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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

8,508 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 250

January Rains Improved Prospects for Dairying in Coastal Areas, but Inland Position is Serious

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 4

PRODUCTION of butter, which was showing a serious decline in December, had begun to increase after the recent rains, stated senior dairy instructors for coastal districts in their reports for January…

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Dairy Products Quotas

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 4

THE Minister for Agriculture, on the recommendation of the N.S.W. Dairy Products Board, has decided upon the following quotas:—Butter, 43 per cent.:…

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ADVANCES To Assist Poultry Farmers Four Per Cent. Interest

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 9

ARRANGEMENTS have been made by the Rural Bank to provide assistance through its Rural Industries Agency to poultry farmers,…

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Sussex Farm Prominent at Granville Show

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 9

MESSRS. C. A. Clark and Son, of Sussex poultry farm, Baulkham Hills, were successful exhibitors at Granville show on Saturday and Monday…

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Record Dairy Cheque

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 5

QUEENSLAND'S dairy cheque for the first half of the 1938-39 season is estimated at £4,500,000—a record return for…

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George Farmer's Capital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 8

The Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Mann, in the Practice Court, in Melbourne yesterday confirmed the reduction of capital of George Farmer, Ltd., from £200,000 to £100,000…

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Junior Farmer's Success. Scholarship at Hawkesbury College

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 7

The Junior Farmers' Club Council of New South Wales announced yesterday that the Rural Bank's scholarship, tenable at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, for the best essay…

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Sutherland Bush Fires. Helping the Poultry Farmer

The Propeller · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 8

Following a deputation to the Minister for Social Services, asking that relief be given to Sutherland poultry farmers who were burnt out in the…

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Stud Sheep and Cattle Imported

The Land · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 19

THE Shaw, Savill, and Albion steamer, Pakeha, which reached Sydney this week, brought a number of stud cattle and two stud rams to…

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World Butter Trade May Go the Way of Wheat

The Land · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 8

SPEAKING at a dairying convention in Canada. Mr. W. G. Tovell, secretory of the Manitoba Co-operative Dairies, said…

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Stock Sales at Flemington. Good Sheep in Demand. Cattle Market Firm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 9

Opening sales of sheep and lambs at the Flemington saleyards yesterday showed good wethers to be dearer than at last Thursday's depressed market…

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Stud Sheep Sales

The Land · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 24

For the purpose of providing greater facilities for the conduct of the annual stud sheep sales, which are now conducted on the Sydney…

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Want Sheep Tax

Daily News · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 6

Contending that there was nothing at present to prevent inferior and unregistered stud sheep coming into Australia and New Zealand, the New South Wales…

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Increase In Butter Exports

The Land · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 8

The export of butter from Australia for the five months of the current season ended November, 1938, totalled 781,900 cwt., compared with…

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Butter Substitutes. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 7

Rosebank branch of the Primary Producers' Union decided to urge all branches of the union to continue the agitation against the manufacture and sale of butter substitutes…

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Wheat Men's Rep

Daily News · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 5

Cabinet yesterday approved the appointment of Major J. C. Chanter to act with the investigating officers, Messrs. Stewart and Judd, as settlers' representative in…

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Wheat Trade. Market Idle. Last of Old Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 8

The Sydney wheat market was a shade firmer yesterday, but trade was almost at a standstill. Five tenders were accepted for the…

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Silo Wheat Tenders

The Sun · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 7

Five firms have successfully tendered for portions of the 125,000 bushels of old wheat which still remains in the terminal elevators. In…

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Future of Wool

The Land · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 6

INCREASED demand and rising values for wool would automatically follow an extension of freedom of trade among the…

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London Wool Sales

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 4

At the continuation of the London wool sales on Wednesday, 7522 bales were offered, including 463 from New South Wales, 221 from Queensland,…

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