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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 43 of 68

Wheat Crops Have Time to Improve

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1950 · page 6

Wheat crops generally have responded very well to the drier conditions and warmer weather. The intense yellowing, characteristic of the crops during the early stages of growth, is disappearing, although the wheat cannot be described as healthy…

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Trangie Station Home on the Sheep's Back

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1950 · page 1

A return of between £15,600 and £20,000 was anticipated from the 1950 wool clip at Trangie…

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Wool Not Being Stockpiled Washington

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 1

Wool is not included in the list of strategic or critical materials which the United States is currently stockpiling, said a…

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Increase in Wool Clip Likely Despite Setbacks

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 3

The current wool clip should be 3,604,000 bales— an increase of 135,000 bales on the 1949/50 clip—estimates a Bank of New South Wales economic review…

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Record Wool Prices in South Africa Capetown

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 1

A new record wool price for Port Elizabeth was set yesterday when 10 bales of Merino brought 144½d. lb…

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Bradford Firms May Reduce Wool Purchases London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 2

The British Wool Federation has warned that Bradford firms are likely to reduce their buying to a minimum because of…

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Prosper Good for Wheat Crop Acreage Smaller SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 2

Wheat prospects for N.S.W. this season are particularly good, although acreage sown is expected to be 750,000 acres…

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Sheep Pay Freight Record Mendooran Price

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 16

Five of the 382 sheep trucked to Homebush recently from Mendooran paid for the freight on the four truck loads. This was…

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400 Sheep Worth £3000 Dead From Poisoning

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 1

Four hundred heavy woolled Merino ewes— worth about £3000 on present rates—died on a Dubbo property last week after eating arsenic from a discarded tin…

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Merino Stud Sheep for America. Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 1

Twelve specially selected Australian merino stud sheep will be sent to America for breeding experiments…

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New Chairman for Wool Firm

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 3

Mr. D. Roy McCaughie of Coonong, Narrandra, has been appointed Chairman of Directors o the Commonwealth Wool…

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Stem Rust at Baradine Biggest Wheat Hazard

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 4

In his August crop report, Mr. F. C. Morris, the district agronomist stationed at Mudgee reports an attack of stem rust in wheat…

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Wheat Committee Vacancy: Four Nominations Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 2

Four nominations have been received by the Electoral Commissioner for the election of a member to the State Wheat…

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Good Wool Clip. Silos Ready for Harvest

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 11

The wool clip in the Yeoval district, where shearing is now in full swing, is well up to expectations and, although…

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"Impossible" to Ban Sale of Wool to Russia Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 2

Sydney brokers today described as "utterly ridiculous" suggestions that a ban should be placed on shipments of wool to…

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Mary Vale. Crops Making Rapid Growth

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 10

The spring weather at last has come and the wheat and oat crops are coining back to their natural colour, making…

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Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 9

Goldsbrough, Mort and Com-pany, Limited report.:— For our initial sale of the 1950- 1951 season, we submitted a…

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Wool Report

The Western Herald · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 9

The Farmers & Graziers Co-op. Grain Insurance & Agency Company Limited reported on August 28th:—. We submitted a catalogue…

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Wool Worth £600 Stolen From Truck

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 1

Some time on Monday night six bales of wool, valued between £500 and £600, were stolen from a partly loaded truck at Alectown West…

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Who Makes Wool Values Present Market Aspects

The Western Herald · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 7

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: The extraordinary rise in the wool market even gave surprise to some of the optimists. Values for the…

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