War Prisoners Farm and Cut Firewood
MELBOURNE. Friday.—On projects under Army control, prisoners of war and internee volunteers produced more than 150,000 tons of…
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Farming & the land, 1944
535 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 27
Farmer Best Off, Roosevelt Says
WASHINGTON.—Congress was told by President Roosevelt recently that the farmer is better off in relation to others in the…
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SYDNEY.—Intended to increase butter production, the Federal Government's subsidy is actually causing a decline in…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Federal Government's plan to increase butter production by granting a subsidy had failed, an official of the Commerce…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Take "Tickle" Out of Wool
SYDNEY, Monday.—"Tickle" has prejudiced some people against the use of woollen underclothing, says the wool report of Wincheombe…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Australian tobacco growers have told the Director-General of Agriculture (Mr. Bulcock) that unless a satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Vote Against Daylight Saving
SINGLETON, Wednesday. — The Primary Producers' Union branch decided to protest to the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Many Farmers in Machine Pool
GRAFTON, Thursday.—More than 50 tractors and rotary hoes were being operated by cooperative societies in coastal districts under the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairyman's Protest to Prime Minister
SYDNEY. — A leading Richmond dairy farmer today made a personal protest to the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) over the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Walter Thomas Richardson, grocer, of Croydon, who, it was alleged in the Special Federal Court had substituted blank paper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Factory Men Give Views Increasing Dairy Production
Plans to increase dairy production were explained yesterday afternoon when butter factory directors and managers from Wyong to the Upper…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Killing Of Dairy Heifers Is Causing Concern
Referring to the practice of dairymen keeping a beef bull in their herd rather than a dairy bull so that they could…
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A picture of the tremendous effort being made in Britain to help solve its own food problem was given today in a talk…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A British syndicate is being formed in London with a nominal capital of £12,000,000 to develop the fat cattle industry in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Machine-gun Found on Hinton Farm
An American twin machine-gun was found embedded in the soil of a farm at Hinton. It is believed that the gun fell…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Critical Time For Farmers In The South
SYDNEY. — Next three weeks will be critical for farmers in the southern and south-western sections of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oyster Farmer Fined £100 Had Illicit Still
George Peter Engle, 62, oyster farmer, of Lemon Tree Passage, was fined £100 by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., in Newcastle Police…
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Sir.—Is it possible that we on the Coalfields are to celebrate a Health Week? Then I would suggest that we begin with a little more butter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →B.h.p. Pty. Buys a Dairy
SYDNEY.—At the big dairy bought by Broken Hill Pty. Ltd. to supply Whyalla (SA) with milk, cows will be—…
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"Daylight saving ended on March 26, and we had enough of it," said the Raymond Terrace-Miller's Forest branch Secretary of the Primary…
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