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

Farming & the land, 1949

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Lambs to 577 Fat Sheep Sale at Forbes Friday's Improved Market

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 6

New Zealand Loan & M.A. Co. Ltd. (Inc. in Eng.), Forbes branch, report a yarding of upwards of 7000 sheep at the associated agents regular…

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New Competition for J. FARMERS Scholarships Offered for Boy and Girl

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 2

The Junior Farmers' Club Council of N.S.W. has announced that a Junior Fanner Competition for Scholarships will be held this year, for which…

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Grazier Acquitted on Charge of Receiving Sheep

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 4

Henry George Doolan was charged with receiving and having 66 sheep, the property of Christina Kerr, Agnes Kerr,…

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Fourth Series London Wool Sales

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 4

New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report: All wool selling centres throughout Australia are now in recess until the…

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Wool Fabrics Favored the Would Wants Them

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report under date 26th July:— Public preference for goods made from wool has been emphasised…

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31 Farms for Ex-servicemen

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 4

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) announced that 31 farms on the "Goolhi" Estate had become available for soldier…

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Cattle Dearer At This Week's Forbes Sale

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 7

Edward Weaver & Co., auctioneers (Forbes) report that the Forbes agents yarded upwards of 200 head of cattle at the regular fortnightly fat cattle…

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Mange Mite in Dubbo Sheep Stock Inspector's Report

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 8

Mange mite was affecting sheep in the Dubbo district and infestation was much more prevalent than was generally believed, the…

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Check Wool Suit for Teen-ager

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 2

A "teen-ager" suit of wool checked in rust, navy and white from Montijou The gently flaring skirt shows the modified "New Look" and…

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Wheat Grading System Favored by Cowra F. & S. Association

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 8

"That a[?] wheat grading system as recommended by the Master Bakers' Association and the Department of Agriculture should be…

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£70,000 Building for One Wool Sale Store at Dubbo Now Taken Over by P.M.G.

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 3

THE Commonwealth Wool Store at Dubbo has been leased to the Postmaster General's Department, which will use it mainly as a storage depot and line training school. The store was built during the war years by the Federal…

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Valuable Cattle Poisoned

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 1

Some 50 head of cattle out of a mob of 28 belonging to Messrs J. Ward (McMahon's Reef) and M. Ryan (Gunning) and…

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Silage for Sheep

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 5

Trials cairied out by the Department of Agriculture at departmantal experiment farms have shown that while s[?]age…

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Wool Prices Fall

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 1

At the Brisbane wool auctions last week prices were about 20 per cent. lower than those of last January…

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Surplus From J.o. Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 2

Latest accounts of U.K.-Dominion Wool Disposals Ltd. (Joint Organisation) disclose that Australais net divisible surplus at…

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Grade a Wool for Japan

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 1

For the first time since the war, Japan can again buy topgrade Australian wool. An A.A.P. message from…

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U.a.a. Uses Less Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 6

The only country abroad in which the wool position snows uncertainty is America. Consumption. in the United-States this…

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Wheat Board Farce (To the Editor "Advocate")

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 6

Sir,—One of Labor's promises to farmers was a wheat marketing board under grower-control When legislation to establish…

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Wheat Agreement Important Experiment In World Collaboration

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 4

The following is a reprint of the article which appeared in the Melbourne "Age," of the 14th July It is the best we have seen in any newspaper in the way of readable information on the very vital subject of wheat agreement, and it should prove of interest to most…

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London Wool Sales to U.S.A. Lower

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 2

The fourth series of the London wool sales commenced its second week on the 14th July and closed on the 16th. There…

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