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

Farming & the land, 1948

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W.W. Oat Crop Competition

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 1 November 1948 · page 1

The Judge, Mr. J. G. Bal'antyyne (District Agronomist) has completed the judging of the growing oat crop competition…

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H. J. Bate Wins Dairying Ch'ship

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 1 November 1948 · page 5

Mr. H. J. Bate, of "Mountain View," Tilba Tilba, on the South Coast, has won the 1948 N.S.W. coastal…

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Regular Sheep Sale Last Week's Yarding

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1948 · page 6

Edward Weaver & Coy. (Forbes) and the Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Coy. Ltd., auctioneers in conjunction, report that upwards of 9500 fat sheep…

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Last Week's Wool Sales District Realisations

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1948 · page 6

On Tuesday, October 26, the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., brought forward a catalogue totaling 3303 bales…

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Wool Reports

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 4 November 1948 · page 4

At their Sydney auction on 27th inst. Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. offered a catalogue consisting of clips drawn mainly from the Central…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 4 November 1948 · page 1
Also in The West Wyalong Advocate

On Tuesday, the 26th October, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., brought forward a catalogue totalling 3,303 bales…

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£20,000 for Sheep Experiment in N.G.

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 4 November 1948 · page 1

The Minister for External Territories, Mr. E. J. Ward, announced that the Commonwealth Government had accepted…

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Junior Farmers' Club

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 4 November 1948 · page 3

The District Supervisor of Junior Farmers' Clubs attended Quandialla on Monday for the purpose of inaugurating a club at that centre. At a largely attended and representative, meeting the following office-bearers were elected to the Advisory Committee:…

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Damage to Crops

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 4 November 1948 · page 3

Despite the unusual severity of the wind losses experienced by wheat growers were extremely slight. If is felt that beneficial rains…

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Harvest Prospects Good; 12 Bag Crops Expected in Marginal Areas

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 4 November 1948 · page 1

Unusually cool weather during October caused a considerable improvement in the condition of cereal crops, and harvest prospects are now good, states Mr. J. G…

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Tully Farmers Carting Hay Tullibigeal

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 4 November 1948 · page 6

Hay farming is in full swing at Tullibigeal the "Advocate" correspondent at Tullibigeal stated…

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Tully Farmers Take no Chances

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 4 November 1948 · page 6

Tullibigeal, Thursday, Tullibigeal and district farmers are taking no chances with bush fires…

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Wool Report

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 November 1948 · page 8

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Limited, report:-- We submitted a catalogue, of 4077…

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QUANDIALLA First Meeting of Junior Farmers

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 November 1948 · page 8

A well attended meeting was held at the Quandialla Public School on Nocember 1 for the purpose of forming a Junior farmers' club. There were…

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Prices at Condobolin Sheep Sale

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 8 November 1948 · page 6

Messrs Goldsbrough Mort & Co., Ltd., Forbes, in conjunc tion with Mr. M. P. Berrell Condobolin, report having…

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District Wool Prices in Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 8 November 1948 · page 1

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd., at the Sydney wool sales last week, secured 53½d for AAAFE and W on account…

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Good Prices for District Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 8 November 1948 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and M.A. Agency Ltd., had a catalogue of 3,303 hales of wool at their last Sydney auction…

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Wheat for Export at Standstill (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 8 November 1948 · page 1

Wheat silos at the docks were almost empty because the coal strike has stopped the railways from carrying wheat for export after last Thursday…

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Minister Of Agriculture Replies To Farmers And Settlers' Association Secretary

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 8 November 1948 · page 1

"I have not at any time said that the Executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was not democratically elected, but there is a very grave doubt whether the 'Inner Executive' which has been set up within that Executive has been democratically…

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