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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1933

12,157 stories in Sydney's papers · page 80 of 250

Wheat Wool Dairying

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 36

THE steady advance and increasing popularity of the Jersey breed as producers, is indicated in the registrations embraced in Volume 19 of the…

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Brisbane Stock Lower Prices for Sheep and Cattle

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 7

A penning of 505 pigs was offered at Brisbane stock markets on Wednesday. They were made up principally of good quality porkers, backlatters, and stores…

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Late News Cattle and Sheep Perish in Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Wednesday,--Fifty cattle, several hundreds of sheep, and thousands of acres of grass were destroyed by a bushfire…

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Cream Prices Dairying Still More Profitable than Wheat or Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 10

A FURTHER fall in cream prices was forecast by the Director of Dairying at the Southern District Agricultural Bureau conference in Harden on…

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Bush Fires Sheep and Cattle Perish in South Australia

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 3

SOME of the worst bush fires this season occurred in all the States during the past few days. In New South Wales, scarcely a district has escaped, thousands…

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Melbourne Sales Oversupply of Sheep and Lambs, and Cattle Cheaper

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 7

The Melbourne live stock markets were fully supplied on Tuesday, with 30,000 fat sheep and 26,000 fat lambs. WITH a cessation of export operations…

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Wheat Market

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 7

Not much business was pasting on the Sydney wheat market this week and although there were a number of sellers, buyers were hard to locate, For bulk…

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Wheat Cargoes

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The manager of the Victorian Wheatgrowers' Corporation, Mr. Judd, said to-day that tests had convinced him…

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Local Wheat Market

The Sun · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 4

Buyers pieced several orders for silo wheat in the local market to-day, but vendors were herd to locete, end prices were nominal. Bagged lots were quoted at 2s 9d…

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Pastoral Difficulties. Illusion of Export Control

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 11

What difficulties of the pastoral industry had resulted in were set forth by Mr. W. D. Gibbs, the chairman of the Australian Pastoral Company, Ltd., at the annual meeting of…

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Grass Is the Dairy Farmer's Best Crop

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 1

Cutting a Paddock of Paspalum for Hay on Messrs. East Bros, dairy farm, at Jamberoo…

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Trap for Empire Dairymen? Cattle Diseases Vaccination for Mammitis and Abortion

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 5

IN a warning Issued to dairymen of the central west and the Riverina with regard to contagious mammitis and contagious abortion, Mr. Max Henry, chief…

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Commercial. Wool Report

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 30

During this week in Sydney, prices have been distinctly weaker, although superfine wools have probably not shown, any change. It is doubtful if the market…

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W.a. Wheat Standard

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 1

PERTH, Wednesday.--F.A.Q. standard of West Australian wheat for the 1932-33 harvest was to-day fixed at 62lb. to the imperial bushel. Last…

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Produce. Butter Reduced /1 Per Lb

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 11

A reduction of /1 per lb in the price of butter has been announced by the Butter Stabilisation Committee and will operate from the commencement of business to-day. The…

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Beef Cattle World and Meat Markets

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 6

AT Homebush to-duy (Thursday), vealers and prime young cattle were firm, but all other classes were cheaper. The supply was heavy…

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Plausible Scheme Restriction of Butter Exports would Help Danish Dairymen What of the Ottawa Agreement?

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 5

Because of the low price of butter, Great Britain has sent an urgent appeal to Australia and New Zealand, suggesting that, for the time being, some restriction be placed on butter exports. It is doubtful whether this appeal will be headed, because it seems as if the Dominions are being…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 5

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

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Experimentalists' 140 Varieties of Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 12

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Steady, But Quieter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 11

The city wheat market was steady yesterday owing to the scarcity of sellers, but conditions were quieter. For bulk parcels buyers generally were nominally 2/9, and for bagged about…

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