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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Butter Ration

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 1

Sydney — Drastic butter rationing would begin in Sydney next week, said a butter distributor today…

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Yorkshire Impressed By Wool Clearances

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 3

BRADFORD: Although for the first time for several weeks there has been Improvement in volume of business in Bradford wool top…

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U.S. Wool Promotion Funds Increased

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 6

NEW YORK: The American Wool Council has voted unanimously to increase Its annual contribution to the Wool Bureau, the…

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U.K. Firms Buy To Improve Stock Position Dominion Prices Reflected At London Wool Sales

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 4

Entering their final week, the London wool sales reflected the better tone which had lately characterised Dominion wool markets…

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U.S. Farm Production Rises As Farm Population Dwindles

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 4

The American farmer is producing more food and fibre per man hour of labor than ever before. Although the farm population of…

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Cattle in Peril

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 1

Sydney—Northern N.S.W. graziers fear they will lose 79,000 cattle— £2 million worth—if rain does not fall…

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Obtaining Butter For NSW From Victoria

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 1

Sydney, January 4.—Director of Transport Winsor said today the Government would do its utmost to obtain butter from Victoria to…

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Thousands Of Cattle Die In Severe Drought Rain Dire Need In Upper Clarence Area

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 3

Sydney, January 4.—Thousands of cattle have died in the north-western and northern districts of New South Wales and in the Northern Territory in the worst drought for years. Unless substantial rain is received…

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Wool Men Hope for Stability

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 January 1952 · page 4

Sydney—Record wool sales will bc resumed this week in Sydney, Adelaide, and Albury, and all wool men await with keen interest the opening of the season's…

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Two Albanian Farmers Shot

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 January 1952 · page 2

Brisbane— Within 24 hours two men, Albanian farmers, were shot in different parts of the Mareeba-Atherton area, about 50 miles west of Cairns, during the…

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Wool Sales

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 4

Sydney, January 7.—The Sydney market showed a hardening tendency compared with values ruling at the close of the last…

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In Place of Butter

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 4

While butter is scarce or unobtainable to substitute spread for sandwiches can be made easily from milk…

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"Still Grim": Butter Position In N.S.W.

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 1

Sydney, January 7.—Although the State's butter prospects are much better than last week, the supply position is still "grim" The…

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Israel's Mills Will Spin More Wool

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 3

The capacity of Israel's worsted spinning mills is likely to increase from the present 2.6 million lb. annually—on a two-shift basis…

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U.S. Rain-making Mix-up Fruit-Growers Protest Against Rain Made For Wheat-men

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 3

It was Nature, not Dr. Irving Krick of the U.S. Water Resources Development Corporation, that brought heavy rain to the parched Pacific north-west recently and cases the shortage of hydro-electric power that has…

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Wheat For India

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 3

Five more cargoes of wheat and two cargoes of flour, valued at approximately £2,640,000, will be soon shipped to India as a part of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 3

Sydney, January 8.—Although there was no quotable change from yesterday's value levals, prices for better class…

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American' Business Girls Prefer Wool

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 5

Out of 135 American, business girls questioned as to their favorite fabric for a cout, 110 declares they wanted wool Ninety of them…

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Barrier Hiner Wednesday, January 9, 1952. Premier's Butter Slide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 3

THAT you may take a horse to water, but cannot make him drink is an aphorism which many Governments seem to forget. It helps to account for many of the shortages…

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Wool Suits And Make Fashion News In New York

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 4

Shaggy tweeds, poodle, cloths, fleeces, gabardines, fiannels and worsteds continue to make fashion news for winter suits and coats in…

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