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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

6,431 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

Letters to the Editor Pastoral Industry Threatened "Industrial Outlaws"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

Sir,—The pastoral industry is threatened with another upheaval of the same magnitude as that which was engineered last year.!…

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Fined for Failure to Give Cattle a Drink

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 3

AT Hornsby Court today, Mrs. Helen Scully, Kissing Point Rd., Turramurra, was fined £9 Is 6d on five charges of failing to provide cattle…

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Fined for Failure to Give Cattle a Drink

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 3

AT Hornsby Court today, Mrs. Helen Scully, Kissing Point Rd., Turramurra, was fined £9 1s 6d on five charges of failing to provide cattle…

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Fined for Failure to Give Cattle a Drink

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 3

AT Hornsby Court today, Mrs. Helen Scully, Kissing Point Rd., Turra-murra, was fined £9 1s 6d on five charges of failing to provide cattle…

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64 Million Bus. of Wheat For Export

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 3

A TOTAL of 64,000,000 bushels of wheat from the 1945-46 harvest will be available for export this year. Announcing this the Minister for…

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U.s.a. Needs Big Wool Supplies

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

EYES have been turned to the United States because of variations recently seen on the New York Stock Exchange. This probably…

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Wheat Cost Figures Disputed By F.S.A.

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 16

ACCORDING to a report prepared by the N.S.W. Farmers and Settlers Association, wheat costs, at 16 bushels per acre, 5/1.6d per bushel at country sidings, to produce. This allows for labour costs but no profit…

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The Wool Trade; Brokers' Reports British Clip Acquired

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 28

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report; The necessity to encourage the pasturing of sheep in Great Britain, particularly for the production of mutton and lamb, is the cause…

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Dairy Farmers are Now Keen on Mechanisation; pool Benefits

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 19

WHILE the tendency in some dairying districts is to allow the State mechanisation units to pass from butter factory to co-operative control, yet in other purely dairying areas factories are expanding their units…

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Board Chief Fears Plan To Wreck Wheat Price Stabilisation

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

SIR Louis Bussau, chairman of the Australian Wheat Board and first president of the Australian Wheatgrowere' Federation, said yesterday that an influential attempt was being made by a wealthy section of the community that…

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Notes from Victoria New Wheat Variety For Mallee Lands

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 11

DEVELOPMENT of a new wheat variety (Insignia) at the Research station Walpeup, for Mallee country was announced…

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Bundarra's Best Break Since 1921 Studmaster Proposes Black Cattle For The Tropics

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 8

A MONTH ago the country around Bundarra was bare and dry. Mr. A. S. Wiseman, Clerkness, was cutting willows for milking cows. But the rains came—5-in. in one night—and the creek came up a banker. It was the best flood since 1921. For the whole of the distance of…

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Stud Cattle Arrive From U.S. For N.S.W. & Q'ld. Breeders

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 6

THE Commonwealth Wool & Produce Co. Ltd., Sydney, report having landed two Poll Shorthorn bulls, and a Polled Hereford bull, per the S.S. "City of Lincoln," from the United States, for N.S.W. and Queensland breeders…

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The Week's Markets Reviewed Dairy Produce

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 26

Sussex Street Prices (Wholesale Markets) The State Marketing Bureau reports: BUTTER: Production has increased and a surplus is available for export. Sales are…

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Practical Results From Tree Planting Hybrid Maize Crop Progressive Policy on Fat Lamb Property at Wingen

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 14

"PETWYN VALE," Wingen, is an outstanding example of the manner in which prosperity farming may be allied to tree planting that benefits earth, man and beast…

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SIDELIGHTS on FARMING Sprouted Grain May Replace Green Feed

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 18

It is well known that cereal grain which has…

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Farm Building & Construction Concrete for Beams and Columns; Practical Advice

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 15

This is the concluding article by "The Land" building expert on the series dealing with the preparation and use of concrete. Any further information on this and other building subject? will be answered by "Bill Derr" through the inquiry department of "The Land." Next week a series of articles will be commenced on elementary carpentry and the…

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Organised Marketing: Aid to Post-War Farm Stability

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 16

A STRIKING feature of considerations given to postwar stability of primary industries, states Dr. H. J. Hynes, chief of the marketing division of the Dept. of Agriculture, in a review of marketing movements, has…

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Farmers' Educational Tour

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 32

A farmers' educational tour, which started from Taroo, on Tuesday, and will embrace the Hastings, Tamworth, Gilgandra, Gunnedah, Warren,…

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Storing Eggs on The Farm; Need Close Attention

The Land · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 24

THE storing of eggs on the farm, awaiting despatch to market, leaves much to be desired, says Mr. E. Hadlington,…

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