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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

1,697 stories in Riverina's papers · page 55 of 85

Levy on Wool F.S.A. Conference Discussion Wheat Acreages Col. Bruxner on "Shooting the Sheep"

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The principle of a higher levy on wool for publicity and research was approved by the…

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Wagga Sheep Market Good Demand for Fats

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 4

The associated agents of Wagga Messrs. Younghusbarwi Ltd., Tapscott, Thorne & Co., Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., Ltd…

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Wheat Sowing Down Much Below Goal

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 4

It was now certain that the wheat [?] in New South Wales this season would be a long way behind the goal of [?] bares states the Government…

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Wool and War—clothing for Millions

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 5

Winchcombe Carson. Ltd. report that recent variations in the New York futures top market, although not great give indications of the effects…

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Wool Propaganda R.S.A. Conference Discussion

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: The principle of a higher levy on wool for publicity and research was approved by the Farmers and Settlers Association at…

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Wool Trade Anxiety Post-war Stocks and Sales

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 4

Present huge world stocks of wool, and the absence of definite plans for disposal of Australian clips after existing contracts expired, made wool…

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Melbourne Stud Sheep Sale Top Prices to Guthrie Corriedals Demand for Polwarths

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Corriedale stud rains brought good prices in a fairly active market at the stud sheep sales in…

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Co-operative Community Farm

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 2

Mr. Thornton has been invited to accent the secretaryship. Mr. Pat Grace and Mr. J. J. Whittle are to be the trustees. Mr. J. Ellis, Mr. Sam…

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60 Soils and Irrigation Extension Service Controlling Irrigation on Farm 713 Successful Watering of Area's Most Dangerous Soils

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 1

.MR. O. J. Longhurst, of Farm 713, Yenda, and chairman of Yenda Producers, is now giving an account of his farming methods on the S.I.E.S. Session, Station 2RG, every Tuesday night at 7.30. His story vitally concerns every farmer on the M.I.A. Working with the C.S.I.R. Re…

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Milk Subsidy For District Dairymen

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 3

The Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. Herlihy) has announced that arrangements have been completed for the payment of a subsidy to producers of whole…

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Feed Wheat Released at Marinna

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1944 · page 2

There was a long queue of vehicles at the Marinna railway yards recently when wheat was released to farmers and others…

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Wheat and Oats Bigger Sowings This Season

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: A total of 68,000 more acres of wheat than the total area harvested last year had been planned to be sown by N.S.W…

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Sheep and Wool Examinations District Recruits

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 August 1944 · page 3

Owing to an error in the lists sent out from Sydney showing the results of the 1941 Sheen and [?] Diploma Examinations some of the…

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Levy on Wool F.S.A. Conference Discussion Col. Bruxner on "Shooting the Sheep."

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 August 1944 · page 4

The principle of a higher levy on wool for publicity and research was approved by the Farmers and Settlers' Assn. at its conference on…

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"Sheep-o” a Cruel Practice That Should Be Stopped

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 August 1944 · page 6

Because it is considered to be a cruel practice, the Junes branch de cided at its last meeting to ask the Graziers' Assn. and the AWU to instruct…

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Pastoral Outlook Very Poor Rain Needed Throughout District Gundagai P.P. Board Directors Meet

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 August 1944 · page 2

“The pastoral and agricultural outlook is very poor, owing to the severe frosts and lach of rain even now the [?]…

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Huge Total of Lend-lease Food Exports Dairy Products for Three ' Years Figures for Three Years

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 August 1944 · page 6

It was just three years ago May last that a blacked-out British freighter, dropped anchor at Tilbury docks in London with the first con…

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Sheep, Lambs, Cattle

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 August 1944 · page 2

The country Producers' Selling Co., Ltd., report the following sales a Homebush yesterday: There were 40,070 sheep and lambs…

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Record Sheep Pennings

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 8 August 1944 · page 4

Sheep penned at Flemington for the year to the end of June reached the record total of 4,176,020. Cattle yarded were 180,189. The figures for July…

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Wool Report

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 August 1944 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., report: On Tuesday, last this company offered their initial catalogue for the 1944-45 season, when we…

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