Wool Price Increase 'Unlikely'
NEW YORK, August 31. A.A.P.—American wool trade experts did not expect that the price of raw wool would go…
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Farming & the land, 1952
731 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 37
'C Series Up' With Wheat Rise
CANBERRA, Sunday.—An increase of 5/ a bushel in the price of wheat would only mean a direct increase of 1/7…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—A new eight-point plan for wheat marketing presented to the Federal Government by the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Australian woolselling season opened in Sydney to-day with values fully firm for best…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The strong opening of the new season's wool sales has introduced a more optimistic note to the Sydney Stock Exchange…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Yesterday's irregularity was still in evidence at the Sydney wool sales to-day…
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COPENHAGEN Fri. (A.A.P.):A Jutland farmer who planted wheat grains from an ancient Egyptian tomb claims this year to have harvested more than 30 times the amount obtainable from ordinary Danish seed…
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Will orlon ("warmer than wool"), dynel ("doesn't shrink or itch"), dacron ("sheds water") and other…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Wool values fell at least 5 per cent. in the four days of the first series of the new season Sydney wool sales, which ended to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Growers Dig In Vegetable Crops
SYDNEY — Farmers in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area have ploughed in 40,000 bags of carrots and many acres of cauliflowers because marketing costs are…
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COPENHAGEN, Sept. 5. A.A.P.—A Jutland farmer who planted, by moonlight, some wheat grains from an ancient Egyptian tomb, claims this year to have harvested more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Wool Firm For Newcastle
The Sydney wool packing and blending firm of Bridgland Brown Pty. Ltd. has opened a branch in Newcastle…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—An 18-month-old baby was squashed and suffocated in a wool bale on his father's…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A mystery cattle killing disease in Victoria will be investigated by the Department of…
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SYDNEY: The area sown for wheat in N.S.W. is 363,000 acres less than last year and the crop will be the smallest for nine years. [?] record of This was forecast today by Department of…
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BRISBANE, Monday. — Values at Brisbane wool sales to-day were firm to sellers' favour, compared with Sydney…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tues. — Wheat imports from" Australia this year will total 8.600.000 bushels,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Unions Take Guns Before Butter Robert Gilmore's London Round-up
By voting four to one for guns instead of butter, actually for the rearmament to which a Labour Government committed Britain, the Trades Union Congress has demonstrated finally to Moscow that roubles spent on phoney peace…
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Rice farmers in Arkansas have lately been growing a new crop…
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ANNAN (Dumfriesshire), Scotland: Mrs. Jean Halcrow, a quiet little Scotswoman, has a formula which she is convinced would check foot-and-mouth disease now ravaging cattle herds of Britain, France and many other countries of the world…
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