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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

10,465 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 250

Wheat Advance Position Pool Reduces First Payment

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 14

The increased advance on wheat, which the Commonwealth Bank has announced is only available to pools. The management of the N.S.W…

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Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Jan. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 15

Chicago wheat options to-day [?] March, 80½ cents per bushel (up [?] cent); May, 83[?] cents (up ¼ cent); July, 65½ cents (down ½ cent)…

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Rain Damages Wheat Untimely Visitations In Two States

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 3

IN his monthly notes on the [?] of the pastoral and agricultural industries in Australis, Mr. H. A. Hunt, Commonwealth meteorologies,…

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100 P.C. Wheat Pool Calgary, Alberta

The Sun · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 4

A 100 per cent. pooling of wheat is favored by the united farms of Alberta convention, representing 18,000 growers. The convention…

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India Buys Wheat Cargoes Steady London, January 23

The Sun · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 2

The market for wheat cargoes was steady and sellers were inclined to raise their limits, excepting for Australians, which were rather depressed. There was some…

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Canadian Farmers' Secession Plan Turned Down Prairie Provinces Commonwealth "West From the Rest" Was Slogan Wheat Growers Favor 100 Per Cent. Pool Calgary, Canada

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 1

THE United Farmers of Alberta to-day, by an overwhelming majority, defeated the proposal for an economic secession of the three Prairie provinces from the Dominion of Canada…

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Butter Trade Annual Meeting of the P.D.S. at Bega

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 8

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society, Ltd., held at Bega on Tuesday, the chairman of directors (Mr. W. R…

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Lucerne and Fat Lambs Farmers in the Central-West Find the Combination Profitable Area Under Crop Extends

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 7

OWING to the low price of wheat and the depressed market for wool, increasing numbers of farmers in the central-west are turning their attention…

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Where Are Weak Spots? Dairy Farmers' Costs Go up but Their Profits Come Down Need for More Herd Testing

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 8

SOUND, enterprising, and methodical, Mr. G. S. Stokes, the popular manager of the Macleay Dairy Co.'s factory at Kempsey, has no time for haphazard…

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Milk Board Dairy Farmers Dissatisfied with the Results

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 8

Much confusion has resulted from the Deportment of Agriculture's action in circularising the various municipal councils to the effect that the Milk Board…

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Melbourne Sales Over a Hundred Thousand Head in the Sheep Pens

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 6

The Melbourne live stock market was [?] supplied with 46,500 fat sheep on Tuesday. With 42,000 fat lambs and 21,000 store sheep, there were well over…

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Oversea Market Cables. London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 15

For to-day's wool sales 9612 bales were catalogued. including 1816 bales Queensland, 1792 New South Wales. 2530 Victorian, 148 South Australian, 1621 Western Australian, and 1264…

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Wool Sales Local Market Steady but Big Fall in London

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 5

NO wool Auctions were held in Sydney this week, but sales will be resumed on Tuesday next, 27th January, Monday being a public holiday…

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Wheat Market Growers Disposed to Sell, But There are no Buyers

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 6

Although Sydney wheat traders expected better business as a result of a resumption in shipping, following upon the announcement that the banks had…

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Wheat Gristing Proportions of Flour and Offal Per Ton of Grain

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 11

"Cereal" states that, as he is having some wheat gristed, he desires to know how much flour, bran and pollard he should receive for the ton of wheat he has sent to the…

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On the Land the Wool Trade. Decline in London. Effect Locally

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 11

With the effects of the extended rate of the oversea morley exchange operating in their favour, Australian wool markets this week have not shown a decline fully in…

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WHEAT. Request for £l,000,000 From Loan Council. Labour Caucus Acts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 13

At a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour party yesterday it was decided that immediate application should be made to the Loan Council by the Premier (Mr. Lang) for a…

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Wheat Price to Be Fixed £750,000 Pool Will Aid Growers Daring Plan

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 2

A daring scheme to assist local wheat farmers by creating a fund out of wheat sales was agreed to by the Labor Caucus yesterday and…

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French Crisis. Government to Resign. Defeated on Wheat Price Plan. London, Jan. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 13

Following criticism of the wheat price plan of the Minister for Agriculture (M. Boret), the French Government was defeated in the Chamber of Deputies, and has decided to…

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Ford Wheat Does Well at Wagga Tops the List in Season's Variety Trials

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 14

A wheat variety trial conducted at Wagga Experiment Farm this season with early-sown grain had instructive results…

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