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Farming & the land, 1946

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Wool Tops Policy To Step Up Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 4

The exports of tops from Britain for the nine months ended September 30 was 11,115,000lb, or three times the quantity for the corresponding period of…

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Fruit Crops Ruined By Fly

The Sun · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- About 75 per cent, of the peach crop has been ruined by the Rutherglen fly, which has…

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Tasmania Expects Good Hop Crops

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Although hops, like other forms of primary production in the Derwent Valley, Tasmania, suffered through…

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Big Wheat Crop. 134,800,000 Bushels Expected

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 3

The latest official estimate of the Australian wheat crop is 134,800,000 bushels, compared with a crop of about 52 million…

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Synthetic Fibres Not Wool Menace

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 15

Synthetic; fibres do not present a menace to wool, which has held its own with all types of artificial fibres both in ore-war and war-time days. THIS is stated in a report issued…

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Synthetic Fibres Not Wool Menace

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 15

Synthetic fibres do not present a menace to wool, which has held its own with all types of artificial fibres both in pre-war and war-time days. THIS is stated in a report issued…

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Synthetic Fibres Not Wool Menace

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 15

Synthetic fibres do not present a menace to wool, which has held its own with all types of artificial fibres both in pre-war and war-time days. THIS is stated In a report issued…

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Synthetic Fibres Not Wool Menace

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 15

Synthetic fibres do not present a menace to wool, which has held its own With all types of artificial fibres both in war and war-time days. THIS is stated in a report issued…

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Synthetic Fibres Not Wool Menace

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 15

Synthetic fibres, do not present a menace to wool, which has held its own with all types of artificial fibres both in pre-wut .and war-time days. THIS is stated in a report issued…

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Synthetic Fibres Not Wool Menace

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 15

Synthetic fibres do hot present a menace to wool, which has held its own with all types of artificial fibres both in pre-war and war-time days. THIS is stated in a report issued…

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A.W.U. Activities Victoria-riverina Branch Telegraphic Address: "AUSWORKU." Address: Box 4, Trades Hall, Melbourne. Phone: F6005. Pastoral Industry

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 11

All shearing is practically completed with the exception of one or two sheds. The season, due to the drought, was not a satisfactory one, a large portion of Riverina being seriously affected, writes Branch Secretary J. Macpherson…

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Sheep and Cattle Cheaper Today

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 5

Except for odd pens, sheep were irregular and generally 1- to 16 cheaper, and lambs 1- to 2- cheaper, at today's…

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Shot on Farm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Wednesday.—After a bullet from a.22 single-shot pistol had entered his chest and lodged in his stomach this morning…

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Farmers and Petrol

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 2

Sir.—Could not something be done to help farmers? We want petrol for a tractor and instead of sending a form to us we are supposed to go 10 miles…

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D.D.T. May Save £250,000 Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Peaches and other fruit worth £250,000 may be lost in Victoria if D.D.T. spray does not kill the…

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Farmhouse on Fifth Avenue

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 9

NEW YORK, Wednesday. --Sixteen stories above 57th Street, in the heart of New York, there is an…

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Butter Output Falls

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 5

VARIABLE conditions during November had their influence on butter production, reports the N.S.W. Director of Marketing (Dr. Hynes)…

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Heavy Cattle Supply

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 14

The cattle yarding was the largest since January, 194[?], pennings totalling 2962. A firm market ruled for…

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Sheep And Sulphur

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 3

HIGH sulphur content of wool led to the belief that sulphur may be of some value for sheep, but Australian and South African research…

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Big Wheat Yields

The Land · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

Exceptionally high yields of both hay and grain have been obtained in the Central West, with grain of remarkably good quality, states Mr. S…

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