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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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Wheat Export

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 5

New York, May 9.—Wheat exports of the world are supplied to the extent of 97 per cent by Canada, Australia and Argentina,…

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Shell Research For Farmers

Barrier Miner · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 3

The United Kingdom, smaller than the State of Victoria, produces much more than the total Australian production of fruit…

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Good Demand for Wool

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 1

Sydney. May 12.—A very strong demand existed for average to good for marking wools at to-day's wool auctions. The demand included strong bidding of…

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Markets Cattle Section

Western Grazier · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 3

The off[?] S A. Stock Salesmen's Association, Adelaide Abal[?] Cattle Market, Monday. The number of cattle yarded today was…

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Record Australian Wool Price

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 1

Melbourne, May 13.—An Australian record price for wool was established at Geelong sales today, when 135 pence was paid for one bale from Victoria…

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Wool Sales Close For Week On Firm Note

Western Grazier · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 3

Sydney. May 13.—The wool sales closed for the week on a very firm note with all the best features strongly reproduced. Competition was keen and sustained, all…

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Grapefruit To Fatten Cattle

Barrier Miner · Monday 17 May 1948 · page 3

New York, May 16. —Goodnatured cattle can be fattened on a grapefruit diet, says Dr. W. G. Kirk, deputy director of Florida's…

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Merino Wool Price Beyond Bradford

Barrier Miner · Monday 17 May 1948 · page 5

London, May 16.—Bradford wool circles say that largely because of Russian-Japanese competition the value of merino.wool at sources of…

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Pastoral Officers

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 May 1948 · page 8

The election of the Council and officers was made at the 41st annual meeting of the Pastoralists Association of West-Darling in the…

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Soviet-japs Compete for Wool

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 2

Melbourne.—There is keep rivalry at Melbourne Wool sales between agents buying for Japanese and Russian interests…

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Russia Will Buy Wool at Any Price

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 3

Brisbane.—Russia and Japan at times again dominated Brisbane wool market yesterday. Experts said later that Russia…

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Wool Board Films

Barrier Miner · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 1

A humber of films on the grazing industry will be shown at New Masonic Hall tonight. They have been brought to…

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Wool and Prices Interesting Comparisons

Western Grazier · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 1

Sydney, May 18— Despite the fart that certain types of wool were bringing record prices the average price for wool sold by auction in Australia in…

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British Wool Fabrics Shown in Paris

Western Grazier · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 3

Organised by the International Wool Secretariat, London, in co-operation with the National Wool Textile Corporation, an exhibition of British wool…

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Queen Mary Visits Another Wool Display

Western Grazier · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 2

Queen Mary, accompanied by the Hon. Margaret Wyndham, visited the wool Jersey and printed wool display at the International Wool Secretarial's…

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World Wool News Board Members in London for Talks

Western Grazier · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 3

Mr. Douglas T. Boyd, Chairman of the Australian Wool Beard, and Mr. H. K. Nock, a member of the Board, have arrived in London tc represent too Board at a meeting of the International Wool Publicity and Research Executive, scheduled to begin…

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British Sales Of Butter

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 May 1948 · page 4

London, May 20.[?]The Food Ministry said that Britain was reselling overseas the butter sent here from Australia…

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British Farming Adventure Is Race Against Time Reclamation Scheme Aims To Save Land From The Sea

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 22 May 1948 · page 6

Seventeen farmers have combined with engineers to undertake a big reclamation scheme on the east coast or Britain which will win a large area of…

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Wool Sales Today

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 6

Adelaide wool sales commenced today with the market expected to hold at the high prices of the previous offerings. A large quantity…

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Huge Wheat Sales Record Exports

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 5

Melbourne, May 24. — Collections from Australian wheat sales this season to date totalled more than £00 million, the acting chairman of the…

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