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Farming & the land, 1949

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All Wool Set

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 8

A charming pyjama set and house-coat in pale blue lightweight wool, shown at a display of the latest lingerie…

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Sheep Market at Albury a Big Business

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 2

Apart from the huge turnover in wool at the sales at Albury, the value of the sheep breeding industry to the district is…

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S.A. Losing Dollars : Continent Reselling Wool To US

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 3

CAPE TOWN, Fri.: South African wool brokers believe that the Union is losing millions of badly needed dollars through…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 5

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that at the sixth Melbourne series of wool sales in the 1948-49 season, held on December…

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District's Record Wool Price

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 4

What is considered by authorities as the top price for wool in this district was secured at the December sales by Dalgety and…

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52,000 Bags of Wheat Have Reached Deniliquin

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 4

Deniliquin district's wheat yield will probably reach the estimated total of 70,000 bags This opinion was voiced today…

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Russian Threat To Wool-New Industry Born (To the Editor)

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 2

Sir.—So we are to have in Russia a serious rival to our wool trade. This is about the 89th time that Russia has been going to push…

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Wool Board Representative

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 3

[?] WATERMAN, who [?] been appointed by the Australian Wool Board as its [?] on the International…

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Wool Lace From Seaweed New Fabric Evolved In Britain

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 5

“Alginate lace,” the second major wool research development since the discovery of alginate fabric some time ago,…

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Despite Low Rainfall, Crops Were Satisfactory

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 10

IN a review of the 1948 harvest in the south-eastern Riverina, Mr G. C. Bartlett, agronomist at Albury, yesterday said: “The rainfall for 1948 was very much under normal. This included…

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Commercial Albury Sheep Market

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 10

The Associated Agents selling in the following order—John McNamara find Co J.D Turner and Co. Goldsbrough Mort, Younghusband Ltd.. New…

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Wool Cheque £200 Million

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 11

SYDNEY, Wed.: This season’s wool clip would be worth between £16,000,000 and £200 000,000 to…

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Australasian Record Price for Wool

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Wed: The highest price ever obtained for greasy wool in Australasia was realised at the…

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Farm Workers Attack Landowners

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 4

ROME, Wed: Six hundred rioting farmworkers today attacked the homes of big landowners at Ragusa (Sicily)…

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Sheep Poisoned by Heliotrope

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 6

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research advises that severe outbreaks of one' form of so-called toxaemic jaundice occurring in sheep…

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Nations Invited To Conference On Wheat

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 10

WASHINGTON, Thurs: The United States has Invited Russia, Argentina and 58 member nations of the U.N. Food and…

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Wool and Stock the Riverine "Grazier" Office

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

Messrs. Wilkinson and Lavender Ltd. wired under yesterday's date:—Sheep: There was a total yarding of 4264, of which 4890 were sheep. It…

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Springhurst Farmer’s Wheat Wins

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Fri.: The winner of the Wangaratta wheat crop competition for 1948 was Mr. P. F. Slms of Springhurst, with a crop of…

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Commercial Geelong Wool Sales

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 14

Messrs. Dalgety and Company Limited. Albury, reported having received the following telegram from their Geelong Office:—Offered 6430 bales…

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Housewives’ President Criticises Dairy Farmers

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Fri: The president of the Housewives’ Association (Mrs Downing) today accused many dairy farmers of…

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