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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1945

5,347 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

"No Political Bias" A.B.C. Replies To Dairymen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 4

The Australian Broadcasting Commission has told the Milk, Zone Dairymen's Council that it would not allow any political…

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Country Market Resume Homebush Values Firm for Cattle and Sheep

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 14

Values for prime sheep and lambs at Homebush today were mostly very firm, but plainer types sold at easier rates. Increased numbers available today totalled 29,950 head. GOOD trade wethers and ewes were…

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Wheat Futures

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 12

CHICAGO, Sunday. -- Yesterday's wheat futures were quoted: May, 160 7[?] cents bushel (unchanged); July, 152 56 (up 36); Sept., 151 56 (up 12)…

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African Wool Purchase

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 12

CAPETOWN, Sunday (A.A.P.).--The British Wool. Commission bought £4,925,974 worth of wool from South African growers between September…

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Thirty Cases Of Butter On Road

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 2

Thirty cases of butter were thrown to the roadway from a runaway truck in Dalley St., City, this afternoon…

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Thirty Cases Of Butter On Road

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 2

Thirty cases of butter were thrown to the roadway from a runaway truck in Dalley St., City, this afternoon…

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Thirty Cases Of Butter On Road

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 2

Thirty cases of butter were thrown to the roadway from a runaway truck in Dalley St., City, this afternoon…

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South African Wool Sale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Feb. 11 (A.A.P.).— The British Wool Commission bought wool worth £stg4,925,974 from South African woolgrowers between…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 1

All overseas quotes are for Thursday, February 8, 1945, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Wheat for Europe. To Be Shipped From Canada

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 2

The Canadian Department of Trade has announced that the combined food board of the United Nations is calling on…

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Wheat Lost in Mill Fire Airmen Fight Flames

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 5

R.A.A.P. men helped fight a fire which destroyed large stocks of wheat and flour at Wise Bros flour mill at Tocumwal early yesterday…

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Troops, Girls Help Harvest Grape Crop

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 11

ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Three hundred New South Wales girls and hundreds of servicemen are among the 1000 pickers who will begin harvesting the…

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Prime Sheep Firm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 12

Yesterday's sheep offering totalled 29,950 head. Demand for prime sheep and iambs was satisfactory and prices were firm Other types were cheaper…

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Argentina's Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 12

BUENOS AIRES Monday.--Argentina's wheat production is officially estimated at 156,108,000 bushels…

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Wool Equalisation Payment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 5

Because the wool appraised in Australia so far this season has averaged /13.78 a lb, against a corresponding figure of /13.98 last season, a higher…

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Rodeos Stir "Interest In Cattle"

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 11

Rodeos in the city and in country towns helped to interest Australian youth in cattle…

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Cripple On Sticks Feeds Own Sheep

The Sun · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 2

JUNEE, Tuesday.--A farmer who fractured his spine several years ago, and is paralysed in the left leg, has to hobble out on sticks each day to feed his sheep…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 4

All overseas quotes are for Saturday, February 10, 1945, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Value of Wool Emphasised Finance

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 11

THE importance of the wool textile industry to the Commonwealth is shown by the fact that the number of mills has increased from 102 in 1940-41 to 118 in 1942-43, and in the same period the total value of output has…

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Value of Wool Emphasised Finance

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 11

THE importance of the wool textile industry to the Commonwealth is shown by the fact that the number of mills has increased from 102 in 1940-41 to 118 in 1942-43, and in the same period the total value of output has…

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