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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

6,739 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 250

Chicago Wheat Weaker. Chicago, Match 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 6

Chicago wheat prices declined slightly fuiihei to-day, following a fall of about one cent per bushel yesterday. The weakening tendency of the market is…

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Wool Consumption Expected To Be Maintained

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 11

LONDON, Sunday.--The British wool and textile trade does not expect any further curtailment of wool consumption in the United Kingdom to…

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Coastal Dairy Farm Competition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 6

It was announced this week that a coastal dairy farm competition for 1941 would be conducted by the "Farmer and Settler" in conjunction with the…

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Farmer's Body in Dam. Wyong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 11

John Stenhouse, 53, poultry farmer, of K[?]nwal, was found drowned in a dam on his property to-day. An inquest will be held to-morrow. Stenhouse is survived by a…

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Banana Crop Overdone. "Wild Rush" in North. MURWILLUMBAH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 6

Banana growing is being overdone in New South Wales. For 22 cases sent to market from this district a farmer received a cheque for…

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Navel Orange Crop. Threat of Fruit Fly. Worst on Record

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 6

All available supplies of sodium fluosilicate in Melbourne and Sydney have been bought up by two citrus growers' organisations in the…

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Local Butter Quality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 6

The chief of the division of dairying, Mr. O. C. Ballhausen, reports that during last week 83.8 per cent, of the boxes of butter examined by the State butter…

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Wheat Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 6

Inquiry from local produce merchants in the Sydney wheat market yesterday was restricted Wheat for export flour also met a sluggish demand but trading…

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American Wool Demand

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 2

In their recent report the Central Wool Committee included a statement regarding shipments of wool to the United States. Of a total shipment of 2,625,064 bales during the 1939-40 period…

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Illawarra Cattle. Rapid Progress of Breed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 6

The extent of the contents of the latest volume of the Australian Illawarra Shorthorn Herd Book, which has Just been issued, is convincing evidence, if…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 1

All overseas quotes are for Saturday, March 22, 1941, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney are…

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Wool Market in U.S.A Indication of Confidence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 6

The New York futures wool top market has been practically maintained at the advance recorded in early February. In view of lwavy imports of wool from…

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First Cattle Arrive for Royal Show — Trotters Break Australian Record — Invalided A.i.f. Troops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 12

Binnia Ebony, a beef Shorthorn bull, being led to the pavilion at the Showground yesterday when the first cattle arrived for the Royal Empire Show…

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Three Women and Farm Growing Maize at Windsor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 10

WINNING through after a heartbreaking season of drought, three women farmers on a property at Cattai Creek, near Windsor, are…

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Child Killed by Farm Truck

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Monday.--While playing on his father's farm at Brownsville, near Dapto, this afternoon, a 19-months-old child was fatally injured…

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Wool and Double Shearing Effects of Abundant Feed

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 2

In their latest report "Winchcombe Carson Ltd. state:—"Because of the abundance of green feed, coupled with moist climatic…

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Law Case. Carriage of Wheat Contract Shipowners' Appeal Fails

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 1

Judgment was given recently by the Court of Appeal consisting of Lords Justices MacKinnon, Luxmoore and du Parcq, dismissing the interlocutory appeal in the dispute between the Ocean Steamship Co., Ltd., of Liverpool, and…

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Tallong's Apple Crop. Revenue Increased by £1,000. GOULBURN

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 8

Mr. T. N. Powell, district fruit inspector, told the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce that, through the establishment of the Apple and Pear Board,…

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Cleanliness on Farms. Essential for Good Cream

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 8

Government dairy instructors, in their monthly reports to headquarters, again draw attention to the absolute need for cleanliness at the source of milk…

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Light Barley Crop. 3,000,000 Bushels Sold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 8

The manager and chairman of the Australian Barley Board, Mr. H. M. Tomlinson, stated yesterday that he expected the whole of the No. 1 Pool barley,…

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