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Farming & the land, 1940

6,932 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

Farm Notes and News Uses for Surplus Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 10

FOUR large research stations, costing the U.S.A. Treasury £1,000.000 annually, have of recent years been investigatingf the development of industrial uses…

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Monday's Wool Appraisements

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 4

Appraisements of clips on January 15 of the Australian wool clip purchase plan have been supplied by the Sydney Wool Selling Brokeis' Association…

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To Buy Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 9

AMERICA would take large quantities of wool from the British Empire in 1940—at least double the 75,000 bales now available from Britain, said Dr…

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Counting Sheep is an Art

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 4

IT may be taken as a fact that unless one is born with or has developed an aptitude for this work he will never make a first class sheep counter…

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Want Wheat Scrip Negotiable

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--South Australian wheat farmers have asked the Commonwealth Government to have scrip for wheat deliveries made…

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Wheat Payments. Central Bank's Funds

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 6

Wide movements are apparent in the balance-sheet of the Commonwealth Bank this week. Into it enter a reduction of the note issue from the…

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Satisfactory Wheat Sales Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 17

The sales of 750,000 tons of wheat to Great Britain will give a return to the Commonwealth of about £5,100,000…

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Hair Worm Cause of Trouble in Sheep

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 9

MOST of the trouble in sheep during December was due to internal parasites and the one noted in all cases investigate was the…

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Australia's Wool Sale Its Advantages

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., report:—The wool market in the United States and elsewhere has not shown signs of booming…

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Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 4

A LIFELONG association with stock and their kindred affairs has produced an excellent salesman in Mr. C. E. Wallder, chief stock auctioneer of the…

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Wheat Market. Flour Cheaper; Offal Dearer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 6

Little activity was noticed in the Sydney wheat market yesterday. The market was practically lifeless. There was no inquiry for wheat for flour for export…

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Berry Show Good Entry of Cattle is Expected

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 12

LARGE entries of dairy cattle were expected for Berry show on February 2 and 3, said the secretary of the A. and H. Association (Mr. L. P. Higgins) this…

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Wheat Boom Near Upward Trend in Prices

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 5

The world wheat position has improved beyond the expectations of Federal Ministers…

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Wool Position in S. Africa London

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 38

The official journal of the Wool Council of South Africa points out that the average price of 10¾d a lb. sterling, in the grease, guarantees the grower that minimum…

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Wool Becomes Fashionable Work of International Secretariat

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 9

WHEN war broke out the bright young men of the International Wool Secretariat were busy putting women into trousers, with the object…

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Poison Plants Tests Made for Wool Board

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 9

FURTHER support to the theory that variegated thistle owes its poisonous properties at certain periods to the formation of nitrite from…

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Paris Still Leads Smart Women Will Wear Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 16

DESPITE the war, Paris is determined to continue as the fashion leader of the world. After having been closed during the first and second week of hostilities, all the leading Paris houses have re-opened, and new ideas are flowing outward once…

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Advantages Sale of Australian Wool Flow of Cash

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 9

THE wool market in the United States and elsewhere has not shown signs of booming. The New York futures top market from its…

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POSSIBLE More Pigs on the Dairy Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 13

THERE should be no difficulty in greatly increasing the average number of breeding pigs—six sows and one boar—kept on dairy farms…

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Dairy Farm Competition National Importance Entries Will Close in April

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 13

AT a meeting of the organising committee this week it was decided that entries for the Coastal Dairy Farm…

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