Wheat Sale To U.K. "Satisfactory"
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—In view of the trends of world prices, the sale of 60 million bushels of wheat to the United Kingdom was…
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Farming & the land, 1949
725 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 37
Bird's Nest In Sheep's Wool
LONDON, May 11. A.A.P.— Mr. Hill, of Telford, was clipping for Mr. Mark Harrison, on his Lincolnshire farm…
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Four ships in Newcastle will lift more than 31,000 bales of wool for oversea ports The Panamanian steamer…
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SYDNEY: Good crops of wheat and oats are expected this season, an Agricultural Department spokesman said…
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LAUNCESTON, Tuesday. — There was grave danger that Australians were being educated by rationing to do with less butter,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Farm Produce" Was Guns, Ammunition
LONDON, May 17. A.A.P.—Arm and ammunition being carried illegally from Karachi to Hyderabad in July, 1948, were…
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ROME, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—More than 700,000 Italian farm workers went on strike yesterday, stopping one-third of the…
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Mr. William Yeo, a farmer, of Peak Hill, has been elected R.S.L. State President, replacing Mr. Ken Boltan, who has…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A.N.A. will operate a special charter service to bring exhibits to Sydney, for the annual sheep stud show on…
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NEW YORK, Fri. (A.A.P.).—Six long-term convicts at a prison farm near Milledgeville (Georgia) shot their way to…
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SYDNEY.—A.N.A. will fly more than 200 valuable sheep to Sydney for the sheep sales this week in their new…
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ROME, May 22. A.A.P.—The strike of farmworkers has spread from northern to southern Italy and now involves one million men…
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Delay in the germination of oat crops in the Scone district had mystified farmers, the District Agronomist (Mr. Dawson) said…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Wool values were etc 5 per cent. higher than May 5 at the sales to-day. There was keen and general…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Farmer Likes Track At Gosford
Mr. Farmer, a capable performer on the track, appeals as the wintier of the Citrus Stake at the Gosford greyhound meeting to-night…
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MOTHERLY little Audrey Jane Durnan (5) came across a motherless six-week-old Soay sheep at the London 200 [?] was delighted when tole she could give the baby its morning bottle. THE HARTNETT. latest Australian "peoples" car, is being road tested in Victoria. A small…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two Russians arrived in Sydney to-day by British Overseas Aircraft Corporation Constellation to advise their…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The best features of yesterday's wool auctions were reproduced to-day with particularly strong demand for come…
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Six electric motors were stolen on Monday night or early Tuesday morning from dairymen at Woodville, Seaham, Glen Oak and…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z), Thurs.: New Zealand hopes to double the sheep-carrying capacity of more than 10-million acres of high country land by tackling on a grand scale aerial topdressing…
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