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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

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New Wool Price Record

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 5

For the second successive day an Australian record for merino wool was created at Geelong wool sales yesterday…

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New Record Wool Price

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

The second Australian wool record in two days—159d—was established at the final of the fifth series of the 1948-49 Gee…

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Australia’s Wool Clip

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

The current season’s Australian wool clip may be worth almost £31,000,000 more than last year. Wool experts expect this year’s…

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Good General Rains. Sheep Market Responds

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd report: The last week is likely to prove an eventful one from a seasonal point of view, as from…

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Bright Wool Prospects. Position Sound

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—Both United States and Australian millmen have bought fair quantities of wool in Australia this season, but…

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Mortality in Sheep Caused by Careless Use of Rabbit Poison

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 7

Mortality in sheep, caused by careless use of cyanide preparations at present sold on the market for rabbit…

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No Drop Likely in Price of Aust. Wool Statement By Dr. Edgar Booth SYDNEY

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

There Was no reason why the present average price for Australian wool should drop, Dr. Edgar Booth said…

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F.a.o. and the Australian Farmer. the Role of Each in a Starving World

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 3

F.A.O. is the abbreviated title of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the united Nations. Its official story began in May, 1943, when the…

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Price Stability For Dairying

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 7

Prices for Australian exported dairy products Will not fall sharply in the next 6½ years due to the terms of the contract under which the United…

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Refresher Course For Ex-Servicemen. at Yanco Experiment Farm

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 3

No. 8 Refresher Course for ex-Servicemen will begin at Yanco Experiment Farm on 10th January, 1949. The course is filling rapidly and…

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Cooperative Farming Enterprise in England

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

A group of farmers at Reading, Berkshire, who, having experienced the harvest of 1946, when the combine harvesters brought…

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Dairymen Strike For Higher Price

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 3

DUBBO, Friday. — District dairymen have decided unanimously to send no more milk to Dubbo until their claim for a…

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Personality of the Week N.A.A Scholarship Winter Manage of C.S.I.R. Experiment Farm MR. F. H. Kent Says He Owes a Lot to Singleton

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 3

A former Singleton boy, Mr. Frank H. Kent, H.D.A., who has been visiting here during the last three weeks, is the manager of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research experimental farm, at Katherine, Northern Territory…

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“Monty’s Appeal To Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 8.—A call to the nation to gird up his Joins was made by Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery, chairman of the Western…

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Butter Production Costs

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday—A further review of the cost of producing butter and cheese will take place this year, said the general…

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Cattle Dearer at Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 1

Ptt, Son and Badgery report 29,945 sheep and lambs poised, mostly of medium duality. Prime was comparatively scarce. The…

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Cattle In Light Supply and Dearer

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 3

A small yarding of cattle sent prices up 10/ to 20/ a head at Campbell’s Hill sale yards to-day. Because of the rain trucks could…

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Reds Buy £2,300,000 of Australian Wool

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 3

The freighter Port Caroline arrived at Newcastle yesterday to complete loading a wool cargo worth übout £2,300,000 for…

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Sheep and Cattle Dearer

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report that 29,945 sheep and lambs, mostly medium quality, were penned yesterday. Prime were comparatively…

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Sheep and Cattle Sales at Flemington Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 1

Supplies of sheep and lambs penned at Flemington Saleyards today were light, only 29,945 head being yarded…

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