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Farming & the land, 1955

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Trangie Special Cattle Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 8

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., of Wagga and Sydney in conjuction with A. H. McDougall and Son…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 8

The Australian Estates Co. Ltd. report having offered 2321 bales in the closing sale of the current series when a steady…

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£64¼ Million Drop in Wool Cheque

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 2

Australia’s wool cheque for the eleven months ended May 31 dropped by £64,291,000 compared with the same period last year, according to figures issued on Tuesday by the Acting Commonwealth Statistician (Mr…

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Premium For Wheat Urged

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 June 1955 · page 3

A premnum to wheat-growers for higher quality wheat with a higher protein content is urged by the Country Women’s…

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This Week in Wool

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 June 1955 · page 2

Final wool sales for the season at Newcastle. Albury and Adelaide last week seam underlined the eagerness [?]…

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Melbourne Wool Sales Melbourne Woolbrokers

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 June 1955 · page 6

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that Wool Sales for the 1954-55 season concluded on Thursday when 9,400 bales were…

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Cheaper Rail Freight for Wool

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 June 1955 · page 1

[?] an effort to combat competition by road hauliers, Victorian Railways have reduced freight charges on [?] for the coming season. [?] year freight from…

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39 Children Attend to Form Junior Farmers’ Club

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 June 1955 · page 1

Thirty-nine children attended at the Deniliquin Primary School on Monday, at the lunch hour, to reform the Deniliquin Junior Farmers’ Club. The meeting was presided over by Mr. G. A. Vasey, president of the…

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This Week in Wool

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 30 June 1955 · page 5

"When the curtain falls this week on the 1954-55 selling season, not far short of 4,000,000 bales of Australian…

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Wheat Research In The Berrigan District

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 30 June 1955 · page 2

In co-operation with the Department of Agriculture, Mr. Don Arnold has conducted over the last two years an…

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Commercial Wagga Special Cattle Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 July 1955 · page 6

Younghusband Ltd. Wagga report holding a most successful Special Cattle Sale on [?] June 22. The yarding…

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Echuca Special Cattle Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 July 1955 · page 6

John. McNamara (Echuca) Pty. Ltd. report having held a cattle special at Echuca in conjunction with John McNamara & Co. Pty…

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“Australian Wool Fashion Award 1955”

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 July 1955 · page 5

Anseu Knitung Mills Ply. Ltd., Victoria, also won first place in Section 10. Group 2, for this 5-button cardigan in cocca wool fancy weave…

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£323,500 Pay-Out to Dairy Farmers

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 July 1955 · page 1

Dairy farmers in the Berriquin-Wakool Irrigation Districts have received a total pay-out in the vicinity of £323,500 for the year ended June 30. This was disclosed by District…

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Check These Items, Suggests District Dairy Officer

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 July 1955 · page 3

District Dairy Officer, Mr. D. R. Scott, says that from this month production on dairy farms will commence to rise, and he suggests that the following items be checked on the dairy farm:…

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This Week in Wool

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 7 July 1955 · page 2

When the hammer fell on the final lot of the 1954-55 wool clip at Brisbane on Thursday last, it left unsold…

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Fine Weather Needed for Wheat Crops

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 July 1955 · page 3

Conditions daring the month have been most unfavourable for the sowing of wheat, states Deniliquin district agronomist Mr. D. F. Keely, in his report for June…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 July 1955 · page 1

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that at the thirteenth series of wool sales, which were the clearing-up sales for the 1954/55…

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Geelong Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 July 1955 · page 1

The Geelong Woolbrokers’ Association reports that at the final series of the wool sales in the 1954/55 season held on June 28…

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