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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,339 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 42 of 67

The Coming Harvest Help by Farmers in Construction of Wheat Bulkheads

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 9

A letter from the General Secretary of the Farmers and Settlers Association read at…

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Approval for Drive on Sheep Thieves

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 4

Unqualified approval of the Now South Wales Police scheme for combating sheep and wool thieves was…

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Study of Insect Pests Wheat Weed And Fruit Fly

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 2

Insects which attack stored wheat, such as the grain weevil and the lesser grain borer, are being studied by the…

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Market Fluctuations and the Reserve Price Plan for Wool

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 8

Speculators hare always done well out of the woolgrowers who realises only too welt that these individuals have profited…

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Hearing of Receiving Charge Commenced Gilgandra Farmer Before Court

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 1

Chief evidene in the case in which John Joseph Christian, Gilgandra farmer, is charged with receiving forty bags of wheat knowing the same to be stolen, was…

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Win for Breelong Farmers in Lamb Breeders' Ewe Competition

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 2

Messrs Gilmour & Gellert, of Breelong, Gilgandra, have won the Rural Bank Cup awarded for…

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Crop Conditions

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 8

Mr R. H. Shelley, District Agronomist, Central West, (Dubbo Centre), reports for July:—…

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Farm and Fodder Competition Gilgandra Farmers First and Second

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 6

The annual farm and fodder competition conducted by the R.A.S. each year has brought further renown to Gilgandra district farmers, first and second place…

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Farm and Fodder Competition to Curban Man

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 4

The inland division of this year's farm and fodder competition, was won by Mr. A. N. Ferguson, "Old Mundar," Curban, a member of the Gilgandra P. and A. Association, with 158 points…

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Farming in U.s

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 4

Food is a major contribution of the United States to the worldwide battle for freedom…

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Chamberlain Field Display District Farmers Impressed

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 3

The group of landholders who attended the demonstration of the Chamberlain tractor on Ulamambri the property of Mr. O…

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Brisbane Cattle Sales

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 3

Though Poll Shorthorn bulls did not reach the four-figure record of the Shorthorns at Brisbane, they nevertheless established a…

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Why Milk and Butter Are Short Problem of the Dairying Industry

The Western Herald · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 9

Commenting on the current shortages of milk and butter, Mr. J. T. Reid, Country Party M.L.A. for Casino, said that…

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Sheep Flocks Rising Supplies and Demand

The Western Herald · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: The wool market as yet does not definitely show stability. It possibly will not do so while…

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Australian Wool Cheque for Year

The Western Herald · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 4

The Australian wool cheque for 1950/51 reached a record £636,330,574 from the sale of 3,574,195 bales according to the season's figures…

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A Butter Price Threat by Victorian Gow. Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 3

The Victorian Government this morning threatened to de-castrol butter unless the Federal Government accepted…

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Plane Accidentally Dusted the Wrong Farm

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 2

When aerial seed planting and spraying was in its infancy in Australia a pilot accidentally dusted with D.D.T. the wrong property. There were two very indignant farmers, but for…

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Shortage Of Butter Desperate

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1951 · page 1

The butter shortage in Dubbo was becoming "pretty desperate," the manager of a leading…

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Man Fined for Theft of Sheep Dogs

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1951 · page 2

A man who stole two sheep dogs which were on transit on the railways was lined £5 at the Dubbo Police Court on Friday…

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