb. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 13

The Federal Farm Board came to the relief of the Chicago option market to-day, causing a decided upturn by means of persistent buying. Wheat options opened…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Wood Pipe Contracts Pastoral Losses

The Sun · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 4

Shareholders in Australian Wood Pipe Co., Ltd., will receive the usual dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum for the half-year on…

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Buoyant Share Market Improvement in Wool Prices

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 4

THERE was a feeling of buoyancy on the Stock Exchange yesterday, the reassuring note Bounded by the Prime Minister earlier in the week…

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Up 10 Per Cent. Albury Wool Sales

The Sun · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 16

The secretary of the Farmers and Graziers' Co-Operative Co., has received the following report from the Albury branch: --…

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Wool Sales. Extended till August. Conference Decisions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 11

It has been decided to extend the wool sales to the middle of August, instead of terminating on June 30. Offerings are to be spread as nearly as…

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Federal Wheat Pool Conference to Decide Canberra

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 February 1930 · page 6

Prospects are thought to be bright for the establishment of a Commonwealth compulsory wheat pool, as a result of a conference which is to be held…

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