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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

10,465 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 250

Problem of Export Butter Grading Points In Dispute Are Cleared Up

Daily Pictorial · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 14

Nine factories on the North and South Coasts were represented yesterday in Sydney when the executive of the Butter Factory…

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Produce Trade Potato Prices May Fall Butter Rates To Be Reviewed

Evening News · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3

Potatoes will probably be cheaper in Sussex-st, on Monday, when heavy supplies are expected to arrive. Sales of all [?] have been [?]…

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Are Bleached-wheat Buyers Fair to Farmers? Dockages Are Too Great, Says Grower Expert Points Out That Depreciation Varies According to Variety and Degree of Bleaching

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

The question whether the extent of the dockages at present insisted upon by buyers in respect of bleached wheat is warranted by the actual depreciation in the milling value of the grain is raised by Mr. George Lindon, of Clonegonnell, in a letter to "The Land." Mr. G. W. Norris,…

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Oversea Market Cables. London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 2[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 13

For to-day's wool sales there was a catalogue of 5181 bales, including 146 bales Queensland, 1600 New South Weles, 1168 South Australian, 458 Victoria, 1487 Western…

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Babies Wrapped in Cotton Wool Midget Twins Are Very Fragile

Daily Pictorial · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 7

Twins, Reginald Weaver, 4lb., and Mary, his little sister, weighing only 2½lb., born on Tuesday, are exercising their lungs at the…

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Brighter Outlook for Wool Market Sustained Buying and Keen Demand

Daily Pictorial · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 15

Developments during the week, both locally and in London, brighten wool prospects. Prices in London have steadily…

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Has Lang Money in Sight? Wheat Loan Proposal Cancelled Party's Decision

Evening News · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 5

THE motion agreed to by the State Parliamentary Labor Party last Friday instructing the Premier, Mr. Long, to approach…

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Values Sustained at Sydney Wool Sales Despite Lower Levels in London

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 5

THOUGH wool values in London continue on the lower levels noticeable at the opening of sales there on January 20, the wool auctions in Sydney…

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Told to Grow Less Wheat Europe's New Appeal to Dominions LONDON

Daily Pictorial · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

A world conference on the wheat position is to be held at Rome on March 23, when a move, initiated by France, will be made to restrict…

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Wheat Price Problem Still Unsolved What the Bank Advance; Means; State Ministry to Apply for Local Loan

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3

From the welter of announcements, statements, and speeches made by representatives of Governments since late last week, nothing has emerged to indicate that the wheat-grower may definitely look for a substantial and immediate improvement in his marketing prospects. The Commonwealth Bank Board has offered to finance co-operative pools to a limit within, and varying with, f.o.b. market value of the wheat…

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The Problem of Improving World Wheat Prices. Australian Development Must Not Be Strangled by International Acreage Reduction

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

OVERSHADOWING all questions of government…

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Overseas Quotations for Wheat on January 27 (All quotations are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny.)

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 7

LONDON. —South Australian: The closing quote for January/February delivery was 2/8⅝ per bushel. West Australian: The closing quote for January cargoes was 2/8⅝ per bushel…

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Notes From a Countryman's Diary. Wheat Events of the Week—An Empty Treasury—Shelving the Blame—That Local Loan—The Simple Majority—Mr. Theodore Returns—Plain Talk to Mr. Scullin—Wheat and the Exchange Rate—A Budget That Cannot Be Balanced—7/6 a Bushel Little Progress

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

EVENTS in the wheat world have moved with confusing rapidity…

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A Farmer Condemns the Gold Standard

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

ADDRESSING woolgrowers at Kilmore. Vic., Mr. Edmund Jowett said the price of wool had fallen alarmingly and the price of every other commodity…

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Farmers Talk Direct Action

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

STRONG words marked disoussion at the large meeting of Can[?]indra district farmers hold last week to discuss the…

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Western Farmers Present Their Demands to Mr. Dunn

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3

A LARGE deputation of western district wheat-growers at Parkes last Saturday submitted to the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) and the…

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"Continue Farming, Advises Western Leader

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3

"SOME farmers have talked about striking, but I hope that there will be no more of that. The country needs all that can be…

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Junior Farmers Albury Poultry Project The Judge's Awards, with Comments

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 8

Mr. J. W. Webb, Supervising Teacher of Junior Farmers' Clubs in the southern district, reports on the progress of the young poultry-breeders of the…

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Farmers and Their Own Flour

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

IT is reported (writes a Burgooney farmer) that the banks have refused to allow farmers over whose crops they have liens to send their wheat to the nearest…

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Home-making a Co-operative Enterprise The Agricultural Bureau Helps the Farmer-Wife

The Land · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

"Efficiency in farming depends largely on education, on the ability of the farmer to make the best of the means at his disposal, on the economical distribution of money, time and labor, and, to no small extent, on how the woman on the farm carries out her work of running the…

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