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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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Mystery Disease Killing Many Thousands of Sheep Huge Stock Losses In Coonamble & Dunedoo Districts

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1950 · page 1

A mystery disease is killing thousands of sheep in the Coonamble, Coonabarabran, Dunedoo areas. Grazier estimate their losses at thousands of…

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Farmers Pull Weight Output Per Increases

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1950 · page 2

Rural producers were more than pulling their weight in the national economic effort, declared Mr. Jeff Bate. M.H.R. for…

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Trangie Store Cattle Sale

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 December 1950 · page 1

Messrs Ashford and Chrystal (Trangie), in conjunction with Dalgety and Co. Ltd., held a most successful store cattle sale…

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Greatly Reduced Wheat Yields But Improved Quality of Grain From Later Crops

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 December 1950 · page 1

WELLINGTON wheat received depots have received less grain in the first week of this year's harvest than was received each day during last year's harvests Since the first wheat was delivered early last week only 72,009 bushels have been received by the silos, the Australian Wheat Board stacks and the two flour mills…

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Silos Opened for New Season's Wheat

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 December 1950 · page 2

Harvesting has become fairly general throughout the Cumnock district. The silos were opened this week. Mr. Frank…

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Wheat Competition. Championship to Mr. C. R. Johnson

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 December 1950 · page 3

The 1950 Central Slopes Championship Field Wheat Competition was won by Mr. C. R. Johnson, of "Buckinbah,"…

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Orange May Have Tulip Farm Orange

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 December 1950 · page 3

There will be a tulip farm in the Orange district if somebody can find a Dutchman A landholder, who is a recent…

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Wool Report

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 11

The Farmers and Graziers’ Co-Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited 7th December, 1950…

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The Wool Tax

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 11

Sir,—Constant repetition by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Renshaw), and other, Labor members, of the statement…

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Mystery Disease Causing Huge Sheep Loss

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 4

[?]fens of thousands of sheep in the central western districts have died in the last fortnight from a…

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Cumnock News Reduced Yields But Good F.A.Q. Grain From District Wheat Crops

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 7

HARVESTING is now in full swing in the Cumnock district and, contrary to expectations, most of the wheat is of F.A.Q. standard, although yields are disappointing. So far, only three loads of second grade grain has been…

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High Price for Wool Aids Synthetics

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 6

High prices for wool have given an impetus to the use of artificial fibres both in mixtures with the sheep's staple and wholly synthetic fabrics. The latest type of American fibre has been…

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Sydney Wool Sales & Market Reports Country Producers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 6

At the eighth and final series for the first half of the 1950-51 polling season for the Sydney centre there was excellent…

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Rush to Deposit Wheat in Silo at Dubbo

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 1

Long queues of wheat-laden trucks have lined up at the Dubbo silo all this week in the last minute rush to deposit grain before the silo closes for the season today…

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Letters to the Editor 20 Per Cent Wool Deduction Bill

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 4

SIR: This subject is being widely discussed throughout Australia, particularly in country areas, and this letter will no doubt be one…

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Old Land Grew Record Crop Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 1

A crop grown on inna first under wheat more than 30 years ago, has won the Riverina division of the R.A.S. 1950 Field…

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Irate W'ton Potato Growers Denounce Marketing Board. Crops Rot in Ground Whilst Local Market Flooded with Imported Potatoes

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 1

ALTHOUGH Mr. I. C. Cook, Western representative on the N.S.W. Potato Marketing Board, has promised to insist that Wellington grown potatoes be distributed throughout the West immediately, it is quite possible that…

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Wool Traffic

The Western Herald · Friday 22 December 1950 · page 6

Wool traffic at the local Railway still continues to be brisk, and large "numbers of lorries are bringing in the golden fleece…

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Mystery Sheep Disease Now Identified

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 22 December 1950 · page 1

A mystery disease which in the past month has killed thousands of young sheep in the Coonamble, Coonabarabran and…

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Jet Sheep Now Against Fly Strike

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 22 December 1950 · page 2

Graziers should lose no time in jetting their sheep with either DDT or BHC as a precautionary measure against the…

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