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Farming & the land, 1931

10,465 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 250

Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 11

Dairy produce trade was uneventful yesterday. Mid-week slackness was in evidence, and butter in particular showed a slackening in demand alter the brisk business of the past…

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"Tragic" French Farm Surprise Paris

The Sun · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 1

'Tragic" is the term applied by the Minister for Agriculture (M. Boret) to the position of French agriculture, in contrast with the reports…

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Saving the Farmer Special Loan Suggested Forbes

The Sun · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 14

Support for the Advisory Council in its efforts to obtain immediate reductions in costs in primary industriese was pledged at a meeting of…

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Record Pea Crop

The Sun · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 10

LITHGOW, Thursday.--The Railway Commissioners are making special arrangements to lift the record pea crops at Oberon. Several…

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Hand Country to Women to Govern! City Opinion Favors "Farmer's Wife"

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 7

"The only remedy for our nation's ills is to let women govern. Their superiority has been proved many times!" suggests "A Farmer's Wife,"…

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Annual Sheep, and Wool Returns

The Land · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 5

The due date for the return of sheep and wool forms issued to sheepowners under the Census Act was yesterday, January 15. The Statistician reported a few days ago…

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The Wool Industry — Sheep to Ship Unchanged Sydney Wool Values Low Figures for Faulty Wools

The Land · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 5

ALTHOUGH very faulty Wools continued to make decidedly low ligures, values at this week's Sydney wool sales were without quotable…

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Cattle Market Unchanged

The Land · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 6

Although the number of cattle yarded was not large they proved quite sufficient for the demand. Buyers were not over eager to purchase, most of them had a few alive, and found…

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Cattle Market Irregular

The Land · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 6

Although only a small supply of cattle came forward, it was finite equal to the demand. All sorts were represented; heavy bullocks were fairly plentiful, and cows were well in evidence;…

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Pastoral Notes "No Ram Tax."

The Land · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 5

THE Premier, Mr. Lang, has indignantly denied that his Government contemplates the imposition of a tax on ramas. The suggestion was…

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VETERINARY Pink-eye in Sheep

The Land · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 8

Molong: With regard to your enquiry concerning the treatment of pink-eye in sheep, you cannot do better than to place a dessertspoonful of…

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Wheat Stocks in Elevators

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 13

Wheat stocks in New South Wales Government grain elevators (season 1930-31), on January 15, aggregated 20,235,000 bushels, consisting of 15,239,000 bushels in country…

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Junior Farmers a Boy's Wheat-growing Geo. Cook, of Tamworth District

The Land · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 8

An excellent example to all Junior Farmers in the recording of their project work is the card of George Cook, son of Mr. Chester J. Cook, of Mt…

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Wool Sales. Hardening Tendency

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 13

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,983 bales, and the sales, including private transactions,…

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Flemington Stock Sales. Sheep. Market Irregular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 13

About 50,781 sheep and lambs were forward for yesterday's sales at the Flemington yards. The bulk of the offerings ranged from medium to plain in quality. There was a good attendance of…

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Lucerne on Upland Wheat Soils

The Land · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 4

THOROUGHLY impressed with the value of lucerne upon upland wheat soils, as a result of their own experience in recent years, Parkes district farmers are…

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Shire and Price of Wheat

The Land · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 4

Waugoola Shire Council, Cowra, has decided not to fix the rate for the year until, it is known what price farmers will receive for wheat…

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Bank Board Discusses Fate of 3/- Guarantee Ominous Delay in Arriving at Decision. Before Selling Wheat, Farmers Should Have Assurance That Buyers Will Register Under Wheat Advances Act

The Land · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 3

The long-awaited meeting of the Commonwealth Bank Board to decide the fate of the 3/- per bushel guarantee stipulated by the Wheat Advances Act was held in Melbourne this week. No decision was reached…

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Newcastle Wool Sales. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 13

The sixth Newcastle wool sales of the current season were held to-day. The selling brokers were the New England North and North-west Producers' Company, Limited, who cleared 994 bales at…

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Two Thousand Trucks For Wheat Storage Government's Move to Help Farmers With Grain Still to Deliver

Daily Pictorial · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 14

The 2000 odd railway trucks suitable for bulk wheat transport are being commandeered next week for the holding over of grain deliveries pending space becoming available at the terminal elevator…

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