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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

517 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 19 of 26

Another Flying Sheep Farmer

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 1

Yet another pastoralist has become airborne by buying an aircraft for station use. Mr. L. F. Price arrived here…

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Farmers Urge Country Education

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 1

Sydney, August 13.—Alarm was expressed yesterday by a conference of the Farmers and Settlers Association at the State…

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Rhodes Scholar Returns To Farming

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 16 August 1952 · page 3

Dr. R. C H. Cuninghame, N.S.W. Rhodes Scholar for 1949, who has just returned from Oxford, says he plans to go back to his…

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Wool Board Conference

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 10

The secretary (Mr. J. Besten) and President (Mr. J. Allison) of the Pastoralists Association of West Darling…

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"Kangaroo" Cattle Killed in B. Hill

Barrier Miner · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 11

Cattle [?] appeared in many of the sequences [?]e Australian film "Kangaroo" were k[?] at the Broken Hill Abattoirs today. [?] film ope[?] its local season at the…

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Poisoned Butter Used As Bait

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 6

In response to complaints received from residents in Railway Town about the baiting of dogs, police last week examined two…

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Why There Is Less Butter

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 4

Australian wholemilk production this year is likely to be only 1,000 million gallons, almost 200 million…

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New Synthetics Have Novelty Appeal Service Values Not Tet Determined Says Wool Bureau Head

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 5

Although the newly arrive and self-designated "m[?]" manmade fibers were still being produced in what represented…

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U.S. Farmers Improve Grassland

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 4

Farmers in the United States are devoting more attention to grasses and legumas in support of the nation's effort to increase…

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U.c. Crop Production Conference

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 4

European crop socialists will go to the University of Wisconsin in the north-central United States this summer to attend a…

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Grassland Congress Delegates to Tour U.s. Farm Areas

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 3

Overseas delegates to the sixth International Grassland Congress will tour four areas in the United States to see accomplishments in…

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Markets Sheep and Lambs

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 3

The official report of the S.A. Stocksalesmen's Association on the abattoirs sheep and lamb market 20/8/52…

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Delta to Race at Warwick Farm

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 11

Sydney—Delta, Melbourne Cup winner and champion Australian galloper, is to run at Warwick Farm tomorrow. He is to contest the Warwick Stakes…

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U.K. Standards Body Seeks Textile Labelling Incorrect the Of Wool Terms

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 23 August 1952 · page 4

Because of the increase in variety of fibre and cloth construction it is becoming evident that informative labelling of cloths…

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Cattle Pleuro in Victoria

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 August 1952 · page 6

Swan Hill. — Swan Hill wheat and woolgrowers will ask New South Wales to make a tighter health check,…

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[?] or Wool From Soft to Hard Currency Areas

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 26 August 1952 · page 3

Certain South African exporters have been shipping wool to soft currency countries, especially in Western…

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American Surpluses increase Medium Apparel Wool Supplies By Only 17 Per-Cent

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 26 August 1952 · page 3

New York.—The release of the 1951-52 wool surpluses in Argentina and Uruguay, which are…

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Child Killed by Wheat

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 2

Adelaide.—Christine Annette Schliebs (4), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Garry Schliebs, of Wunkar, near…

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Wool Market Is Disturbed

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 8

Developments in the world's wool trade have somewhat dampened the optimism that wool prices will rise spectacularly when the new season opens in Sydney next…

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Fortune in Cattle Arrived from U.S.

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 August 1952 · page 3

Brisbane—The most valuable herd of cattle ever to cross the Pacific to Australia—228 head of Santa Gertrudis—arrived in the American freighter Sierra…

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