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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

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Coastal Cattle One Million May Be Evacuated Canberra

Dubbo Dispatch · Monday 16 February 1942 · page 3

Plans which may result in the evacuation of 1,000,000 head of cattle from the coastal belt to safer areas inland, in both…

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Wheat Prices

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1942 · page 1

The Australian Wheat Board's quotations: Millers' lots for home consumption, bulk 3/114; prices for export on application to the board…

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Fodder Crops Required If Stock Evacuated

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1942 · page 5

"Farmers and persons with any land that will grow fodder crops are advised to put down the maximum area possible as a matter of urgency," said…

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Wheat Prices

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 5

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

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Cattle "Spirited Away" From Poundyard

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 2

Dubbo Council has decided to take action against a person for having released stock from the custody of the impounding officer without the…

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Wool Yield in Relation to Quality and Profit

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 3

Again let me say that the better the breed of the wool the higher the yield. So the people who grow well-bred…

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The Wool Clip Two-thirds Appraised Exports to China

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 4

Over two-thirds of the 1941-42 Australian clip has been appraised to date this season. The appraisement of…

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“Pegged” Prices Will Not Affect Wool Hopes for Price Review

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 4

The far-reaching economic plan promulgated by the Federal Government will not affect the work of wool…

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District Farms Change Hands

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 9

Messrs. O. L. Milling and Co., property agents, Dunedoo, report having sold several well-known district properties…

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Collective Farming In the Soviet Union How It Operates

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 4

Many Australians have heard that collective farming exists in the Soviet Union, but few have anything but the foggiest notion of what this means. No doubt the absence of trading…

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Wool Report

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 6
Also in The Western Herald, The Western Herald

The Farmers and Graziers’ Cooperative Co. Ltd. reports on the 17th instant:—We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue No., 70 (the 19th of…

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Wool Appraisements

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 3

Winchcombe Carson Ltd., report that 6400 bales of wool were appraised at their Sydney catalogue on Tuesday. Results included: G. T…

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America’s Record Wool Consumption

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 6

The United States ’consumed a record quantity of apparel wool in 1941. Final figures for the year are not available, but…

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Steel Ropes for Wool-presses

The Western Herald · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 4

It was pointed out at a special meeting of the Graziers' Federal Council that galvanised steel coils for manufacture of ropes for…

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To-days Wheat Prices Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 5

The Australian Wheat Board’s [?] are unchanged. Millers’ bulk lots for home consumption are quoted at [?]…

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Control Of the Sheep Blowfly. Concluding our series of articles on the Blow-Fly. Sheep Blow-fly Dressings

The Western Herald · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 2

The ideal dressing for a struck sheep should possess most or all of the following features:— 1. It should be stable and…

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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Phenothiazine for Nodule Worm of Sheep

The Western Herald · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 7

Phenothiazine is the only drug known to be effective against the nodule worm. when given as a drench…

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Wheat Prices

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1942 · page 1

The Australian Wheat Board's quotations: Millers' lots for home consumption,, bulk 3/111; prices for export on applied to the heard…

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