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Farming & the land, 1934

12,588 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 250

Wheat Market Business Slumps After the Mid-weak Activity

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 6

After the spasm of business on Tuesday the Sydney wheat market quietened, and apart from a few small sales at 2/8 to 5/81, little business was done. Local…

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Good Time Ahead Pastorlists Urged to Grow More Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 8

"Grow more wool" is the advice tendered to Australian wool-growers by Mr. Barry Dawson, principal of H. Dawson, Sons, and Co., wool brokers. The…

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Go Ahead If No Mortgage On Wool Legal Rights

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 21

THE Farmers' Relief Board has instructed brokers to proceed with the sale of wool marketed on behalf of the…

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Ford Wheat An Analysis of Its Baking Qualities as Flour

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 12

AN analysis of the baking qualities of Ford wheat, which, by reason of its rise to popularity in the north-west, is commanding attention indicates that…

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Uncle Wiseman Sheep Competitions His Excellency, the Governor, to Present the Cups

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 2

HIS Excellency the Governor, Sir Philip Game, G.D.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has kindly consented to present the prizes won by various flock-owners in the recent Uncle Wiseman sheep competitions…

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Butter Stabilisation New Scheme Expected to Come into Operation on 1st March Next

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 11

During a conference lasting from Monday until Wednesday, interstate representatives of the dairy industry drafted the necessary regulations for…

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Leading Selling Firm F. and G.'s Performance in the Homebush Sheep Section

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 5

For ten years in succession the Farmers and Graziers' Co-op, Grain, Insurance and Agency Co., Ltd., Sydney, has sold the greatest number of sheep at…

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£50,000 Ram Scheme Deciding Between Fat-lamb Breeding and Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 8

SINCE last week a further big batch of requests have come to hand for application forms in connection with the £50,000 ram scheme. These have been…

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Clearance at 9 A.M. To-day Tons of Butter at 10½d Per Lb

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 9

This morning at 9 o'clock Bon Marche, Ltd., at the corner of Harris Street and Broadway, begin the greatest clearance sale in the history…

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Q'land to Probe Wheat Will' Not Encroach on Federal Inquiry Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 7

The State Government decided to-day to institute an inquiry into all aspects of the wheat situation in Queensland. The Inquiry, which will…

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£15,000,000 Wool Cheque Season Expected to Bring £22,000,0000

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 8

The Sydney wool cheque for the current season exceeds £15,000,000, and before the wool year ends at least another 300,000 bales will be…

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Britain's Butter Should Denmark be Given a Monopoly of the Market? English Visitor Taken to Task

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 10

DENMARK'S production is declining, and, in any case, the production of Denmark and England combined would meet only one-third of Great Britain's…

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Wool to Be Put Up for Sale Brokers Ordered To Withhold Proceeds Relief Board

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 8

ADVICE was received by brokers operating at the Sydney Wool Sales yesterday, to go ahead with the auction of clips…

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Decline in Values of Fine Wool Top-Making Lines Also Fell In Price Keen Buying

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 12

There was keen and widespread competition, principally from Japan, Bradford and Germany, at yesterday's wool auctions…

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The Wheat Position Grain Piling up in Local Elevators as Export Figures Decline Payment of Government Bounty

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 12

ONE faint gleam of hope lightened the gloomy outlook of the wheatgrowers during the week. It was a statement published in a London newspaper and…

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Handling the Wheat The Part Played by Steel in the Construction of New Silos More Work for Australians

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 14

MR. RUDYARD KIPLING, in his robust way, declared that East and West would never meet. Perhaps he was light, so far as he went, but no man…

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Fifty Per Cent. Advance Wool Realisations this Season may Reach £60,000,000 a Million Bales Still Unsold

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 6

Wool realisations throughout Australia for the first half of the current selling season—to the end of December —amounted to about £31,000,000…

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Hunter River Farms Opportunity to Acquire Rich Land at Singleton

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 3

THE last of the remaining river frontage farms on the famous Hunter River have been made available for purchase by auction from the estate of…

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Letters to the Editor Comments Criticism & Hints by Readers Land Valuations To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 3

I HEAD with interest your article on land valuation in your issue of the 4th Inst., and although agreeing in the main with the article, there is one…

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A Fair Question Menace of Non-Commercial Fruit Trees on Farms

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 12

A PERTINENT question was put before the delegates to the recent North Coast Agricultural Bureau conference at Taree, when a delegate drew attention to…

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