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

Farming & the land, 1952

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Pleuro Still Affects N.S.W. Cattle

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 6

Pleuro-pneumonia outbreaks are still affecting cattle in the Albury district and the Department of Agriculture has…

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Greater Wool Use Synthetic Fibre Suits

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Developments overseas continue to indicate an improved consumption of wool. This…

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Farm & Station Gabo Wins R.A.S. CONTEST

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 6

Messrs A. Heath & Sons, of Pine Cliff, Curlewis, near Gunnedah, have won the Royal Agricultural Society's northern…

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Dairy Herds' High Production

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 6

Dairy herds in all New South Wales districts have reached a very high level of production, states the Chief of the…

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World's Record Wheat Crop

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 4

Fifty bags, not 44 bags, to the acre was probably the world's record for a crop of wheat, raid Mr. W. Single…

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Long Cattle Trek

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 8

Six pure-bred Shorthorn steers gaved from his year's disasrous Northern Territory droughts and brought to NSW…

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£150 for Sheep Dog Trials

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 5

Prize money for the National open sheep dog trial championship at Canberra next year has been increased from £100 to…

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Big Airlift of Cattle From Pakistan

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 6

A Qantas Empire Airways DC-3 freighter aircraft landed at Port Moresby after completing the first shipment of the longest airlift of cattle ever…

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More Funds For Wool Promotion

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 7

Considerable additional funds will soon be available for wool promotion. This is the result o[?] recent…

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Nurses, Patients Can Spin Own Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 4

Nurses and patients at the Wyalong and District Hospital can now spin their own wool…

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Special Loans To Dairy Farmers

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 2

A strong appeal to primary producers was made recently by the Premier to raise the level of food production in this…

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Murrumbidgee Fruit Crop Prospects

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 5

Frost and tree mortality have reduced the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area's peach crop to about 65 per cent of last…

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Sheep And Cattle Irregular At Homebush Sales

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 19 December 1952 · page 12

At the Homebush sales yesterday 26,492 sheep and Iambs were penned. The market was irregular but practically unchanged for…

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Wheat Harvest

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 19 December 1952 · page 8

Wheat has been coming in to the local silos steadily, but there has been no long line-up of trucks as there has been sometimes in the…

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Dearer Sheep Market At Forbes

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 19 December 1952 · page 6

Edward Weaver St Company (Forbes) and the Farmers St Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd. (auctioneers in conjunction), report that…

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Over 595,000 Bus. Wheat Delivered At Forbes

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 19 December 1952 · page 1

On the figures so far to hand Forbes farmers look like having one of their best seasons. With deliveries still incomplete the…

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Quandialla Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 22 December 1952 · page 2

The following prices were secured by Messrs Winchcombe, Larson Ltd., for wool from Messrs P. R. Sinclair and Sons…

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Future of Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 22 December 1952 · page 4

The extreme claims made regarding the probable effects of synthetic fibres on the use of wool are not new. They were…

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Poor Crops in S.e. Riverina

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 22 December 1952 · page 5

Mr. G. C. Bartlett, district, agronomist at Albury, reported that the wheat harvest was expected to be the poorest the…

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Sheep Firm At Homebush: Cattle Unchanged

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 8

At the Homebush sales yesterday 24,734 sheep and lambs were penned. Early sales were irregular, but at later sales the…

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