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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1943

1,726 stories in Riverina's papers · page 28 of 87

Government Loans for Dairy Companies Free of Interest

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—"The State Government is prepared to find substantial funds to the extent of £100,000 to assist the…

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Melbourne, Cattle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1943 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—At Newmarket to-day 1960 fat cattle were offered. Medium and plain quality, showing signs at the cold weather,…

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State Assembly Poison for Rabbits Mechanisation of Dairy Farms Hand Feeding of Sheep in Riverina

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—"We should encourage the breeding of rabbits and not exterminate them, so that we can provide food for the people." said…

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Mice Nibbling at Leeton Record Wheat Stack

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1943 · page 4

Mice are beginning to attack the huge wheat stick at the Leeton railway siding, the largest stack of wheat that has ever been built up at the…

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Wool Revenue A Record Reduced Clip Estimated Return From Clip, £71,000,000

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 13 May 1943 · page 4

Australia’s wool revenue for the current season, despite a decrease in the clip, is estimated at the record figure of £71,000,000. The righest previously record was £66,644,396 in the 19278/28 season…

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Australia’s Future and the Wool Industry Local Manufacture - More Population - Conserve water

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 13 May 1943 · page 4

The ideal from the Australian standpoint would be to grow the wool in Australia, handle it right through to the fabric stage and sell the fully manufactured product to overseas buyers. But nations abroad have well-established textile industries. Normally…

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Sheep, Lambs, Cattle

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 2

The Country Producers' Selling Co., Ltd. report the following sales at Homebush on Monday: There were 43,462 sheep and lambs…

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Sheep for Wool and Food Mutton's Greater Importance

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. reported on 11th: For years a marked disparity has existed in the demand for mutton carcases compared with lamb…

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Wheat Quotas

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 1

In the Legislative Assembly the Lands Minister (Mr. Tully) admitted that there had been a delay in the issue of wheat quotas to fanners to…

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Wheat Licenses

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 4

In our Tuesday issue was a letter from Mr. W. H. Stillman, secretary of the Wagga War Agricultural Committee, on the subject of the issuing…

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Cootamundba Special Sheep Sale

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., Cootamundra, in conjunction with the Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co., Ltd., of Sydney, conducted a special…

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U.s.a. Wheat Disappearance of Surplus

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 2

Wheat import queries in the U.S.A. have been suspended and wheat is now being imported free of duty from Australia and Canada…

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Big Moves Planned Mechanisation of Dairy Farms To Increase Output Envisaged by N.S.W. GOVERNMENT

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 3

Two important moves to improve the dairying industry are being contemplated by the N.S.W. and Federal…

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Wheat Licenses (To the Editor, “Coolamon-Genmain Review.”)

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 4

Sir.—Numerous inquiries have been made to the War Agricultural Committee respecting the position with regard to the issuing of licenses to grow wheat. The…

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Mice Begin to Nibble at Leetons Record Wheat Stack Trucking to Commence Next Month

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 1

MICE are beginning to attack the huge wheat stack in the Leeton railway siding, the largest stack of wheat that has ever been built…

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Proposed Vegetable Farms

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 1

In speeches at Singleton, and Muswellbrook on Saturday, Messrs. Abbott and Spooner, M.H.R.'s, condemned Government proposals to…

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Munitions Annexes May Have to Make Farm Machinery

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—"It is quite possible that there will be a reversion by certain munitions annexes to peacetime production to…

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War Agricultural Committees In Relation to Post-War Farming

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 4

In the course of a reply to some recent criticism of the War Agricultural Committee organisation, the New South Wales Minister for Agriculture,…

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Wheat Weevils Deterrent Found in Pharoahs' Tombs

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.—The "Daily Mail" states that an analysis of the earth from the Pharoahs' tomb has given scientists the formula of a…

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Henty Farmers and Settlers Resolutions for Conference

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1943 · page 4

The president (Mr. A. W. G. Wood) presided at the monthly meeting of the Henty branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, held on Tuesday…

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