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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

1,078 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 9 of 54

New Wheat Silo at Mill Nearly Completed

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1942 · page 4

Work on the new silo at the Dubbo Milling Company's premises is nearing; completion. It is a similar structure to that which was…

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Collective Farms Have Reshaped Life in Soviet

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1942 · page 4

Many Australians nave heard that collective farming exists in the Soviet Union, but few have anything but the foxiest notion of what this…

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Wool Report

Dubbo Dispatch · Monday 23 February 1942 · page 2

The Country Producers’ Selling Co. Ltd.. Sydney, report:— For our appraisement No. 70, we submitted approximately 3,700 bales…

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To-day’s Wheat Prices Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch · Monday 23 February 1942 · page 3

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

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Wheat Prices

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1942 · page 1

The Australian Wheat Board's quotations: Millers' lots for home consumption, bulk 3/11[?]; prices for export on application to the board…

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Wool

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 3

Every man who keeps sheep in Australia solely for woolgrowing purposes is very keen to secure the highest returns…

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Irrigated Wheat

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 5

Twelve to 15 bag wheat crops have been stripped in the Leeton-Griffith district this year. Throughout the Murrumbidgee…

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Wool Now Available

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 2

Anyone wishing to make woollen goods for the Australian Com forts Fund can now obtain the wool from Miss Beveridge, at the…

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The FARMER & His Markets America’s Record Wool Consumption Rain Affords Relief

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 3

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

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The War and Wool English Exports

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—In peace time about 90 per cent of the Australian clip was exported. Last seas [?] exports…

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New Cattle Fodder Good Liveweight Increase On Straw Pulp

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 4

Britain's farmers are obtaining excellent results with the fodder now being produced by the new caustic soda…

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Hair in Wool Reduced By Careful Breeding

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 3

When it is realised that domestic woolled sheep have apparently descended from the wild sheep of Western Asia, like the present day…

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Men and Milkers “Utterly Impossible” Dairy Farmers’ View of Evacuation

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 3

Portion of the scheme to evacuate dairy cattle from the North Coast includes shifting milking cows in limited…

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Storage of Wool Conference Disapproves of Storage in Country

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 3

The conference recently held in Melbourne of woolgrowers and wool brokers and their representatives on the Central…

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Wheat Stubble Areas Put Them to Good Use Sow Grass and Clovers

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 26 February 1942 · page 7

Wheat farmers may make good use of stubble land which they do not intend to crop this year, and, at the…

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Wool Report

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 2
Also in The Western Herald, The Western Herald

The Farmers and Graziers Co op. Co. Ltd. reports on the 25th Inst:— We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue No 71 (the 20th of the…

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Wool Traffic

The Western Herald · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 4

Wool from local shearing sheds is arriving in town dally by motor lorries, and every mail sees large consignments railed to the City for…

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Sydney Sheep Show Abandoned

Dubbo Dispatch · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 2

By unanimous decision of the Council of the New South Wales Sheep breeders’ Association, which me in Sydney last week, the Sydney…

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