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

Farming & the land, 1945

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Quota Wheat (To the Editor "Advocate")

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 2

Sir.—Mr. Somers, in his reply to my letter, shows the same utter disregard of the facts as he did in the characteristic sweeping assertions…

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Wheat Growers Describe Grain Price As "Dastardly"

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 4

The Commonwealth Government's offer of 4/3 a bushel over the entire crop was described in Junee at a meeting of the Wheatgrowers'…

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Landholders Will Just Have to Let Their Sheep Die

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 4

"What are you going to do now?" a Junee grazier was asked after having been told of Mr. Scully's announcement that wheat would not be…

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More About Mr. Dun's Sheep Names Of Witnesses To Be Asked For

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 4

The West Milby Farmers' & Settlers' Association were not prepared to accept the decision of the P.P. Board at its January meeting as final in the case against F. Dun for sheep loafing on the reserve…

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4/3 For All Wheat for Coming Season No Acreage Restriction

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 1

Canberra reports this week indicated that a change would be made in the Federal Government's wheat policy providing for an all round' price…

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Values Firm For Sheep at Forbes Sale

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 3

Edward Weaver and Co., Forbes, and the Formers and Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd., Sydney, auctioneers in conjunction, report that about 1150 fat sheep…

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"All Wool and a Yard Wide" Case Where Silence is Not Golden New English Fibre

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 4

A new textile fibre called Ardil has been produced by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., in Great Britain. Unlike most other new…

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Fodder Crops Acute Seed Shortage (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 1

A spokesman of the Department of Agriculture said yesterday that the seed of the majority of food and fodder crops is so short in…

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Wool Appraisement

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 4

The following district sales were effected at their appraisement on February 9 by Schute, Bell, Badgery Lumby, Ltd.: R. R. Napier, Grenfell, AAAE…

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Wheat Growing The Recommended Varieties For 1945. Sowings

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 7

"All Australian wheat formers benefit from the fact that Australian wheat is valued on the world's markets because of certain…

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Forbes to Ask 52 for Wheat Meeting of Growers

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 1

Sponsored by Forbes branch of the F. & S. Association, a meeting of all wheat growers is called for Friday. February 23, at 3 p.m., for the purpose…

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Wheat for Sheep Feed (To the Editor 'Advocate')

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 2

Sir.—The action of the Wheat Board in refusing to sell graziers and farmers, wheat to keep their flocks [?]e, is to say the least tough…

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Wool Report

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 2
Also in Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder

The Farmers and Graziers Co-op. Co. Ltd. reports on the 12th instant: Our appraisement catalogue No. 155 was submitted on Thursday 8th…

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Synthetics V. Wool

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 4

"In considering the future development of Queensland, and of other States, it is important that the major aim of Federal State…

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Wheat Lost by Fire

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 1

A considerable amount of wheat, a most valuable product at this particular time, was lost at Tocumwal when a fire broke out in stacks and…

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"Unparalleled Danger to Wool Industry"

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Drummond (C.P., Armidale) pointed out that the threat of the Commonwealth Government to stop the supply…

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Crow Pick to Sheep Experiments To Be Carried Out At "Cocos"

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 1

In reply to enquiries by the P.P. Board, the Council of Advice forwarded for last meeting a copy of the following letter from the Department:-- "The treatment of crow pick to…

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Farming and Form. Filling

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 4

There are few countries in the world where economic and climatic conditions vary as much as in Australia. Each locality has its own…

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Wool Equalisation Payment Huge Sheep Slaughterings in New Zealand

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1945 · page 4

Despite the less attractive clip generally grown in New South Wales and some of the other States because of the adverse season,…

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