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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

6,431 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250

Crop Competitions and Erosion

The Land · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 8

Sir,—Those of us on the land feel that there is no reason for anyone to travel the world to find a remedy for our own man-made problem to dea[?]…

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Hunter Valley Tomato Crops

The Land · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 22

Tomatoes are coming on well in the Hunter Valley, with excellent setting of fruit now that thrips have gone, reports Mr. G. T. Dawson,…

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Memorial to Junior Farmer Supervisor

The Land · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 22

Lismore Apexians have donated a John Gollan Memorial Cup for competition by district junior farmers in order to perpetuate the memory of…

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U.K FARMERS To Get Guaranteed Prices; Post-War POlicy

The Land · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 13

THE United Kingdom Government proposes to establish a system of assured markets for primary products,…

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Farm Invention Shown In Movie Gazette

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 9

FARMERS throughout the Commonwealth will be afforded an opportunity of visually judging the effectiveness of the Stevens stubble…

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Queensland Weekly Letter Ex-Servicemen Fall For "Snide" Fruit Farm Deals

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 10

MANY returned Servicemen who have been gulled into paying fantastic prices for North Coast fruit farms will be left holding…

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Advised To Read Roberton's "Now Blame The Farmer"

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 9

WRITING to the Editor, Mr. A. S. McKenzie, Thurgoona, Matong, recommends that all Australians read Mr. Hugh Roberton's recently…

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Ceiling Prices And Meat Rationing To The Editor, "Farmer and Settler"

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 3

Sir,—Recently throughout the Press in Australia was issued a decision of the Graziers' Federal Council, over, which Mr. Newcomen presided, as…

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British Farmers Asking For More Tractors

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 16

ALTHOUGH the United Kingdom now has seven tractors to every square mile of arable land, her farmers are asking for still more machines. British agriculture, already the…

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Farm Telephones

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 15

ACCORDING to present plans for extending and improving farm telephone services, a million more families in rural areas of the United…

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Good Maize Crop Is Forecast

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 16

COMPARED with the corresponding period last year, the condition of the N.S.W. maine crop generally is much better, and, with good January…

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South Coast Farmers Alarmed High Cost Of Alterations Clearing Sales Follow Zoning System

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 6

RIGHTLY or wrongly, there is considerable resentment among some milk vendors in the Wollongong district following the decision of the Milk Board to take over the area. This is occasioned by the anticipation that the…

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Technology Course For Dairy Industry

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 7

CURRENT issue of the "Milk Board Bulletin" says a course in Dairy Technology is to begin shortly at Sydney Technical…

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World Dairy Output Shows Decline

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 7

DURING the third quarter of 10415 the output of dairy products in most of the world's important producing countries fell below that for the same period last year. But production continued to decline generally, according…

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Many Derive Living From Dairy Industry

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 7

PRODUCTION of milk per annum in Australia ranges from 950,000,000 gallons to 1,250,000,000 gallons, according to seasonal…

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Efficient Penalised, Farmer Declares

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 14

Sir,—We poor old dairymen have been told time and again to be more officient; in fact, this is the main excuse of the former Prices…

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Letters To The Editor High Fares Bar To Holiday For Farm Families

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 14

Sir—I was very pleased to read your article urging the need fur cheap rail fares so that the farmer and his wife and family could enjoy an annual…

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Usa Farmers Fight Big Business Joy Wilson

Tribune · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 4

In an article called “Spite Lines Failed,” the April, 1945. number of the US paper, “Rural Electrification News,” tells a pretty little story of the methods used by big capital against farmers' co-operatives…

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Land Loans for Farm Workers

Tribune · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 3

EX - SERVICEMEN'S land reestablishment loans should be made available to farm workers as well as to farmers and farm…

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Servicemen Will Soon Ballot for Farm Land

The Sun · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 2

Blocks of land will be available to Servicemen by ballot by the end of next month, under the Soldier Settlement Scheme. This assurance was given today by Minister for…

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