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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

1,353 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 37 of 68

Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 9

The Country Producers Selling Co. Ltd. reported on the 21st July:— The 2nd week of the 4th series of sales were held in the…

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Lack of Frost Spoiling Wheat, Farmers Say

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 6

Many wheat crops throughout the Narromine district are too far advanced because there have been very few frosts. Some wheat is almost in…

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Heavy Sheep Mortalities at Quirindi

The Western Herald · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 1

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

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Wheat Harvest May Be Poor

The Western Herald · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 4

The N.S.W. wheat crop was likely to be below average, the chief agronomist of the Department of Agriculture, Mr. H. Bart…

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Records For Wool Tops Japan's Extending Output

The Western Herald · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: For a considerable part of the past season, confidence in commodity prices in the United…

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Records for Wool Tops Japan's Extending Output (A Winchcombe Carson report)

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 6

For a considerable part of the past season, confidence in commodity prices in the United States was less evident than most countries. The…

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Australia Has Lead in Sheep Numbers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1950 · page 3

There are more than twice as many people in the world as sheep. The position in Australia, of course, is very different as…

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Protest on Wheat Board Charges

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1950 · page 1

The Wheatgrowers Union has protested to the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) and the Minister for Commerce (Mr…

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Air Lift Takes Fodder to Starving Sheep Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 1

Rain today restricted the dropping of fodder from aircraft to more than 2,000,000 starving sheep in flood hit areas in north-west New South Wales. The Flood Relief Committee today secured…

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Bulk Handling of Wheat Depends On The Railways

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 6

Wheat could be handled in balk from harvest paddock to the karbourslde. However, very little will be done about It by the majority of western wheat growers until they can be more confident about the speeding up of recelvals at country sidings…

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All Lines Keenly Sought at U.k. Wool Sales

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 2

Combing Merinos and 4G/50 Crossbreds were in particular demand at the London wool sales which concluded on July…

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Sheep & Wool Classes Future in Doubt

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 15

The future of sheep and wool classes in Coolah is in doubt according to. advice placed be fore the last meeting of the…

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Heavy Sheep Mortalities at Quirindi

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 10

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

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World Events Affect Wool Market

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 2

For a considerable part of the past season, confidence in commodity prices in the United states was less evident than in…

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Records for Wool Tops Japan's Extending Output

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 11

For a considerable part of the past season, confidence in commodity prices in the United States was less evident than in most…

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Continuing Rain Worse Than Drought Declares Well Known Pastoral Authority Rural Revenue Reduced

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 1

A prominent pastoral authority, discussing the result of the rains which have fallen more or less continually since January, estimates that the average return from pastoral and farming properties this year will be not mote than one-third of a normal year…

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Turkey Raising Plan by Bathurst Farmer

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 2

A proposal to develop the raising and marketing of turkeys along lines followed in the United States was put forward…

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Planes Come to the Aid of the Farmer

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 2

Australian agriculture, already highly mechanised, is adding the aeroplane to the other farm tools. In the next 12 months planes will skim over thousands of acres of farm and grazing land, from…

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Monthly Crop Report

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 3

The record breaking rains which fell in the first half of 1950, show, as yet, rib signs of abating. Rainfall in Mudgee for July was 691 points,…

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Wool Report

The Western Herald · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 8

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company Limited report : London sales concluded on the 22nd July, and from our agents in that city we…

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