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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

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On the Land Wool News

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 December 1946 · page 4

The Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Co Ltd., Sydneym submits sundry jottings from overseas cable advices, which will…

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Wheat-Stealing Charge Brings Fines Of £141

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 December 1946 · page 1

Three men, who appeared at the Liverpool Court on December 5, before Mr. Meagher, P.M., on charges of stealing wheat from the Eulomogo Siding, were fined a total of £141 and ordered to pay £255…

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Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Monday 16 December 1946 · page 11

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. report: The next series of sales commenced in Sydney to-day. Our sale is set down for the 18th…

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High Prices At Geelong Wool Sales MELBOURNE

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 1

Top price at the last wool sales for this year at Geelong yesterday was 82 1/4d., paid for four bales of Super AAA from BOORKOI clip. grown at…

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Wheat Growing

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 7

THE first wheat was grown about 70 years ago, on river flat, near the site of the old bridge. Only about an acre was sown,…

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Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 7

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-Operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited report: We submitted our fifth catalogue…

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Newcastle Wool Prices

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 8

Top prices received at Winchcombe Carson’s last sale before the Christmas recess were secured by T. E. Parsons, Armidale. Wethers…

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Application Of Inf[?]im Basic Wage To Pastoral Industry

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 2

The Secretary of the Graziers' Federal Council (Mr. J. W. Allen) states:— "The effect upon the Federal Pastoral Award, of the I'ull Arbitration Court's…

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Is Wool Too High? Market Well Tested

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 13

Demand for wool in Australia has been well sustained this season, although at any one time it has not embraced a…

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British Finance For Australian Wool Purchases LONDON, Thursday

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 1

Britain is making available a grant, of £8,500,000 sterling and a credit of £1,600,000 sterling to Austria to finance wool purchases after U.N.R.R.A. relief…

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Ostrich Farm

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 7

IT is not generally known that on 'The Juggah," near Gilgandra, an ostrich farm was established in 1905. The venture was…

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Dairy Produce Section At Royal Show

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 2

The Royal Agricultural Society, in framing its schedule for the dairy produce section for the first post-war Show to be held next year, has based…

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Junior Farmers' Day Scheduled for 1947 Royal Easter Show

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 8

Tuesday, April 1, 1947, will be recognised as Junior Farmers' Day at the first post-war Royal Easter Show. The period of the Show will be from March 20 lo April 9, inclusive. The classification has undergone a complete revision and…

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Experiments In Grazing Pastures At Trangie Farm

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 2

Various phases of feed benefit from pastures would be investigated in special experiments planned for the Trangie Experiment Farm…

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Single Farms for Ex-servicemen

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 1

Fresh light was thrown on the vexed question of single farms for ex-servicemen when Mr. S. T. Stephens (C.P., Byron), speaking in the Legislative…

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WONGARBON Farmers And Settlers Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 10

The local Branch of the Fanners and Settlors' Association met on Tuesday evening last. Apologies were received from Messrs…

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Prevention Of Mastitis In Dairy Herds

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 5

Most cases of mastitis that occur on the dairy farm are contagions. Not only is the infection transmitted from cow to cow by the milker's hands and by…

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Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Friday 20 December 1946 · page 1

At Sydney bidding was brisk for superfine wools at yesterday's sales and greasy merino fleece sold to 76¾d. for six bales FWN/Yalgoo…

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Is Wool Too High ? Market Well Tested

The Western Herald · Friday 20 December 1946 · page 5

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Demand for wool in Australia has been well sustained this season although at any one time it has…

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Labour Policies Blamed for Fall in Wheat and Butter Production

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1946 · page 1

The Government had told country people so many bed- time stories about what Labour had done for them that it was high time they were given the true facts, said the Deputy Leader of the Country Party (Mr. Drummond) in the…

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