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Farming & the land, 1945

5,347 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 250

Farmers "Fed Up"

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 16

A SUGGESTION that growers should not deliver next season's wheat to the Government unless guaranteed 5/[?] a bushel was rejected…

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Farmers Provide Cheap Food for Highly Paid Workers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 5

"NEVER has primary production been a greater vital necessity, and probably never has it been under greater disadvantages through manpower difficulties and drought conditions. Many dairy farmers have gone out of business, and…

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Farmer's Emphatic Rebuttal of Inefficiency Charges

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 5

AS an experienced and practical primary producer, I say the industry has been going through hell, and I was not much impressed by a recent statement in the press by Mr. A. R. Penfold that there was inefficiency in…

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Keeping an Account of Farm Business

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 14

KEEPING of accounts in the business of farming is an absolute necessity, writen Mr. W. T. Gettons in a Queensland Department of Agriculture booklet, entitled "Farm Bookkeeping…

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Farmer, Far From Town, Was In Need Of Tyres

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 9

"I WISH to thank you vary much for your efforts on my behalf to the Rubber Control. I received the permit and the tyres arrived a couple…

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Tractors on the Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 9

AS the tractor in used, the clearance between the pistons and the cylinder walls increase. After a considerable length of service the…

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Dairy Quotas

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 15

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

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Letters to the Editor Farmer's Plight Producing Under Price-Fixing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

Sir,—It is high time that more consideration was given to the farmer who endeavours to earn a living from the growing of foodstuffs for the people of this…

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Milk Price Appeal to Prime Minister Dairymen Demand Separate Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 9

The Milk Zone Dairymen's Council has telegraphed the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin), asking for on independent inquiry info milk prices. Mr. Curtin has been asked to give the matter…

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Pastoral Profit Falls

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 6

Net profit of Squatting Investment Co. Ltd. for year ended December 31 fell from £25,318 to £14,803. Dividend is reduced from 10 per cent, to…

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Film Screened at Cattle Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 5

Elsey cattle station, made famous in "We of the Never Never," is the first Northern Territory cattle station at which a full-length film has been…

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Increased Price for 1945 Wheat

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 4

CANBERRA, Saturday.--It is understood that full Cabinet today decided that for the 1945- 46 wheat harvest the Scully…

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Feed Wheat Shortage Graziers' Protest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 11

The Graziers' Federal Council of Australia has protested to the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. Scully, against…

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Increased Price for 1945 Wheat

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 4

CANBERRA, Saturday.--It is understood that full Cabinet today decided that for the 1945- 46 wheat harvest the Scully…

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Increased Price for 1945 Wheat

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 4

CANBERRA, Saturday.--It is understood that full Cabinet today decided that for the 1945- 46 wheat harvest the Scully…

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Increased Price for 1945 Wheat

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 4

CANBERRA, Saturday.--It is understood that full Cabinet today decided that for the 1945- 46 wheat harvest the Scully…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 1

All overseas quotes are for Thursday, February 1, 1945, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney are…

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£2,000,000 More for Wheat

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 4

WHEAT bungle, forced on Australia by mismanagement of Scully's Commerce Department, is going to cost…

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Wool Report—dalgety & Co. Ltd. Striking Claims for New Synthetic, "Ardil"

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 2

Scientific development in a variety of directions has shown up to a remarkable degree during the concentrated period of…

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on the Land Less Than a Million Bales Weight Loss in Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 11

Appraisements of wool in Sydney this season may be less than one million bales for the first time in 19 years…

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