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Farming & the land, 1955

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Chemical Treatment Can Keep Wool White

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1955 · page 6

"Baby's white woollies can stay fresh without yellowing if wool is given a new chemical treatment", Dr. Harold P…

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Overseas Wool Experts Boonoke

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 September 1955 · page 1

Afternoon tea in the shearing shed at Boonoke on [?]ay was a novel experience for the party of overseas [?] experts, in Australia for the First International [?] Textile Research Conference…

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This Week in the Wool

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 September 1955 · page 5

In a tense atmosphere, anticipatory of a fall in prices, and with buyers’ and sellers’ galleries filled to capacity, the opening…

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Our Shearing Methods Waste Wool

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 September 1955 · page 6

Dr. A. B. Cassie. Director of the Wool Industries Research Association in Leads told delegates to the International Wool…

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Wool Conference Delegates Wear Australian Colour

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 September 1955 · page 4

Interest sidelight [?] International Wool [?] Conference—the[?] all wearing green [?]…

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Big Drop in Wool Railed Away

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 September 1955 · page 1

Movement of wool by rail during the peak period is still containing to fall, the station master, Mr. H. Shanahan disclosed yesterday. During August this year only…

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Sheep Stealing

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 September 1955 · page 1

On Sunday a 38-year-old grazier was arrested near Burraboi on two charges of sheep stealing…

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Dairymen Urged to Improve Cream Quality

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 September 1955 · page 5

Cream quality in the district is fairly satisfactory but one or two suppliers have been forwarding bad quality cream caused by dirty milking machines. This was stated by district…

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Seasonal Increase In Dairy Production

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 September 1955 · page 4

Dairy production is beginning to show the usual seasonal increase, but is still slightly below that for the same period…

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Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 8 September 1955 · page 6

On Wednesday, 31st August, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. brought forward to auction a…

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Wool And Pastoral Company’s Result Show Further Progress

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 September 1955 · page 5

The Annual Report and Balance Sheet of Victorian Producers’ Co-op. Co. Ltd. for the year ended 30th June last, shows a…

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This Week In Wool

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 September 1955 · page 2

Lower wool prices at the opening sales of the season in Sydney and Adelaide last week, though widely expected. have…

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Is a Wool Fibre Ambidextrous

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 September 1955 · page 6

One of wools [?] advantages over its [?] competitors is their its atoms [?] joined together in long chains…

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Record Wool Production in 1954/55 Season

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 September 1955 · page 3

The 1954-55 Wool Season, like the three preceding seasons, was a very good one for woolgrowers. Record wool production was achieved, and although the average price was some 13% lower than in 1953-54,…

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This Week in Wool

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 15 September 1955 · page 1

The second week of the new selling season has ended, with wool values barely firm on those of the previous week,…

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Science Helps Irrigation Farmers

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 15 September 1955 · page 5

The C.S.I.R.O. had dons wonderful work to help Australian irrigation farmers, the President of the…

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Mosaic Sheep Found at Gulpa

The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 September 1955 · page 1

A Mosaic sheep discovered at Gulpa last week has been sent to Sydney for study by scientist, acting officer in charge of Deniliquin C.S.I.R.O. (Mr. Andrews) said today…

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“All Year” Pasture Boosts Butter Production

The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 September 1955 · page 7

Conversion of an irrigated “water” pasture of subterranean clover and rye grass into an “all-year-round” pasture has increased butter production per cow by 34 per cent. on a dairy farm in the Barham distort…

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Next Co-op. Butter Factory for Deniliquin ?

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 September 1955 · page 1

A butter factory will have to be established at Deniliquin in the future to cope with the increased volume of diary produce. Mr. Walker. Producers Distributing Society representative, told a meeting of Berriquin Co…

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