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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

12,513 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250

Pastoral Leases Rentals in Federal Capital to be Reviewed

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 6

The Federal Cabinet has decided to appoint a board to determine whether the rents now paid by pastoral lesses in the Federal Capital Territory are…

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High Wheat Yields on Low Rainfall

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 17

TAMWORTH.--The Tamworth district has taken off a splendid wheat harvest, with remarkably high yields in many cases. This, despite the fact…

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Sheep Diseases Case for the Local Stock Inspector

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 8

"Sheep-raiser" tells me that he has lost some lambs lately from a trouble that he cannot identify. The first symptom was a listlessness and a grinding of the teeth as…

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Queensland Pastoral Award The A.W.U. and Strike Threats

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 17

BRISBANE, Friday.--Mr. W. J. Riordan, Queensland branch secretary of the A.W.U., replied to-day to a Charleville message that shearers,…

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New Butter Factory Proposals In Forbes and Wellingotn Districts

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 17

The revival of interest in dairying in the middle west, despite the dry season, is indicated by successful meetings at Wellington and Forbes,…

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Aberdeen Angus Studs Canadian Bred Cattle Despatched to Australia

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 1

Twenty head of registered Aberdeen Angus cattle from Glenarnock farm, which is operated near Branden, Manitoba by Mr. J.D. Me[?] Lieutenant…

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Shipping V. Wool Buyers. Annual Cricket Match

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 4

The annual cricket match between: the Overseas Shipping Companies and the Sydney Wool Buyers Representatives was played at Rushcutters Bay…

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Wool Market Prospects for 1930 Are Brighter

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

Mr. Parker, chairman of the largest wool-selling company in the world Dalgety and Co, Ltd., said this week that there was a good chance of wool…

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Irrigated Wheat Remarkably High Yields in Variety Trinl

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 10

The success of wheat growing this season on the Murrumbldgee (N.S.W.) irrigation ares has falsified pessimistic predictions that a rice crop would…

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British Stud Sheep Fifty Southdown Ewes from the King's Flock

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 6

Fifty Southdown owes from the King's flock at Sundringham and four South-down rams from various well-known British [?] were landed in Sydney…

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N.Z. Wool Sales British Federation Severely Criticised

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 6

It is estimated in Auckinnd that New Zealand will lose £6,000,000 owing to Brandford's refusal to agree to New Zealand wool sales being held in May and…

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Bright Future "Butter Production in 1930 Should Eclipse all Previous Records

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 7

Reviewing conditions in 1020 and prospects for the current year, the N.S.W. Director of Dairying (Mr. L. T. McInnes) states that the future of dairying is mere…

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Wheat Values Exhaustive Tests of Cape and Australian Grain

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 9

Tho Capetown (South Africa) Chamber of Industries is arranging for a test of the comparative values of Capo and Australian wheat. The millers propose…

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New Sheep Dip Busy to Construct and Simple to to Operate

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 6

Coaling about £10; a new type of sheep dip with many features to recommend it has been constructed on Mr.D.Tobin's property "Tabberatong" Lime Klins in…

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A Sheep's Age Judged by Position of Binders on the Staple

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 6

The hold assertion that the age of a sheep can be told approximately by its wool is made in a recent issue of the "American Sheepbreeder and…

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Longwool Rabbits Consignment Arrives in Sydney —Spinning the "Wool"

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 6

The first shipment of longwool rabbits since the [?] of the embargo on their importation arrived in Sydney last week. The consigneen, the N.S.W. Wool and Fur…

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Call of the Road Girl Drover Takes 2000 Sheep in Search of Water

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 4

With a mob or 2000 sheep Miss Jean Noble, the- pretty young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Noble, of Mount Buckley, left Glen Innes some weeks ago, in…

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On the Land the Wool Trade. Auctions on Monday. Market Prospects

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 13

The New Year wool sales open in Sydney next Monday and continue until Wednesday, January 15. Sales will then be held in Brisbane, Sydney auctions resuming on Tuesday…

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Seed Selection The Value of the R.A.S. Field Wheat Competitions

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 8

"Whealgrower" asks whether there is any variety of wheat other than Nabaws, that is resistant of flag smut. He says that he is interested in Carra, Riverina Cerralying, Durl…

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The Land and the producer Butter Production on the Way to Records Timely Rains Revive Pastures, and Assure Summer Output

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 17

New South Wales should now rise to the heights of a record butter output for the season, the latest rains having come at an opportune time, when production was in the balance. At present it is double the aggregate manufacture…

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