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Farming & the land, 1946

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Wool Tops Cheaper

The Land · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 13

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: The export of tops from Great Britain for the nine months ending September 30,1945, was 11,115,000 lb., or three times the quantity…

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State Govt. Favors Wheat Licences For Soldiers and Sons of Farmers

The Land · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

THE wheat licensing system must contain provisions which will permit returned servicemen to engage in wheatgrowing and sons of wheatgrowers, as they become adults, to enter their natural vocation of…

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King Honors Wool Man

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

CHEATED a Commander of the Older of the British Empire, in the New Year Honors list, Mr. James Francis Guthrie, 73…

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Australian Wool Reaches Poland

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 4

Substantial quantities of Australian wool Save arrived at Gdynia, aboard the American ship.* “Park Holland.”…

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Always a Grain Harvest Somewhere Wheat—The World's Round The Year Crop

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

THERE is not a single month in the year in which a wheat harvest does not take place somewhere in the world. Here are the dates of wheat harvests in the various countries, compiled by the Canadian Department of…

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Wheat Quotations. Overseas and Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 4

All overseas quotes are for Wednesday, 2nd January, 1946, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Satisfactory Wheat Harvest at Tamworth

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 12

WHEAT harvesting has been completed in Tamworth district, reports the agricultural instructor (Mr. J. W. Boyle). He…

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Heavy Wheat Yields At Dubbo Seventeen-Bag Crops Grain Quality Good, Instructor Reports

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 12

SOME farmers in Dubbo district have harvested as high as 17 bags of wheat per acre, the Agricultural Instructor (Mr. S. Rudkin) reports to headquarters…

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About Half Wool Clip Appraised

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

TO-DATE about half of the 1945-46 wool clip of N.S.W. has been appraised, and there is now a large percentage of the balance in store…

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Wool Tops Cheaper Careful Reduction

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The export of tops from Great Britain for the nine months ending September 30, 1945, was 11,115,000 lb…

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New Chairman of Wheat Stabilisation Board

The Land · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

Mr. Parker.J Moloney, a form or Labor M.P. and Minister In the Scullin Government, has been appointed chairman of the Wheal…

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Flexible System Of Wheat Licensing Favored

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 12

RETENTION of the system of licensing wheatgrowers was favored by the Government as being in the general interest of growers, the N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham) said…

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Wheat Burnt in Bags; Payment Raises Problem

The Land · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

WHEAT burnt in bags on the farm has raised interesting legal questions in connection with the acquisition law and the…

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Queensland Weekly Letter Butter Output For Five Months Shows Increase

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 10

DAIRY production in Queens-land for the first five months of the current station was worth £4,012,000, with subsidy. During…

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Loading of Wool Cargoes Will Be Speeded Up

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 8

RESTORATION of power to industry next Monday will end the interruption to wool exports from Sydney…

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Loading of Wool Cargoes Will Be Speeded Up

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 8

RESTORATION of power to industry next Monday will end the interruption to wool exports from Sydney…

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Brighter View On Synthetics "Wool Not Menaced" Say Overseas Millmen

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 6

MILLMEN abroad producing tops, yarns and fabrics, have frequently expressed the opinion that artificial fibres to date have not menaced wool, state Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd…

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Safe Future for Our Fine Wool, Predicts U.s. Expert

The Land · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

HEAD BUYER for the world's largont usora of superline merlno wool, who arrived in Aunlrcilla Iast week, Baid that, in the opinion, Australian woolgrowers need foar no compotitlon from wool substitutes…

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Ex-servicemen and Wheat Licences To the Editor of "The Land."

The Land · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 8

Sir.—I have very little time to indulge in newspaper correspondence, but if the purpose of Mr. H. T. Chapman's letter in "The Land," 21/12/'45,…

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Electricity for the Farms

The Land · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 4

THE degree of electrical development in the farming districts of the North Coast, as shown by recent articles in "The Land," should be an inspiration to other parts of the State not so fortunately…

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