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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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78d lb for Lake Cowal Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 1

What may be the highest prices obtained for district wool at the current sales in Sydney was secured by the…

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Remunerative Price Level Only Way to Stabilise Wheat Industry

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 6

There is only one way to stabilise the wheat industry and that is by a remunerative price level, consistent with the cost of production and adequate for all economic purposes, below which no primary product should be offered for sale, Mr. Hugh…

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West Wyalong Junior Farmers Clean Up'Chook' Prizes at Ungarie

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 6

West Wyalong Junior Farmers' Club had another successful day in the poultry classes at the Ungarie Show. Members won thirteen out of the fifteen prizes…

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Junior Farmers As Show Stewards

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 1

Junior farmers of West Wyalong are to be appointed as Stewards at the West Wyalong Show on Tuesday and…

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Saoni Goats Included in Junior Farmer Exhibit at the Show

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 4

Saoni-goats will be a highlight of the Junior Farmer display at the West Wyaiong Show to-morrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday, Mr. Peter Gately, the…

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Wool Report

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 2

We submitted a most attractive catalogue of early shorn wools, drawn from the North West and Western districts on August 31, reports The…

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Wool Report

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 4

Australian Wool Brokers and Produce Company, Ltd., report on 2948: The third post-war wool auction season opened in Sydney on Monday, 2nd…

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Sheep Show and Gymkhana Next Saturday's Annual Gathering The Sheep Shearing Contest

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 2

The annual sheep show and gymkhana at Forbes next Saturday will only need to experience favorable weather to ensure a financial…

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Farmers Protest Against Slow Removal of Stacked Wheat Daily Deterioration of Grain

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 1

A COMBINED meeting of members of the Forbes F. and S. Association and the Wheat growers' Union was held in the Parish Hall on Friday afternoon, when it was decided to enter an emphatic protest against the slow removal of damaged wheat…

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Butter and Cheese New Agreement with England Increased Rates

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 4

A London message says that increased prices of 30- per cwt. for butter and 15- for cheese will be paid by the British Ministry of Food, under a new…

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Bagged Wheat Should be Delivered by Saturday Narromine Agent's Statement

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 3

Wheatgrowers who were compelled to store wheat on their properties last season because of the bag shortage are reminded that they must deliver…

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Wool Values Should Hold Unless Currency is Altered Our Drop in Lamb and Mutton Export

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 3

Unless rates of exchange alter no reason is in sight which prompts the anticipation of any extraordinary change in wool prices in the…

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Big Brother Movement War Memorial Training Farm Established

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 3

As a lasting memorial to thirty "Little Brothers," who fell during the recent world war, the Big Brother Movement has purchased…

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Burgooney Sheep Dip

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 1

At the last meeting of the Condoblin Pastures Protection Board, the Stock Inspector, reporting on the Burgooney…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 3

THE FARMERS & GRAZIERS' COOP INSURANCE AGENCY CO. LTD. 2nd September, 1948. We submitted a catalogue of 10,255…

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Billabong Pastoral Coy. Wins Buttenshaw Memorial Cup

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 6

Billabong Pastoral Co. was the winner of the fifty guinea W. A. Buttenshaw Memorial Trophy at the West Wyalong Show yesterday…

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Erigolia Wool Price in Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 10

At the Sydney wool sales last week the Country Producers' Selling Company, Ltd., offered 5,799 bales…

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The Wool Outlook Still Good

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 10

Unless rates of exchange alter no reason is in sight which prompts the anticipation of any extraordinary change in…

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Farmer's Skull Fractured

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 4

Mr. Alan Little's skull wa[?] fractured in all accident [?] Hanwood, Griffith. He was cranking a tractor at…

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Local Prices at Wool Sales

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 13 September 1948 · page 4

District prices obtained by Messrs Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd. at their wool sales in Sydney included the following:—W…

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