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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

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Sheep, Cattle Sales To Go On

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 7

The Sydney Fat Stock Salesmen's Association yesterday decided to conduct sheep and cattle sales at Flemington next week…

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Disease Grips Mexican Cattle

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 1

MEXICO CITY, Wednesday. -- Hundreds of cattle are being slaughtered in Vera Cruz State in a bid to check the…

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Disease Grips Mexican Cattle

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 1

MEXICO CITY, Wednesday. -- Hundreds of cattle are being slaughtered in Vera Cruz State in a bid to check the…

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Disease Grips Mexican Cattle

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 8

MEXICO CITY, Wednesday. -- Hundreds of cattle are being slaughtered in Vera Cruz State in a bid to check the…

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U.s. Plans to Safeguard Wool

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 12

NEW YORK, Tuesday (A.A.P.).-- Governor Lester Hunt, of Wyoming, bias called a conference of railway, bank, and commerce officials for…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney. Tuesday December 31

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 2

All overseas quotes are for Monday, December 30, 1946, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Mr. Churchill As Dairy Farmer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Dec. 31 (A.A.P.).— Mr. Winston Churchill's latest interest is farming, especially dairy cattle, and he expects soon to own…

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A.W.U. ACTIVITIES .1.1 Federal pastoral Award Shearing Rate Increased to 46/9 per 100 Proportionate Increases for All Other Employees

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 9

A rising but of the recent declaration off the Full Bench of the Federal Arbitration Court of an interim Common wealth basic wage, the shearing rate for flock sheep in the States of New South Wales,…

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P.M. Sees Dairymen's Executive

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 7

The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) yesterday made two moves to prevent the threatened…

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Farm Conditions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 2

Sir,—I am a clergyman who has spent years in the country and many more in the city. I claim as much appreciation and sympathy for the…

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Poultry Farmers the Price of Eggs

The Leader · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 5

On the 19th December, two executive officers of the A.P.F.A. met Mr. East, Deputy Prices Branch for N.S.W., to place before him recent increased prices…

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Changing Over From Wheat; Will Dairy Farm On Irrigated Pastures

The Land · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 10

"WHILE many dairy learners are changing over to other forms of production to escape from the drudgely of the bails, one well-known and…

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Sheep-Goat Cross

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 2

IN referring to a report iron Zealand ("Farmer and Settler" [?]) that a cross between sheep and a goat was running between a…

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May Be No Milk, Butter

The Sun · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 3

A threat to organise a nationwide butter strike has been made by North Coast dairymen. This has nothing to do with…

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Wheat Tests at Dubbo

The Land · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 2

YIELDS at the trials held on Mr. H. J. Harvey's "Kindalen" propery, Rawsonville, near Dubbo were as follows:—Ford, 15 bushels to the…

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No Accumulation of Wool

The Land · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 21

Australian Wool Brokers and Produce Co. Ltd. report: The second half of the 1946-47 wool auction season is to open on Monday next. After one day's sales,…

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Experimental Control Of Ked in Sheep

The Land · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 14

Emulsions of D.D.T. at various strengths and of GSG (Benzine hexocliloride) arc effective in reducing the adult ked on sheep within 28 days,…

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Demonstrated World Hunger For Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 3

THE first half of 1948-49 wool selling season which closed in sYdney With the closing of the year…

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Wool Sales Resume on

The Land · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 21

Pitt, Son & Badgery report:— Wool sales will be resumed in Sydney on Monday next, after the Christmas and New Year recess. Our catalogue will be presented on…

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Butter Export To Britain Up 33 p.c

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1947 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Australian Dairy Produce Board today reported a 33 per cent. increase in Australia's butter export to Britain last…

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