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Farming & the land, 1940

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Britain Bags Two New Heinkels German Bomber Kills Three Sheep Sky Raids Fail London, Tuesday. Our Own Cable Service

Daily News · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3

GERMANY lost two of her latest and fastest Heinkel bombers and Britain lost three sheep in yesterday's battles over the North Sea and the Shetland Islands. In one encounter, three British planes fought two…

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Farm Machinery Freights

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 6

The Railway Commissioners have informed the Farmers and Settlers' Association that they consider the freights on farm machinery reasonable and are unable to accede to a…

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Sheep and Wool Progress. Work of the Experts. Lamb-raising Trials

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 5

One definite influence in the improvement of sheep and wool in New South Wales is the work of the experts attached to the Department of…

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Big Increase Wool and Sheep Figures Best Lambing on Record in West

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 5

FURTHER confirmation of the expectation that the State's sheep population has been heavily increased during the pact year comes from the…

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Wheat Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 6

There was a steady inquiry for wheat for flour for export when trading was resumed by the Australian Wheat Board yesterday, after the New Year holidays. Produce…

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Wool Exports

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 5

IT is expected that exports of wool will be made to the United States, Japan and neutral European countries early this year. Since the Australian…

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St. Marys Cattle Sale

Nepean Times · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers' co. has 125 head of cattle listed for the sale at Newmarket Saleyards to-morrow. 5th inst. Included in the numbers…

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Movements of Stud Cattle

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 6

STUDMASTERS report the following movement nf stud stock:— WUNGLEBUNG MR. R. W. TOMKINS, [?]…

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Wheat for Japan

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 2

A Japanese steamer lias arrived at Sydney from Japan via Ocean Island, to load a full cargo of bulk wheat back to Japan. It is…

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Tasks Ahead The Pastoral Industry Rapid Changes

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 2

THERE is immediate necessity for arrangements to be made to enable America to obtain a supply of Australian fine wool, since the stocks…

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"Ruby Reds" The Cattle of Devonshire

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 6

"MODERN Meat Marketing," published by the meat trade in England, gives the following account of the earlier history of Devon cattle:…

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Cattle Breeders Seek Improved Transport Conditions

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

THE United Stud Beet Cattle Breeders' Association has notified the United Pure-Bred Dairy Cattle Breeden' Association that it is fully in accord with…

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Dead Wool for Tasmania

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 5

As a precaution against the introduction of anthrax into Tasmania, the Government of that State has issued a proclamation relating to the import of dead wool No such…

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Japan's Aims Breeding Sheep in Mongolia

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 5

CABLES indicate that plans are being made to extend sheep breeding in Japan and its territories. Japan has been a regular buyer of Australian bred…

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Treatment of Pink-Eye in Sheep

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 5

APPLICATION of one or other of the following lotions is recommended by the stock branch of the Department of Agriculture for treatment of ophthalmia,…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 1

All overseas Quotes are for Tuesday, January 2, 1940, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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"National Butter." London, Jan. 3. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 10

A regulation which will maintain the retail price of butter at 9d a lb will come into force on Monday. It has been decided that all butter offered…

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Tasmanian Wool Clip New Year Catalogues

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 2

"Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., report:—Tasmania will open the second half of the Australian wool season with appraisements…

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Why Cotton? Wool Displaced in Australia

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 5

ALTHOUGH the world'i greatest wool-producing country, Australia is officially supplanting wool with cotton and fabrics…

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Wheat Restrictions Fatal without Practical Supplementary Scheme

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 1

ONE of the first and most important things to be dealt with tills month will be with regard to the proposed restriction of what…

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