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Farming & the land, 1934

12,588 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 250

Butter Gradings

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 10

DURING the week ended January 13 the Common-wealth graders examined for export 42,501 boxes of butter…

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Silos Crammed with Wheat As Ships Take Wool Away

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 9

THE gravity of the wheat congestion at the White Bay silos was illustrated yesterday by official figures…

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Penalising Australian Butter

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 7

WHEN the Ottawa Trade' Agreement was signed, eighteen months ago, Australian butter producers were given to understand that they would be granted a…

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Butter Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 15

During the week ended January 13 the Commonwealth graders examined at Sydney for export 42,501 boxes of butter, of which 37,355 were salted and 5146 unsalted. They…

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Wheat Hold-up Drastic Proposal By Farmers PERTH

The Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 18

Drastic proposals Will be considered at the conference of the Wheat-growers' Union of W.A., on February 13…

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Wool Shortage Acute

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 16

The lack of supplies of wool is evidently giving oversea consumers considerable concern, judging by the keen competition…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Firm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 15

The city wheat market was firm yesterday owing to the sharp advance on all overseas grain exchanges, and more optimistic tone of overnight cables. Local values advanced…

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Butter Factory Returns. More Records Established

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 11

CASINO, Tuesday.—Due to the best season experienced for many years, the Casino Dairy Society last year manufactured a record quantity of butter, the output being 2614 tons, or…

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Wool Sales. Market Unchanged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 15

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange. Bridge-street when the quantity catalogued totalled 12,584 bales, and the clearance, including private sales of…

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Wool Values Still Rising

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 39

With only about half a million bales of wool left for sale in Australia there would appear to be not the slightest danger of the market sagging before the end of the season; indeed, the prospect is for still higher values during the next two months, and a considerably higher average than £25 a bate all…

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Farmers' Wool Under Stay Orders. Withdrawal from Sale. Relief Board's Instruction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 13

The Farmers' Relief Board took speedy action yesterday, following the Supreme Court judgment on the rights of mortgagees under the Farmers' Relief…

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Inquiring Into the Wheat Industry

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 42

IT is apparent that the Federal Commission appointed to examine the disabilities of the wheat industry will have to cover an extraordinarily wide field in…

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Bulk Wheat. Silo Manager's Request

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 11

"Elevators that are not already full in the far south will be opened again to receive wheat on January 22," Mr. G. A. Holborow, manager of the Government grain elevators, stated…

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Sheep on the Clarence. a Successful Experiment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 11

GRAFTON, Tuesday.—Wool from the spring shearing of 4700 New South Wales wethers on Gordon Brook Station realised prices raining from /27 to /20¼ per lb. The 89 bales…

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Wool and Fat-Lamb Production

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 36

"Fat-lamb producers pay too little attention to wool production. The amount of inferior crossbred wools appearing in sale catalogues shows how breeding maxims are neglected."—"Classer." THE aim of the fat-lamb producer is to…

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Wool Statistics. Receipts and Disposals

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 1

THE National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia, has compiled the following statement in regard to the 1933-34 wool season, from July 1,…

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Infected Wool. Danger in Handling

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 18

A deputation representing the Australian Workers' Union and the Storemen and Packers'. Union informed the N.S.W. Minister for Health (Mr. Weaver) on…

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Assistance to Wheat Growers. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 14

[?] growers, arranged by the Wagga branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, made a protest against the proposed action of the Federal…

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Queensland Wheat. Exports Arranged for February

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 1

A PART from the reported export of 2,000 tons of Queensland wheat by a steamer sailing' from Brisbane on February 12, there will be an earlier…

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London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 13

The London wool sales opened strongly. Prices for merino wool advanced from 10 to 15 per cent., and prices for crossbred wool from 15 to 20 per cent…

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