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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

6,082 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 250

Root Crops Valuable as Winter Feed for Cows

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4

FARMERS in both coastal and tableland districts have found swedes and white (field) turnips a useful fodder for dairy cows, Turnips…

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Milking Speed and Use of Machines To the Editor "Farmer and Settler"

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4

Sir: I am afraid I expressed myself very badly when I told Mr. Watson to read between the lines & little. I should have suggested he read, mark,…

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Egg Control To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler"

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 9

Sir,—The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. Scully) will be asked to reconsider his refusal to appoint an elected representative of…

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Bega Farmers Use Mechanisation

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

MR. H.R. RAWKEY, chairman of Bega War Agricultural Committee, said this week that the farm mechanisation scheme was working well…

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Financial Losses Of Dutch Farmers

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

ACCORDING to cabled news from London a rural paper in the province of Brabant (Holland) gives a review of farming conditions in that…

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Call For Local Men On Land Boards To The Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

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

Sir: I read in the "Farmer and Settler" of February 18th where "British Justice" tackled the settlement of lands in the Western…

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Too Many Stock on Some Farms

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

AS graziers continued to hand feed Starving stock in the F[?] southern districts of N.S.W. this week, a…

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Crop Conditions Bad in Wide Area

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4

ADVERSE seasonal conditions are reported by the Department of Agriculture to be operating over a wide area of the State…

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Crop Conditions Bad in Wide Area

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 8

ADVERSE seasonal conditions are reported by the Department of Agriculture to be operating over a wide area of the State…

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Machinery to Help Farmers

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 8

"Plans for increased vegetable production are showing great progress, as the industry is now highly mechanised," Mr. C…

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Crop Conditions Bad in Wide Area

Daily Mirror · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4

ADVERSE seasonal conditions are reported by the Department of Agriculture to be operating over a wide area of the State…

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Q.n. Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 5

Queensland National Pastoral Co. Ltd. shows a net proft of £23,[?]14 for 1943, against £20,96[?] for 1942. Unchanged dividends of 6 per cent. [?]…

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Stud Cattle Fair Postponement Likely

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 5

It was learned last night that the postponement of the Sydney Stud Cattle Fair, set down for March 25, and succeeding days, was highly…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 4

All overseas quotes are for Thursday, March 9, 1944, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Q.N. Pastoral Earns More, Pays 6 p.c. DIV

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 12

Larger profit was earned by Queensland National Pastoral Co., Ltd., for the year ended December 31, but the dividend was…

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Wool Sales in U.s.a

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 5

NEW YORK, March 9 (A.A.P.).—At the Defence Supplies Corporation's w[?]t auction in Boston to-day 5,7529,863lb of Australian gr[?]sy wool was offered and 3,914,423lb sold…

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DALGETY & Co. Ltd. Weekly Wool Report March 9

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 1

As the Argentine area of South America has been so much under public notice of late it is interesting, from a woolgrower's point…

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Trade, Finance & Produce Markets £11,000,000 for Wool in U.S. 65 p.c. Clearance Of Australian Offerings Above Minimum Prices

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 12

NEW YORK, Friday (A.A.P.).--Total sales of foreign wool sold in Boston yesterday by the Defence Supplies Corporation exceeded £11,000,000. Knitting mills and topmakers…

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gossip from here and there Remains a Farmer

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 11 March 1944 · page 12

H. V. C. THORBY, stormy petrel of the Commonwealth Parliament and of more than one Ministry, is a farmer again. He has been out of action for some months because of a fractured leg,…

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Gardening in wartime I get more crops picking this way

The Sun · Sunday 12 March 1944 · page 3

YOU small gardeners, anxious to get the very last bean and cucumber from your restricted areas…

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