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Farming & the land, 1940

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Wool Stocks and Needs New South Wales Increased Clip

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— The war in Europe contrasts with 1914 experiences in many…

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Oversea Wheat Position Lindley Walker's Special Report. SYDNEY, March 11

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 2

Our cable this week reviewing International wheat markets, reads:— "Europe generally milder—…

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Margarine for Guests. M.L.A.'s Tea Party. Thought It Was Butter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 14

How he had subsituted margarine for butter at afternoon tea when four friends visited his home, and then asked them how they enjoyed the meal,…

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Issue Price of Wool. Australian Move. Concern in U.S.A. New York, March 12. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 14

Brokers and importers are disturbed by the publication in the United States of the resolution by the Australian Woolgrowers'…

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Lottery Win Timely For Burnt-Out Farmer WAGGA

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 1

Mr. W. J. Cutler, Tarcutta farmer, who shared second prize in today's State Lottery with a share-farmer, E. Lovekin, had a timely win. In a bushfire recently he lost…

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Rural Properties Bought by Italian Farmers

Il Giornale Italiano · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 1

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Bombala Show Champions in Sheep and Cattle Sections

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 11

MERINGS provided one of the strongest flections at Bombala show last week. Grand champion ram was exhibited by Mr. Alban Platts and reserve…

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DISAPPOINTING Dairy Cattle at Glen Innes

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the dairying industry is developing rapidly in the district, the number of dairy cattle exhibited at Glen Innes show was disappointing…

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Wheat Market

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 7
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Rates fixed by Australian Wheat Board are:—Millers' lots, expert and home consumption, bagged, 4/0½ per bushel. For produce trade, bagged, under 3,000…

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Monday's Wool Appraisements

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 5

Appraisements of clips on Monday, March 11. have been supplied by the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association. COUNTRY PRODUCERS SELLING CO., LTD.,…

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The Man on the Land. Reports and Hints. Outstanding Dairy Show Cattle

The Catholic Press · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 40

Dairy cattle entered for the Royal Show this year will furnish proof of the progress that has been made by this industry. From the viewpoint of excellence of breeding, a…

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SATISFACTORY Norco Chairman on Butter Sale

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 2

MR. D. McRAE, chairman of Norco Co-op., Ltd., consider that the contract for the sale of Australia's surplus butter to Britain is working…

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Good Cattle Show Awards at Manilla

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 7

THERE was a good exhibition of beef cattle at the Manilla show, competition being good in Shorthores and Herefords, where some…

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Sheep Manure Cause of Weed Infestation

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 11

OWING to the probability of. Its being the source of weed infestation on the Murrumbidgee irrigation Area, the complete banning of…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 1

All overseas quotes are for Tuesday, March 12, 1940, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Farm Work in N.Z. Wheat and Fat Lambs Observations by a Reader

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 3

INTERESTING points about agriculture in New Zealand are contained in a letter forwarded to the "Farmer and Settler," by Mr…

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Sheep Classing. As a Means of Increasing Profits

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 45

However small the flock, it pays to class it periodically. The beat time to class is just before shearing, as the sheep are then carrying a full fleece…

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Stud Sheep from England Prize-winning Ryelands for Urandangie

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 11

THE first war-time consignment of stud sheep from England arrived recently, and comprised sheep for several States…

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Canberra and Cooma. Agricultural Shows. Big Sheep Entries. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 5

The Australian Capital Territory show opened at Hall in a drought-parched countryside Awaids:- Sheep.—Open class—Merinos, fine wool, all first…

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