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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

10,465 stories in Sydney's papers · page 75 of 250

CRISIS U. S. Farm Board Showdown Washington

The Sun · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 1

The affairs of the United Stales farm board are rapidly approaching a crisis. It is expected that the last £20,000,000…

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Country News in Cars Farmers Get Dole

The Sun · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 13

DENILIQUIN, Tuesday.--The plight of a number of farmers in this district is appalling, and when it became known that the dole could…

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Sixteen Wounds on Farmer's Body Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 1

DETECTIVES are investigating an attack on Ernest Leslie Harton, former, at Yarram, Gippsland who this…

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Sixteen Wounds on Head of Farmer

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday,--Detectives left for Gippsland to-night to investigate an attack on Arthur Leslie Horton, farmer, of Alberton, who…

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Farmer Lost £4000 in Four Years Now Applies for the Dole

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 13

A Barellan farmer who has lost money on his farming operations at the rate of £1000 a year for the past four years, due to drought and…

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Virus Diseases Spoil Potato Crops. Western Competition Plots Lose Many Points

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 13

The preliminary judging of the Millthorpe and Orange district potato crop. competitions was completed last week by Mr. A. J. Pinn, of the…

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Helping the Wheat Farmer

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 40

The Federal Government has at last brought forward a scheme to take the place of the unworkable Wheat Advances Act. Provided a loan of £6,000,000 can be raised, that sum will be devoted to paying a bounty on export wheat and assisting growers in necessitous…

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Wheat Chartering

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 9

The Norwegian motor ship Ferncliff which left Aarhus on December 16 and Hamburg on December 24 for Australia, has been fixed to load 6700 tons…

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Wheat Proposals

The Sun · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 4

COWRA, Wednesday.--At the annual meeting of the local branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association, resolutions were passed in favor…

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The Sheep Lick Controversy

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 42

A good deal of correspondence has been received in connection with the subject of sheep licks, on which some pointed comment was made in the "Mail" last month. The Writer of this letter suggests a thorough investigation of the whole subject…

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The Wool Outlook

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 11

WITH so much talk of depression, and the consequent gloom engendered by it so strongly in evidence, it is good to note that the outlook for our most…

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Farmers Put Up the Slip-rails No Assistance--No Wheat

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 14

Farmers in the Binnaway district are putting up the slip-rails, said a prominent member of the Farmers and Settlers' executive…

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Wheat Fixtures. Fernlane Chartered

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 4

The British steamer Baron Fairlie has been fixed to load 8200 tons of Wheat at South Australia for tho Mediterranean, United Kingdom or…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Disturbed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 15

The wheat market was upset again yesterday owing to the indefinite character of the statement reported to have been made by the Minister for Markets at Canberra, to the…

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Silo Wheat. Growers' Liabilities

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 11

Farmers who refused 5/ a bushel for their wheat in 1029 must find dismal reading in the wheat market reports. Their chagrin can only increase when they remember that…

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Low Cost of Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 15

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., reports:—The Sydney wool sales during January averaged /7[?] per lb, As a result of the exchange position, every £100 lodged abrood for transfer to Australia has meant…

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Wheat Stackers' &c. (State) Award

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 8

The following are the rates and conditions governing wheat stacking in New South Wales: Definitions…

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Wool Sales. Full Clearances Effected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 15

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the niiLtltv catalogued totalled 10,597 bales, and Seizes, including private transactions,…

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Fixed for Wheat. Sailers Coming From Africa

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 11

The well-known Finnish barque Winterhude, 1709 tons register, has been charted to load a cargo of wheat at a South Australian port for Callao,…

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Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Feb. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 15

Chicago wheat options to-day closed:— March, 79[?] cents per bushel (unchanged); May, 83½ cents (up ¼ cent); July, 69? cents (up 1[?] cent); September, 69[?] cents (up 2[?]…

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