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

Farming & the land, 1949

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Western Wheat Belt Large Quantities Shifted

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 14

A total of 140,000 bags of wheat is being shifted from the western wheat belt each week by rolling stock of the Orange district of the…

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Big Wheat Yield Record for Silos

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 6

The fortnight of dry weather has been a great break to the farmers and as a result wheat is pouring into the silos at a rapid rate…

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Collective Farming Electors Warned Bank Nationalisation

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 7

Speaking on behalf of Mr. John Howse, Liberal-Country Party candidate, in Forbes last Wednesday, Colonel A. D. Reid, Country Party…

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Farmers Warned Dangers of Socialism Archbishop Duhig's Views

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 13

In a special interview with a journalist from the Brisbane Courier Mail, Archbishop Duhig issues a warning on the dangers of…

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Wool Sales

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 12 December 1949 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. sold 9200 bales of wool at their Sydney auction on Tuesday. Values were bouyant and competition keen. Secured on account…

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Proper Stacking of Wheat

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 12 December 1949 · page 5

Wherever wheat has to be stacked on the farm (even [?] only temporarily), proper stacking is important in preventing…

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Tresilian & Dun's Column. Bagged Wheat for Stacks

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 12 December 1949 · page 2

We would like to draw farmers' attention to the delivery of wheat to the bag stack. All wheat delivered to the stack…

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Linseed Crops for Grenfell

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 12 December 1949 · page 2

The following is an address given by Mr. Kelson Gray Managing Director of Australian Industries Pty., at Grenfell on Tuesday night…

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More Butter for Xmas

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 15 December 1949 · page 1

The Director of Raliouiug, Mr. J. B. Cumming, said today than the Minister for Trade and Cub toms had agreed to repeat the…

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Abolition of Butter Ration (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 15 December 1949 · page 1

Dairy farmers in N.S.W. were seeking the abolition of butter rationing grid the lifting of the ban on the sale of sweet cream…

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Wool Stocks Light; American Market Higher

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 15 December 1949 · page 6

Currency changes have been an in[?]ueuce on prices for wool this season, but the great impetus behind competition is the…

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Wool and Money; Trading and Values

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 15 December 1949 · page 7

It is not generally recognised that a huge amount of money is needed by millmen to finance the purchase of wool at…

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Tenders for Farming and Grazing Property

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 15 December 1949 · page 1

TENDERS are called for by Mrs. Ellen Margaret Green, the Executrix of Will of Walter Horace Reginald Green deceased, for offer of…

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Forbes Market Prime Cattle Firm Sheep 16 Dearer

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 8

Edward Weaver & Company and The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Coy. Ltd., report on last Tuesday's stock markets as follows:…

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Heavy Wheat Crop Expected

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 9

"There is now every prospect of this season's wheat harvest yielding 76,000,000 bushels of grain, while the oat harvest is expected…

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District Wool Realisations

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 9

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby, Ltd., report that at their sale on December 7 demand was ngain keen from practically all sections, and while values…

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Extra Butter Ration for Xmas

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 7

The Director of Rationing, Mr. J. B. Cumming, said that the Minister for Trade and Customs had agreed to repeat the action taken in 1946, 1947 and…

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Strong Market at Cattle Sale

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 5

Edward Weaver & Co., auctioneers, Forbes, report that the Forbes agents yarded about 350 head of fat cattle at the Forbes sale on December 13…

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Wheat Harvest in Full Swing

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 14

The extended period of dry weather has been eagerly taken advantage of by farmers and, as a consequence, a great number have finished stripping…

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Wool Survey Effects of Depreciation on Purchase of Materials

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 9

United Kingdom reports state that there has not been any big increase in the purchase of manufactured woollen materials by dollar countries since…

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