Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Farming & the land, all years

Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1933

12,157 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250

Pastoral Notes Traveleing Stock Rates

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 9

MOLONG P.P. Board has decided to cooperate with Uraria Board in urging that travelling stock rates be reduced from 7d to 4d per 100 sheep and from 9d to…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

WHEAT v. CLOTHES

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 3

THE chief instructor in agriculture, Mr. H. C. Stening, who judged the R.A.S. field wheat championship entries, will long remember the dense…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Rushing Wheat Away

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 5

THOUGH heavy crops of wheat are being harvested in the Victorian Mallee, stocks are not accumulating very fast at railway sidings, last season's experience of mice not…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

London Wool Letter

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 20

Mr. Walter P. Devereux, the official representative of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council in Europe, writes from London as follows:—…

Continued on Trove, page 20 →

Gold Among The Wheat

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 8

NUMEROUS. samples of gold-bearing stone from Weethalle, on the Barmedman-Rankin's Spring railway, have been received during the year for assay at the Laboratory of the Department of Mines, and most encouraging results have been…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Firmer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 11

The city wheat market was firmer yesterday, responding to the improvement overseas, where there was more inquiry. Buyers were offering 2/8½ freely for bulk and 2/8 for…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Notes from a Countryman's Diary Is the Alsatian Worse Than Other Dogs?—Many Dogs are Sheep-killers—Our Invisible Friends, the Vitamins — Crops Were Sheep-killing Dogs

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 3

ALTHOUGH one of the New South Wales shires has declared Alsatian dogs noxious animals, which will no longer be permitted within its…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

South African Wool Position

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 20

According to the U.S.A. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the 1932 wool clip of the Union of South Africa is provisionally estimated at 301,000,000…

Continued on Trove, page 20 →

Sheep Experts New Departmental Instructors Appointed

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 14

Two new district instructors have been appointed to the field staff of the sheep and wool branch of the Department of Agriculture…

Continued on Trove, page 14 →

Wheat Market Steady Firmer Undertone

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 21

WEDNESDAY.—The overseas wheat markets still have a holiday tendency, although the undertone is decidcdly firmer, with no pressure to sell. Buyers, on the other hand,…

Continued on Trove, page 21 →

Field Peas Substitute for Fallow Successful Wheat Crops Follow Peas in Victorian Mallee

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 15

EXPERIMENTS carried out near Adelaide have proved that a wheat crop following peas gives as heavy a yield as wheat grown on…

Continued on Trove, page 15 →

London Butter Prices. Speculators Hold Big Supplies

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 14

Butter prices are not expected to improve on the London market for several weeks. It is stated that available stocks of Australian butter have…

Continued on Trove, page 14 →

Wood Taint. Possibility of Prevention in Butter

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 9

A report received by the forest products division of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research indicates that it is quite possible to…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

America's Wool Imports Washington

The Sun · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 10

The Department of Agriculture estimates that this year's wool imports will be the lowest for 50 years…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Wool Brokers' Reports Future Hopeful

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 20

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—The New Year has been ushered in under more favorable prospects for improving markets than have been experienced at the period for…

Continued on Trove, page 20 →

Wool Problems Conference to Consider Recommendations

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 3

Wool-growers, buyers, brokers, and shipping interests will be represented at a conference, opening in Sydney on Monday, which will consider the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Wool Conference. Opens in Parliament House

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 8

Owing to alterations which are being carried out at the Commonwealth offices in the Commonwealth Bank, it was decided yesterday not to hold the Commonwealth Wool Conference…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

To Sell Wheat Grain Trade Expert In Business

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 5

Long experience and intimate knowledge of the grain trade are placed at the disposal of wheatgrowers who sell through the Grain…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Wheat Lands Are Swept by Fire Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 7

FIRE which swept the Wangaratta district to-day destroyed hundreds of areas of wheat and grass. It extended for three miles…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Still Pouring In Pressure on Wheat Silos Continues

The Land · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 5

ALTHOUGH wheat deliveries have slackened off in some of the earlier districts, wheat is still pouring into the great majority of the silos faster…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →