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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

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Flax Crop

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 3

The Minister for Supply and Development, Senator McBride, has announced that the linen flax crop now being harvested under the…

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Dairy Industry Future Farmers' Questions. Answered by Sir E. Page

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 7

"Increasing output should bring about a reduction in manufacturing costs and so place Australian exporters in a better position to meet…

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To Grow Wheat

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 2

Canberra news on Monday, last December 30, said it was announced that day that all owners of wheat farms must apply to have their properties…

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Cattle Killed by Huge Dingoes

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 4

Huge dingoes, some of them with Alsatian blood, are killing stock in the Casino district. They come into the open, quite…

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2000 Cattle Lost on One Station

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 2

Stock losses, especially in the western beef cuttle country, have been the worst ever known. One large station lost about 2000 head in…

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Dairy Industry. Sir Earle Page Replies to Questions. Increased Output

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 1

"Increasing output should bring about a reduction in manufacturing costs, and so place Australian exporters in a better position to meet…

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Gloucester Co-op. Dairy Company, Ltd. December Pay

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

For the month of December the Gloucester Co-op. Dairy Co. Ltd. manufactured 242,9061b. of choicest butter and 7,028 lbs. second grade…

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Another Wool Substitute

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1941 · page 7

According to news from Japan, the residue from the blubber of whales is being turned into a fibre possessing the warmth and other qualities of…

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What of the Future? Wool Supplies Demand

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1941 · page 7

Is there a danger of wool production exceeding wool demand after the war? This question rather remarkably has been raised by one of our wool…

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Dairy Industry Future Farmers' Questions Answered by Sir Earle Page

The Northern Champion · Saturday 11 January 1941 · page 3

"Increasing output should bring about a reduction in manufacturing costs and so place Australian exporters in a better position to meet. competition after…

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For the Man on the Land. Dairy Country Drought. Lessons to Be Learned. Conservation Needs

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 14 January 1941 · page 7

The principal lesson of the drought from which the dairying country is now emerging is the need for the storage of greater…

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Butter Pay

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 4

The Macleay Co-op. Dairy Company Ltd. has fixed butter pay for December at 1/0¾, cheese pay at 1/3¾ per lb. of butter fat content, and egg pay at…

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Factory News. Gloucester Co-op. Dairy Co. Ltd. I

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 2

For the month of December, the Gloucester Co-op. Dairy Co. Ltd. manufactured 242.906 lbs. of choicest butter and 7.028 lbs. second grade…

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Farm-hand Shortage

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 8

News from Bern, Switzerland, says:—Swiss peasants, overburdened with work due to compulsory military service and consequent shortage of farm,…

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Primary Producer. Kempsey Cattle

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 4

The district was well to the fore at the Homebush cattle auctions last Monday. Knauer and Knauer, Kempsey, secured 11…

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Wingham Stock Sales. Fat Cattle Cheaper. Store Cattle Exceptionally Dear

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 4

Messrs. Paterson, Easton and Co., report a medium yarding of fat rattle and a good supply of Stores at yesterday's Stock Sale. In sympathy…

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Butter Pays. Upper Wallamba River Co-op. Dairy Society, Limited

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 4

For the month of December, the above Society paid 1/1 and 1/- for choicest and second-grade respectively. 62 per cent, of the cream received was…

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Another Wool Substitute

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 3

According to news from Japan, the residue from the blubber of whales is being turned into a fibre possessing the warmth and other qualities…

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Current Topics. Wood Wool

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 2

Many people are familiar with the fibre packing in which goods arrive, but few know it by its name of "wood wool." This is now being…

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Dairy Farming in Malaya. Cliff Johnstone's Interesting Outline

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 2

Flying Officer Cliff Johnstone, now with the R.A.F. at Singapore, in a letter to a friend in Kempsey, writes very interestingly of a visit to a dairy…

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