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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

985 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 3 of 50

Cattle For Footballs

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3

"A full sized match-ball takes two and a half sq. feet of leather. The best balls are made from English cowhide and they're hand [?]…

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Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 6

The Country Producers Selling Co. Ltd. reported on 12th January: The main interest in the wool trade over the past week has been…

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Winter Wheat For Australia Likely

The Western Herald · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 7

The forecast is that Australian farmers will be growing winter wheat within the not distant future…

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International Wheat Talks Growers Seek Representation

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 4

A very urgent request to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Commerce and Agriculture and the State Minister for Agriculture that there…

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Ked Infested Sheep

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 4

Bathurst Pastures Protection. Board stock inspector (Mr. J. C. Beardwood) found that 89 sheep offered for sale at the last stock…

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Farm Field Day at Orange

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 4

Field sessions embracing orcharding, wafer conservation, pig production, dairying, and sheep and wool will provide the…

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Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 4

Sales are scheduled to resume in Sydney to-day, after the buyers return from Brisbane where sales have been in…

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World Cereals Canada's Larger Grain Crop

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 1

The Canadian grain situation has changed considerably from that which prevailed a year ago, states the…

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Desert Turned Into Farmland

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 1

A rush of applicants for land in the 90-Mile Desert of South Australia has resulted from the successful…

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Wheat Stealing at Coonabarabran

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2

Appearing before Mr. Polcock S.M., at the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions last week, Wilfred Arthur. Machin…

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Wool Sales Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2

Early reports for Sydney opening wool sales today show that good spinners wools compared with last Sydney…

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Daring Forbes Wool Theft

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 1

Orange detectives are investigating a daring theft of [?] bales of wood worth 720 them a [?] on E[?]long Station, Forbes…

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Wool 1948 and 1949 Prices and Stocks

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 7

Winchcombe, Carson Lts. report:—Wool values show good prospects of continuing on attractive levels this season. Prices…

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Farmers And Smallholders All Purpose Tractor

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 1

The Public Health and Municipal Engineering Congress and Exhibition was…

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Strange Find in Fowl's Crop Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 1

A young fowl killed for eating yesterday had a remarkable collection of objects in its body…

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How to Hold Rural Communities American Farmers Face The Problem

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2

[?] ago farmers of Wash[?] Georgia, U.S., decided [?] industries to achieve [?] hold farms and village…

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Prompt Action of Mr. Ren Shaw Appreciated By Armatree Farmers

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 1

Cr. H. Hanson, of Gulargambone, approached "The Weekly" with an episode that recently took place at…

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Rabbit Extermination Ferguson System Farm Tractor

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 5

Mr. Max Johnston, representative of British Farm Equipment Co., and Mr Nick. Brain, of Bains' Motors' (Gil.) Coy., agents…

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Junior Farmers on Inspection Tour

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 5

A party of 28 Junior Farmers from the Central West is on a 13 days tour embracing the Hunter Valley. Gosford, Woy Woy,…

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Finance for Ex-soldier Dairyists

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 1

The N.S.W. Government is prepared to finance ex-soldier settlers on dairy farms up to a limit of £13,000…

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