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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

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Mildil Assistance for Commerce Queen Sheep Drive, Tennis and Dance

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 24 July 1941 · page 4

As Mildil is linked up with the West Wyaolng Patriotic Committee's Comforts Fund, it was decided at a meeting of Mildil residents to accede…

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news from London Guarding Britain's Cornfields. How Farm Workers Will Fight Nazi Fire Bombs

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 24 July 1941 · page 1

With, 12,500,000 acres under the plough this spring—31 millions more than in 1939—Britain's agricultural leaders are planning how to protect…

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Price of Milk Dairymen to Meet (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 24 July 1941 · page 1

A meeting, representing dairymen, will be held in Sydney to-morrow, to consider a motion that supplies of milk should be withheld from Sydney…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association West Wyalong Branch Monthly Meeting

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 24 July 1941 · page 2

The President (Mr. H. R. C. Kalms) was in the chair at the monthly meeting of the West Wyalong branch of the Farmers and Settlers'…

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Stealing of Wool Packs

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 July 1941 · page 2

At Forbes police Court yesterday, before Mr, R. Donaldson, PM., Frederick Theodore Kroehn, 42, pleaded guilty to charge of stealing two woolpacks,…

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Failing to Travel Sheep Required Distances

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 July 1941 · page 2

Forbes P. P. Board, which was represented by Mr. R. Melllon, proceeded against W. Green, of "Tyrone," and Thomas Newell, for falling to travel…

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Cattle Sale Offerings at Forbes Prime Lines Firm

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 July 1941 · page 3

W. R. Martin and Co., auctioneers, report:-- Fat and store cattle were yarded for sale at the usual fortnightly market…

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Power Alcohol From Wheat Chamber of Commerce Takes Action Deputation to Canberra

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 July 1941 · page 2

The Forbes Chamber of Commerce, at its meeting on Monday night, was Informed of the action that had already been taken to…

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Age of Sheep

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 28 July 1941 · page 3

The age of a sheep is determined from the front or incisor teeth on the lower jaw. There are none on the upper jaw in the front of the mouth…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 28 July 1941 · page 4

Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd., report Under date of 25th July, 1941: Cheques will go out to growers next week covering the retention…

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Power Alcohol From Wheat

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 28 July 1941 · page 2

It was announced at the week end that the Federal Govvernment will proceed immediately with the provision of four…

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Grenfell Students. Success in Wool Classing Examination

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 28 July 1941 · page 3

Messsrs. Duncan Simpson, Bill Simpson, Malcolm Hunter, Will Freudenstein and Wallace Griffiths, students of the local wool classes…

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NOW 123,000,000 SHEEP. Next Clip £60,000,000?

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 28 July 1941 · page 1

Australia is easily the greatest sheep raising country in the world, the number of sheep now being 123 million. This is the hihest on…

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Soil Erosion Booklet Now Available to Farmers

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 28 July 1941 · page 2

"Soil Erosion and its Control" is the name of the interesting new booklet which has been published by the Rural Bank, in association with…

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Power Alcohol From Wheat Parkes Out of Running Says "Champion-Post"

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 29 July 1941 · page 3

The Parkes "Champion-Post," in its issue of last Thursday, has the following to say:-- The Minister for Supply (Senator G…

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Record Sheep Population

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 4

Australia's sheep population has now reached the gigantic total of 123,000,000, a figure far in advance of any previous records. It is not so…

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Live Stock Mineral Deficiency A Serious Cause of Wastage in Cattle

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 3

It is from the apparently minor complaints of cattle, neglected until their consequences can no longer he ignored, that the most serious…

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60 Million Clip Value of Wool Australia's Extended Production

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 5

Australia meets the selling period for its 1941-42 clip with the prospects of securing for the third successive 12 months a…

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Power Alcohol From Wheat Progress Association Interested West Wyalong's Claims To Be Urged

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 5

At the Progress Association meeting on Monday night, Mr. H. R. C. Kalms introduced the question of power alcohol from wheat, which is…

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Mortgage Bank Advocated by Mr. Langtry Relieve Farmers of Interest Burden

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 31 July 1941 · page 4

The establishment of a mortgage bank, to enable the gap between farmers' costs and prices received for his produce to be bridged, is…

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