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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1945

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Wool for France London, Jan. [?]

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 1

The first consignments of wool[?] reach Franco since the liberation [?] expected at the great textile factor [?] and T[?]. says the…

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Position of Wool Stocks European Possibilities

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 2

Messrs. Pitt, Son and Badgery, write concerning the accumulation of wool stocks, and possibilities of resumption of spinning in Europe as…

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Protection For Wool Industry MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2

The Textile Products Act which was proclaimed today to nitrate from next May, will require the proportion of wool and other fibres to be shown in the trade…

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Lowest Since 1919 1920 Australia’s Wheat Yield CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 5

Harvest estimates for the current wheat crop are: NSW. [?] million bushels. WA, 13 million bushels…

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Pumpkin Beetle Protection of Crops

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 6

Both the larvae and adults of the leaf-eating ladybird (Epilachna 28-pun[?]) attack the [?] of potatoes tomatoes [?] and pumpkins…

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Wodonga Sheep Sale

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

The associated agents held their fortnightly fat sheep and lamb sale at Wodonga yesterday, when they yarded 3540 fat sheep and lambs. All classes were…

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Burrumbuttock Wheat Elevators

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

Mr W. McBeatty, secretary of the local DWAC, yesterday advised that the Wheat elevators et Burrumbuttock will not open on January 4 as…

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Hundreds of Cattle Die From Starvation INVEHELL

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

Two hundred of at approximately 700 cattle which arrived by train today were dead and many others were too weak to move and were destroyed. They were brought…

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Poor Sheep As Feed for Pigs and Poultry

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 5

The present shortage of meat meal, and the number of poor sheep available in many cases at extremely few price has presented the possibility of using these sheep as…

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How Wheat Estimates Have Shrunk SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 6

Instead of a 50 million bushel wheat crop planned for NSW this year the yield will be only 18 million bushels. Stating this today a Wheat Board…

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Salt Supplements for Sheep “No Sound Evidence of Value”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

Sheepowners will be unwise if they take the recent lifting of the restrictions on the sole of licks as an opportunity to reverting to a habit of…

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Improvement of Dairying Pastures Encouragement of Clovers

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 6

Clovers are desirable in a pasture for two reasons : they not only provide high quality feed in themselves but by their capacity as [?] to…

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Cattle Tick Outbreak at Bowraville

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 5

Cattle ticks have been found on cattle in the vicinity of Bowraville Immediate steps to deal with the outbreak include the placing of restrictions on the movement of…

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Wheat Growers' Union Coreen Branch

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 1

A well attended meeting of the Coreen branch of the Wheat Growers, Union was hold at Coreen recently, and much, business was discussed.,…

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52 Per--bushel for Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 1

Following the dangerous depletion of wheat stocks, the Government is calling for increased production from farmers…

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Dairy Farmers’ Threat Unless Paid Subsidy of 1/10 Gallon SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 6

Unless the Commonwealth government agrees to pay dairy farmers 1/10 per gallon for milk, retrospective to December, 1944, Sydney and…

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Farm Workers To Be Drafted WASHINGTON. Jan. 4

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 1

Major-General Hershey has acceded to a request on behalf of Mr Roosevelt to draft farm workers by instructing State draft directors to…

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Dairying Pastures Importance of Subdivision of Paddocks

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 5

Pastures improvement call have little permanent benefit unless subdivision, top-dressing with fertilisers, god rotational grazing are adopted, points out…

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“Fight Is On” Mr. Forde And Dairymen CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 2

The acting Prime Minister (Mr Forde) said today that use of the hold-up threat by the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council of NSW to force…

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Help for Soldier Farmers Loans Up To £1000 CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 2

The Commonwealth Government has approved of a special loan of up to £1000 and the payment of a living allowance to eligible soldier,…

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