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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1933

12,157 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 250

10/- a Head Value of Sheep for Income Tax Purposes

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 14

"Taxpayer" asks whether he did right in filling in his income tax return and including the value of his sheep at 10/- a head, as he did in the good years, when sheep prices…

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New Wool Record French Buyer Pays 26½d

The Sun · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 16

The season's record price for wool in New South Wales, made on Tuesday, was broken this afternoon when a French buyer paid 26½d. a lb. for…

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Land for Farmers Dairying and Mixed Farming Areas in Queensland

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 3

About 7400-acres of rich country for dairying and mixed farming, near Mackay (Q), is to be opened up for settlement in April…

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Good Pastures is Dairy Farmers' Cheapest and Best Feed Paspalum Supreme a Practical Farmer Describes His Experiences with this Prolific Grass' Must Be Given Proper Treatment

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 5

Paspalum is still one of our best grasses—if handled property. This is the opinion of Mr. E. Morton Trotter, of Clover Hills, Beechwood…

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No Crops New Zealand Dairymen Rely on Pasture Management

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 4

GRASS holds a higher place in New Zealand dairying practice than is the case on most dairy farms in New South Wales. This fact impressed Mr…

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Farmers Disappointed Dairy Promotion Board has not Made a Single Grant Yet Government Likely to Take Action

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 4

The "Farmer and Settler" has it on good authority that the Dairy Promotion Board, although in existence more than a month, has not yet…

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Pastoral Workers Claim for £9 a Week of Thirty Hours in Five Days

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 6

A minimum wage of £9 a week, with keep, for shearers, and a thirty-hour week, worked in five days, are two of the main clauses in the new…

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Reserved Decision in Butter Case Sum of £772 Said to Be Involved

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 10

Mr. Stevenson, S.M., reserved his decision until this morning at the conclusion of evidence yesterday at Central Court in a charge against…

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Commercial. Causes of Dearer Wool-varying Supplies and Demand

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 28

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—The feeling that better trading days are ahead has been partially responsible for the strengthening in…

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London Wool Sales Finer Growths at Firm Rates LONDON, February 1

The Sun · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 6

Catalogues at to-day's wool sales totalled 9646 bales, including 1238 New South Wales, 1115 Queensland, 854 Victorian, 733 South Australian 99, Western Australian and…

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F.A.Q. WHEAT Argument over What is the Weight of a Bushel

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 14

"Waratah" says that A and B have had an argument about the weight of a bushel of wheat. A contending that it is fixed at 60-1b., and B contending that the weight is fixed each…

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New Varieties of Wheat Dundee and Baringa a Triumph of the Plant Breeder's Art

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 10

THE [?] branch of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture has been endeavoring its many years it [?] of wheat that would yield…

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F.A.Q. WHEAT N.S.W. Standard Fixed at 61[?]1b. a Bushel

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 10

The f.s.q. standard for this season's New South Wales wheat was fixed this week by the grain trade sectional committee of the Sydney…

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Butter Market at Mercy of Speculators and Jugglers Mysterious Price Tumble Denmark Puts up Mighty Struggle to Retain Her Supremacy Australia and Her Marketing Policy

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 4

What's wrong with the butter market? The question is on the lips of all dairy [?], but nobody not even market specialists, seems able to give a satisfactory reply. Men who have closely studied the position any there is no justifiable reason why London prices should be 21/- and local prices 14/3 per cwt. below what they were twelve months ago. This suggests that London…

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Up, De Valera! Embattled Farmers Fade Out

The Catholic Press · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 20

An oft-quoted remark by the old historian, Herodotus, was that "there's always something new from Africa." The historian of our own times can with equal…

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Unfair Road Resumption Men's Farms Ruined by Shire Councils No Compensation Paid and No Redress

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 1

WHILE it is not possible for our legislators to frame laws that will operate equitably in the case of every person affected by them, it is…

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Tractors on the Farm Tool Making at Home—i

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 13

THERE are two advantages in making tools in the home garage. These are their cheapness and the practice it affords of working in different kinds of metal…

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Hours Poultrymen Work Labor Problems Shrewd Advice on Getting the Best from Farm Employees Modern Methods Mean More Work

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 8

What wages should a poultry farmer pay? This complex question is shrewdly answered by Sir Edward Brown, English poultry authority…

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The Junior Farmers' Page Juniors' Letters to Benby

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 14

HENBY wants his young friends to write and tell him about themselves—about their ambitions, hopes, [?], and play—whether on the farm at school, or to holiday hours in the paddock, on the river, or at the seaside. Benby will puli[?] any letters that he c[?] are worth printing. Don't [?] write whenever you have anything to say, and you will give Benby pleasure. All letters used will be paid for. "Back to Orange" Carnival JACK REID (Forest Reefs, via Millthorpe) The "Black to Orange" carnival was started on Boxing Day and continued until 2nd…

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Information and Help Uncle Wiseman Answers Questions Whitewash on the Farm Keep Buildings Clean and so Prevent' Infection

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 14

COMMON sources of contamination of dairy produce on the farm are dusty and mouldy walls and ceilings in milking-sheds and dairy-houses. Infection…

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