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

Farming & the land, 1950

1,036 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 28 of 52

Wool Position Shortage of Cotton Crop Other Factors Help Wool Prices

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 7

The general buoyancy in prices for most wools at the closing sales of the season, angers well for the future of the market…

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Drover Fined Sheep Not Driven Required Distance

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 10

Charles Henry Brown, a drover, was fined £5, with 10- court costs, and three guineas professional costs, for not droving…

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Sheep Troubles Field Demonstration at Eugowra Stock Inspector Charles An Interesting Lecturer

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 6

THE demonsirntion arranged by the sheep and wool instructor, Mr. Murray Gibbes, at Eugowra last week, for students and farmers and graziers, proved a great success. The attendance in the morning was…

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20 Per Cent. Less Wheat Sown Estimate of District Agronomist Excessive Moisture Retards Sowing

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 5

THE District Agronomist, Mr. H. A. W. Woodward, estimates that in the Forbes-Parkes district this season the excessively wet weather has reduced wheat sowings by approximately 20 per cent…

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Fine Weather Looked For by Dairying Industry Production Affected

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 10

In his monthly report for June Mr. J. W. Davison, dairy officer, Orange, states that two weeks' fine weather would be a…

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Final of Sydney Wool Sales

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co. Ltd. report:— On Monday 26th. the 18th and final series of sales in this…

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Wool Levy Starts on Aug. 26 SYDNEY

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 1

The levy on wool in the 1950/51 season would be 7½ per cent and would come into effect from August 26,…

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Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Limited. Wool Report. 6th July, 1950

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 2

Since the war wool has been consumed faster than it has been grown. The gap has been bridged by drawing on the big stocks that…

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Wool Levy To Operate From August 26

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 1

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. McEwen) has announced that the levy on wool for the 1950-51 season…

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Future of Wool Influences Which May Affect Demand

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 4

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby, Limited, report: Since the war, wool has been consumed faster than It has been grown. The gap…

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End of Wool Season Full Clearance at Record Prices

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 4

The Country Producers Selling Co., Ltd., reports that last week saw the close of one of the most remarkable wool selling seasons in…

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Poultry Farm Activities In Forbes Develop Lachlan Valley First

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 1

THE expansion of Forbes as an Egg Marketing Board centre depended on the development of the Lachlan Valley, the State Member (Mr. Fred J. Cahill, M.L.A.) said in the course of a drat with an "Advocate"…

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Linseed Crops R.A.S.'s 2nd Annual Competition

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 4

The Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W. will conduct its second annual linseed crop growing competition this year, simultaneously with…

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The Wool Position. North Queensland Sheep Losses

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 4

As far as Australia is concerned, the great war has ended, the dead have been counted and tabulated, the wounded are still with us…

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Surplus Wheat for Asiatics

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 6

Corowa F.S.A. District Council wants surplus wheat and other foodstuffs of food producing countries distributed among…

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Larger Wool Clip Estimated

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 8

Wool selling brokers expect to receive in[?] store 3,664,000 bales of wool during the 1950-61 season for disposal in…

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S.E. Riverina Wheat Sowing Conditions

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 5

Wheat sowing conditions in the South-eastern Riverina have been ideal this May, reports the Albury agronomist (Mr…

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Wool Outlook Sound. Clip Slightly Larger

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report under date 11th July: A good enquiry has been current for fellmongered merino, comeback…

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The Bland Junior Farmers

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 3

Highlight of the July meeting of Quandialla Junior Farmers was the presentation of certificates of merit to Joan Penfold, Leonic Harris…

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Bland District News Bribbaree Quandialla Caragabal Junior Farmers

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 8

Highlight of the July meeting of Quandialla Junior Farmers was the presentation of certificates of merit to Joan Penfold,…

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