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Farming & the land, 1934

12,588 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 250

Mosel at Antwerp. Discharging Wool and General Cargo

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 4

Gilchrist, Watt & Sanderson, Ltd, have been advised by cable that the N.D.L steamer Mosel arrived at Antwerp on Jan. 15 with wool and…

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LET'S Un-FARM THE Un-CROPS!

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 5

AN old fellow of our acquaintance who has done nothing but grow things all his life, says of the new…

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Wheat Industry. Royal Commission. Inquiry in Queensland. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 19

Mr. J. D. Ross, senior inspector of accounts in the audit office, has been appointed a Royal Commissioner to inquire into the wheat and flour industries of Queensland…

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Overseas Market Cables. Bradford Wool Tops. London, Jan. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 17

In the Bradford wool market fine tops are steady at a slightly lower level Crossbreds have a hirdening tendency. Quotations: Seventies /43½ (down /0½ on…

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On the Land the Wool Trade. Values Slightly Easier. General Demand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 13

The rising movement in wool values experienced since the New Year in Sydney received a check this week On Monday prices for the best merino fleece wools showed a trend…

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Wool Prosperity Reacts on Dummy and His Family Unscrupulous Retailers Already Raising Price Of Clothes Thirty Per Cent. Increases to Operate All Round

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 6

EIGHTY thousand people in Australia have acquired a sum of £19,000,000, in addition to their normal income from wool growing, as a result of the high prices received for wool for the 1933-34 clip. This is the estimate of Edmund Jowett, noted pastoralist. The circulation of this…

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Dairying Industry. Comments at Albion Park Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 13

At the Albion Park show yesterday, reference was made to a disturbing decrease in butter quality in New South Wales, and support was offered for the Metropolitan Milk…

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Assistance for Farmers. Work of Rural Reliefs, Limited

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 13

The purpose of Rural Reliefs, Limited, which is about to commence its fourth year of operation, is to help wheatgrowers, small graziers, and dairy farmers who find themselves unable…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 17

A generally firm tone was the main feature of business among dairy houses in the city yesterday and the warm weather with indications for a fine week-end, assisted the…

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Farm Training. Deewhy Experiment. Expansion Likely

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 16

Members of the State Cabinet are watching with interest developments at St. Matthew's Training Farm, Deewhy, where unemployed youths are being instructed in the rudiments…

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A.J.C. Keeping Abreast of Modern Times Innovations At Warwick Farm Are Having Beneficial Effect Acceptance Fees Likely to Be Reduced in Near Future

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 8

THE Australian Jockey Club keeps abreast of modern times. An energetic secretary and committee have brought into being many innovations at Randwick and Warwick Farm. The new schemes are all for the benefit of owners, trainers, and the public, and though some…

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The Ten Commandments for Farmers!

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 12

INCENSED by the methods employed by go-getting share salesmen, one of the victims has written to "Smith's" asking that the following "don'ts" should be published for the protection of other "cockies" who may be influenced to put money into new companies on the glib promises of high returns. This advice is published as it was received…

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Bushfires Rage at Bathurst Farmers Apprehensive Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 1

Bushfires are raging in the scrub country in the Vittoria district, but so far they are confined to a comparatively small area…

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Dairy Men in Conference Equalisation of Prices

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 7

During the past three days, representatives of the dairy industry from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia…

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Theo Colt of Class Improved by Run at Farm Constantine

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 1

UNLESS there is a galloper of more than ordinary worth among the several candidates who will be racing for the first time, the…

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£30,000 Farm For Only 5s A Week Horses Run on Grave of Public Money Darwin

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 1

The £30,000 Government demonstration farm at Batchelor, the costliest venture of the Commonwealth in…

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Vocational Training Farm For Youths

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 38

ST. MATTHEW'S Training Farm, in South Creek-road, Dee Why, for Unemployed Youths, which has been In existence for the past twelve…

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Wool

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 3

During the past week at Sydney auctions, prices eased slightly as regards best merino wools, but for skirtings, crossbreds and comebacks,…

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Produce. the Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 11

Should the present very hot weather spread generally to dairying centres, butter output will be affected, but in the meantime supplies are being well maintained, reports Prescott,…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Quieter Feeling

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 11

A quieter feeling was evident in the city wheat market on Saturday Buying limits for bagged and bulk wheat remained at 2/8½, but little was offering. Shippers' prices for…

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