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New England · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

1,387 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 70

Record Milk Output in Britain Farmers Overcome Feeding Shortages Winter Yields Greatly Increased

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 4

More milk than ever before is now being produced by the dairy farms of Britain in spite of marked shortages of…

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State Potato Crop Many Areas in Need of Rain

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 9

Potato crops in seme districts are in need of rain, reports Mr. C. A. Orman, special agricultural instructor, but those in the Dorrigo area are very…

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Farmers & Settlers' Assn. Northern Zone Conference

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 2

Officers of the Liverpool Plaint District Council, Messrs G. A. Bur thistle and A. Heath, and the Tamworth District Couucil, Messrs. A…

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Wool Sales Winchcombe Carson's Brisbane Report

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 11

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. advise:—The Brisbane sales opened with wools in generally good condition, fine to medium quality, but often fairly…

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Demand for Merino Wool Position of Coarse Crossbreds

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 14

Merino[?] wool has certainly commanded the lion's share of competition at this season's sales and the grower who continued to…

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Wool Manufacturing Industry Dates Back to Early Settlement Great Opportunity Ahead

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 14

Australia's woollen manufacturing industry is one of the oldest and dates back-to the early days of settlement,…

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World Production of Synthetics Exceeds Output of Wool MENACE Of BRANDS

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 7

The total annual world production of synthetics is now more than the total annual value of the cleaned…

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Council Harvests Oat Crop Grown at Sewerage Treatment Works Heavy Yield Reported

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 10

The harvesting of an oat crop and the purchase of detention barracks were unusual items in a report…

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Dairying Costs Wilier Enquiry Urged

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 7

A plea that the Commonwealth Government's Committee should Investigate not only direct but indirect costs in the dairying…

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Sheep and Wool Classes To Cease at Uralla

The Uralla Times · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4

Sheep and wool classes will not be conducted at Uralla this year. Advice from the Superintend…

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Cattle Sale

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4

Attention of buyers is drawn to the advertisement appearing in this issue of the cattle sale to be held at Emmaville on…

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Guyra Cattle Sale Fats Bring High Prices

Guyra Argus · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

Messrs. T. E. Sole Stock & Property Co., in conjunction with Pitt, Son Keen and Co., of Scone, report a most satisfactory yarding of cattle at their…

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Coastal Junior Farmers 800 Mile Educational Tour

Guyra Argus · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 5

A party of 75 Junior Farmers will visit Guyra to-morrow in course of an 800-mile educational four, arranged by the North Coast Council…

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Complaint Repudiated By Farmers' Secretary Fool Machinery at Showground

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4

The secretary of the Northern Farmers' Union, Mr. A. R. Mitchell, yesterday dissociated himself from complaints made by the executive committee men of the Union to the P. and A. Association that…

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Gunpoint Arrest Of Escapee From Prison Farm

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. --Edward James Morris 21, an escapee from Emu Pains prison farm, was arrested at gunpoint…

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Dry Spell Halved District Corn Crop

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4

Although corn planting this season was 15 per cent above the average for the district, even if soaking rain falls in the next few days, the yield will be only half that of a normal season…

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Torrington Farmers Union

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Stanuum branch of the Northern N.S.W. Farmers' Union was held at Stannum…

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Competition Keen At Armidale Sheep Sale

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 14

Armidale branch of the New England, North and North West Producers' Co. Ltd. (Nenco) held a special fat and store cattle sale in…

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Wheat Growers’ Union Meeting at Delungra

The Inverell Times · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 4

The meeting called by the Wheatgrowers' Union to be held in the Public Hall, Delungra, on Wednesday,…

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Wool Trade with East Little Change in Outlook

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 14

There is very little change in the outlook for trade in wool between Australia and the East as compared with a year ago, says…

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