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

Farming & the land, 1950

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Keeping Sons on the Farm in America

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 8

Many farmers' sons who want to make a career in agriculture find the solution of getting started almost impossible to solve. Consequently, many of them leave the…

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Farmyard Manure on Lawns

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 6

Farmyard ma[?]re should be [?]used with discretion where [?]lawns am concerned, warns the Division of Plant Industry of…

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Fortnightly Cattle Sale

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 12

J. T. Woods & Son report that, at the regular cattle sale held on January 24 the yarding was the smallest for some time…

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Wheat Harvest 83 Million Bushels Crop for N.S.W. Sale of Wheat to Spain

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 10

The New South Wales wheat harvest may reach 83 million bushels. The State Government Statistician,…

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Wool Supplies Short

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Lack of adequate supplies of wool is the basic force influencing values. The United Kingdom is a…

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Boost for Australian Knitting Wool

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 12

New York's largest department store devoted one quarter of a full page advertisement in evening newspapers this week to Australian knitting wool. The…

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Lower Market At Forbes Cattle Sale Tuesday's Offering

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 3

Edward Weaver is Co., auctioneers, Forbes, report that the Forbes agents yarded about 150 head of fat cattle at the regular cattle sale held on…

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Peals in Wheat Right of Growers to Their Own Produce Minister's Statement

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 7

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr, McEwen, declared that the Commonwealth Government, except in extraordinary…

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£200 First Prize In State Dairy C'ship Incentive to Efficiency

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 12

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said that a series of dairy farm competitions, culminating in a State…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 4
Also in The West Wyalong Advocate

The Country Producers Selling Co. Ltd., report: Sales were resumed in Sydney on the 16th inst. Under animated and…

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Ariah Park Wheat Trial

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 6

In the midseason sown wheat variety trial conducted on behalf of the N.S.W Department of Agriculture…

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Local Wool 109¼d

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

Messrs E. and W. M. King, of "Summer Hill," Tallimba secured 109¼d. for AAA wool at the Sydney sales. AAA COM realised…

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Good Prices for District Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

At Goldsbrougb Mort & Co.'s Sydney wool sales last week AAAE from the property of Messrs R. and D. Regan,…

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Japan Will Buy More of our Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

"There is no doubt that Japan will be buying increasing quantities of wool from Australia" said Sir John Masson on his…

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Donation of Wheat to Ambulance

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 6

A[?]mst 350 bags of wheat have been donated to the Canowindra Ambulance by farmers in the Canowindra district this harvest…

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Sheep Fewer Because of Rabbits and Bush Fires

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Sunday.--Mr. J. G. Crawford, director of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, to-day told students at a summer school organised…

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Awards to Junior Farmers

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 1

BARBARA McQUEEN Barbara McQueen, 18, of "Dowan Hill," Wiangaree, near Kyogle, was recently announced winner of the…

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Wool Report

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers' Cooperative Grain Insurance & Agency Co. Ltd., report on 20th January, 1950: We submitted a catalogue of…

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Parasite of Sheep Affect Productivity

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 5

Mr. H. A Vernon, Technical Adviser to Messrs Wilcox Mofflin Ltd., in an article specially written for the "Advocate," points out to stockowners the serious…

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