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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1943

5,331 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 250

Wheat Harvesting Regulations Motion for Disallowance Defeated Mr. Ward's Speech

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 1

Replying on behalf of the Government to a motion moved by Country Party member Prowse for the disallowance of the Wheat…

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Small Return from Butter Subsidy

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 4

EACH supplier would receive less than £7 for six months from the Government butter subsidy, declared the chairman of the Grafton Pioncer Co-operative Dairy Co. (Mr. G. W. Fitrgerald)…

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Good Grass and Sheep Rates

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 3

IT is doubtful if the stock districts thorughout Australia have generally ever experienced more plentiful pastures than those of this year…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 1

All oversea quotes are for Tuesday, February 23rd, 1943, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Wool Trade Helps Veterans' Home

The Sun · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 3

A gift of £9000 from the Wool Trade War Fund has made it possible for the board of the War Veterans' Home to…

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Minister Hits Back on Country Wool Centres

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 3

EXTENSION of wool appraisements to country centres would case the strain on the already overloaded transport system, freeing rolling stock…

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Queensland Weekly Letter 20 p.c. Drop in Sheep Flocks in Queensland

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 6

MANPOWER problems in the sheep industry are becoming so acute that authorities estimate that Queensland graziers are reducing flock…

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Dairy Quotas

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 2

THE Minister for Agriculture, on the recommendation of the N.S.W. Dairy Products Board, has determined the following quotas to operate during March,…

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Mixed Farms sMUST COME To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 2

Sir:—Your articles on "Closer Settlement" in the issues of your widely read paper of January 14 and February 11, 1949, are timely and pertinent to the…

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Junior Farmer Council Watches Land Settlement Moves

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 7

REPRESENTATION will be sought by the Junior Farmer Clubs' Council on all committees appointed throughout the State to dela with…

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Knowledge of Blacksmithing Helps In Farm Repairs

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 7

SHOULD farm machinery break down, a knowledge of blcksmithing can prove both profitable and interesting and, under conditions now…

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Reader's Ideas For New Type Of Farm Policy

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 7

SOME suggestions on closer settlement were made by a Berrigan reader, who said in a letter to the "Farmer and Settler," that he had been overseas with…

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Mixed Farmer Uses Simple Method To Burn Charcoal

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 4

MR. A. WATTS. Bray Mt., Gumble, a mixed farmer running sheep, pigs and growing wheat, now burns his own charcoal…

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One Way of Spending Farm Subsidy

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 5

PRODUCTION of fodder was one direction in which the Government should devote a great portion of any subsidies it proposed to make…

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Stamps Wanted for Red Cross To the Editor, the "Farmer and Settler"

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 8

Sir.—Thousands of business and other persons throw away or destroy used Australian stamps, because they fall to realise that those stamps have a…

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Farm Tractor

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 6

FARM tractors are usually fitted with magneto ignition. The magneto is a self-contained unit. It is what is known as an…

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Too Many Farms Are Backward

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 5

SCORES of farms in this State were being carried on by farmers using methods of a backward peasantry, said Dr. S. L…

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Gunnedah Farmer Asks Questions About Eggs To the Editor, the "Farmer and Settler"

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 5

Sir: As a country egg producer in a small way on a wheat farm known to the poultry industry as a sideliner, and as one opposed to the compulsory pooling of eggs. I desire to make a few comments regarding the…

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Millet Price Protest Poor Crop on Hunter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 3

WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday.— Delegates who attended the annual meeting of the Lower Hunter and Gloucester district council of the…

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Tobacco Crop Price Up

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday.--The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. Scully) announces approval by the Prices Commissioner…

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