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Farming & the land, 1941

1,943 stories in Riverina's papers · page 56 of 98

Sheep and Wool Examination Coolamon Students’ Successes Clarrie Robertson Tops the State

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 3

Coolamon students attained outstanding successes in the final certificate examination (year two) in sheep and wool training, conducted by the…

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Record Sheep Population

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 4
Also in Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser

Australia’s sheep population has now reached the gigantic total of 124,000,000, a figure far in advance of any previous records. It is out be…

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Boree Creek Sheep Sale

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 2

Messrs. Fischer Bros, and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report having held a very successful sheep sale at Boree…

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The Wheat Plan

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 2

The chairman of the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Board, Sir Clive McPherson, stated that at last meeting of the board a report received from…

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Surplus Wheat How Farmers May Dispose of Odd Lots

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The New South Wales Wheat Board has made the following arrangements to meet the convenience of any farmers who…

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Australian-wool Clothes

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 4

Wool is achieving great popularity in the United State [?] all manner of clothes. This very feminine Edwardian negligee, [?]gned by Walpole, is made in gossamer fine printed wool with a [?] wider sash of the is run with olive green velvet baby ribbon, [?]h a wider sash of the…

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Wagga Stock Sales Cattle Market

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 4

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

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State Wheat Crops Conditions As at 10th JULY, 1941. (From the State’s Marketing Bureau)

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 3

Owing to a dry autumn, wheat sowing operations were later than usual over a large section of the State. Rains were received towards the close…

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Japanese Ship Loads Wool and Leaves Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Japanese motor vessel Canberra Maru, which reached port yesterday after beings hove to 70 miles off Sydney Heads,…

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For the Man on Hie Land Long Range Planning on the Wheat Farm Need For More Diverse Programme Foreign Birds and Animals

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 4

Wartime exigency, future marketing Indications, and the basic principles of rood farming all pointed to a policy of "Grow Less Wheat," and make it a patriotic slogan, said Mr. H. Wenholz, Deputy Chief of the Division of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture, in a…

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Legislative Assembly Position of Dairy Farmers Increased Price Urged

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—An appeal for the Government to grant dairy farmers supplying milk an increase of 4d a gallon was made by Mr. Fitzgerald…

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Wheat Stocks 67 Million Bushels Still on Hand Exports Virtually Cease

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 4

Although last season’s wheat crop was the smallest for more than 20 years, and amounted, with the carry over from No. 2 pool, to only 89…

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Patriotic and War Fund Darlington Point and District Stock and Wool Drive

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 1

The Darlington point and District Patriotic and War Fund Committee acknowledges donations of sheep from the following Messrs. H. Kook…

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Farm Tenancy Scottish System Efficient Leaseholders Encouraged

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 4

By way ol contrast with the unsatisfactory conditions prevailing in Mew South Wales, farm tenancy in the United Kingdom is notable for the…

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Registered Farms Modification of Regulations Overcoming Anomalies

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday.—Farms which were prepared or fallowed for the purpose of sowing wheat before January, 1941, may now be granted…

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Prisoners on Farms Opposed by Agriculturists

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Chamber of Agriculture at its quarterly meeting to-day strongly opposed the use of prisoners of war for labor on…

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Farmers and Graziers Coy

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 4

Farmers and Grazier’ Co-operative Grain, Insurance and Agency Co Ltd., in a preliminary statement, reports that profit, after meeting…

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CORRESPONDENCE (To the Editor, Coolamon-Ganmain “Farmers’ Review.”) Shire Grader Operator

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 1

Sir.—I would crave space in your valuable and widely read paper to express my views regarding the recent action of the Shire Council in making…

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Superphosphate Price Big Rise Announced Government Subsidy to Help Farmers

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 2

Simultaneously with the announcement by the Acting Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Mr. McCarthy) that there would be further increase…

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