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Farming & the land, 1941

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Melbourne Cattle Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1941 · page 4

At to-day's Newmarket sales 1475 fat bullocks were yarded and quality was well represented although not many heavy­weights were included. With a brisk…

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Truth in Fabrics Protecting Wool Interests

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1941 · page 3

Australian wool interests have frequently asked for the passing of a Truth in Fabrics Act to protect the public from having goods sold to them…

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Registration of Wheat Farms

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 2

The Department of Commerce advises that the distribution of application forms for the registration of wheat farms and the licensing of…

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Fellmongered Wool Supplies More Sheepskins Available

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 6

As about 2,000,000 bales of wool have already been appraised in Australia for the first half of the year 1940/41 the second…

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Wool Selling Charges

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 4

The Farmers and Graders’ Co-op, Ltd. reports: We have already announced that we propose to pay a bonus of 40 per…

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Wool-selling Charges

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 6

The Farmers & Graziers Co-op. Co., Ltd., reports:— We have, already announced that we propose to pay a bonus of 40 per cent…

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Wheat Farms Must Be Registered Growers Must Fill in Forms Closing Date January 25

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 3

Applications to register wheat farms should be returned not later than January 25, 1941 to country agents of the Australian Wheat Baord at Sidings…

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Results for Wool Record Quantity Appraised

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd, report:-- The Australian wool trade has this week completed the most strenuous period in tis history. It has received…

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R.A.S Wheat Competition Champion Yields

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 3

The average estimated yield of 47 local winning crops judged in connection with the Royal Agricultural Society’s field wheat championship…

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Escape From Welfare Farm

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 1

LEETON, Friday: Three boys escaped from the Yanco Welfare Farm on Wednesday afternoon and later in the day a motor car was reported…

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Changing Farm System Australia's Need Policy for Wheatgrowers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 4

Farming, especially in the wheat country, is destined to change materially within the next decade. The system on which it has been built up, apart from economic…

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W.A.N.S. Performing Farm Work More Workers Needed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 2

Members of the W.A.N.S. are filling farm jobs. Because of the shortage of male labor owing to enlistments, 101 members of the W.A.N.S. organisation…

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Boys Escape From Welfare Farm Robberies Reported Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 2

Three boys escaped from tile Yanco Welfare Farm on Wednesday after-noon sod later in the day a motor car was reported missing from Acacia…

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Jersey Cattle in Australia an Optimistic Note

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1941 · page 7

Confidence in the future of the Jersey cattle breed in Australia is reflected by the contents of volume 27 of the stud book just published by the…

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The Dairy Farm Two Methods of Dealing with Milk Fever

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1941 · page 7

Known almost the world over as "milk fever," this disease is in no way a fever, for it is not associated with any rise in body temperature. It may…

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World's Worst Wheat Scourge Scientist Co-operates with Australian Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 4

"Take-all." the wheat disease caused by the fungus ophiobolus graminis which destroys roots, may won disappear from the world's great…

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Homebush To-day Sheep Market Rises

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson report:— ‘At Homebush to-day we penned 17185 sheep, The market was 3/- to 4/- dearer; ewes 4¼d/, wethers 5d,…

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Square Deal for Wool Protection From Substitutes

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 3
Also in Daily Advertiser

Legislation to protect woolgrowers and wool-users from having substitutes foisted on to them by false labelling is likely…

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Farmer Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 2

Mr. W. Turner, of Old Junee, met with a remarkable accident during the course of his farming operations. He was cranking a tractor, when the…

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