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Farming & the land, 1960

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Japan Expand Into Superfine Wool

The Pastoral Times · Friday 12 February 1960 · page 6

The element of uncertainly sparked by the recent rise in the U.K. bank rate has precipitated into a quiescent attitude in the Bradford spinning mills. This section of the trade has not yet regained confidence…

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Melbourne Wool Sales Elder, Smith & Co., Limited

The Pastoral Times · Friday 12 February 1960 · page 3

The 8th series of wool sales opened on Monday when this company brought forward a catalogue of 4,744 bales…

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New Offices for Dairy Officer, Agronomist

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 February 1960 · page 6

The New South Wales Department of Agriculture offices are now located at the corner of Wood and Macaulay Streets,…

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Geelong Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 February 1960 · page 8

The Geelong Wool Brokers’ Association reports that at the Sixth Series of Wool Sales in the 1959/60 Season held on 2nd, 3rd…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 February 1960 · page 8

At the eighth series of wool sales for the 1959/60 Season held on February 8th to 11th, the average price realised for Greasy…

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Wheat for 1960 Sowings

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 February 1960 · page 3

The standing advisory committee on wheat, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture, has made the…

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Prolific Grow To 20 Sheep-Ac

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 February 1960 · page 7

The phenomenal growth of the summer grasses Paspalum and Kikuyu during January amazed farmers with the quantity of feed they produced, in many cases it being found necessary to stock 15 to 20 sheep to the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales Goldsbrough Mort & Company Ltd

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 February 1960 · page 8

The company’s catalogue for the 8th Melbourne series totalled 9,418 bales. The selection covered a wide…

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Election for Dairy Produce Board

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 February 1960 · page 5

Nominations of candidates for election as members representing Butter and Cheese factories on the Australian Dairy Produce…

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Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 1 March 1960 · page 6

Dennys, Lascelles Limited report that their offering last week at Geelong amounted to 12,300 sales, drawn cheifly from the…

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Serious Barley Crop Disease

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 1 March 1960 · page 1

Barley yellow dwarf, known as the world’s most serious virus disease of cereals, has been found in wheat, barley and oats in Victoria. It has caused crippling…

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Wheat Checking Condemned

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 March 1960 · page 1

“Because of the unsatisfactory keeping of accounts at the wheat bulkhead greater security should be exercised by the Grain Elevators Boards,” said Mr. Hoad at a Deniliquin Wheat Growers Advisory Committee meeting in…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 March 1960 · page 7

Goldsbrough Mort and Company Ltd., report their catalogue of 10,115 bales of wool in the ninth series of Melbourne sales…

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Prices Rise in Wool Tops

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 March 1960 · page 7

From Bradford, Dalgety’s correspondent cabled that spot Futures responded with a 1d rise to 95d on Thursday, while distant quotes rose 2d to 104d. Top-makers lifted 70s av. tops to 109, and 64s av. to…

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Outlook For Wool Price Brighter

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 March 1960 · page 3

There were straws in the wind last week that seemed to protend that depressing influence in the wool markets are waning. The changing factors however were not revealed till the closing day of the…

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Junior Farmers

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 March 1960 · page 1

Keen interest has been expressed in the exhibit, Mr. Newell said, and a lot of work had gone into its preparation. It…

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Wheat Levy

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 March 1960 · page 1

An additional penny a ton is to be levied on all wheat passing through the Deniliquin weighbridge in the coming…

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Merino Wool Stocks Down

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 March 1960 · page 3

It was significant that stocks of all merino wool at Dec. 31 at 96.6 m.lb. clean, were 2 m.lb. less than a year ago…

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New High in Use of Wool

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 March 1960 · page 6

Aggregate world consumption of virgin wool in 1959 was estimated to have reached 3,180 million lb. clean, the highest ever recorded in history, and 12 per cent higher than in 1958…

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Junior Farmers

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 March 1960 · page 6

The Rural Bank has produced for the N.S.W. junior farmer movement a booklet which, in addition to outlining the history…

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