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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

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More Wheat Wanted But No Extra Super Available

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thurs.: The additional wheat which grower will be asked by the Commerce Minister (Mr. Scully) to sow this season will have…

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Old Dairy Farmers "Dying at Their Work"

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday: "Some aged people, struggling to keep their dairy farms going, had actually died at their work," said Sir Earle Page today…

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Dairy Hands Five Hundred Located to Othe[?] Industries

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Am order recently issued by the NSW Manpower Directorate, calling for the compulsory registration of m[?]n who had worked…

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Farm Transport

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 5

With rubber supplies still below essential requirements the problem of farm transport threatens to become more acute…

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Mechanised Farming No Grower Should Miss Demonstration

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 2

THE vast strides that have been made in the mechanical aids to farming, particularly in respect to vegetable growing, can only…

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Other States Interested New South Wales Farm Mechanisation Scheme

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 1

IT is particularly gratifying to me to learn that at the recent meeting of the Commonwealth Agricultural Council, a direct…

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80,000 Fewer Men on Farms

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 4

The total number of male employees in rural industry is estimated to have decreased from approximately 200,000, before the war to the vicinity of 120,000…

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From Our Issue of 29th FEBRUARY, 1924. Cotton Crop

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 4

Probably the best cotton crop in the State, is to be seen on the farm of Mr. R. Gowland, at Tooyal. Forty acres were sown in November, the crop being…

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“Release of Credit” No Substitute for Production Finance and Farming

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 4

It is extraordinary to find so many people baffled by what is celled “finance.” Much of the popular confusion about…

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Tyres for Farmers Supplies Not Available (From Department of Information)

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 2

With rubber supplies below essential requirements, it seems fairly likely that many farm vehicles now registered cannot continue to be kept supplied with…

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Wool Report

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 8

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd. reports on 23rd inst. We submitted our appraisement catalogue No. 129 on Monday,…

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Wheatgrowers Disappointed with Government Mr. Wilson on Delayed Payments Precarious Plight of Many Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday: Wheat farmers were keenly disappointed with the Commonwealth Government. Many…

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Gundagai Wool

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 2

At Winchcombe Carson’s Sydney wool appraisement last Thursday, Martin McCormick, South Gundagai, secured ewes 22d, 20¼d, 18d: wethers…

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Butter Pay

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 1

The output of butter from the Tumut Factory during the month of January was 69½ tons and the price paid suppliers was 1/4½ per…

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Wool Appraisements

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 4

Pitt. Son and Badgery Ltd., submitted at their appraisement in Sydney on Friday a selection of well grown clips of good average quality and…

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Seed Wheat Missing

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 2

A Nangus farmer sent for 10 bags of seed wheat at Cud[?]l, near Orange. This wheat, of the Napier variety, went 84 bushels to the acre After…

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"Tropica[?] Spread" New Butter for Troops

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday: Government experts believe that the newly discovered "tropical butter spread'" now wing produced for…

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Local & General Wool Report

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 2

Pitt, son, and Badgery, Ltd., report: We submitted for final appraisement on Friday 25th, a selection of wellgrown clips of good average quality…

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Mr. Field Thanks Wheat-growers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 2

By advertisement in this issue. Mr. E. Field extends thanks to wheat-growers of NSW for electing him by a large majority to the Australian…

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Butter Quota Cut For Non-Coupon Meals

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: It was announced by the Rationing Commission that a reduction of about 25 per cent. would be made from Wednesday…

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