W.A.N.S. Do Farm Work at Oberon Sydney
Because male labor is not available, 10 members of the W.A.N.S.'s organisation are at present picking peas in the Oberon District…
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Farming & the land, 1941
388 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 20
Year Opened Quietly in Farm Produce Vegetables Heavily Supplied
The year's trading on the Newcastle farm produce market opened quietly on Thursday. Since many dealers have not yet resumed trading and many families are still away…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Transport to U.S.A.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. A.A.P.—An agreement has been completed with a group of shipping companies to transport 250,000,000lb of British-owned Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Farm Sowings Canberra
Pending the determination by the Federal Government of basic acreages, each registered wheat farm may sow an acreage which represents its average…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Board Official Dead
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Secretary of the Australian Dairy Produce Board (Mr. Alfred Thomas Owen) died at Seymour at the week-end. His funeral at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reduced Butter Production
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Australian factory butter production for the three months ended October 31 last totalled 1,083,198cwt., representing a decrease of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep-like Prisoners Italians Want Home and Mandolin "Don't Like War, Because I May Get Hurt" LONDON
"It is sickening to see thousands of Italians marching in captivity like a lot of sheep and displaying about the same reactions as sheep," a correspondent of the Associated Press of America writes from Bardia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bonds Buried in Fowlyard Poultry Farmer Charged With Theft
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—How a parcel of bonds and debentures worth £4500 was found buried in a fowlyard at a house near Sutherland was described by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rain Benefits Farmers Hunter Prospects Bright
Farmers on the Lower Hunter hope this season will finish one of the most satisfactory on record. Steady rain fell again in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmers Back Inigo Jones Sydney
Early action is to be taken by New South Wales grazing interests to finance research into Mr. Inigo Jones's lone-range forecasting methods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Discuss Wheat Plan
CANBERRA, Thursday.—A conference of Commonwealth and State officials will be held in Melbourne next Monday to discuss certain aspects of the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Butter Output Improves
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Dairy production in New South Wales is rapidly improving, and prospects are reassuring following good rain throughout most of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →High Cattle Values at Singleton
SINGLETON, Friday.—There was a heavier yarding of fat cattle at Singleton stock sales. Values were in excess of late good rates. The sale was the best for a long time. Store…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain Interrupts Potato Supply Butter and Cheese Production Should Improve
The heavy rain in widespread areas of the State caused a temporary shortage of potatoes in Newcastle this week. Farmers in the Maitland district were forced to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Case Reveals New Wool Process London
A sensational method of re-processing waste wool, giving it a quality "resembling Australian lamb's wool," was mentioned in a Court case at Leeds. A Belgian, Joseph Bailly, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers in Fresh Heart Upper Hunter District Transformed
MUSWELLBROOK, Friday.—With the best summer rainfall for many years 830 points fell in November, December, and January—the whole district has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Industrialists Depend on Farmers" Sir Earle Page's Survey
GRAFTON, Friday.—The importance of the national fodder conservation scheme to every section of the community was stressed by the Minister for Commerce…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Almost All Wheat Crop Sold
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Of the 195,750,000 bushels of the 1939-40 harvest delivered to the board, only 25,200,000 bushels remained unsold on December 31, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maize Crops Assured
INVERELL, Sunday.—In the six weeks that have elapsed since the break of the drought the rainfall in Inverell has amounted to 15 inches. There has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day in the COURTS Dairymen Fined
Breaches of the Milk Act were alleged against David John Shearman and Daniel Shearman, or Fullerton Cove, by William Victor Crothers, an…
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