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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

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Special Wool Report Exclusive to Campbell's Newspapers

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 4

It has often been said that U. S. A. is the home of mass production, and that Hen[?]y Ford was the first man to manufacture…

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Wool Appraisements Season to End on February 24

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 3

Schute, Bell, Badgery, Lumby Ltd. reports:—The Biyga district again furnished an attractive range of spinner wools for our appraisement No. 41…

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Euchareena Farm Work Proceeding Big Harvest Anticipated Heavy Lucerne Crops

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 4

A few hot days were experienced last week and after the cooler weather one feels the change. The farmers are busy ploughing…

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68 Per Cent. What Pastoral Firm Has Paid Back Romance Of Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 1

Figures just released by the Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd., tell a remarkable story of an all-Australian organisation…

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Wool Waste Has Manurial Value But is a Potential Weed Spreader

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 8

Tests carried out by the Department of Agriculture with samples of wool waste known as "wool out-throws" from…

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Must Grow Good Wool and Maintain World Standard To Counterbalance Tirade of Egotism (Specially Written for the “Watchman” by Mr. W. H. Mather, Wool Consultant and Specialist.)

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 3

The events of to-day are somewhat perplexing to the minds of humanity, with Hitler's threats to exterminate the British race, his attempts to occupy England, his violent addresses to the German people, and his assertion that the…

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Junior Farmers

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 1

A meeting of the Advisory Com mittee of the Junior Farmers' Club was held at the District School on Saturday afternoon…

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Life the Seventies Was Hard and Primitive, Says Mr. J. DOWLING Floods Were Early Problems, But Farmers Progressed In Most Difficult Times

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 4

Mr. J. Dowling, in an address to Buninyong Agricultural Bureau's meeting on Tuesday night, took members back to the pioneering days of the late '70's and early '80's…

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Dripstone Experimental Crop Sunflowers Being Cultivated Good Harvest Anticipated

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 4

We have had very hot days and an occasional promise of rain, but have missed out so far, although we do not need rain just at present…

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The Man on the Land Page the Farm Home the Farm Garden To Improve the Humus Content of the Soil

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 8

Most gardeners are familiar with the good results obtained from new land, but few pause, to inquire into…

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Dairy Products for Britain Factors in Continuity of Supply

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 8

If Australian dairy farmers are to respond with maximum effect to the appeal to produce more butter and…

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Fish Wool

The Western Herald · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 4

Fish—wool has arrived, It is a new development, and in the raw state is a dull white, and fluffy, When the fibre is woven into cloth…

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Wool Report

The Western Herald · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 5

The Country Producers' Seling Company Ltd. reported on 6th February:—Owing to our appraisement No. 41 being finalised on…

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Wool Appraisements

The Western Herald · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 5

Since the recommencement of appraisement after Christmas vacation 410,886 bales of wool have been appraised in various centres,…

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Wool Report

The Western Herald · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 7

Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd. reported on 7th February:- For our forty-first wool appraisement - the seventeenth of the current…

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Australian Wool Consumption

The Western Herald · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 4

The Australian mills have become important consumers of the Australian clip, No less than 740,763 bales of the 1939/40 supply…

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Wool Research. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 5

Doctor I. Clunies-Ross, Dean of Faculty Vety Science at Sydney University declared there was not a sheep breeder in this country…

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Feat By Cunnamulla Airmen 5,200 Flood-bound Sheep Saved From Starvation

The Western Herald · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 6

We clip the following from the Cunnamulla "Watchman":- During the recent abnormal rains and floods 5,200 sheep, the…

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68 Per Cent What Pastoral Firm Has Paid Back. Romance of Country Producers'selling Co. Ltd

The Western Herald · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 5

Figures just released by the Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. tell a remarkable story of service for the man on the land,…

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One Cow Equals 40 Suits in Science Italy Produces Wool From Skim Milk

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 15 February 1941 · page 5

The Department of Commerce and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research are very interested in a report made by Mr. A. R. Penfold, curator and economic chemist of the Sydney Technological Museum,…

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