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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Huge Drop in Wheat Meat Exports Due to "Lack of Price Incentive" Economists Criticise Long Term Pattern Of Overseas Contracts SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1952 · page 1

Declaring that Australia was dependent on her rural industries for most of her export income, Mr. C. A. Strong, Director of the Federal Bureau of Economics, said that butter…

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Latest Combine Harvests All Seed Crops

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1952 · page 5

A new combine Leader, the model 15 "Oliver Grain Master Combine" an all-purpose machine capable of harvesting…

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Farmers and Settlers' Chiefs To Visit Narromine

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1952 · page 1

Visiting [?] next week to meet members and explain [?] of the Farmers and Settlers' Association [?] general president, Mr. J. T. Mc[?] and Mr. C. J. Champion NSW…

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Sheep Losses

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 5

Sheep losses have been reported from the Central Western districts as a result of chronic copper poisoning, says…

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Sheep Disease

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 2

Glazier from man parts of the Scats have reported a high incidence of both fool-rot and foot abscess…

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Wheat Is the World's Oldest Crop

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 5

Wheat is older than history itself. For thousands of years before man began to record history and the doings of the…

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Japan Gets Austn. Cattle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 2

A draft of 75 grade AIS heifers and pedigreed AIS bull, shipped to Japan this month by Balgety's marks the…

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Experiments on Disease in Feet of Sheep

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 5

Experiments to discover a new mode of treatment for foot-rot in sheep are being made by research biologists of…

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Wheat Growers Want One Year Plan Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 3

The Wheat Growers Federation wants any wheat stabilisation plan limited to one year and representatives will confer on the…

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Coldest People on Earth May Soon Wear Wool Exhibition Goes To Lapland

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 2

The International Wool Secretariat this month tried to interest the "coldest people in the world" in keeping themselves warm with wool…

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Contour Strip Farming

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1952 · page 2

"Efforts to establish pasture improvement on steep, hilly country are often greatly reduced in value due to erosion…

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N.s.w. Wheat Acreage

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 28 August 1952 · page 2

The latest survey shows that about 2,239,000 acres have been sown to wheat for grain in NSW this season, states the Cereal…

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How Weather Has Affected District Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 28 August 1952 · page 3

The wet and cold weather had had variable effects on wheat crops in the Dubbo district, the agronomist (Mr. N. S. Tickner) has reported. Crops growing on the good quality and well…

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More Bulkheads For Coming Wheat Harvest

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 28 August 1952 · page 12

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. E. H. Graham, MLA, said today that a number of bulk heads included in the 1951…

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Increased Wheat Production Vital Coonabarabran Conference

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 28 August 1952 · page 1

All sections of the district were represented by farmers, graziers, share farmers and others at a Coonawarra…

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Improved Cattle Values at Wellington Special Stock Sale

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 August 1952 · page 5

A GOOD clearance of sheep and cattle and improved values for store cattle were features of yesterday's special stock sale, conducted at the Wellington Saleyards by Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd., Sydney and Wellington…

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Sheep Weight Guessing Competitions

The Western Herald · Friday 29 August 1952 · page 3

The weight of the fat sheep the first day was 100 lbs. and this was won by John Gray. On the second day, the sheep…

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Jour Sheep Rate High in Norway

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 29 August 1952 · page 2

In a recent public opinion survey, the Norwegian Gallup Poll asked:— "When foreigners speak…

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Wool Use & Output Synthetic Mixtures

The Western Herald · Friday 29 August 1952 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: World production of wool is estimated to be four per cent higher than the…

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Synthetics May Become Ally of Wool

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 29 August 1952 · page 2

World production of wool is estimated to be four per cent higher than the 1934/38 average. Consumption in 1951 was, nearly ten per cent higher than the pre-1949 average despite that it was…

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