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Farming & the land, 1937

10,755 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 250

Bulk Wheat Drops Another 1⅛d Bushel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 17

Responding to lower overseas quotations. silo wheat dropped another 1⅛d a bushel yesterday. No sales were reported, buyers being…

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Wool for Japan. Tokyo, Jan. 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 18

The newspaper "Yomiurl" says that, though the Wool Industry Control Association duly obtained the Ministry for Commerce and Industry's sanction to import 300,000 bales of…

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Fifty-fifty Letterettes in Fifty Words Great Butter "Scandal"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 6

Observant Australians will, I am sure, be delighted to learn from C.G.C.C. that one of our greatest scandals is the price (16) which we pay for…

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Single Jetting Race. Improved Design to Handle 1600 Sheep a Day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 14

Sheep may be treated with a minimum of knocking about, at a rate of 260 an hour in an Improved single sheep raised, jetting race constructed by the Department of…

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Oversea Market Cables. Bradford Wool Tops. London, Jan. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 19

The Bradford wool tops market is generally easier. Quotations: Merinos, seventies /39½ per lb (down /1½ on the week), sixty-fours /37½ (down /l½),…

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On the Land the Wool Trade. Market Slightly Irregular. Good Wools Firm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 14

The wool market has not shown a consistent level this week. Prices for super free spinners' wools of good length were particularly buoyant. Offerings of that type,…

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N.Z. WHEAT. May Have to Import 1,500,000 Bushels. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 14

It is expected that New Zealand's wheat yield this season will be little more than 30 bushels per acre. This will necessitate the importation of 1,500,000 bushels to meet…

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Farrer Scholarship. Awarded to Son of Trundle Farmer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 14

Kenneth J. Turner, of Garden Vale, Trundle, son of a well-known farmor and grazier, has won the Farrer Scholarship at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, and will…

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PRODUCE. Bacon and Duck Eggs Higher. DAIRY

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 19

Both special and ordinary bacon sides flitches and middles are being advanced this morning Special sides will be up /0½, special flitches /0¼ and middles /O½ per lb…

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COOKING Making Chutney from Summer Fruit Crops

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 20

CHUTNEYS are so very easily made and are so inexpensive that there is never any excuse for a shortage in the pantry. The sensible housewife will take full advantage of the summer fruit for the delightful adjunct to the dinner table…

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Germany Seeks Trade with Australia News of The World Cabled By Our Correspondents Anxious to Enter Into Treaty Wants Wool, Baiter, Hides And Other Products Official Tells "Sun" Berlin

The Sun · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 2

GERMANY'S desire to trade with Australia was emphasised to-day by Herr Rater, the head ol the Australian section of the Foreign Office. "We would welcome any arrangement that…

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Kennel Notes the Cattle Dog

Truth · Sunday 31 January 1937 · page 24

This dog is the most necessary adjunct to a drover's outfit, for the cattle dog controls the mob when travelling, and protects them at night. Necessary…

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In A Farmyard

The Sun · Sunday 31 January 1937 · page 2

Here is the cock that crows so loud, Here is the turkey, mighty and proud, Here is the hen with one little chick. And here are the ducks that swim so…

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Fruit Salad for Dairy Cows

The Sun · Sunday 31 January 1937 · page 5

A new outlet for surplus fruit has been found in Queensland, where, as a result of drought and extreme prices for fodder, something in the…

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Butter

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 3

On the London floor butter is more active. Danish is quoted 113/ per ewt; choicest salted Australian and New Zealand, 88/; and…

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Wheat

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 3

During the past week the local wheat market was quiet and easier. On Thursday parcel trade, February delivery, was reported at…

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Wool

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 3

Throughout last week's wool sales in Sydney the demand for all the best descriptions ruled very firm, and the price level was fully…

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Produce. the Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 11

Dalry production is steadily expanding in New South Wales but arrivals are still not equal to those of the corresponding week of last season reports Piescott Ltd under date…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Steady, But Quiet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 11

Though the Sydney wheat market was steady on Saturday, it was very quiet, and no business was reported. The steadiness was mainly duo to rises in the options, ascribed to…

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Recovery in Prices for Wheat

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 8

A NATURAL reaction in options on overseas markets, coupled with a better actual demand for wheat, caused on improvement on…

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