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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

6,082 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 250

Lengthening Lactation Period is Recommendation To Dairying Industry

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 6

A RECOMMENDATION to the dairying industry, voiced by the Chairman of the Australian Agricultural Council (Mr. Scully) that the industry should be "urged and encouraged" to increase production in the off-season by…

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Boy Farmer's Great Feat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 11

STUART McWILLIAMS, a member of the Junior Farmers' Club at Hanwood, on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area,…

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Drift From Farms Of Long Duration

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 6

RETURNS to dairy farmers were not sufficiently attractive to prevent the drift from the land, declared Mr. H. E. Cook,…

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Old Farmers Die From Strain

The Sun · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday.--Some aged people struggling to keep their dairy farms going had actually died at their work, Sir Earle Page (CP,…

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Machine Farming

The St George Call · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 2

Although some farmers were slow to appreciate the advantages of the Government sponsored scheme of community owned plant, nearly 40 co-operative…

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Farm, Mill Hands May Take Old Jobs

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 7

Five hundred former dairy-farm workers may be released from other industries to return to the dairying industry in New South Wales…

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Dairyman Fined £10 for Deficiency in Milk

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 2

JOHN MARSH, dairyman, Tambourine Bay Road, Lane Cove, was fined £10 by Mr. Wood, S.M., at North Sydney Court today for selling…

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Dairyman Fined £10 for Deficiency in Milk

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 2

JOHN MARSH, dairyman, Tambourine Bay Road, Lane Cove, was fined £10 by Mr. Wood, S.M., at North Sydney Court today for selling…

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Dairyman Fined £10 for Deficiency in Milk

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 2

JOHN MARSH, dairyman, Tambourine Bay Road, Lane Cove, was fined £10 by Mr. Wood, S.M., at North Sydney Court today for selling…

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Dairyman Fined £10 for Deficiency in Milk

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 2

JOHN MARSH, dairyman. Tambourine Bay Road, Lane Cove, was fined £10 by Mr. Wood, S.M., at North Sydney Court today for selling…

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Wheat Pool Payments Minister's Review

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 11

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. Scully, said in the House of Representative…

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DALGETY & Co. Ltd. Wool Report February 24

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 1

Extracts from recent homeland papers-in regard to the wool position make interesting reading, especially where it is stressed by…

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On the Land £75,000,000 for Wool All-time Australian Record

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 5

The monetary result for the current season's Australian clip is likely to be £75,000,000, a record for any year in the…

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Farmers' Cartridges

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 6

Sir,—Several years ago the farm of a relative in a mountain valley was so badly infested with rabbits that another shooter and the writer decided…

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Duke to Sell Six Farms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 10

LONDON, Feb. 25 (A.A.P.).—Six farms on the Barnwell Manor estate, which belongs to the Governor-General-designate of Australia, the Duke…

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Big Exodus From Dairying

The Sun · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Between 230 and 280 farmers in NSW have ended their dairying…

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Farmer Flyer

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 12

PILOT-OFFICER Reg Stocks, who has been serving with the RAAF in England for the past two years, is a son of one of the most successful mixed farmers in Australia, Ben J. Stocks, Linden Hills, Cunningar (NSW). Prior to his enlistment,…

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Farmer Goes to Mexico Where "Ain't No Ration"

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 6

NEW YORK, Saturday.--Aaron Martin (59), Mennonite farmer, is on his way to Mexico to "start life anew where there ain't no rationing and a man can do as he pleases." WITH his third wile and five of…

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Farmer Goes to Mexico Where "Ain't No Ration"

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 6

NEW YORK, Saturday.--Aaron Martin (59), Mennonite farmer, is on his way to Mexico to "start life anew where there ain't no rationing and a man can do as he pleases." WITH his third wife and five of…

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BRITAIN Soaring prices for farming land

The Sun · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 2

Prices in agricultural land in Britain this month rocketed to double the prewar levels--in sonic counties even higher…

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