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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

1,358 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 35 of 68

Wool Sale Prices Firm SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 1

Yesterday's wool sales showed prices firm at last auction rates. Top line of 105d was paid for 5…

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N.Z. Farmers' Tour Wellington

National Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 1

A party of New Zealand farmers is to be given a round of entertainments at Wellington tomorrow and they will be taken on a tour of…

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Famine Threat in China Floods Affect Rice Crop

National Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 2

CANTON, Wednesday: A famine is theatened in Human Provinen[?] china's "Rice Bowl,"—Where steadily rising flood waters are damaging…

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Two Dead in Farm Tragedy

National Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday: After asking his brother to get him a pencil and paper so that he could "write a note to Mum" a 23 ycais-old returned…

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Light Rain Stops Work on Farms

Central Western Daily · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 5

The general rain which feel over the district on Tuesday night and yesterday yielded many falls of about half an inch. The recording at Orange…

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Sydney Wool Sales Market Closes on Firm Note

National Advocate · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday: The wool market closed firm at yesterday's levels. The better style comebacks and…

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Interesting Lectures to Farmers Big Day at Eurimbla

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 4

Interesting addresses on the care and management of sheep, arranging a show exhibit, and the preparation of jams and…

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Dogs Kill Sheep

National Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 2

"The economic losses caused: by stray dues attacking sleep in the Wallerawang area are terrible," staled Dir. H. Small at yesterday's meeting of the…

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Cattle Firm to Dearer Orange Stock Sales

Central Western Daily · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 9

About 350 cattle and 3000 sheep were yarded at Orange stock sales on Thursday. There were a few pens of prime cows and heifers and…

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Oberon News Death of Farmer Resident. Oberon

National Advocate · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 3

Recently passed away at Hammer Lea. Eathbourne, England, was Mr. William Erskine Mawhood, at the age of 89 years, after a very long…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 4

Market Higher BRISBANE, Monday: The final cries of 1948 49 wool sales opened In Brisbane today. For average sorts and skirtings…

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Wool Textile Research Work

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Monday: A development council for the wool textile industry is being set up for the purpose or promoting research, exports and design…

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Dealer Fined Over Sheep Lice Infected

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 7

For offering lice infected sheep for sale at Orange saleyards, Harry Barnett, of Wellington, was fined £7…

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Wool Report

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Wednesday 22 June 1949 · page 3

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-Op Grain Insurance and Agency Co. Ltd. l5th June, 1949. We submitted a catalogue of 5,970…

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Italian Farm Strike

National Advocate · Wednesday 22 June 1949 · page 2

HOME, Tuesday: Italy's five weeks old farm strike yesterday directly threatened the nation's Brain harvest when workers in the Po Valley in the…

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Wool Trade Aspects Developments Overseas

National Advocate · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 5

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:— Great Britain has been a very active wool buyer this season. Her average monthly consumption in 1048 was 17…

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Italian Farm Strike

National Advocate · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 3

ROME, Wednesday: Leaders of both Communist and non-Communist labor unions have appealed directly to Parliament to intervene quickly to…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Central Western Daily · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 5

The Farmers and Graziers’ CO-OP. Grain Insurance and Agency Co. Ltd. We submitted a catalogue…

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1000 Tons Drop in Butter

Central Western Daily · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.— Eutter production in N.S.W. during May, 1949, dropped just on 1000 tons, as compared with…

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Only One Meter for Shire Farms? Suggestion From Elect Foreman

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 6

A suggestion by the electrical foreman (Mr. A. W. Newman) that only one meter be placed on properties in Amaroo Shire has…

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