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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1933

12,157 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 250

Victorian Farmers Return from New Zealand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 7

Interesting conclusions gathered during the recent tour of New Zealand agricultural areas were given by Mr. E. G. Ham, secretary of the Victorian farmers' delegation on the…

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Farmer Prince Gives Herds A Look Over LONDON

The Sun · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 5

The Prince of Wales, at the conclusion this afternoon of a tour of the Duchy of Cornwall, returned to Lon don in his private aeroplane. This…

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Horses Strong at Granville Dairy Cattle Also A Feature

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 3

Horses predominate at the annual show of the Granville and District Agricultural Society, which opened yesterday at the local showground…

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3/ a Bushel for Wheat. Western Australian Farmers' Request

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 11

PERTH. Friday.—The wheat executive of the Primary Producers' Association agreed yesterday to urge the Commonwealth Government to establish a guarantee of 3/ a bushel…

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Russia's Machine Madness Giant Wheat Farm a Costly Failure

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 6

"WHEAT market dull..." "Prices equivalent to 21 12 at country stations..." Mr. MAIR, M.L.A., before a…

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KAPOK v. WOOL

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 4

"Use More Wool!" The slogan has had quite a good run in Australia, and many right-thinking, patriotic and energetic mothers and wives, daughters and sisters, fondly imagining a vain thing, have plied the knitting needles to right a wrong that is too fundamental to…

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Wheat Conference. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 14

The Federal Government has issued invitations to wheat-growing interests and the principal grain merchants to attend a conference in Melbourne on March 2 to consider…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Fairly Quiet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 15

The city wheat market was fairly quiet yesterday opening with sellers of bulk wheat in parcels asking 2/10 Buyers were offering 2/9¾, and business was negotiated at this price…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 4

The State Marketing Bureau have supplied the following quotations and information:— London Values…

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Adelaide Wool Sales Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 6

The sixth series of wool sales concluded to-day under animated trading and exceptionally good clearances. Prices were on a parity with recent…

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Wool Sales. Albury. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 15

At the Albury wool sales yesterday, the Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Grain, Insurance, and Agency Co., Ltd., and Dalgety ond Company Limited, offered attractive catalogues, totalling about…

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Conference on Limit of Wheat Export Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 5

Invitations have been issued by the Commonwealth Government to wheat-growing interests and a number of wheat merchants to attend a…

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Wheat Sowings. No Indication of Reduction. Price Prospects

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 11

The Director of Agriculture (Mr. A. H. E. McDonald), referring yesterday to a recent report that it appeared to be a definite policy of farmers to reduce the wheat area this year,…

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On the Land the Wool Trade. Demand General. Values Practically Unchanged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 11

General competition was experienced at this week's Sydney wool auctions, and outstanding figures were secured for speciality lines, but values for the bulk of the catalogues…

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Larger Wool Cheque 7 Months' Sales Yield £8,894,274 Higher Averages

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 9

The value of wool sold in Sydney this season up to the end of January was £8,894,274, compared with a total of…

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Wheat Surplus Should Not Be Destroyed "Leave It to Law of Supply and Demand"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 8

"I DON'T think any attempt at artificial manipulation of the present excess wheat stocks would overcome our difficulties,"…

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Fine Cattle Shown at Granville Award of Prizes at Annual Show

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1933 · page 3

Although Granville is in a large manufacturing district,, yesterday's agricultural show attracted horses and cattle of outstanding quality…

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Rising Price of Wool Brings Hope How Values Fell Brighter Times Likely After Bad Years

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1933 · page 6

A WAVE of hope-- and not without cause-- has swept over the wool industry, which looks on the healthier tone of the market as an indication of prosperity returning to Australia "on the sheep's back."…

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Would Not Bid at Forced Sale Farmers Stick Together at Parkes

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1933 · page 20

PARKES, Saturday.--There was an unexpected development at a forced sale in the district this week. A number of prospective buyers…

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Bailiffs' Sales a Farce How U.S. Farmers Get Clean Slate Many Millions in Loans Washington

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1933 · page 5

The huge ramifications of the American Reconstruction Finance Corporation were explained today to Congress. when its…

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