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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 7 of 52

Farmer Has Raised £500 in Few Months

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 1

By a solo effort, Mr Reg. Carr, well known farmer of Blow Clear, has raised £500 for the Far West Children's Health Scheme in aproximately seven months…

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Farmer Dies After Long Illness

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 2

[?] purpose and hard work were [?] the [?] the late Mr. [?] Gravis Aughey,…

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District Sheep Sales

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 6

Sales by sheep at Homebush last Thursday by the Country Producers' Selling Co., Ltd., included the following lines: Mrs. M. E. Foley, Bribbaree,…

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Wool Sales Continue Satisfactory

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 6

The Country Producers' Selling Company, Limited, report under date February 2:-- Sales in Sydney continued…

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Eggs and Butter Requests for Control Relaxation Molong Chamber of Commerce Move

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture Mr. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.), will be asked to allow small poultrymen to sell eggs without permits…

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Advice to Wool Growers On Classing of Their Clips Goldsbrough, Mort & Co.'s Report

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 6

Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. Ltd. report: Catalogue No. 11, which was submitted to auction on Thursday,…

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Good General Rain Over Central West Fall of Over Three Inches at Forbes Vegetable Crops Will Benefit Except Tomatoes

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 1

STEADY rain set in at Forbes and at a number of other Central-Western centres on Saturday night. While Parkes had 230 points to 9 a.m. on Sunday, and such centres as Eugowra, Bedgerabong and Jemalong had up to four…

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Sheep and Wool Glasses

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 2

Sheep and wool classes' re-opened the first term for 1950 on tho 8th February in accordance with advice given by he instructor, Mr. Murray…

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Wool Report

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 7
Also in The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser

The Fanners and Graziers' Coop. Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited report on February 2, 1950:—…

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Sheep Killed, Grass Set Alight

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 4

Lightning struck a sheep grasing in a stubble paddock on Mr. S. Donaldson's property at Birrego. and also ignited the…

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Wool Consumption Strong. Bigger U.s.a. Turnover

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report under date 7th February: The Australian clip is recovering in quantity; the total for this…

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Wool History in Figures; Statistical Handbook of Australian Industry

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 7

The, "Statistical Handbook of the Sheep and Wool Industry," published this week by the Commonwealth Bureau of Agricultural Economics, provides a…

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India Seeks Wheat at 16/1 bus (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 1

A message from Melbourne states:— Australia would have a surplus of 40,000,000 bushels of wheat this season the…

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Lived to 90; Former Ungarie Farmer

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 1

Born in South Australia in 1860, Mr. Charles Frank Field former farmer of Ungarie, died at his…

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Weal Crop 215,000,000 Bus. CANBERRA

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 4

Australia's 1949/50 wheat crop would be in the vicinity of 215,000,000 bushels— 25,000,000 bushels more than…

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The Family-size Farm

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 4

From the journal of the National Farmers' Union (U.S.A.), which has a membership of nearly a million and whose policy, in part, has to do…

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Sheep and Wool Classes

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 8

Eugowra sheep and wool classes commenced the first term for 1950 last Tuesday. The classes will continue every Tuesday in the imperial…

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Wool Sales Highest Since War

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 3

More wool was sold at auction in Australia in the six months to the end of December than in the same period in any other season…

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Wealth of the Forbes District Wheat Crop 2,328,122 Bushels Is Worth Approx. £1,572,000 a Conservative estimate of the value of the wheat crop of the Forbes District for the 1949-50 season is £1,572,081

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 1

Total quantity garnered was 2,358,122 bushels, which is a near record. In the days before the silos were…

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