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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1945

5,347 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 250

Missing Girl Found on Farm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Detectives and women police found a young girl on a farm at Grassmere Junction, near Warrnambool today…

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Wheat Price Increase Big Help to Farmers

Tribune · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

The recently announced lifting of the “quota” system for wheat payments and a guaranteed price of 4/3 a bushel for wheat will greatly assist growers. BASED on the average for the ten…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 1

All overseas quotes are for Tuesday, February 13, 1945, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Stud Sheep Will Die Unless Feed Arrives

The Sun · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 2

WAGGA, Thursday.--Despite an official announcement a fortnight ago that breeders would get feed, stud sheep in the Riverina are little better off than other stock…

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Wool Average Price. Slaughtering's Compared

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 2

Despite the less attractive clip generally grown in New South Wales and some of the other States because oil the adverse…

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Plane Crashes On Farmhouse

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.--A U.S. Mustang fighter flew at 100 m.p.h. over an English farm, between two haystacks 22 feet apart, cut…

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Dairymen Oppose Abolition of Milk Zone Claim Prices Will Increase

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 9

Cost of milk in Sydney arid Newcastle would be increased if the milk zone were abolished, Mr F. A. Sedgwick said yesterday. Mr. Sedgwick, secretary of the Milk Zone…

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Threat to Sheep Industry; Feed Wheat Problem

The Land · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

THROUGHOUT the State fears are mounting that the feed wheat shortage will create an acute position in the stock industry with…

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Preserving Butter

The Land · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 15

"J.W.": Butter that is to be potted should be made from well-ripened cream. If the cream is too sweet or too sour the butter will not keep properly. The butter…

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Wheat

The Land · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 19

Overseas and Sydney wheat quotations by the State Marketing Bureau. All overseas quotes are for Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1945, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a…

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Butter Production Poor

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 13

PRODUCTION of butter in Australia reached an all-time peak at 211,387 tons in 1939-40. Bad seasons and manpower shortages reduced…

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Butter Production Poor

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 13

PRODUCTION of butter in Australia reached an all-time peak at 211,987 tons in 1939-40. Bad seasons and manpower shortages reduced…

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New Butter Process

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 3

OTTAWA, Feb, 15 (A.A.P.).—Dr. Hood, of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, predicts that a new process of butter making without a churn…

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Plain Cattle Cheaper

The Land · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 21

The State Marketing Bureau reports: On Thursday numbers of cattle forward showed some reduction, pennings aggregating 1,599 head, including 342 auctioned in the store…

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Beef Cattle World

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 5

Messrs. Hays Bros., Bexley, Narrori, have told two stud Hereford bull to Mr. R. V. Green, of Yarrandabbie, Cobbadah, N.S.W. One is…

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Forbes Sheep Sale

The Land · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 23

Edward Weaver & Company (Forbes), and the Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd. (Sydney), auctioneers in conjunction, report that about 1,150 fat sheep and lambs, and…

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Farmers Demand Wheat For Starving Stock

The Land · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

A largely attended meeting of farmers at Walla Walla last Saturday unanimously carried a resolution which called upon the Federal…

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A.i.s. Dairy Cattle Take Centre of Stage

The Land · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 24

A view of the A.I.S. judging ring at the recent Berry Show during the judging of one of the female classes. The judge, Mr. H. J. Graham, of "Mayfield," Dunmore, is shown looking over the exhibits…

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Big Order for Butter

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 6

MILITARY orders for more than 1400,000 north of the new heat-resistant butter pack—"butter concentrated hardened…

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Sidelights on Farming Novel and Interesting Facts Do Sheep Require Salt?

The Land · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 8

There is still a good deal of controversy among sheepmen as to…

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