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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

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To-day’s Wheat Prices Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch · Monday 9 February 1942 · page 3

The Australian Wheat Board’s quotations are unchanged. Millers’ bulk lots for home consumption are quoted at 8/11¼…

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N.s.w. Wheat Yield 48,500,000 Bushels

Dubbo Dispatch · Monday 9 February 1942 · page 2

Expectations that the New South Wales wheat crop would be considerably above earlier forecasts are confirmed by the Government…

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No Master Farmer Competition This Year

Dubbo Dispatch · Monday 9 February 1942 · page 2

Owing to the present national emergency and the serious difficulties facing primary producers, the Executive of the Farmers and Settlers’…

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Prisoners Of War for Farm Labor Overcoming Manpower Problems

Dubbo Dispatch · Monday 9 February 1942 · page 3

With a view of overcoming the manpower shortage in primary industries the Government is to be asked by the Executive of the…

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Full Consideration Of Dubbo Claims as Wool Appraisal Centre

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1942 · page 3

Mr. J. .J. Clark, M.H.R., after some mouths of representation, is confident that Dubbo will be made an important wool appraising centre…

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The Wheat Crop Farmers Urged to Be Cautious

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 1

The President of the Wheat: Growers’ Union, Mir. M. R. (Bourke, advises farmers to be cautions with their…

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Wheat Prices

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 6

The Australian Wheat Board's quotations: Millers' lots for home consumption, bulk 3/11¼: prices for export on application to the board…

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Evacuating Cattle Mendooran Co-operates Splendid Organisation

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 7

There was a very representative gathering of landowners at a meeting held in the Mendooran Hall on…

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Not Paid for Jap Purchases of Australian Wheat

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 1

A quantity of wheat and flour was sold to Japan by Australia some time ago on terms and full payment had not…

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Rust Resistant Wheat Discovered in South Australia May Outyield Popular Varieties

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 1

Wheatgrowers have been heartened by the news that a rust-resistant wheat, christined Warigo, has been…

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Wool Report

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 6
Also in The Western Herald

The farmers and Grazie[?] Cooperative Co. Ltd. reports on the 10th instant:—We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue No. 69 (the 18th of…

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Raising Price of Wool

The Western Herald · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 5

Melbourne.— The raising of the minimum price of wool from 13½d to 16d was advocated by a Conference of the Victorian Wool and…

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Bourke Wants Wool Appraisements

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 2

We notice that Bourke is one of the Western centres claiming to be the ideal place for wool storage and appraisement…

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Practical Points about Single Sheep Jetting Races

The Western Herald · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 2

Single sheep races should, if possible, face south-east to avoid low sun and shine on wet boards. Jetter sheep should be visible from…

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To-day’s Wheat Prices Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 5

The Australian Wheat Board’s Quotations are unchanged to-day. Millers’ bulk lots for home consumption are quoted at 3/11[?] per bushel…

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Not Paid For Jap. Purchase of Australian Wheat

The Western Herald · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 7

A quantity of wheat and flour was sold to Japan by Australia some time ago on terms, and full payment had not been made up to…

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Control Of the Sheep Blowfly. Continuing our series of articles on the Blow-Fly. Jetting Continued. Re-use of Run-off Fluid

The Western Herald · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 2

Many graziers who carry out jetting are not in favour of using the run-off liquid, believing that the mixture is less effective and…

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Wool Report

Dubbo Dispatch · Monday 16 February 1942 · page 4

The Country Producers’ Selling Co Ltd., Sydney, report:— Our last appraisement (69) was finalised too late to be published in…

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To-day’s Wheat Prices Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch · Monday 16 February 1942 · page 2

The Australian Wheat Board’s quotations are unchanged to-day. Millers’ bulk lots for home consumption are quoted at 3/11½ per bushel…

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