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

Farming & the land, 1949

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U.S.A. Purchase Fine Wool Sydney Sales Still Postponed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 4

Stronger competition has been experienced from America for spinners merino wools at recent Newcastle sales and any change in…

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Opportunity For "100" Dairies on Lachlan Valley 20 Tons Butter Per Week Can Be Handled

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 1

"THE advent of closer settlement, and especially dairying, will be a great boon to the town of Forbes and the surrounding' district, but we need another 100 such farms to produce the requirements for this district alone," Mr. Conridge,…

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Graded Wheat Brings Higher Prices

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 2

Australia was the only major wheat exporting country that did not grade its wheat to get higher overseas prices stated the…

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Favours Wheat Stabilisation (To the Editor "Advocate")

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 4

Sir,—If Mr. W. H.McManus had taken the trouble to read my letter ("Advocate" 10/2/19) he would know I did not say one…

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U.S.A. Buys Fine Wools Africa Imports German Sheep

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Stronger competition has been experienced from America for spinners merino wools at recent…

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Prosecution of Farm Produce Agents

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 5

"Prosecutions launched recently by my Department against two agents operating at the city markets for breaches of…

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New Status for Wagga Farm

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 6

"The name of the Wagga Experiment Farm has now been changed to the Wagga Agricultural College and Experiment Station," said Mr. Graham (Minister for…

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Farmers Will Resist Line Removal Threat UNGARIE

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 6

Protests continue to pour in from all parts of the South-west against a proposal to tear up and remove the Ungarie to Naradhan railway line…

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Wool Report

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 4

Australian Wool Brokers & Produce Company Ltd., on March 4, 1949, report; At the time of writing the position in the Sydney wool trade continues…

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Junior Farmer State Champion

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 1

Alister MacRae, of the Collengullie Club, via Wagga, winner of the 1948 Fat Lamb Raising Project in the Junior Farmer State Championship competition, photographed with his Rycland Ram. For his fine effort Alister receives Sir Samuel Hordern's trophy and the Stud Ram donated…

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sheep Show Sydney in May

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 6

The Council of the New South Wales Sheepbreedets Association will conduct its fiftieth annual sheep show on the Sydney Showground on Thursday, Friday and…

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£35,000,000 for Wool growers

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 6

There is a divergence of opinion as to how the accrued profit of approximately £35,000,000 from J.O. wool marketing…

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Allegation of £100 a Week Wheat Contract

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 8

A speaker at the Coonabaraban branch of the F.S.A. alleged that a contractor had told him that he had made…

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Adventure in Wheat the Story of William Farrer

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 4

In view of the volumes which have been written around the lives of lesser Australians, it is surprising that more attention has not…

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Adventure in Wheat; the Story of 15 William Farrer

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 6

In view of the volumes which have been written around the lives of lesser Australians, it is surprising that more attention…

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Record Average Wool Price 49.49d. lb. So Far This Season

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 7

For the seven months of the present wool selling season to January 31 the average price realised fo rail greasy wool sold was 49.49d. per lb. The average for…

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Scotch Thistle as Sheep Killer?

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 7

The mystery death of 90 wethers on a Cowra property last week has been put down to Scotch thistle. The wethers were port of a mob of…

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Cattle Market £1 to £2 Rise

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1

Forbes agents yarded about 160 head of cattle at the regular fortnightly market held on Tuesday, March 8, repart Edward Weaver & Company…

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Wool Store Workers Dismissed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 3

Owners of wool stores in Sydney on Tuesday dismissed 600 storemen and packers, because of the outward ban on deliveries of wool,…

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Coonamble Man Says Rabbits are as Good as Sheep and Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 4

The entire countryside is alarmed at the spread of the rabbit pest, and aveu Governments are sitting up and taking…

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