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

Farming & the land, 1953

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Wool Drive For Spastic Centre Planned In Forbes

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 24 July 1953 · page 12

At a meeting of the Forbes Spastic Centre Council on Wednesday. Mr. F. Cobb presiding. it was announced that August 7…

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Two Men Gaoled And Two Fined For Wool Stealing

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 24 July 1953 · page 1

THE price of wool has had its effect on the criminal calendar. Rabbits are scarce and possums hard to come by. As a result, there has been an epidemic of wool collecting from other people's paddocks. Six persons, four…

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Buecher Sheep

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 27 July 1953 · page 1

At Winchcombe Carson's auction last Thursday M. Fitzgerald, Burcher secured to 59/1 avg. 50/6d per head for a line…

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Wheat Board Will Continue for Year

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 27 July 1953 · page 3

The Australian Wheat Board will continue to operate as the central pooling ana marketing authority for all Australian wheat next season…

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Sheep And Cattle Lower At Homebush Sales

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1953 · page 4

At the Homebush sales yesterday 26,033 sheep and lambs were penned. The market was 3- to 8- lower. Lightweight lambs sold…

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Theft of Dead Wool

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1953 · page 1

Mr. H. W. Heckendorff has advised this office that he is not the farmer from whose property dead wool was recently stolen, the…

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Compensation For Condemned Dairy Stock

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1953 · page 1

The secretary of the Lachian Valley Development League is in receipt of the following from Mr. F. J. Cahill, M.L.A., under date…

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Junior Farmers And Advisers Hold Mixed Meetings

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1953 · page 3

Fifty members of the Forbes Junior Farmer Club and the Advisory Committee combined for the club meeting in the…

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Graham Wheat Plan Accepted

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 31 July 1953 · page 4

The wheat stabilisation plan put forward by the Hon. E. H. Graham. M.L.A., N.S.W. Milliner for Agriculture and Food…

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Firm Demand For Sheep At Homebush

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 31 July 1953 · page 4

Dalgety's News Service reports that at Homebush sales on Thursday 24,341 sheep and lambs were penned. Lambs were 5- to 6…

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Sheep Firm To Cheaper At Forbes Sale

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 31 July 1953 · page 5

Edward Weaver & Co. Forbes and the Fanners & Graziers' Coop. Co. Ltd. (auctioneers in conjunction) report that upwards of…

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Seasons Wool Report

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers' Grain, Insurance and Agency Compahy Limited, Goulburn, report:…

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Sheep From Griffith to Israel

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 1

On Thursday next, August 6 the first consignment of 10[?] Corriedales[?] will be leaving ""Garmel," Griffith (the stud of…

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Farm & Station Tetanus Causes: Heavy Sheep Loss

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 4

Heavy mortalities have occurred in the Tamworth and Warialda districts with grass seed infected sheep affected with…

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Orderly Wheat Marketing Minister's Promise

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 4

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. MeEwen, has announced that all State Governments have now…

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A Big Wool Clip Cheque

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 1

"Over the past three years the Australian wool cheque has amounted to the astonishing sum of one thousand million pounds,…

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Week In Wool: Reactions From Barter Agreements

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 3

Willi the hiatus between wool-selling seasons in Australia, the world's hub of combs and looms in Yorkshire is…

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From Our Point of View. New Dairy Outlook Needed

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 1

One thing is clear from the recent visit of the Slate Food Production Advisory Committee. There is no market for surplus local milk in Sydney. The biggest market in New South Wales is now over-supplied and the Milk…

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Curing Bacon On The Farm Easy Instructions

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 4

The curing of bacon on the farm should be conducted only daring winter, the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture advises…

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Brolga Wheat Highest in Dept. Trials

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 7

Brolga outyielded the State's leading variety, Bencubbin in wheat variety trials conducted by the Department of…

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