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Farming & the land, 1945

5,347 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 250

The Wool Trade; Brokers' Reports Wool and its Competition

The Land · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 28

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: A new textile fibre, called Ardil, has been produced by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. in Great Britain. Unlike most other new fibres…

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Man Charged with Having 420lb. BUTTER

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 6

Ronald Walters, 31, shopkeeper, was charged at Central Court yesterday with possessing 420lb. of butter, reasonably suspected of having been stolen…

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Crisis Over Ban on Wheat For Stock Feeding No Grain Now For Stud Sheep; Graziers Faced With Ruin

The Land · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 2

DECISION of the Commonwealth Government to withhold wheat for the feeding of sheep, not only seals the fate of millions of flock sheep in drought stricken areas, but applies now to stud sheep as well…

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Drought Sheep as Pig, Poultry Feed

The Land · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 6

THE present shortage of meat meal and the number of poor sheep available in many areas at extremely low prices, has presented the possibility…

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No Limit To Wheat Sowings

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 13

WHEAT sowing quota restrictions will be abandoned for the 1945-46 season owing to the drought…

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Stock Feed From Wheat Distillery

The Land · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 21

ACCORDING to Mr. C. Walkden Brown, senior agricultural instructor for Cowra district, excellent results have been…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 1

All overseas quotes are for Wednesday, February 7, 1945, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Stockmen Frantic; Wheat Ban Problem

The Land · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 31

TELEGRAMS are reaching head office of the Farmers and Settlers' Association from various parts of the State regarding the urgency of…

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Wheat Price Decision Urgently Required

The Land · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 4

CONSIDERING the gravity of the wheat stock position in Australia, it is amazing that the Federal Government should be taking so long to make up its mind about the price growers are to…

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Wheat Shortage 'Not State Fault'

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 6

The State Government would not accept any responsibility for the position which hod arisen in New south Wales because of the wheat shortage…

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Homebush Stock Markets Monday Sheep Values Dearer

The Land · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 29

The State Marketing Bureau reports: The number of sheep and lambs available on Monday was relatively light, pennings comprising 24,664 hend of chiefly only fair quality…

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Two Sales To See Sheep From Winbri

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 15

MERINO breeders who will be attending either the Manilla or Armidale ram sales will have an…

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Pioneered Goulburn as Wool Centre

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 8

MESSRS. R. d. Gray and Sons Pty. Ltd. began woolbroking in Goulburn during the 1931-32 season…

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Post-War Wool Industry Problems

The Land · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 28

Pitt Son & Badgery Ltd. report:- Our Sydney Wool Appraisement No. 155, the 18th catalogue of the season, was, finalised yesterday. It comprised a…

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Growing Business of Wool Firm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 8

GREAT progress has been made by the Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., Ltd., In the woolbroking…

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Berry Holds Record War-Time Show High Class Dairy Cattle Get Praise from Judges Profits Go to Patriotic Funds

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 3

WITH dairy cattle well represented the 57th annual show of, the Berry A. and H. Society was, in the words of the President (Mr. N. K. Stewart), "a record success, and the best in the history of the Society. The show was opened by the…

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Personal Touch Governs Britain's Wool Sales

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 16

SOME interesting information is to hand regarding the British wool clip and its handling during war-time, As was only to be expected, there has been a reduction in sheep numbers owing to [?] and the ploughing up…

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Must Keep Wool's Merits In Mind

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

THERE is no definite reason to assume that wool will not be consumed in large quantities after the war of that, once accumulated stocks…

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U.S. Uneasy About World Wheat Plan

The Land · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 1

DISCUSSING the world wheat agreement, the U.S. Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. Claude R. Wickard)…

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Wool Substitutes Present Serious Menace, Authority Affirms

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 15

WOOL substitutes present, in the hands of a number of powerful overseas companies, a serious menace to the Australian wool cheque, is the opinion of Mr. George B. S. Falkiner,…

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