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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

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Dairying Industry Committee's Report Nearly Ready Sydney, August 23

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 25 August 1942 · page 3

Appointed by the Federal Government six weeks ngo to make an urgent examination of conditions in the Australian dairying Industry with a view to placing…

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Teachers to Help on Farms

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY.—It was unanimously decided by the Teachers' Federation conference yesterday that teachers would be prepared to bein in farm…

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Wheat at 4/-

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 27 August 1942 · page 4

Australian wheatgrowers will receive 4 a bushel at Country sidings on the first 3,000 bushels of the coming season's wheat, and an advance of 2 [?] a…

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Bringing Back The Sheep And Cows

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 August 1942 · page 2

LONDON.—Britain has begun the Empire's first large-scale experiments in artificial insemination, the revolutionary breeding process which…

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Cattle Market

Western Grazier · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 3

Elder, Smith and Co. Ltd.'s report from Adelaide on Augut 24 read. The supply of cattle yarded today was 200 less than for the last market. 1450…

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World's First Cattle Health Insurance

Western Grazier · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 3

Fifty million gallons of milk each year, as well as large [?] at meat, are expected to be saved to Britain by a health insurance scheme…

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Wool Grease for Dubbin

Western Grazier · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 2

Dubbin, with which all boots issued to Britain's Home Guard are in future to be treated, has for one of its main ingredients grease salvaged from the…

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Tibooburra News Wool From Onepah

Western Grazier · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 1

Thomson Brothers [?] another 52 bales of wool last week to in Onepah Station, and are getting to the very end of the clip…

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Twenty Wild Dogs Ravage Sheep Request for Dogger Made

Western Grazier · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 1

Reports from properties adjacent to the obar-Wilcannia road tell of destruction to flocks by five packs of [?] dogs, which have taken up their ab[?]…

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Delay with Wool Effect of Union Decision

Western Grazier · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 3

An industrial dispute threatens [?] delay appraisement of wool this season, and hold up returns to growers. Of the Australian primary products…

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Wool Appraisement ADELAIDE, August 31

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 1

South Australian woolgrowers today received £431,22[?] for the opening appraisement of the 1942-43 clip compared with £652,618 for the first valuing of last…

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Wool Storemen to Stop Work

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 3

ADELAIDE. — Five hundred men employed in wool stores at Port Adelaide have decided to hold a stop work meeting at 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday…

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Wool Store Workers Threaten Stopwork Adelaide, August 31

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 1

Five hundred m[?] employed at the wool stores at Port Adelaide today decided to hold [?] stopwork meeting on Wednesday to determine the action to…

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Cattle Market

Western Grazier · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 2

Elder, Smith and Co., Ltd.'s report from Adelaide for Monday reads: The yarding of cattle today was approximately 300 more than for…

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Wool Substitutes

Western Grazier · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 3

Two more substitutes for wool have been added to the long last evolved in recent years. They are so[?] been wool developed in U.S.A. by the Ford Motor…

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Wool Values Bale Now Worth £19/15/-

Western Grazier · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 3

At this season's British contract prices the average value of the current Australian clip is approximately £2/10/- a bale more than for the preceding three…

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War Closes Old Dairy Business

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 2

GRAFTON.—Mr. S. Clements has closed down his 78-year-old dairying business because railway war priorities prevent him from getting fodder…

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The Sheep and Wool Industry Plans For Rationalisation

Western Grazier · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 1

The Government has adopted a number of recommendations designed to rationalist the wool industry, said the Hon. John J. Dedman, Minister for War…

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Carting Wool

Western Grazier · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 2

Green Brothers are carting wool from Box Vale Station. There are about 150 bales altogether. Mr. A. Hayes' property, in conformity with the…

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Healthy Sheep on North Coast

Western Grazier · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 3

It is not generally realised that in the North Coast areas there is quite a number of small flocks of sheep. The district veterinary officer in the…

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