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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

8,508 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 250

Dairy Produce Classes for Royal Show

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 5

A COMPLETE re-arrangement has been made in the butter division of the dairy produce section for the Sydney Royal Show. Classes are set out in the…

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Show Season Opens Initial South Coast Exhibition Attracted Good Dairy Stock Four Breeds Judged at Dapto

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 4

DAPTO show, first of the South Coast exhibitions for 1939, attracted entries of some splendid dairy stock. Condition of the animals showed no indications of the dry spell that the district has experienced…

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Efficient Plant a Farm Necessity Nowadays

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 10

ONCE more the harvest just past has demonstrated that the properly equipped farmer is the one who gains the greatest yield per acre. Now is the…

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The New Australian (Official Information for Migrants of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society and the Migrants' Consultative Committee Enquiries on matters arising from this column should be addressed to W. S. Matsdorff 'Maccabean Hall, Darlinghurst Former Merchant Now Farmer

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 3

A former merchant of Vienna who is now working on the Government Training Farm at Bathurst, sends the following report for the "Hebrew Standard"…

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Fred Henneberry To Meet Red Farmer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 15

Mr. B. Bear, on behalf of Olympia Sports, Ltd., despatched a wireless message to Red Farmer, the American middleweight, who arrives by the Mariposa on Monday, asking if…

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Wounded by Shots at Midnight Farm Youth's Ordeal MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 1

How he was first shot in the wrist and some time later was shot in the jaw while on a cycle ride on the Bacchus Marsh road, at midnight, was told in the Bacchus Marsh Court to-day by Arthur Critchley Edwards, 15, of…

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£20,000 Grant Sought Poultry Farmers' Ordeal Property Lost Deputation To Minister

The Sun · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 2

A deputation from the poultry farming interests today asked the Minister for Social Services (Mr…

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F. Henneberry to Meet Farmer

Daily News · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 10

Fred Henneberry yesterday agreed to meet Red Farmer at the Sports Arena on Tuesday, February 14. Farmer arrives in Sydney on Monday by the Mariposa. In a…

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Govt. To Buy Out Farmers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 2

The State Cabinet yesterday approved of legislation to reconstruct debt-burdened wheat areas in the south-west…

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Visit to Red Gross Farm

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 14

Lady Wakehurst, who is president of the New South Wales Division of the Australian Red Cross Society, will pay an informal visit to the Red Cross Farm…

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Stock and Property Market Sheep and Cattle to Come Sheep and Cattle

The Land · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 25

Forbes: Edward Weaver and Co., and F. & G. Co-op. Co., C.W. and P. Co. Ltd. and W. K. Garnsey, Senr., Pty. Ltd., fortnightly, on Tuesday…

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Wheat

The Land · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 23

The wheat market oversells was fractionally easier onrlv in the week, the tone of (lie market be dull and featureless. The recent rains ensed the position in U.S.A., Although…

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Dairy Cattle Parade at 82nd Dapto Show

The Land · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 9

A section of the parade of prize-winning Jerseys at the 82nd annual Dapto Shoiv. In the lead is the champion Jersey cow, "The Meadows Raebeam," exhibited by Thco Grey. G. E. Chit tick's (Gerringong) champion A.I.S. crey, "Honey 4th of Alncbanlt," which also won J. AT…

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Wheat Leader Suggests "No Cropping" Policy

The Land · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 5

PROPOSAL for the organisation of a "no-cropping" policy on an Australian-wide basis, cither for the coming season or for the ensuing one,…

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Good Dairy Cattle Show at Dapto Despite Season

The Land · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 10

MR; W. M. HUGHES, Minister for External Affairs, officially opened the 82nd Show of the Dapto A. and H. Society, held last week, in a season unfavorable to dairy farmers on the South Coast…

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London Wool Sales

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 3

At the continuation of the London wool sales on Wednesday, 8352 bales were submitted, including 1268 from New South Wales, 2240 from…

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London Wool Sales

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 4

The 1939 series of wool auctions in London opened on January 17. Following on the resumption of the Australian sales the course of the market in London had been watched with some interest and…

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peiroi "Dope" from Wheat

The Land · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 5

AT the recent London meeting of the International Wheat Advisory Committee it was stated on behalf of Poland that she had…

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Another Wheat Parley in Canada

The Land · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 25

The Premier of Manitoba (Mr. John Bracken), who called an International wheat conference which met in Canada last December, has now…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 3

The State Marketing Bureau (Department of Agriculture) advises as follows regarding local and overseas wheat values and sales:— Values elsewhere than in Sydney are expressed in English currency…

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