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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

2,206 stories in Riverina's papers · page 28 of 111

Control of Bunt in Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 4

Wheat growers are urged by the Department of Agriculture to pay particular attention this season to the treatment of seed for the…

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Winter Shelter for Sheep Value of Trees

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 4

Insufficient provision for the shelter of stock is a weakness in the management of many pastoral holdings, and at a consequence…

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Government Failure to Pay Wheat Men

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday: Alterations that the Government had falled to pay the growers the full value of wheat acquired…

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More Uses for Wool Brighter Future

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 6

Prior to the war French buyers were the chief factors in the sale of short wool sheepskins in Australia. They are now purchasing them freely. A…

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Wheat Price Soaring 10/41 a Bushel

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 1

Export wheat in Australia is now worth 10/4¾ a bushel, bagged basis, on trucks [?] ports. The Minister for Commerce, Mr…

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Shortage of Super Next Wheat Harvest In Danger

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 4

SHORTAGE of superphosphate with the sowing of next season's wheat crops already started or about to start, was a serious…

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Died in the Wool the Story So Far

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 3

Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn is investigating the strange murder of Mrs. Florence Kubrick, M.P., who disappeared from her husband's station in Southern New Zealand, and whose body was later found in a bale of wool. Alleyn finds the trail…

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£3 1/2 Millions to Wheat Growers Feed Grain in No. 7 POOL

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 4

The Commonwealth Government has agreed to pay growers an additional £3,500,000 on wheat sold at concession rates from the No. 7 (1943 crop)…

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For the Man on the Land Food to Win the Peace Maximum Wheat Sowings Called For

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 4

Food played a big part in winning the war, and it will have to play a major part in winning the peace, points out the "Agricultural Gazette." "The food famine which threatens…

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An Interesting Talk by Mr. A. W. Walker Dairying Former Senior Dairy Instructor This District Compared To Others and N.Z.

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 7

Speaker at Monday's Rotary luncheon was Mr. A. W. Walker, technical adviser to the Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society, and…

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Possibilities of Stimulating Dairying On Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas Considered By. M.I. Areas Joint Executive Committee

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 3

THE conference between Government departments and the M.I. Areas Joint Executive Committee, held at the Commission's office, Leeton, on the 28th March last, was devoted to consideration of the possibilities of stimulating dairying on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation…

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Superphosphate for Farmers

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 4

Raid tracks have bedit [?] and the road lax [?] [?] by [?] been waived to [?] the [?]…

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The Dairying Industry

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 4

Mr. W. F. Heydon, Manager of the Tumut Co-operative Dairy Co., stated:-- "I won't detain you very long, because many of the previous speakers…

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Died in the Wool

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 3

Ursula slipped down to the warm dry grass and leant her cheek against her guardian's knee. Her guardian's vigorous fingers caressed…

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Discussion Wanted On Wool Profits

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday. The Australia Woolgrowers' Council would appreciate the opportunity for a full discussion with representatives of the…

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Country Party Conference Discusses Wheat Area Schools in Rural Districts

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: The need for a wheat marketing price which would encourage growers to stay and stimulate the return of ex-servicemen on the land was stressed by the chairman of the Australian Country…

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Poultry Notes Care of Eggs On the Farm

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 6

The method of storing eggs on the tuna, awaiting despatch to market, often leaves much to be desired. The room in which the…

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Australia's Bumper Wheat Crop

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday: Australia will be able to make a greater contribution than previously anticipated to the…

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Special Sheep Sale at Young

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 4

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd in conjunction with H. M. Troup and Co. associated with Dalgety and Co., Ltd. Sydney report having held a…

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Millions for Wool Research

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 8

More than £7' million accumulated during the war by the Central Wool Committee will not be taken into consolidated revenue or distributed to…

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