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

Farming & the land, 1951

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Outlook For Wool Darkens

North West Champion · Monday 12 November 1951 · page 6

Wool values are back to the satisfactory levels of June 29. They drifted uncomfortably near the…

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Council May Grow Lucerne Crop

The North Western Courier · Monday 12 November 1951 · page 3

Aldermen were informed that it would be more profitable for council to plant part of the sewerage treatment works area to lucerne than it would be to lease the area…

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Lighter Wool Clip

Manilla Express · Tuesday 13 November 1951 · page 4

The wool clip, according to reports, is fully a pound a sheep lighter this season. The number shorn shows a…

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Flow of New Wheat

The North Western Courier · Thursday 15 November 1951 · page 1

The wheat harvest in the Narrabri district is proceeding satisfactorily. Receivals at the Narrabri…

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Wool Showing Signs of Stability

North West Champion · Thursday 15 November 1951 · page 10

A sound potential demand exists for the sheep's staple. Many millmen have only bought in limited quantities so far this…

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There Will Never Be Synthetic Wool

The North Western Courier · Thursday 15 November 1951 · page 6

Eminent C.S.I.R.O. Wool Scientist, Dr. Lipson, has debunked fears that synthetic wool will ever put…

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Crooble Wheat Crop Second In Northern Championship

North West Champion · Monday 19 November 1951 · page 5

H. O. Ison and F. M. Coleman, Talula Pastoral Co., Crooble, were runners up in the northern Division of the Royal Agricultural Society's field wheat championship competition for 1951…

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Sheep-stealing Heavy Sentence

The North Western Courier · Monday 19 November 1951 · page 8

Sentences of one, three and six months were imposed at the Police Court on Thursday when pleas of…

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Wool Clip Smaller

North West Champion · Monday 19 November 1951 · page 7

The public appears to be in a dilemma regarding the future of prices for goods made from wool and also in regard to…

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Cattle. T.b. Tests for

North West Champion · Monday 19 November 1951 · page 3

The Department of Agriculture will begin testing all cattle in the Municipality for tuberculosis on December 3…

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Wheat Prospects Not Bright

Manilla Express · Tuesday 20 November 1951 · page 4

Agricultural Department officials say this season's wheat crop will be the lightest since the drought year of 1946. It…

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Wheat Crop Survey by R.a.s. Judge

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 2

Crop prospects show a wide range, varying from near failures to excellent crops, states the R.A.S. field wheat judge in his review of North Western crops competing in…

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Festival Wheat Exceptional

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 3

Festival wheat, a variety bred by plant breeders of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, at New…

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Never Be Synthetic Wool

North West Champion · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 6

Eminent C.S.I.R.O. Wool Scientist, Dr. Lipson, has debunked fears that synthetic wool will…

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Decline in Australian Wheat Production

North West Champion · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 7

The price of wool was one cause of the decline in wheat production, but other reasons were inadequate handling facilities at railway sidings, the home consumption price, and the…

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Research and the Wool Industry

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 5

C.S.I.R.O. research on sheep and wool problems is being made known to graziers through a new series of…

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Farmers' Bulletin on Clay Tablet

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 3

A 3,700-year-old farm bulletin written in Sumarian on a clay tablet, discovered at Nippur, Iraq…

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Pastoral Conditions

Manilla Express · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 4

The Stock Inspector (Mr. W. B. Harding) reports: The rainfall at Tamworth for the month was 41 points…

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Storing Wheat on Farm

North West Champion · Monday 26 November 1951 · page 1

Farmers and Settlers' Association organiser, Mr. Russel Scott, said today the growers who intend storing wheat in bulk…

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Wool Report

The North Western Courier · Monday 26 November 1951 · page 3

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited, report November 21, 1951…

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