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Farming & the land, 1942

5,487 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 250

Less Wheat Needed Restrictions on Planting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 9

CANBERRA, Monday.—The Minister for Commerce Mr. Scully, to-day warned large wheat-growers that it might be…

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Wool Storage Inland Big "Shadow" Scheme

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 9

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Wool is to be stored in a chain of inland sheds so that it will not be exposed to the risks of enemy…

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Our Wheat For Russia If Soviet Sends Ships

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 5

CANBERRA, Monday.--Australia will supply Russia with large quantities of wheat if Russia sends her own ships to transport it. The Russian and Australian…

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Cart And Farm Horses Dominate Trot Races MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 10

Every place-getter except one at the Ascot trots yesterday has either worked in ploughs, harrows, bakers' or milk carts, furniture vans, has been used by cattle and sheep drovers, or has done some other…

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Allied Wheat for Greece

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 10

LONDON, Jan. 27 (A.A.P.).—The Minister for Economic Warfare, Dr. H. Dalton, announced in the House of Commons that Britain and America,…

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Census Of Cattle By Special Police

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 5

Special police were sent to Kempsey on Saturday to take a census of cattle. A systematic survey is in…

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Cattle May Be Moved No Help for Invaders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 11

A special force of police has arrived in Kempsey to make a census of cattle in the Macleay River districts. A survey is now being made of the…

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Average Wool Prices Labour and Rabbits

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— Until a wool season is finalised, it is impossible for the Central…

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Wool Storage. Quantities May Stay Inland

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 2

The Minister for Commerce, Mr. Scully, in an announcement from Canberra, said that "shadow" appraisement and storage sheds…

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Burrawang Potatoes Good Crops in Bad Season

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 5

Despite the long, dry spell, some fair potato crops are being dug from the deep volcanic red soil of the Burrawang district,…

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On the Land Better Dairy Conditions Upper Richmond Country

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1942 · page 5

KYOGLE.—There has been a welcome break in the drought conditions that have existed since June, 1941, throughout the…

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Inland Wool Storage

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 3

WITH the war coming closer to Australia, it was not desirable to have large Quantities of wool in stores on the…

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Research Station Wants a Sheep

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 7

IN his report to Dubbo Pastures Protection Board the stock inspector (Mr. A. T. Eills) said that a request had been made by Glenfield Research Station for…

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Wool Must Have "Body"

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 3

SOME graziers believe that if sheep are pastured under very dry conditions, the smaller amount of grease in the clip and its finer quality result in an…

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Large Wheat Areas to be Curtailed First

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 6

THIS week the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) again referred to the problem of wheat storage and the necessity to restrict to…

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Wheat Restriction Can Be a Dangerous Expedient

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 1

MONKEYING with Nature is always a risky sort of business. Whenever anyone has done it results have invariably been contrary…

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Pasture Needs of Milking Cows. Grassland Management on the Dairy Farm

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 31

Milking cows require rich, palatable feed. Grasses, therefore, should be fed off when short, us it is the left or blade which is most nutritious. As gratis plants…

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Letters Weevils in Wheat To the Editor of the "Herald."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 2

Sir,—In 1918, while the German submarine menace prevented the shipment of wheat and flour to Britain and other countries, enormous stocks…

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Yanco Farm Provides Lead in Fat Lamb Raising

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 3

MUCH of the success of the fat lamb industry, which has made such progress on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in recent years, is…

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Women's Help High Praise from Farmer

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 8

A FRIEND, writing from Camden, deals with a subject on which the "Farmer and, Settlor" commented a little while ago…

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