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

Farming & the land, 1944

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Wheat for Stock or Poultry Board's Arrangements Growers' Alternatives

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY.—The Australian Wheat Board decided that wheatgrowers who intend to feed some of their wheat to stock or poultry shad have…

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Big Harvest Elderly Farmers do too Much

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 1

In a report on the labour position in the central west, the senior agriculturai instructor for the Dubbo area. Mr. T. S. Rudkin, writes:—…

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The Australian Wool- growers' Council

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 6 January 1944 · page 2

The Australian Wool growers' Council met in Melbourne recently and discussed various matters of great interest to the woolgrowing…

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Additional 1 l-3d for This Seasons Wheat to Meet Extra Cost

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1944 · page 1

Mr. Curtin announced at Perth on Tuesday an additional payment of [?] 1-3d. per bushel to wheatgrowers to cover increased costs for the…

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THE 1944 Sheep Year Wool Transport Improves

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 6

Wool prices on present levels in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, reports Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., ate assured for the whole…

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THE 1944 Sheep Year Wool Transport Improves

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 1

Winchcombe Ca[?]son Ltd. report: -- Wool prices on present levels in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are assured for the whole of…

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Wool Reports

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 1

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report under date 7th January:— Appraisements will be resumed in Sydney on Monday next after the…

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Grand Wool Conference At Armidaie, January 29 and 30

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 2

A wand wool conference of the geatest importance to wool growers, not only 111 the North and North-west lull throughout New South Wales and…

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Ardlethan District Farmer Killed

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 3

Much regret was felt at a Nrrandera, Grong an dAridlethan when it became known that Mr. Thomas James Fiddes. of "Boree Farm," near…

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Cheaper Market At Forbes Sheep Sales

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 4

Commonwealth Wool & Produce Co., Led., and W. K. Garnsoy, Forbes, report holding their sheep sale at Forbes on Friday, January 7, when they…

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Forbes Sheep Market All Fat Lines Cheaper Stores Also Down

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 4

Edward Weaver & Coy. (Forbes) and Farmers & Graziers Co-op. Coy., Ltd., (Sydney), report that about 6600 fat sheep and lambs, and about 1200 store…

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Special Sheep Sale 23,000 Yarded at Forbes Meat Rationing's Effect on Market

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 4

Goldsbrough Mort & Co.. Ltd., report having held a special sheep sale at Forbes on Wednesday, 5th inst., when the full advertised number of…

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Wheat Lumper's Astounding Feat at Gronggrong

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 1

At Grong Grong a young wheat lumper named Keith Singh made fresh lumping records when, on Christmas Eve, be laid a section of dunnage…

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Big Wheat Drop Yields North-west

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 2

Many farmers in the North-west were agreeably s[?]prised to find that their average wheat yield over an area of 400 acres and more was in the…

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Varieties of Wheat FOR 1944 SOWING Department's Recommendation

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 4

To many farmers, "How many bags to the acre."is still th conly measure of the value of a variety of wheat, but it is not a standard which operates to…

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Farmer on Serious Charge Man's Nose and Jaw Broken From Fracas in Garage. Committed for Trial

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 2

The following abridged report of a ease in the Young Police Court, in which a well-known district farmer was committed for trial on a charge…

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Forbes Sheep Sale

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 6

New Zealand Loan & M.A. Co., Ltd., and Moore Brooke & Co. in conjunction report having held a special sheep sale at Forbes on Wednesday, 12th…

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Wool Report

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 1
Also in The West Wyalong Advocate

Pitt, Son and Baldgery Ltd. report under date 14th January:— Our first Sydney catalogue of the new year is being submitted to-day…

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District Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 2

At Wincombe Carson's Sydney wool appraisement last Friday, P. E. McNamara, Barmedman, seemed ewes [?]d, boggets 16[?]d. pieces 15d J. C…

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