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Farming & the land, 1944

6,082 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 250

Fires in West Kill 5000 Sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 5

Almost all bushfires in New South Wales had been extinguished by yesterday. Most serious of the fires were in the…

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Butter, Meat Cut Unlikely Some Food Shortages Believed Inevitable

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 7

CANBERRA, Thursday. -- No immediate cut in the Australian butter and meat ration is contemplated. AUSTRALIA'S food front, however, is being called upon to make a…

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U.S.A. Sheep Slaughtering Meat Demand Decreasing Flocks

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., report: The quantity of wool received at New South Wales appraising centres this season is now…

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No Butter or Meat Cut Proposed Strain On Food Front Some Shortages Now Inevitable

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday.--No immediate cut in the Australian butter and meat ration is contemplated. Australia's food front, however, is…

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No Butter or Meat Cut Proposed Strain On Food Front Some Shortages Now Inevitable

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday. -- No immediate cut in the Australian butter and meat ration is contemplated. Australia's food front, however, is…

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No Butter or Meat Cut Proposed Strain On Food Front Some Shortages Now Inevitable

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday.--No immediate cut in the Australian butter and meat ration is contemplated. Australia's food front, however, is…

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Mechanised Farming Machinery at Factory

Nepean Times · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 3

Farm machinery at Nepean Dairy Factory obtained under the Government's mechanised farming scheme, to help farmers, is at their disposal. It is…

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Dairy Industry Subsidy Production Costs Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—A special sub-committee appointed by the dairying industry's own organisations is now revising production costs as the…

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Boys Save Potato Crop

Tribune · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 4

FIFTEEN acres of potatoes at Budgong, in the Nowra district, which the farmer was about to abandon because of lack of manpower,…

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Doubts About Farm Labor

The Sun · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 2

Men released from munitions and similar undertakings were not likely to be entirely satisfactory on dairy farms, said…

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Potato Crop Increase

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 9

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--A big increase in potato production is planned for the 1944-45 season. The target. 278,000 acres, is expected to yield more…

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Dairyman Fined for Starting Men Too Early

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1944 · page 3

JOHN FORTH PEEL, dairyman, Diamond Bay Road, Vaucluse, was fined £3 at the Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court today on each of…

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The Wool Trade; Brokers' Reports U.S.A. Sheep Slaughtering

The Land · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 16

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—The quantity of wool received at New South Wales appraising centres this season is now nearly 1,100,000 bales, and shows an…

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Butter for Britain

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 9

AUSTRALIA, to maintain her butter quota to Britain, could either Increase production or decrease consumption, said…

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Cattle Values Higher

The Land · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 17

The State Marketing Bureau reports:—Reduced numbers of cattle were forward, aggregating 1729 head, including 263 auctioned in the stores section. Quality was…

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Beef Cattle World

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 11

Narrangullen Granidos, the bull recently purchased by Mr. James Armstrong for his Cleverdale Aberdeen-Angus herd, Tarcutta, is by Kitros…

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Stud Sheep Movements

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 4

Members of the Australian Corriedale sheepbreeders' Association are reminded to send in their annual returns for the year ended December 31,…

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Irregular Demand for Cattle

The Land · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 17

The State Marketing Bureau reports.[?] On Monday increased supplies of cattle were submitted, aggregating 2256 head, including 272 auctioned in the stores section…

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New England Cattle Sale

The Land · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 19

A total, of 1,000 New England bred cattle will be offered for sale at Armidale Municipal Yards on Wednesday, February 23rd, at 12 o'clock. Particulars are advertised…

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Tests for Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 5

WITH the rising tempo of the war in Europe and in the East, the problem of rellef for the war-suffering people comes…

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