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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Suffocated by Wheat

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 December 1952 · page 4

Temora:—Jack Geale (50), was suffocated in about eight feet of wheat when he fell into a bin at Temora…

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wool Prices Firm

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 December 1952 · page 2

London, Thursday. — The market was strong when the London wool sales were resumed…

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Film Bombs Scare Farmer

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 December 1952 · page 6

London, Thursday. — The whistle of seven motor bombs passing over his garden nursery today scared…

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Fog Choked Cattle

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 December 1952 · page 8

London, Monday.— Penicillin and whisky, failed to save the lives of eight prize cattle…

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Fire Toll of Sheep; Wheat

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 December 1952 · page 1

Sydney.—Fierce bushfires in the north-western New South Wales destroyed thousands of bags of…

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Export Ban on Butter

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 December 1952 · page 1

The Department of Trade and Customs has advised the Postal Department that the export of tinned butter…

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Sheep Raiding Dingo Shot

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 December 1952 · page 4

Walcha.—A big. aged male dingo was shot in a daylight drive on Mr. Percy Brazel's property at Glen Morrison…

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Year's Best Wool Price

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 December 1952 · page 13

Sydney.—Greasy merino wool brought a record price for this season's Sydney Five bales sold for 23ld…

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"No challenge" to wool

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 11 December 1952 · page 1

Mr Douglas T. Boyd, chairman of the Australian Wool Board, stated recently that wool was…

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Wool Cot From Whale Blubber

Barrier Miner · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 6

New York, Thursday.—A Japanese scientist had discovered how to make wool and other textile synthetics from whale blubber, Professor Rogers Finch…

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Is Our Wool Doomed?

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 13 December 1952 · page 1

Mr E. F. Sanderson, head of a large Australian wool selling firm, said on his return from America…

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Bull Kills Farmer

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 4

Warrnambool. — Francis Luke Harvey, 66, was gored to death on Saturday by a bull…

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Wool Income Larger

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 December 1952 · page 5

Canberra.—Wool sold in five months ended last November brought £142,330,435. Proceeds from the same…

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Pastoral Conditions

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 16

Sydney. — The secretary of the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia. Mr. M. R. Blaikie, said that 1952…

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Wool Textile Leader Dies, Aged 102

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 4

The oldest man in the world actively engaged in the wool textile trade, Mr. Theodore C. Taylor, has died…

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Beautiful Wool Jerseys In New Weaves Make Fashion News In Paris

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 4

With the present trend towards fluid feminine lines, wool jersey has come into the limelight in Paris and…

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Profits From Damaged Flax Crops

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 4

Flax crops stunted by drought or damaged by wind and rain have been specially trested in recent C.S.I.R.O…

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N.s.w. Pastoral Conditions Are Good

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 19 December 1952 · page 4

The following information as to the existing pastoral conditions in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia Queensland and Northern…

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High Wheat Harvest In S.A.

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 19 December 1952 · page 2

Adelaide, December 18.—Government Statistician, Mr. Bowden, today estimated the wheat harvest in S.A. this…

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N.S.W. Wheat Harvest Forecast Of 44½ Million Bushels

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 19 December 1952 · page 4

A final review of the wheat crop position in New South Wales indicates a yield of 44½ million bushels…

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