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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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Wheat Area Spreading Over Black Soil in North-West

The North Western Courier · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 6

Wheatgrowing in the North-west of New South Wales is spreading over black soil plains and crabhole country, which were considered a…

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Record Prices At Sheep Sale SYDNEY, Monday

The North Western Courier · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 1

An Australian record, both in respect of total realisation and average price, is claimed by the Australian…

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Cattle Stealing Charge Dismissed

The North Western Courier · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 8

Changed with stealing 28 head of cattle on August 4, 1949, John Joseph Carey appeared at the Quarter Sessions on…

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Farm School

The North Western Courier · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 8

Instruction and practice in farming and rural homemaking for girls of secondary-school age, is a new U.S. scheme which would be of…

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Lice-Infested Sheep

The North Western Courier · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 1

The alarming spread of sheep lice in Narrabri district is causing concern. The infestation has prompted…

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Wheat Sowing Delayed

The North Western Courier · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 9

Frequent rainstorms during May, June and July interfered seriously with wheat-sowings in north-western and central…

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Automatic Four-Process Wheat Combine

The North Western Courier · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 11

Pulled by only one tractor the combined machine cuts the wheat, separates grain from chaff, bags the grain and ties the wheat straw in bales—…

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State Pastoral Conditions

The North Western Courier · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 2

Weather conditions during June were most abnormal and were characterised chiefly by undue mildness for the greater part of the period and…

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Korea and Wool Prices

The North Western Courier · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 7

The situation in Korea, states a report from Goldsborough Mbrt and Co., to the present has not adversely affected the demand for wool…

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Rainmakers Winning Farmers' Confidence

The North Western Courier · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 2

Although America's Weather Bureau looks with fishy eye on rain-making techniques, farmers, power companies and city officials are losing…

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Lice-infested Sheep Bring Fine

The North Western Courier · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 11

Charged with offering lice-infested sheep for sale, S. T. Wilson was fined £5, with 10/- costs, at the Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday. He…

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Helicopter Used for Crop Dusting

The North Western Courier · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 11

During a recent visit to the United States Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan and Begum Iiaquat Ali watched a helicopter dust a field with insecticide. The helicopter can also be used to seed a field from the air…

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U.s. Dairy Cattle Breeding

The North Western Courier · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 8

According to the Department of Agriculture, veterinarians at the Glenfield Research Station in New South Wales have been conducting…

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Sheep Losses Will Be Severe

The North Western Courier · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 1

Pilots operating the food-lift in north-western areas, say it is a depressing sight in places to see sheep standing in water, with only their…

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Sheep Judging Change Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 1

A change in the method of judging entrants for the merino grand cham has been decided upon by N.S.W. Sheepbreeders' Association and will…

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Heavy Sheep Mortalities at Quirindi

The North Western Courier · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 2

Heavy mortalities in sheep in this district ended recently with a final loss of two hundred and fifty out of of a mob of five hundred young…

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Outlook for Wool

The North Western Courier · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 5

The quantity of wool consumed in Great Britain has been greater this year than for the similar period 12 months before. Large consumption,…

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Record Prices for Wool Likely

The North Western Courier · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 2

With the opening of the Australian 1950/51 season drawing closer, it does appear that, barring any major disturbance in world affairs in the…

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Wool Export

The North Western Courier · Thursday 10 August 1950 · page 2

Export figures of wool shipped from the Commonwealth during the season show that some 4,201,179 bales were exported as against 3,913,128…

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Still Time to Sow Wheat

The North Western Courier · Thursday 10 August 1950 · page 3

Further sowings of wheat in this district, in spite of the lateness of the season, is considered a good risk by the District…

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