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Farming & the land, 1944

6,082 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 250

Cattle Market Firm

The Land · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 13

The State Marketing Burean reports: On Thursday supplics of cattle showed a small reduction, the yarding totalling 2,400 head m[?] 260 auctioned in the store…

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Beef Cattle World

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 7

Merits of Rea [?] cattle in milk butte and beef production are well instanced in the Bradwell herd of Lt,-Col C. Heyworth- Savage, of…

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Cattle the Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd

The Land · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 13

Glenriddle Pastoral Co., Barraba, 10 strs at £20. Rocky Creek Station, Barraba, 24 strs to £17/19/, av £10/3/; 2 stags £9/1. Estate late G. Simmons, Trundle,…

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Firm Demand for Cattle

The Land · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 12

The State Marketing Bureau reports: On Monday cattle supplies were well maintained, aggregating 2,363 head, including 270 auctioned in the store section. Quality…

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Butter Bad In One Day

The Sun · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 3

Second-rate butter now being foisted on the public, would not, keep, in a refrigerator more than four…

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The Wool Trade; Brokers' Reports Wool and Rationing

The Land · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 12

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Probably the best advertisement wool has ever had is the ability of the British Empire people to be reasonably well clad despite the…

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Thursday Irregular Demand for Sheep

The Land · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 12

The State Marketing Bureau reports: Increased supplies of sheep and lambs were available oil Thursday when a total of 55,394 head was offered. Wethers and…

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Death Of Noted Sheep Classer

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 3

MR. W. J. McCARTHY (80), who died not his home at Grand View Grove, Upper Hawthorn (vic.) recently was the doyen of woolclassers…

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Farmer Says Acreage Increased Wheat Position Is Puzzling to Growers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 8

A DECLINE in production, owing to the war, is taking place in two of the greatest wheat producing countries in the world and it is probable that the starving countries will have to turn to Australia for their wheat, which under…

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Wheat Country Needs Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 3

Lack of rain the wheat country was prcventing farmers preparing short fallows for next season's crop, said the Government cereal specialist, Dr. S…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 1

All overseas quotes are for Wednesday, March 8, 1944, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Homebush Stock Markets Monday Plain Sheep Cheaper

The Land · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 12

The State Marketing Bureau reports: Sheep and lambs on offer on Monday totalled 48,417 head, and comprised chicfly fair quality only. Wethers and ewes penned numbered…

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Film Record of Wool Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--An Australian sheep station will be the setting for a £17,000 documentary film of the wool industry…

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Wartime Rationing Proves Value of Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 7

PROBABLY the best advertisement wool has ever had is the ability of the British Empire people to be reasonably well [?] despite the rationing of the war years. In the case of men in particular who are called upon to…

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All Partners In The Wool Industry

The Land · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 7

POINTING out that the shop windows in the capital cities are filled with rayon and other substitute materials, Mr. F. E. Hitchins,…

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Better Bread Means Better Wheat, says Cereal Expert

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 6

BEST way of improving our bread was by breeding wheats with better baking quality which were, at the same time, equal or superior in yielding ability to the varieties at present being sown…

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And now they hint at a wheat shortage

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 6

THE Deputy-Opposition Leader (Mr. Mair) warned in the State Assembly yesterday that…

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"Grow More Wheat" "[?] the Editor of "The Land"

The Land · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 15

Sir,—Unless Mr. Scully is prepared to go further than the 3/- a bushel for over-quota wheat, I am afraid his sppeal, for more wheat, will meet…

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Amendments To Protect Dairy Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 5

ALTHOUGH the testing of all dairy cows should be the [?]ltimale objective, there could be no more inopportune time than at…

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Council Does Good Work Expanded Market In United States for Australian Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 3

THERE is not enough wool produced in the United States to meet domestic requirement, even though the per capita consumption has decreased greatly in the past 20 years…

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