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Farming & the land, 1956

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This Week in Wool World Wool Trade Is Watching the East

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1956 · page 6

Wool prices wavered a little this week as buyers tested the market for a safe landing place for confidence and…

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World Wool Trade Watching Trade Watching The Far East

The Pastoral Times · Friday 26 October 1956 · page 4

Wool prices wavered a little this week as buyers tested the market for a safe landing place for confidence and stability and for heavier buying. At Sydney and Adelaide, where merinos predominated, bidding…

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’Bidgee Valley Could Provide 1540 Farms

The Pastoral Times · Friday 26 October 1956 · page 9

Areas remanded for development could provide up to 1540 new irrigation farms in the Murrumbidgee Valley when additional water becomes available under the Snowy Scheme, the Minister for Conservation (Mr…

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Special Cattle Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 October 1956 · page 7

New Zealand Loan (Inc. Robert Bradshaw) report having held a very successful sale at Deniliquin on Thursday. 1240…

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1100 cattle Sold At Yesterday’s Special Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 October 1956 · page 5

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd., report having conducted a special cattle safe at Deniliquin yesterday, when they yarded and…

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This Week in Wool

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 1 November 1956 · page 5

Divested of outside influences which for two months have assailed the normal course of the wool markets,…

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Many Sheep Lice Infested In N.S.W.

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 November 1956 · page 2

A survey conducted for the Department of Agriculture has shown that many sheep in New South Wales are infested…

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Wool Prices Again On Sound Basis

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 November 1956 · page 3

Divested of outside influences which for two months have assailed the normal course of the wool markets, values have now levelled out on a sound basis for stability, and confidence has been restored throughout…

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Ex-Olympian To Address Junior Farmers

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 November 1956 · page 6

Mr. F. I. Woodhouse, of Deniliquin, will give a talk on the Olympic Games to the Mathoura branch of the…

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“No Interest in [?]Unior Farmers”

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 November 1956 · page 1

Adults were keen and willing to work but the children did not care whether they had projects or not, [?] B.N. Farlow said at a meeting of the Junior Farmer advisory Committee on Tuesday night…

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Moulamein Special Sheep Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 November 1956 · page 6

The Australian Estates Company Limited in conjunction with John McNamara and Co., Swan Hill, and Edward…

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Surplus Yanko, Bundure Sheep Sold

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 November 1956 · page 6

Dalgety and Company Limited, Wagga, Sydney and Narrandera, and A.M.L. and F. and Company Limited, Melbourne and…

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Record 139 Million Sheep In Australia

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 November 1956 · page 7

Australia carried the record number of 139 million sheep at March 31. Reporting the record the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales Goldsbrough, Mort & Company Ltd

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 November 1956 · page 3

Despite the disquieting turn of events in the Middle East, this week’s wool sales in the various Australian centres operating did…

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Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 8 November 1956 · page 6

Younghusband Limited report on 31st October:— The Melbourne Woolbrokers report the third Series of…

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[?]ord 97 Tons Butter [?]rom Berriquin Farms

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 November 1956 · page 7

Butter production in Berriquin District for [?]ober continued to rise, and the record established in September was easily broken when 97 [?] of butter were manufactured…

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Geelong Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 November 1956 · page 3

The Geelong Woolbrokers’ Association reports that at the third series of wool sales in the 1956/1957 season held on…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 November 1956 · page 7

The Melbourne woolbrokers report that at the third series of wool sales for the 1958/57 season, held on October 26 to…

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Sheep Dog Trials At Memorial Park

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 November 1956 · page 1

Sheep Dog Trials are to be held at Memorial Park next March, and the Victorian Working Sheep Dog Association has advised M.P. Committee that it would give full support to the move…

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Bid For Dairy Farm Improvement

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 November 1956 · page 2

Dairy farmers throughout the South-Western Region, including the M.I.A., would have a new incentive to farm improvement a competition being currently arranged…

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