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Illawarra · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

215 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 10 of 11

Farm Wages P.P.U. View

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1942 · page 4

The Milk Sectional committee of the Primary Producers' Union has decided to inform the Dapto branch of the Union that it is considered…

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Bees Help War Effort Wartime Demand for Honey and Beeswax Economic Importance of Bee-farming

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 October 1942 · page 5

During the last war and post-war periods the demand for honey and beeswax became so great that both local and overseas requirements could…

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Brown Weevil On Vegetable Crops

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 3 October 1942 · page 1

The Chief Entomologist of the Depertment of Agriculture reminds vegetable growers to be on the lookout for the brown vegetable weevil…

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Farm Survey Will Aid Producers

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 7 October 1942 · page 4

To secure up to the minute details of current and prospective food production and of rural manpower needs, an Australia wide survey of small…

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Dairying to Safeguard Dairying Production Britain's Cattle Health Insurance Scheme

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 October 1942 · page 6

Fifty million gallons of milk each year, as well as large quantities of meat, arc expected to be saved in Britain by a health insurance scheme…

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Albion Park News High Prices for Cattle

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 October 1942 · page 8

Various buyers of dairy cattle of all classes including young stock, have also been visiting the farmers in quest of stock and high prices are being…

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Dairy Cattle Insurance Scheme

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1942 · page 5

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

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Farmers' Emergency Returns

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 14 October 1942 · page 3

This is a message to small farmers poultry raisers, vegetable growers and fruit growers. HAVE YOU FILLED IN YOUR…

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SELF-DEPENDENT Need for Farmers

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 14 October 1942 · page 3

The urgent necessity for all men on the land to make their farms and local areas self-sufficient has been stressed in an important…

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Momentous Meeting 650 Dairy Farmers Protest Against Subsidy Request for 1/8 Per Pound to Butter Producers

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 October 1942 · page 4

The greatest meeting of dairy farmers ever held on the South Coast took place at Bega on Friday last. The School of Arts hall was too small…

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Overseas News Entire Sugar Beet Crop for Britain's Own Seed

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 October 1942 · page 2

The outstanding development in the British seed trade during the last 20 years has been the introduction and development of the growing of sugar…

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Farmer's Case

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 17 October 1942 · page 4

Mr. E. H. Filmer, of Bimbaya, Bega brother of Mr. King Filmer, Dunmore and uncle of Mr. Everett Filmer, Kiama, in writing to the "Bega District…

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Farm Survey Is Urgent Full Response Needed

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 28 October 1942 · page 1

Of 105,000 emergency questionnaire forms, sent out to small farmers, poultry raisers, vegetable growers and fruit growers in all States except…

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Hessian Wanted Farmers Please Note

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 31 October 1942 · page 5

The State Salvage Office is anxious to secure as much hessian as can be collected. A special appeal is made to farmers and graziers not…

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Farm Plant To be Pooled

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 31 October 1942 · page 4

The Minister for Commerce, Mr. W. J. Scully, announced this week that an order, had been gazetted under the National Security Regulations…

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Farmers' Debts Relief a Returned Soldier's Appreciation

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 4 November 1942 · page 6

I recently received a letter from a returned soldier settler in the Gunnedah district expressing his deep appreciation for the concessions granted…

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Mechanised Farming

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 6 November 1942 · page 5

An idea of the extent to which Russia's collective farms are mechanised can be gathered from official statistics covering farm mechanisation in that country prior to the start of war in 1939. At the end of 1938, that Nation's 243,300 collective farms with 19,000,000…

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Farmers' Returns Still Awaited 23,831 Not Yet In

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 11 November 1942 · page 4

Of 105,389 questionaire forms sent out by the Commonwealth and State Statisticians to small farmers, poultry raisers, vegetable growers and…

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Outstanding Cattle Sale

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 November 1942 · page 5

Yesterday, J. N. King & Sons Pty. Ltd. conducted the most outstanding sale of dairy cattle on the South Coast for years…

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Purchase of Farm Tractors

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 November 1942 · page 5

In Parliament Mr. W. Davies said: Will the Minister for Agriculture say whether It Is a fact that some persons who are In fairly good financial…

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