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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

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Money and Markets Wool for America Obviating a Squeeze in the U.S.A.

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1941 · page 9

WOOL in large quantities has been shipped recently to the United States. This is in accordance with British policy, which is to gain dollar credits through exports. But it coincides also with policy in the United States, where the desire is to…

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Queer Love: Death Climax Girl Poisoned; Brother Charged: Weird Drama On Lonely Mallee Farm

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1941 · page 17

SERAPHIC angels in their flowing robes of chastened white, floated down past the mouldy rafters of a rusted corrugated iron cowshed, on a lonely Mallee farm They had come down from Heaven to…

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Bull Kills Aged Farmer AUCKLAND

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1941 · page 4

Farmer Henry Sill, who weighs 16 stone, was twice tossed more than six feet in the air by a bull which…

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Farmer wants war industry regimented

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 February 1941 · page 5

Mr. William O. Manning, Curlewis wheatfarmer, said last night he favored complete regimentation of industry with everyone being told what to do and how much they…

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Local Butter Quality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 4

The chief of the division of dairying, Mr. O. C. Ballhausen, reports that during last week 91.1 per cent. of the boxes of butter examined by the State butter…

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Australian Butter Production

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 5

As a result of heavy rain which has fallen recently, dairying prospects in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland have improved, according to a…

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Wool Appraisements to Finish Soon

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 11

The main wool appraisement season should finish in the first week in March, states Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Ltd…

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Dairy Farmers' Future. Market for Years Ahead. MURWILLUMBAH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 4

"When we win the war there definitely will be a market for our product overseas for some years ahead, even after making…

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Oversea Wheat Position Lindley Walker's Special Report SYDNEY, January 31

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 2

Our cable this week, reviewing International wheat markets, reads:—"Argentine—movement…

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On the Land. Stock Sales. Sheep and Lambs Firm. Cattle Market Unaltered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 6

Rates for both sheep and lambs at the Flemington saleyards yesterday were generally firm, and on the day operators would find their…

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"Sun" Pictorial Features Popeye the Sailorman Pastoral

The Sun · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 11

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 1

All overseas quotes are for Saturday, February 1, 1911, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Chicago Values:…

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Cattle on the Upper Hunter. Scone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 6

One of the best stock sales in the north for years was held to-day by Keen and Co. The yarding, comprising 1,238 cattle (1[?]5 calves) averaged £7 a head…

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Junket to You— "Wool" to Them The Future of "Ersatz" in Textiles

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 15

THE curator of the Sydney Technological Museum, Mr. A. R. Penfold, startled members of the Feminist Club last Tuesday when he…

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Cabbages for Sydney. Ideal Conditions at Robertson. Big Summer Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 6

The Robertson district produces some of the best summer cabbages seen on the Sydney market. Here, on the well-watered tableland…

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Pioneers of Dairy Co-operation. An Illawarra Venture

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 6

"The claim that the late Mr. C. E. D. Meares was the pioneer of co-operative marketing in Australia is not correct," said Mr. D. McFadyen, of Lindfield…

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Good Crops, Good Prices For Fruit

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 6

The New South Wales apple and pear crops this season were the best ever known, the State superintendent of the Apple and Pear Board (Mr. H. A…

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Wheat Market

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 February 1941 · page 11

Demand for wheat for export flour was quieter, while the local market showed little change yesterday. Sales to the produce trade were quiet…

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Wheat and Dairy Produce. Empire Show Entries

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1941 · page 5

Excellent support for two of the agricultural sections of the Royal Empire Show is revealed in the number of entries received for wheat and dairy produce…

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Big Floods in Hungary. Wheat Crops Ruined. BUDAPEST, Feb. 4. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1941 · page 11

The Hungarian Minister of the Interior to-day informed Parliament that 492,000 acres had been submerged by floods. The winter wheat crop, mostly…

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