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Farming & the land, 1942

5,487 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 250

World Wheat Output Steady

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 March 1942 · page 7

World production of wheat for the current year is estimated at 3,950,000,000 bushels, or practically the same as that for…

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Surplus Wheat to Raise Pigs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1942 · page 13

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Commonwealth Government plans to reduce Australia's huge surplus of wheat by making…

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Larger Wool Production. Winchcombe, Carson's Report

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 25 March 1942 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., re-port:— Production in the great wool producing countries of the world…

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A.W.U. The Pastoral Award Claims for Variation No Increase in Rates

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 25 March 1942 · page 8

Judgment in various matters connected with the pastoral award that were before his Honor Judge O'Mara in the Federal Arbitration…

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On the Land Wool Price Graziers Discuss Rising Costs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1942 · page 5

"The total elimination of profit or a growing disparity between price and cost levels, as in the days of the.depression, will…

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Oversea Wheat Position Lindley Walker's Special Report. SYDNEY, March 23

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 25 March 1942 · page 2

Our cable received this week reads:— "Europe—mainly springlike, field work progressing. Danube…

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Turf Notes Warwick Farm Scratchings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1942 · page 12

At the Australian Jockey Club's office yesterday, scratchings for the Warwick Farm meeting were:—Liverpool Handicap, Gold Salute; Warwick…

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Butter, Cheese Quotas

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 7

Butter and choose quotas for interstate trade for April will be 56 p.c. and 44 p.c. respectively from tomorrow. Quotas for March were 47 p.c. and 42 p.c…

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Wheat Market

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 7

There was a fair demand by the produce trade, but no sales of wheat for export flour were reported. Local prices: Millers' lots, home…

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Cattle Poisoning Departmental Advice

Nepean Times · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 3

The recent incident in Mr. Jack Purcell's paddock, Castlereagh, in which a number of cows were poisoned by the eating of some second-growth…

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Cootamundra Sheep Show Abandoned

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 3

A WELL-ATTENDED meeting of Cootamundra show committee, at which Mr. J. A. Gibb presided, decided unanimously to abandon the 16th annual…

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Farmer's Wife Tells How She Makes Coffee From Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 8

RECIPES for making coffee substitutes from bran and wheat are forwarded by "Farmer's Wife," who like many other readers, was interested in a "Farmer and…

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Truck Wool Early

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 3

SOME doubt appears to exist among growers as to whether they should consign their wool as usual for appraisement…

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N.s.w. Butter Output Falls

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 4

HEAVY decline in butler production in New South Wales during the six months ended December 31, is reported by the Acting…

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No Increase in Pastoral Award Rates this Year

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 3

IN July last the Commonwealth Arbitration Court increased all rates under the Federal Pastoral Award upon the application of the Australian Workers' Union—the third increase to operate within 12 months…

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Cheap Wheat for Stock Food

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 5

PIG raisers, as well as other stock-owners, will benefit from the Federal Government's plan, announced by the Minister for…

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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 1

All overseas quotes are for Tuesday, March 24, 1942, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney are…

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Surplus Wheat. Food for Pigs

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 2

Advices received from Canberra state that the Commonwealth Government plans to reduce Australia's huge surplus of wheat by…

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Heard by the Way Wheat Coffee

Nepean Times · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 1

A NEW use is being found for wheat of high quality. In the Coonabarabran district coffee has been successfully made from wheat, the grain…

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Sheep Better when Lime Supplements a Cereal Ration

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 26 March 1942 · page 3

A RATION consisting mainly of cereals and their by-products is in adequate for sheep feeding. In an experiment by the C.S.I.R. almost all of a group of…

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