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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

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Huge Bulk Wheat Storage Programme

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 4

The greatest single pro­gramme of bulk wheat storage wheat construction ever undertaken in this State was…

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Science Says "Milk Wool" But Is It Practicable?

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 5

A wool fibre made directly from skimmed cows' milk is being made in Holland, according to "Chamber's Journal"…

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Junior Farmers Competition Judging To Begin Shortly

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 2

Judging will soon begin for the Junior Farmer Project Competition for which the Rural Bank is awarding a…

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Stud Ram Sales Predicted at Big Sheep Fair

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 4

With offerings totalling 1475 Merino sheep in 1180 pens (compared with 1490 sheep in 1083 pens last year), the stage…

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All Time Record for Jubilee Sydney Sheep Show

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 4

The Jubilee Annual Sheep Show, which will be conducted on the Sydney Showground from June 20 to 23, has attracted an…

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Sheep Missing From District Farm

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 1

A small flock of sheep have been reported missing from Mr. Richard John Coaker's "Redbank" property at…

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Wool Report

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 10

The Farmers and [?] Cooperative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Limited 1st June, 1951…

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Mary Vale. Wheat Sowing Finished

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 5

The wheat-sowing season has been brought to a close. The wheat this year was sown under ideal conditions and the…

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Wool Plant Closes at Dubbo

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 2

The wool carbonising works AT Dubbo closed down because suitable types of wool for protessing are not available, a…

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Programme Announced Bulk Storage For Wheat

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 8

Coonabarabran is one of the [?] selected for the erection of temporary [?] for storing this…

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Value of Mulesing Operation on Sheep Is Stressed

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 3

The effectiveness of the correct mules and tail operation in reducing fly strike in sheep was demonstrated…

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Shearers Sued by Contractor for Failing to Shear Sheep

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 6

Four unusual court cases are to be heard at Cowra in the near future, when four shearera are to be sued for…

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Rain Welcomed. Crops and Pastures Will Benefit

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 1

Steady penetrating rain, which commenced to fall on Monday last and which yielded 165 points to 9 a.m. to-day,…

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Rain of Great Benefit Crops and Stock Feed! Improve

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 2

Rainfall in Coonabarabran during the last week which amounted to 125 points up to 9 a.m. to-day has been ideal for…

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Butter Substitutes

The Western Herald · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 5

Although butter with its pleasant flavour is the most popular fat used for cooking, other fats have often to be substituted. Margarine can be…

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Annual Wool Review

The Western Herald · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 9

Winchcombe Carson td. Lhave issued their 62nd Annual Wool Review booklet, which contains a host of information about the wool…

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The Wool Situation Varying Values

The Western Herald · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— The higher cost of goods, particularly in the earlier months of this year, curbed wool…

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Post J.O. Wool Marketing Plan

The Western Herald · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 1

At a meeting of 33 woolgrowers held in the Council Chambers, Bourke, on the 6th inst., the following motion was carried…

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Dubbo Growers Are Urged to Back Wool Scheme

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 3

Despite an unprecedented world demand for wool, market prices had fallen by 50 per cent, in the past few weeks and, unless wool growers formed a stabilisation scheme, they would continue to suffer…

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Wheat Men Against Concessions Claim £36 Million Lost By Them

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 4

Woolgrowers had been obtaining cheap wheat at the expense of wheatgrowers, it was alleged at a meeting of…

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