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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

2,390 stories in Riverina's papers · page 36 of 120

Gundagai District Wool

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 5

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. advise us that 6,016 bales of wool were appraised at their Sydney catalogue on Tuesday. Results included:—…

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The Wool Clip £57,000,000 for Groweis Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 4

The disposal of the Australian record wool clip, estimated at 3,100,000 bales, shortly after the end of June, is expected by the Central Wol…

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Higher Regard for Horse Solving Surplus Crop Problem Olydesdale President Optimistic

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 2

An optimistic note as to the future of the Clydesdale breeding industry was sounded by the president of the New South Wales branch of the…

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Dairy Products Quota

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture (Major Reid), on the recommnendation of the New South Wales Dairy Products Board, has determined the following…

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Health Prosecution Local Dairy Proprietor Fined

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 1

In the Gundagai Police Court, on Tuesday last, before Mr. F. Grugeon P.M., Mr. C. J. Tracy, Health Inspector to the Gundagai Shire Council,…

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Sheep and Wool Classes

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 3

THE class in sheep and wool classing is still in progress at the Leeton showground. This class meets each Monday…

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Wool and Wheat Containers

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 1

Referring to the necessity for having containers for whet and wool to replace the jute ones for the forthcoming harvest and shearing, Mr. Tom…

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Leeton Sheep Sale

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 3

Dalgety and Company Limited, Narandera and Allen and Wright, Leeton report having conducted special sheep sale at Leeton on Friday…

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Wool Appraisement

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 1

About 600,000 bales—about 18 per cent of the current Australian wool clip—remain to be appraised before 3rd June. The appraisements will…

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Wool Report

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 4

The [?] and Graziers’ Co-operative Co Ltd, reports one the 29th inst We submitted our 18th Appraised [?] 6,318 bale,…

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Wool Appraisements

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 3

Winch combe, Carson., Ltd., whed on Wednesday:--60166 sales of wool were appraised at our Sydney catalogue on Tuesday. Results included:--…

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Wagga Stock Sales Cattle Market Firmer

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 4

The associated agents of Wagga (S. V. Best & Co., Younghusband Ltd., Dalgety and Co. Ltd., the Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., and the A.M.L…

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Cattle Diseases That Cost Australia Millions a Year

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 4

"The continuance of Investigations Into the two serious cattle scourges, contagious abortion and mastitis, constitutes an important war effort which…

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Hand Feeding of Sheep the Use of Hay

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 6

Experiments carried out at Nyngan and Trangie Experiment Farms in the feeding of sheep for long periods on cereal hay showed that sheep will…

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Last Sunday's Fires Heavy Losses in Grassland and Sheep

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 2

The bush fires which swept a large area of country between the Gilmore Valley and Wermatong, Tumut Plains, on Sunday last and on Monday night…

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Australia's Record Wool Clip Marketing Proceeds Smoothly

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 3

The review issued by the Central Wool Committee, covering its first six months, is a most important and at the same time…

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70-Lb Cod Landed at Burrinjuck Looked More Like Sheep Than Fish

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 3

Perhaps moderty--that rare quality m fishermen--was responsible, but whatever the reason the fact remains that news of the exploits of a party…

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State-wide Falls Best Break for Sheep Men for Months Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 2

Indicating the definite breaking of the drought, rain registrations from 50 to 300 points were recorded in the west and south-west districts of the…

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Wool Control Strong Criticism in Britain "Price Bears No Relation to Cost" London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 2

Lord Montrose in the House of Lords to-day, criticising the wool control, asked whether producers would be adequately represented on the…

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Wool Control No Sacrifice of Growers' Interests Statement by Dr. Clunies Ross' London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 3

The Australian representative on the International Wool Secretariat (Dr. Clunies Ross) has allayed the fears that the wool control in Britain had…

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