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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

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Butter, Cheese, Milk Output Up

Singleton Argus · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 3

Butter, cheese, and milk production in Australia increased in the first four months of 1948-49. Dairying industry figures…

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Criticism of Wool Packs

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 4

The president of the British Wool Federation recently criticised the type of wool packs being used to South Africa…

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High Wool Prices Should Hold

Singleton Argus · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 4

As long as peace is maintained, woolgrowers in Australia and New Zealand will continue to enjoy profitable returns for some…

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Price Stability for Dairying

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 2

Prices for Australian exported dairy products will not fall sharply in the next 6[?] years, due to the terms of the contract under which…

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Bull Dies. Government Farm In Quarantine

Singleton Argus · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 4

The Government Experiment Farm at Wollongbar, near (Lismore has been quarantinued after the death of a stud Guernsey…

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Heliotrope Weed Killed Sheep

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 2

Heliotrope weed causes toxaemia jaundice in sheep, it was stated in a report by the Council for Scientific and Industrial…

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Prospects for Wool Demand

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The United Kingdom exported almost three million square yards of woollen and worsteds to Australia…

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Harvesting of Wheat Crop

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY. Wed.—Nearly 61 million bushels of this season’s New South Wales wheat crop had already been harvested…

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Italy Buys More Wool America and Wool

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 3

N.Z.L. & M.A. Co., Ltd., reports With the absence of wool auctions to allow of the usual recess…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

The Country Producers Selling Company Limited report 30th December, 1948: The wool trade at present is in…

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Butter, Cheese, Milk Output Up

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

Butter, cheese, and milk production in Australia increased in the first four months of 1948-49. Dairying industry figures…

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Poisoning Of Sheep Weed Blamed

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

Heliotrope weed causes toxaemic jaundice in sheep, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research stated this week…

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Value of Wool Clip

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. — This season’s wool clip is expected to be worth £160,000,000 to £200,000,000, Dr. Edgar Booth, retiring…

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Bright Wool Prospects Position Sound

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., reports that both United States and Australian millmen have bought fair quantities of wool in Australia this season, but their operations have been less prominent than in preceding…

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Wool Record Held by Pioneer Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

A wool review issued by Dalgety & Co. states that the olaim for an Australian record of, 152d a pound paid…

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Wool Expected To Yield £200.000,000

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

This season's wool clip is expected to be worth between £160,000,000 and £200,000,000, Dr. Edgar Booth,…

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Season's Wool Clip. to Be Worth £160 Million

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

This season's wool clip is expected to be worth between £160 million and £200 million Dr. Edgar Booth, retiring…

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Record for Greasy Wool

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thurs. — The Highest price obtained for greasy wool in Australia was realised at Geelong wool sales when four…

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Italy Buys More Wool. America and Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 6

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile agency Co, Ltd:—With the absence of wool auctions to allow of the usual recess for the…

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Merino Wool Record

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday. — For the second successive day an Australian record for merino wool was created at Geelong…

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