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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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New Company Operates Wool Carbonising Works

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1948 · page 1

Dubbo wool carbonising works—closed for a number of years—are now once again operating. A company mainly British-Australian known as the Anglo-Australian Carbonisers Pty. Ltd., is now operating the works. Thus has…

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Great Need for Sheep Classing Livestock Inspector Addresses Coonabarabran Conference

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 11 March 1948 · page 10

If every owner classed his own sheep or had them classed there would be a very material improvement in sheep in the State, Mr. L. H. Beveridge, livestock Officer at Dubbo, told the Macquarie Divisional Conference of the Aricultural…

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SOlL Fertility Being Destroyed by Bumber Crops Warning To Farmers At Agricultural Conference

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 11 March 1948 · page 3

Heavy crops must lead to a depletion of soil fertility unless measures were taken to adopt a system of farming which maintains or builds up soil fertility, the Director of the Bread, Research Institute, Mr. E. Bond, told the…

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Junior Farmers Club

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 11 March 1948 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Junior Farmers Club was held in the Central School last Saturday and was very well attended about 40 being present…

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Wool Report

The Western Herald · Friday 12 March 1948 · page 5

Goldsbrough, Mort and Company Limited report as follows:— For our eleventh sale of the season we offered a catalogue of…

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Local and General Charleville Cattle Sale

The Western Herald · Friday 12 March 1948 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Co, in conjunction with the Australian Estates & Co. Ltd. are holding a cattle sale at Charleville…

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Butter Production

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 6

"I am pleased to report that for the month of February, butter again shows an excellent increase over February last year, but it must be remembered…

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Wool Report

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 5

The Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Co. Ltd., March 9, 1948: We submitted a catalogue of 5795…

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Wool Report

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 8

The Farmers and Graziers' Cooperative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited report under date 9th March:…

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Printed Wool Fabrics

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 3

Below are some printed wool fashions from the collection designed and made expressly for The Australian Wool…

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The Wool Outlook Market Conditions

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 3

Winchcombe Carson Ltd.. report:—Tho variation in wool values recently experienced, cannot be…

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Sprung and Shot Wheat Germination Tests

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 8

The Seed Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture has completed germination tests of composite, samples of…

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Charleville Cattle Sale

The Western Herald · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Co. in conjunction with the Australian Estates & Co. Ltd. are holding a cattle sale at Charleville…

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Wool Report

The Western Herald · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 7

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company resulted on 9th March: We submitted a catalogue of…

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Soil Fertility Destroyed by Bumper Crop

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1948 · page 2

Heavy crops must lead to a depletion of soil fertility unless measures were taken to adopt a system of farming which maintains…

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Local Wool

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 1

Reporting on their recent wool sales, Messrs. Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. state "Included in series No. 10 was the…

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Correspondence the Sheep Dog and the Dingo

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 5

Sir.—There is no Questioning the fact that Mr. Chifley and his comrades are thankfully accepting all the assistance they can get from the…

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Dubbo Wool Carbonising Works Foundation On Which Other Secondary Industries May Be Built

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 7

How uninviting, even unpleasant, a sight to the uninitiated are the disclosed contents of a bale of heavy conditioned wool pieces or crutchings—dirly, malodorous, burr infested, greasy…

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Influx of Q’land Cattle Stock Inspector Report

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 13

During the last few months there has been an influx of Queensland cattle in small and large mobs, and constant…

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Wool Sales Postponed the Position of Values

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd., report: The wool sales which were suspended in Now South Wales…

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