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Farming & the land, 1941

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Wool Outlook Large Postwar Demand Possible

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 4

The weekly wool chart at Bradford gives the index of average prices of wool tops and yarns in December as 158, compared with 157 in November…

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Wheat Sales Another Ten Million Bushels Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 2

It was announced to-day that a further 10,000,000 bushels of wheat had been sold by Australia in the last few weeks. This makes the total sales…

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Wool the World Over the Countries Who Sell

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 6

Australian wool more than ever dominated world supplies last year. The clip for the appraisement season was round 3,600,000 bales—nearly…

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American Wool Needs The Clip and the Rain

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 6

An American authority estimates that 80 lb, of greasy wool is needed to equip a soldier on the scale of equipment…

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Mr. Ron MacKEE Senior Steep and Wool Expert Death in Sydney

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 5

Mr. Ron MacKee, senior sheep and wool expert, Department of Agriculture, died in Sydney yesterday. He underwent a serious operation in…

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Urgent Attention Farmers and Share Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 2

Forms now available for registration of wheat farms and license to grow wheat. Information required: Shire, county, parish, and portion numbers,…

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Registration of Wheat Farms and Growers' Licences

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 6

It was learnt from the Department of Commerce that the distribution of the application forms for registration tion of wheat farms and the licensing…

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Wheat Industry Stabilisation

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

The Wheat Industry Stabilisation plan was based on a marketable crop of 140 million bushels, plus 20 million bushels for feed and seed, or a total…

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Season's Wool Clip

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 1

Figures from hundreds of representative shearing sheds in New South Wales and Victoria indicate that the season's wool clip will be…

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Skeleton Weed Sheep Average Well

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

Two trucks of Junee district sheep which throughout the drought had been fed on the denounced skeleton weed, averaged 20/3, when, sold at…

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More Oats, Less Wheat Diversified Farming Building Up Fodder Reserves

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 5

"Fodder reserves of all kinds are at their lowest, and 1841 presents as excellent opportunity to build up stores of oaten silage, hay, and grain on the…

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Wheat Position European Production

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

Official estimates of the new season’s wheat crop in Europe agree fiat the production will be about 1,376,000 000 bushels. This is one-fifth less than the…

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U.s. Winter Wheat

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

The United States Department Agriculture report that the sown acreage of winter wheat crop is estimated at 46,271,000 acres. This…

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Wheat Stabilisation Scheme CANBERRA

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

The implementation of the Federal Government proposals for the stabilisation of the wheat industry will be considered by the Wheat Industry…

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Wheat Stabilisation Conference on Monday Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

The Wheat Industry Stabilisatiln Board Federal and State officials will confer in Melbourne on Monday regarding the implementation of the…

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Wheat Acreages Safe to Hake Nominal Sowing Stabilisation Plan

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 5

The preparation of the normal acreage for sowing under the wheat industry stabilisation scheme in the coming season will be safe, the…

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Wheat Stabilisation Acreage to Be Sown Average Areas May Be Prepared

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 1

Satisfactory progress is being made with the distribution by the Australian Wheat Board of the forms for the registration of wheal farms and the…

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Theft of Bonds Alleged Against Poultry Farmer Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

George Edward Goulder, retired police superintendent, aged 81 years, denied in the Kogarah Court to-day, that while living alone in a…

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Correspondence More Farms Change to Italians (To the Editor)

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

Sir.—Although we are at war with Italy, we still see the farms being mopped up by Italians. The Government should direct the Rural Bank…

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Inspector Purchased Previous Night's Milk Dairyman Fined for Selling Adulterated Milk

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

ON the morning following Christmas Day the Council's health inspector went out gathering samples of milk. Among the…

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