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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

2,090 stories in Riverina's papers · page 49 of 105

Potatoes in Plenty Big Crops Wanted in N.S.W. MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 June 1942 · page 1

Nine thousand potato growers permitted to operate under the Army Potato Contract system, would next year probably produce…

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Dairy Herds Serious Depletion Deputation to Minister

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 June 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The depletion of the dairy herds in Australia by the sale of productive dairy cows as beef, together…

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No Sales Farm Hand Passed in

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 June 1942 · page 3

There was a large attendance of racing people at the Pastoral Hotel yards yesterday morning when the well-known racehorses. Farm Hand and…

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Wool Report

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers’ Co-operative Co. reports on the 12th instant: The final round of appraisements of the 1941-42 sown [?] from Tuesday, June…

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Sheep Stealing at Homebush

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 4

What is believed to be the first case of sheep stealing in the Sydney metropolitan area for at least half a century, occurred at Homebush State…

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Limestone for Sheep More Valve Than Phosphate

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 4

Experience is accumulating to show that calcium is much more valuable to sheep than phosphate, and this may have a decided…

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Dehydration Offers Wide Scope For Surplus Sheep

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 3

The matter of dehydration plants in the country was recently discussed by the Farmers and Settlers' Association in Junee, when the proposal…

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Wheat Payment on No. Four Pool

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 2

A fourth payment of 3d per bushel on wheat of the 1940-41 harvest (No. 4 pool) is payable on and after the 17th June. Farmers should apply to their banks…

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Sheep Must Be Shorn T Before August 16th

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 2

Zone shearing is now in force Sheep in the Leeton zone must he shorn before August 16. Mr. Roy Jones fs the representative in charge,…

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Payments for Wheat the No. 5 POOL

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 1

“We have Sir Earle Pages guarantee that no alteration would be made in the scheme to pay fanners 3/10 a bushel for 140,000,000 bushels of last season’s crop,…

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Wool Bought by A.c.f. Workers

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 2

Workers for the Australian Comforts Fund who in the past have bought their own wool are wondering whether purchases in future will…

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Wheat Growers Nightmare of Poverty to Be Ended

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 4

“I am determined to end the small growers’ nightmare of poverty and [?] of foreclosure and eviction. Those men constitute 70 per cent, of the wheat…

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Coolamon Fanners and Settlers’ Association Wheat Proposal Discussed

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 2

At the meeting of the Coolamon branch of the Farers and Settlers’ Association on Tuesday afternoon last, the proposal of the Minister for Commerce (Mr…

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Dairy Farming Decline "Confidence Must Be Restored"

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 3

"A drop in butter production of 14 per cent at a time when greatly Increased quantities are Seeded for ourselves and for Great Britain is deplorable."…

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Wheat Plan Surplus Chop Raises Problem (From The Land)

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 1

The wheal plan recently announced by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) providing for the payment of 4 a bushel for the first 3,000 bushels of each…

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Food Production Effect of Farmers' Action

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Director-General of Manpower (Mr. Wurth) said to-day that the production of vital foodstuffs was…

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Potato Prices Growers' Minimum for New Crop

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Commerce Minister (Mr. Scully) has announced an increase In the minimum price to be paid by the Australian Potato Committee to growers for next year's…

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Labour Pools to Meet Shortage of Manpower on Farms

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 2

The Director General of Manpower, Mr. Wurth, said last night, farmers, also country men and women, would be asked to form labour pools to…

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CORRESPONDENCE (To the Editor, Coolamon-Genmain “Farmers’ Review.”)

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 3

Sir.—I am sorry that “The Promoter” of the Glee Club has so exposed har[?] Your readers will do doubt judge for themselves the value of her invective…

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Wheat Plantings

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1942 · page 2

The area to be planted for wheat for all purposes this year may approximate 3,300,000 acres, representing a decrease of about 24…

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