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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

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Barrier Miner Thursday, October 18, 1951. Butter and Bluff

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 October 1951 · page 3

AFTER stubbornly refusing to permit an increase of the price of butter and denouncing; the Federal Government for refusal to give the dairy industry a subsidy…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 19 October 1951 · page 5

Brisbane, October 16.—Brisbane wool sales closed today on a buoyant note. All losses since buoyant note. All losses since Monday were regained. There was…

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1951 Cotton Crop

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 19 October 1951 · page 3

Washington, October 16.—An increase of over 6,000,000 bales of cotton over the 1950 United States crop is estimated for the 1951…

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Farms Ready for Soldiers

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 October 1951 · page 7

Sydney. — Eleven fat lamb blocks on Errowanbang (2) Estate, in the Blayney district, have been thrown open for application under thc War Service Land Settlement Scheme…

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Wheat Crop Bigger

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 October 1951 · page 9

Madrid, Latest estimates of Spain's wheat crop for this year are round 4,200,000 tons, compared…

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Plan to stockpile wool

Barrier Miner · Saturday 20 October 1951 · page 4

London, The Ministry of Materials announced today that it was planning to acquire…

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Sunflower crops

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 October 1951 · page 4

Washington.[?] American farmers are being encouraged to grow sunflowers as a regular crop…

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Less Money for the Wool Clip

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 4

Sydney.—The average price of greasy wool sold in Australia from July to September was nearly half the price paid during the same period last year. This was…

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Wool Prices

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 24 October 1951 · page 3

Sydney, October 22.—All merino was 15 per cent above the closing rates for October at the Sydney wool sales today. There was good…

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Wool Sales Irregular

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 1

Sydney, October 22.—The market at the Sydney wool sales to-day was Irregular for the bes; fleece wools when compared with…

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Churches as wheat silos

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 4

Australian farmers are being urged to grow more wheat but in Canada the problem is how to store the record crop until it can be shipped to the world's…

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Drove cattle in outback

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 October 1951 · page 2

JUNE EADEN, of Hawthorndene (S.A.) has returned home after droving cattle in the Northern Territory and Queensland She also engaged in sketching…

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Wharf Dispute Holds Up Butter Unloading

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 30 October 1951 · page 1

Sydney, October 29.—The unloading of Victorian butter from the interstate passenger liner Manoora has been held up because…

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Butter May Rise Again

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY. — Butter prices may rise again the Premier (Mr. McGirr) said in the…

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Goulburn Wool Sales

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 4

Goulburn, October 31.—One of the best selections of cross bred wools of this season was offered for auction in Goulburn today…

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Conference On Wool Dispute

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 1

Sydney.— A compulsory conference of parties to the dispute which caused the cancellation of wool saios if…

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Wool Sales at Goulburn

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 1

Goulburn, November 1—Farmers and graziers sold the Merino portion of their catalogue of 8,025 bales at the Goulburn wool sales…

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First Wheat In Silos

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 November 1951 · page 4

Sydney. — The first of this season's wheat was delivered into silos in the north-west of N.G.W…

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Mr. Cropley on Hospitality of English People

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 7 November 1951 · page 3

A warm welcome as Australians and overwhelming hospitality were met by Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Cropley, of Broken Hill, during their six months' visit to England. The tourists returned to Broken Hill last night…

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Wool Price Rises

Barrier Miner · Thursday 8 November 1951 · page 2

Prices at Elder Smith and Co. Ltd's, wool sale in Adelaide on Tuesday were reported to be 10 per cent…

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