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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

12,513 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 250

Still Falling Wheat Prices Overseas. Winnipeg

The Sun · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 3

The shadow of falling prices still, hung ominously over the market, and was not dissipated by the Prairie Government's declaration of financial support for the wheat pools…

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WHEAT Bigger and Better Harvests in Western Wheat Belt Outposts Aim of New Series of Scientific Tests

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 6

In a determined effort to lessen the terrors of drought by making possible better wheat yields in the dry districts along the western frontier of the wheat belt of the State, the Department of Agriculture is about to embark upon the most comprehensive series of experiments…

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"Forward Steps" Wool Stabilising Plans Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 14

With careful handling, the stabilisation plan decided upon by the big wool conference on Tuesday and Wednesday has a good prospect of…

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Wheat Panic Avoided. Canadian Markets. London, Feb. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 11

The action of four Governments in the prairie provinces in guaranteeing the farmers 15 per cent, support on their margin accounts with brokers to-day averted a panic on the…

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Wheat Pool On Commonwealth Basis Conference This Month

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 5

The question of establishing a compulsory wheat pool on Commonwealth-wide basis will form the subject of discussion at a…

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Wool Market on the Way to Renewed Confidence

Daily Pictorial · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 16

The "Pictorial" view last Friday that the wool market had "touched bottom" and that the trade had turned the corner"…

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On the Land Wool Prospects. Mr. Tout Hopeful

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 9

The president of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales (Mr. F. H. Tout), who returned yesterday from attending the joint conference of growers and wool-selling…

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Albury Wool Sales. Improvement in Values. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 12

At the Albury wool sales the associated brokers (Younghusband, Ltd., Dalgety and Company, Limited, and the Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Co., Ltd.) submitted…

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Waugoola Farmers' Win Three-year Fallow and Crop Contest

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 6

With a total of 844½ points. Messrs. F. C. Rowlands and Sons, of "Werribee," Waugoola, have gained the silver cup offered by the fertiliser firms for…

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Wheat Revival in the Middle-west Big Scale Preparations

Daily Pictorial · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 15

The recent heavy, rains, which ranged from two to over four inches, have given wheat-growing in the middle-west a decided fillip,…

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Market Weak. Values Still Lower More Russian Wheat Offered

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 6

London cables advise that the market is weak, being influenced by sales of Russian wheat over the week-end…

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London Wool Sales Keen Demand at Closing Sale London, February 6

The Sun · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 3

The London wool series closed to-day, when 8300 bales were offered. including 7000 bales of Australian merinos. Sales were made at full current values. New South Wales…

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More Wheat Will Be Grown. Considerable Increase in Area for Next Season

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 6

The statement of the Director of Agriculture (Mr. A. H. McDonald) in the last issue of "The Land" that a considerable increase in the area to be sown for wheat next season is strongly indicated is supported by the reports of district instructors of conditions in the wheat…

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Extending Wool Sales. Decision of Melbourne Conference Empire Co-operation to Be Invited

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 5

The representative conference of representatives of the wool industry throughout the Commonwealth, held in Melbourne this week, decided upon a policy of extending the wool sales for a further period of six weeks, equalising the offerings over the intervening period, preventing…

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Then and Now Wool Slump of 1885 All Were Pessimists Then Came 1886--

The Sun · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 12

In considering the wool position as We find it to-day, it is of some interest to look hack in the history of the industry. at a period of [?]ule depression,…

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Grow More Wheat and Thus Lower the Costs F.s.a. President's Claim for a Government Price Guarantee

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 1

THIS year's wheat crop is not much short of the average; last year's was well over; and yet thousands of farmers would have had to go off the…

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Farm Produce. Sussex Street Prices

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 9

The following prices ruled for farm produce in Sussex Street yesterday, as ascertained by the State Marketing Bureau:- Oaten Chaff, £6 to £7; wheaten chaff, £6/10/…

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Dairy Produce

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 9

The following prices ruled yesterday in the city, as ascertained by the State Marketing Bureau:- Butter: Choice. 189/2, first 184/6,…

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Brisbane Farm Produce

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 9

BRISBANE, Thursday. —The following prices ruled at this morning's sales: Lucerne chaff, from £5 to £7/10/ per ton; luccrne hay, £4 to £5; oaten chaff (market dull), £8/5/ to…

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Pigs for Profit Root Crops and Grains For Growing and Fattening Pigs

The Land · Friday 7 February 1930 · page 18

FOR pig feeding the value of root crops, which include potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, sugar beet, mangels and swede turnips, depends upon…

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