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Farming & the land, 1942

5,487 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 250

Small Farmerss Want More Super

The Land · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 15

Farmers growing up to 150 acres of cereal crops should be given a more liberal allowance of superphosphate…

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Turkeys with Enlarged Crops

The Land · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 9

"Mrs. M.": I have a flock of young turkeys, hatched October-December, and quite half? of them have very enlarged crops, hanging almost to the…

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A Section for the Poultry Farmer Beware of Feather Eating 1 During Moulting Season

The Land · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 15

THE vice of feather-plucking and feather-eating usually occurs in hot weather and during the moulting season. This trouble is caused by having to keep birds in a confined area. Restricted and over-crowded runs…

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Hot Water for Every Farm Home 183

The Land · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 10

A good water supply is of first importance in the home. Every country home can have this simple, inexpensive, permanent hot…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 1

All overseas quotes are for Thursday, February 26, 1942, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney are…

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DALGETY & Co. Ltd. Wool Report

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 2

Appraisements of wool for the season are fast drawing to a close, and by the middle of next month the bulk of the State's…

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Curtailing Wool For Use In America

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 2

The War Production Board at Washington has ordered sweeping reductions in the use of high-grade new wool for civilian…

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American Wool Buying The Navy's Part

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 7

The United States is the world's greatest wool consumer —despite the rationing of civilian consumption now…

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Ban on Land Sales Exemption for Farm Properties

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 11

CANBERRA, Friday.—A relaxation of the economic organisation regulations to permit, non-speculative sales of…

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Riverina's Hay Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 7

More than 6O,000 acres of wheat and a considerable acreage of oats weree cut for hay in the Riverina this season the total cut being about a…

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On a Dutch Farm

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 12

GREAT as was the hospitality extended to 1914-18 Diggers in old lands, I doubt if any treatment was more generous than that received by a cobber and me in South Africa…

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Farmers Allege Italian Aliens Buying Land

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 1 March 1942 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Uninterned Italian aliens were buying big tracts of rich orchard land by delayed contract, it was stated today at a meeting of farmers…

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Higher Wool Price Urged

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday.--Because of higher costs, Australian wool producers need more for their wool than is provided under the…

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Heavy U.s. Wool Cargoes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 3

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—Receipts of wool at, Bo[?]on for the period February 1. to February 16 were the heavirst on record, despite peilous shipping conditions. S[?] 159,491…

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On the Land Wheat Good for Years Is Restriction Wise?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 3

"In view of the fact that bagged wheat in New South Wales will keep almost indefintely if properly stored is it…

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Prefer Farms To London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday.--Sir Stafford Cripps' attractive wife has succumbed to the fascinations of poultry-keeping, and is the…

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Wheat Market

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 14

DEMAND for wheat for the produce trade was much quieter today. The market for wheat for export flour is very quiet. Flour, £12 13s per ton, pollard £6, bran…

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Australian Wool Big Quantities for America

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 2

The United States (says the "Herald") is the world's greatest wool consumer—despite the rationing of civilian…

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Beauford, 25, Shot on Farm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 8

Beauford, whose races with the New Zealand champion, Gloaming, stirred racegoers in the spring of 1922, is dead. Twenty-five years old and almost…

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Farmers Make Plans To Bury Their Valuables

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 3

CASINO, Tuesday.--The recent approach of the police to farmers regarding the evacuation of stock has created .some unexpected reactions. ONE woman in the district, afraid…

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