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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

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Red Spider Protection of Crops

The Wellington Times · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 15

The common red spider is a small, active mite which has been particularly injurious during recent months. These mites, which…

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Commercial District Wool Sold

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 2

Catalogue No. 130, submitted for final appraisement on Wednesday, comprised 4217 bales of wool. Top price was 29[?] for fleece sold on…

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Ample Wheat Stocks— No Bread Rationing Canberra

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 1

The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) said today that Australian stocks of wheat had never been greater and there was no possibility…

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Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 6

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report:—The selection embraced in our Sydney catalogue of 4,217 bales, which was finalised on…

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Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 3

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. report:—Our appraisement No. 131 was not finalised until Friday, the 10th instant. The…

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Postponed Beef Cattle Fair Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 1

Following on the advice from the Federal Minister for Transport, the United Stud Beef Cattle Breeders'…

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Jetting and Crutching of Sheep For Prevention of Blowfly Strike

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 8

Jetting, or the spraying of the crutch (usually) so as to "fill the wool" with a mixture poisonous to blowfly…

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Junior Farmers' Clubs Splendid War Time Record

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 2

The annual report of the Junior Farmers Clubs' Council for the year ending February 4, 1944. contains many…

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Station Holders or Farmers Must Collect Current Meat Coupons

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 8

All station holders, or farmers who kill stock for their own meat rations, may continue to do so in accordance…

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Country Politics Homes for the People Farmers' Wives Not Forgotten

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 March 1944 · page 2

DELEGATES to the recent Country Party Conference were outspokenly critical of current Labor…

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Zebu-cross Cattle

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 4

A discussion of the use of Zebucross cattle in Australia is given in Bulletin 17, just issued by the Council for Scientific and Industrial…

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Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 8

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-Op. Co. Ltd. reports on. 14th March. We submitted our appraisement catalogue No. 131 on…

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Vitamin a and Fertility of Sheep

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 8

Research work carried out during recent years by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and this…

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Wool Appraisals Centre Hopes Fade

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 2

No satisfactory reply had been forthcoming in the last few days to representations seeking to know whether the Commonwealth Government's plans for the construction of wool stores and appraisement centre at Dubbo would be…

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Wool and Rationing Practical Publicity

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 13
Also in The North-Western Watchman

Probably the best advertisement wool has ever had is the ability of the British Empire people to be reasonably well…

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Fine and Broad Wool Stock and Dry Times

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 12

The Australian sheep industry is being continually informed that its product is deteriorating in quality. It has…

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Cumnock Shortage of Labour And-weather Conditions Against Big Wheat Acreage

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 6

At the Theatre Cumnock this Saturday, Theresa Wright, Joseph Cotten and Henry Travers star in "The Shadow of a Doubt." This…

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The Man on the Land Page Control of Sheep Blowfly the Modified Mules Operation

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 15

Excellent results in the reduction of sheep blowfly strike have been obtained by a combination of the Mules…

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Country Politics Homes for the People Farmer's Wives Not Forgotten

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 16 March 1944 · page 1

DELEGATES to the recent Country Party Conference were outspokenly critical of current Labor…

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