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

Farming & the land, 1952

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Junior Farmers' Movement Spreads to Condobolin Steps Taken to Form Club

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 24 April 1952 · page 1

At a public meeting convened by Mr. W. A. Baldwin at the Condobolin High School on Friday night last some forty-two district residents were addressed by Mr Ian Hore, District Supervisor of the N.S.W. Junior Farmers Movement…

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Forbes Sheep Sale Prices Remain Firm

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 10

At the Forbes sheep sale, held on Tuesday, prime heavy lambs were unaltered, light lambs were dearer, and ewes and wethers…

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Wool Sales Down by Half

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 5

Owing to the break for the Easter holidays and there being no wool auctions in this centre until Monday, April 28, when the…

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Commonwealth Farm Labour of Migrants

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 3

"The Commonwealth Government is recruiting migrants with experience of farming, under agreements negotiated with the…

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WARROO Farmers Busy In ideal Conditions WARROO

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 7

Since the recent rains the grass has made such wonderful growth that winter feed is now assured. Farmers are busy, as farming…

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Cattle Figures

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 1

There were 806,000,000 head of cattle in the world as at January 1. 1952. reports the United States Department of…

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Failed to Move Sheep

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 2

Fines totalling £35 were in posed on a drover in the West Wyalong Court of P[?]tty Sessions for not moving stock the…

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Election of State Wheat Committee

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 2

Two members of the State Wheat Committee have been elected unopposed for their respective districts…

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Verdict for £400 for Kikoira farmer

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 1

In the Wyalong District Court yesterday, a Kikoira farmer Denis David Kane, gained a verdict for £400 for the payment of a header bought by John Hugh Griffiths of Gubbatta The two men, who used to…

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Slate Wheat Committee

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 6

Cr. Tom Cutcliffe, President of Jemalong Shire, is a candidate at the forthcoming election for the State wheat Committee…

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Tongala's 50-100 Acre Dairy Farms

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 1

IN the following letter, Mr. W. H. Pavey, of "Eden Grove," Forbes, tells of what he knows of the closer settlement of the Goulburn Valley, and the success made by farmers of their 50 to 100 [?] blocks…

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Farm & Station Conservation of Soil and Food Production

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 4

It is only recently that the problem of declining food production in Australia has become a major topic…

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Farm and Station How Our Soils Began Real Value Of Minor Elements

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 4

NOWADAYS our-thoughts and our actions are conditioned by the Communist menace with its background of long-range warplanes for the special delivery of atom bombs. In 1938 there was the Nazi…

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Suiting Crops To Climate

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 3

THIS century has seen the emergence of a new science: the breeding of plants adaptable to conditions which in terms of climate seemed impossible. Protestor Eric Ashby, President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's…

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Chilled Beef Depresses Cattle Market

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 2

Heavy consignments of chilled beef, from Queensland and northern New South Wales meatworks were the dominating…

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Tops Cheaper Than Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 4

Winclieonbe, Carson Ltd. report: Considerable convent has been expressed in the United States regarding the degree…

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Sydney Wool Market Firm

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 1

Messrs Winchcombe Carson Ltd. advised the "Advocate" yesterday by telegram that they sold 6114 bales of wool in…

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Wheat Variety Trials for 1952

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 5

"The wheat variety trials projected by the Department of Agriculture projected for 1952 conducted in co-operation with…

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Government Not to Pay Wheat Freight

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1952 · page 1

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said last week that he had been advised by the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture…

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Homebush Sales: Sheep Up, Cattle Cheaper

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 10

Dalgety's News Service reports that at the Homebush sales on Thursday 13,223 sheep and lambs were penned Lambs were 5' to…

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