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Farming & the land, 1932

10,570 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 250

On the Land the Wool Trade. Values Maintained. Continental Activity

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 11

Buying ordere have been plentiful at this week's Sydney wool sales from practically all consuming countries. As a result very firm values have been recorded, prices for skirtings…

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F.A.Q. WHEAT This Season's Standard Fixed at 61½-lb

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 10

The f.a.q. standard for this season N.S.W. wheat has been fixed at 61½-lb. to the Imperial bushel. SAMPLES drawn from all parts of the…

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Macaroni Wheat a Fresh Enterprise for N.S.W. Cereal Growers

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 3

AS the result of investigations made during his recent visit to the United States of America as Farrer Research Scholar, Mr. S. L. Macindoe, assistant…

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Herd Yields N.S.W. Should Average 200 lb. of Butter-fat a Cow

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 7

The N.S.W. Director of Dairying (Mr. L. T. Macinnes) is concerned about the publicity that is given from time to time to the high yields of dairy herds in other…

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London Wool Sales N.Z. Crossbreds Clear Well LONDON, January 29

The Sun · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 2

Catalogues at to-day's wool sales totalled 10.631 bales, including 832 New South Wales, 542 Queensland, 135 Victorian. 701 Western Australian, 220 South Australian…

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Where Woman Is Supreme Hints That Help in Making Attractive Dishes for the Table Creaming Butter

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 12

Next time that your want to cream butter and sugar for a cake and you find the butter too hard, try this way out. Pour some boiling water into the mixing bowl, and leave it there…

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Wheat Yield Riverina Averaged 10.6-bush, an Acre in the Last Five Years

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 11

"Rabawa" asks what was the average wheat yield for the Riverina over the last five seasons, as recorded by the Department of Agriculture…

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Labor's Great Advance in East Sydney Beasley Is in Fine Form Bread-and-butter Fight Only Issue

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 6

THROUGHOUT his speech at Five Ways last night, Mr. J. Bensley, the indefatigable leader of the Labor forces in the Federal…

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The Wheat Quota Definitely Favored by Great Britain in Lieu of Preference Limiting Imports of Foreign Grain

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 10

A cablegram from London last week stated that although Canada is understood to have pressed for preference duties on Dominion wheat, Great Britain…

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Ship Afire Races to Harbor Wool Blaze in Hold All-night Job Wellington (N.z.), Fri

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 1

From 10 o'clock city fire brigade men fought all last night to subdue, a blaze that started among bales of wool in the…

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Cheap Food An Essential in Successful Duck Farming

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 6

The importance of a cheap source of food in commercial duck-raising is emphasised by the N.S.W. poultry expert (Mr. E. Hadlington)…

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What's new in Dairying

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 7

NORCO'S new factory at Murwillumbah, which is intended to handle the output of the present Norco factory, and the former Treed River Co-op. Co.'s…

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Dairying Boom Six Thousand More Cows on the Northern Tablelands

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 7

In few paris of the State has dairying made such rapid development during the past year as on the Northern Tablelands, where about…

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Cream Cans Rust Menaces Quality of Dairy Products

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 7

DAIRY farmers should realise that old rusty, broken or dented cans may cause a large percentage of the objectionable taints that occur in cream or milk…

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Illawarra's Best Grand Collection of Dairy Shorthorns at the Kiama Show Marked Improvement in Young Stock

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 7

The best collection of Australian Illawarra Shorthorn cattle ever seen on an Australian showground was paraded at Kiama on Tuesday…

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Pigs Must be Healthy to be Profitable Disease Prevention The First Call on the Pig Farmer

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 6

Diverse opinions may be held by pig-raisers on most subjects relating to swine husbandry: on the choice of breeds, breeding, management and…

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"Dry" Management Should Storekeeper be on Factory Boards? To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 7

I read with pleasure a letter from Mr. Donaldson in last week's "Farmer and Settler." I think that he deals with our troubles here by saying that "dry"…

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The Way to Progress To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 2

The letter from Mr. B. J. Stocks in your issue of Saturday last (23rd Jan.), gave me great satisfaction, as it put in plain language the views that I have for…

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What Australia Needs To the Editor "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 2

We need not pattern ourselves on Russian lines. What we require is level-headed statesmanship that will cut out all white elephant schemes and reduce…

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Political Reform To the Editor "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 2

The problem that is undoubtedly more or less in the minds of every thinking person in the State is "How to rid ourselves of the Tyrant that rules the State…

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