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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

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CWA Wool Exhibition

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 2

The Country Women's Association will hold its 1951 wool and handicrafts exhibition in the New Masonic…

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District Men in Opposition to Wool Plan

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 7

When the Graziers' Federal Council meets to discuss the post J.O. wool marketing plan Mr. R. L. Caskey (president) and Mr. A. J. Beston (secretary) will be…

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Temporary Butter Shortage Locally Follows One-third Cut in Supplies

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 1

Butter supplies for Broken Hill have been affected by the recent one-third cut in supplies in South Australia, and butter is expected to be portly rationed by local retailers for about a…

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Escaped Prisoners Recaptured Break From Vic. Prison Farm

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 1

Melbourne, June 29. — Kevin Uren (21) and Edward Eastham (27), who escaped from Corriemungle prison farm near Cobden yesterday were [?]…

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Models In Wool

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 9

Emphasis is on "separates," or two piece models at opening collections of autumn fashions in New York. Designers use interesting wool fabrics for clever…

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Butter Stored in Sydney Will Be Regularly Fed to Market

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 1

Canberra, June 26.—A total of 71,000 cases of butter now held in cold storage in Sydney would be fed out regularly on the market during the butter shortage…

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Wool Chief

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 8

San Francisco, June 27.— Mr. Douglas T. Boyd, chairman of the Australian Wool Board, who was recently…

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Flooded Farms

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY.—About 200 farms are covered by an inland "sea" of floodwater, 10 miles…

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Butter Cut

Barrier Miner · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY.—A further 33 per cent. cut on butter supplies was announced today by the…

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North-Western Small Farmer Bred Grand Champion of Jubilee Sheep Show

Western Grazier · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 3

A small north-western farmer with a flock of less than 3,000 sheep bred the grand champion ram at the Sydney Jubilee Sheep Show this week. He…

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Sheep to star in television

Barrier Miner · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 3

THIS AUSTRALIAN MERINO will become a television star this week. He is the largest ram exhibited at the Jubilee Sheep Show in Sydney, shown posing for photographs which will appear on 108 television stations in the US…

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The Last Week in the Wool Market

Western Grazier · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 3

Australia's most momentous wool selling season is nearing its close. Last week's sales in Sydney and Newcastle were the final auctions for New South…

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High Wool Price Deplored by Local Graziers

Barrier Miner · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 3

Graziers viewed today's high wool prices with as much trepidation as the general public, Mr. R. L. Caskey said at the CWA Wool Exhibition yesterday. Mr. Caskey, who is…

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N.S.W. Graziers Reject Wool Marketing Plan

Western Grazier · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 1

Sydney, June 21.—Widespread rind almost completely unanimous opposition to the proposed wool marketing plan is reported from meetings of…

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Science Says "Milk Wool!" But Is It Practicable?

Western Grazier · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 2

A wool fibre made directly from [?]mmed cow's milk is being made in Holland, according to "Chamber's Journal" (Edinburgh), Chemically, the…

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P.P. Board Views On Post J.O. Wool Plan

Western Grazier · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 2

The Council of the Pastoralists Association of West Darling has expressed unanimous apposition to the proposed Post [?] Wool Marketing Plan. This attitude the secretary (Mr. A. J…

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Small Farmer's Ram Won Sydney Ram Championship

Western Grazier · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 2

A ram bred by a small north-westerns farmer with a flock of 1,000 sheep, whose stud was founded only five years ago, and who was showing for the first time…

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Dairy Products

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 1

Canberra. June 28.—If the Australian public wanted to get sufficient dairy products in the next six yean they must be prepared to pay something…

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Butter Is Rationed

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 3

Melbourne.—The demand by local people who want to send supplies to better-starved Sydney, and panic…

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Butter Sent By Air

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 2

Canberra.—The public in New South Wales is short of butter, but the State's politicians in Canberra are…

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