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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

1,943 stories in Riverina's papers · page 65 of 98

Wool Appraisements

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 September 1941 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—The first wool appraisements for the 1941-42 season were announced to-day, and showed that 45,108 bales were appraised, compared with 36,050…

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Wool Industry Prices Sheepsback to Fabric

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 September 1941 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. reported on the 9th: The British woollen mill industry has had contrasting experiences since the war started. For a…

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Correspondence. (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents) Wheat Stabilisation (To The Editor, "The Daily Advertiser")

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 September 1941 · page 6

Sir.—In a recent issue of "The Daily Advertiser" I noticed a letter signed "Wheat" Well, Mr. Editor, if there are many farmers like "Wheat."…

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Sheep Skin Vests

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 4 September 1941 · page 6
Also in The Gundagai Independent

After last shearing 40,000 pelts were sent to the Country Women's Association Sheep Skin Vest Committee for the making of sheep skin…

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Menace to Butter Quality Week-end Carelessness on the Farm

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 4 September 1941 · page 2

With the approach of warmer weather there must be faced again the problem presented by such conditions in relation to the…

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Seven Sheep Supply Gut for One Tennis Racquet

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 September 1941 · page 4

Five million yards of British music strings are shipped every year from London to countries as far apart as Iceland and the…

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Wool Industry Prices Sheepsback to Fabric

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 September 1941 · page 6

The British woollen mill industry has hail contrasting experiences since the war started, report Messrs Winchcombe…

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Control of Sheep Blowfly New Dressing Gives Promising Results

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 4 September 1941 · page 2

A new sheep blowfly dressing containing boric acid, tar oil, bentonite, and a wetting agent in water is described by F. G. Lennox, in a…

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State [?] Newsletter Tenant and Share Farming

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 4 September 1941 · page 8

The system of tenant and share farming has been allowed by previous Governments to become one of our gravest rural problems in this…

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[?] Dairymen's Demands

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 4 September 1941 · page 8

Efforts are being made in New South Wales and Victoria to have the price of butter increased by twopence or threepence a pound…

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Ardlethan Sheep and Cattle Market

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 1

The usual monthly stock side was held on Friday last, when about 1600 sheep and 15 head of cattle were submitted on account of various local…

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Wool Report

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 4

The Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 29th instant. We submitted our Appraisement…

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Menace to Butter Quality Week-end Carlessness on the Farm

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 4

With the approach of warmer weather there must be faced again the problem presented by such conditions in relation to the maintenance of cream quality…

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Future of Wool Post-war Marketing

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 4

Problems of post-war wool marketing already are being discussed in grazing circles. A special committee of the Australian…

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Wool Industry Prices Sheepback To Fabric

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 3

[?], Carson, Ltd., report:--The British woollen [?] has had contracting [?] since the war started…

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Legislative Assembly Margarine Mixed with Butter Allegedly Supplied to Camps SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 2

Allegations that a mixture of margarine and butter was being supplied to men iu military camps in New South Wales were made in Parliament…

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For the Man on the Land Power Alcohol From Wheat Commonwealth Government's Scheme Mr. A. C. Chandler and the Western Lands Bill

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 4

The decision of the Commonwealth Government to proceed with a scheme for the production of power alcohol from wheat will be welcomed by growers, promising as it does, not only to render Australia less dependent on outside supplies of a fuel vitally Important to its war…

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Farmers' Relief Bill

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 2

Important mesures to give further relief to farmers were announced by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Tully) during the second reading of the…

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Land Boom in England Demand for Farms

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 4

The war has brought a strange reverse process in agricultural economy in England, whereby farms which, before the war, could not be disposed of to-day are almost…

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