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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

2,090 stories in Riverina's papers · page 37 of 105

Wool Agreement Must Be Reviewed To Stabilise Pastoral Industry South Africa Scored Over Australia.(reprinted From the “Albury Banner.)

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 3

FEW among the general body of Australian taxpayers recognise that the financial stability of the Commonwealth will be linked more closely than ever with the future prosperity of the wool industry in this country…

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Cattle Trek Injections for Six Thousand

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday.—To safeguard the thousands of cattle which are to be travelled from the north­west of Australia to canneries…

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Ersatz Wool Claims May Be Greatly Exaggerated

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 3

The Wool Appraisement Scheme now nears the end of the third season and has been most successful in its man objects of supplying…

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Wool Output Appraisements This Season Fellmongers' Position

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 3

More than 1,277,100 bales of wool have been appraised in Sydney and Newcastle this season. The quantity shows an increase of…

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District Silos Will Provide Wheat For Starving Stock

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 4

A fortnight ago Junee sheep-owners were urgently in need of wheat with which to feed their animals, owing to the dry period through which…

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Use Illabo and Old Junee Grain Sheds To Store Wool

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 4

The Junee branch of the Graziers' Association at a meeting in Junee on Friday afternoon last decided to recommend to the Federal…

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Pig Boom "Gentlemen Who Feed the Troops" Brighter Prospects for Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 3

"Pigs are again in the boom since the Minister for Commerce has promised us a return of approximately 61/2d lb at works for headless sides…

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This Is War Farmer-editor’s Lone- Handed Struggle

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 2

Apologising for the fact that a recent issue of the Bowraville “Guardian”, appeared a few days late, Mr R. Lamberth, a member…

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Cattle Trek

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 3

To safeguard the thousands of cattle which are to be travelled from the north-west of Australia to can-neries in Western Australia and…

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Zoned Wool Shearing Contribution to War Effort

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 4

The president of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales, Mr. H. R. Cowdery, made an appeal to sheepmen to accept the difficulties likely…

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Worm Parasites Of Sheep the Problems of War-t1me Control

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 2

TWO serious difficulties have arisen in regard to control of worm parasites of sheep since the war. First, many drugs are In a statement issued by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Mr. H. McL. Gordon writes that, to combat these shortages…

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Manpower on Farms Position in Dairying Industry

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday. — The chairman of the N.S.W. Cheese Processing Society (Mr. T. J. Bate), a former M.L.A., and a prominent dairy framer…

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Vegetables on the Murrumbidgee Excellent Crops

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 4

The biggest vegetable growing area in New South Wales at the present time is the Murrumbidgee irrigation district. Here large numbers of…

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Our Most Important Crop

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 1

It hut been well said that grass is our most important crop. The great majority of the sheep, cattle, and herses in New South Wales are…

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"Slur on Farmers' Sons" Reply to Mr. Bellemore

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 4

The general secretary of the Primary Producers' Association, Mr. J. L. Shute, said that one of the most unfortunate aspects of the…

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Junior Farmers Give Ambulance to Army

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 2

When Major-General A. C. Fewtrell, G.O.C., N.S.W. Lines of Communication Area, received an ambulance purchased with funds…

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Alleged Assault On Poultry Farm Magistrate Hears Conflicting Evidence and Reserves Decision

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 1

LIVELY happenings in a poultry pen were described at the Leeton police court on Wednesday last, before Mr. T. A…

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Butter Boxes New Control Order

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1942 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—An air der for the control of timber, gazetted to-night, restricts the quantity of timber which may be used…

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British Wool Price

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 13 May 1942 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., reported on the l2th: The Ministry of Agriculture has decided to grant a further increase of 2d per lb. to the British…

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Melbourne Cattle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—At Newmarket 1265 fat bullocks were offered and the quality was equal to that of last week. A large number of choice…

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