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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

12,513 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 250

Wool Sales Good Competition

Evening News · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 6

WITHOUT high prices being realised wool changed hands briskly at the sales this afternoon. Germany and France bidding freely for good topmaking wools, with Bradford and…

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Cow Is Queen Our Dairy Export Offset to Depleted Wool Prices

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 1

OVER the week-end the Minister for Markets, Mr. Parker Moloney, visited the cold stores of the city getting first- hand information of the…

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Blind Cattle Judge Finding Winners by Touch

The World's News · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 28

ALTHOUGH blinded while serving in Palestine, Mr. J. T. Scrymgeour, of Warwick, Queensland, one of St. Dunstan's men, has made a name for himself as one of the…

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Labor and the Wool Trade

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 11

A FEW weeks ago a deputation representing the graziers of Australia waited upon Prime Minister Scullin and Ministers Forde and Parker Moloney with…

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Wool: Values Improve—Conference Decisions

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 41

Although it is yet early to anticipate developments, there is a better feeling in the trade since wool values took a turn for the better last week and quotations were advanced by five per cent. — By "Warp." WHEN it has become rather a monotonous and irksome duty to continually quote the wool market…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 17

To-day's wool auctions in Melbourne, comprising come 6250 bales. included a good selection, in which ail districts of Victoria and adjoining States were represented. All the best features of the previous…

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Federal Wheat Pool. Conference to Decide

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 4

To discuss the question of the establishment of a Commonwealth compulsory wheat pool a conference will be held at Canberra on February 18 between the…

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The Wool Conference Far-Reaching Decisions

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 41

THE new wool sales programme clearly represents a compromise between the view that the clip should be cleared by June 30 and the various schemes for financing and holding over…

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Wool Problems. Sales Extended to August

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 4

Arising out of the serious fall in the price of wool, there was a conference of representatives of the Australian Wool Growers' Council and the National…

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Barellan Growers Want Wheat Guarantee Barellan

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 1

A meeting of wheatgrowers in the Barellan district decided to ask the State Government to guarantee 5 a bushel for wheat at country sidings…

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Wool Prices Continue to Firm Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 5

WOOL prices continued firm at to-day's sales, and quotes were 5 to 7 12 per cent. better than the closing rates in…

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Christchurch Wool Sales. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 16

The Christchurch wool sales opened [?]o-night Prlces were firm at advanced Tlmaru rates. Fine halfbrod and three-quarter bred were better by up to a halfpenny. All other wools were flrm…

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Goolgowi's Wheat Expansion Need of More Railway Facilities

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 17

GOOLGOWI. -- Mr. L. D. Reid, Southern District Area Railway Commissioner, was met here by a deputation of farmers and residents,…

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Cattle Ticks. Fresh Infestations in Richmond River Area. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 13

A deputation waited on the Board of Tick Control at Lismore to-day and voiced the alarm of stockowners at the recent discovery of ticks in country that had been free from…

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Good Demand Best Wool Wanted 10,838 Bales

The Sun · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 13

General competition prevailed for the 10,838 bales of wool submitted at today's sale, and good clearances were effected…

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Wheat Surplus. "No Need for Panic." Vancouver, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 15

The Minister for Finance (Mr. Dunning) said on Monday: "I see no reason for getting panicky about the wheat situation. There is no more in storage now than there was at this…

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Canberra Wheat Conference Men Who Will Speak For the Industry

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 17

The simmering agitations through-out the wheat exporting States for some concerted action to stabilise the wheat-growing industry will find…

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On the Land Wheat Growing. Costs of Production. Mr. Nock in Reply

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 13

Mr. H. K. Nock, president of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, yesterday replied to criticism, published in these columns last Thursday, of his address on wheat growing,…

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Farmers and the Tariff

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 13

Facts and Figures that Provide Conclusive Proof that the Tariff Does Not Penalise the Primary Industries in the Commonwealth. THE other day the President of the Graziers' Association (Mr. F. H…

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Manorial Trials. Onions'at Bathurst Farm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 13

Fertiliser trials with onions, conducted last year at the Bathurst experiment farm, indicate that sulphate of ammonia is of very little benefit to the crop, and that potash hinders…

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