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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

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World Record Price Paid for Wool at Geelong Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 1

A world record price for lambs' wool was paid at the Geelong wool sales yesterday and in Sydney prices…

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Poultry Farmers Should Cull Stock Now

The Western Herald · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 10

In many countries the end of summer and coming of autumn marks the season of lower egg laying and…

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Vegetables Rotting on Dubbo Farms Says Grower

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 1

The Buninyong Agricultural Bureau will ask the Minister for Agriculture to explain why t[?]nned fruit and vegetables are not being exported, and to make it clear if the vegetable industry is included in the…

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Association's Plans for Junior Farmers This Year

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 4

Several attractive schools and courses have been passed over because our members are an yet too young. It is…

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Commonwealth Wool

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 5

The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co. Ltd. reports that the market on the opening day of the Sydney sales was a strong…

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Big Wheat Crop But Nor Record SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 1

The Australian wheat corp is now estimated at about 30,000,000 bushels more than the December estimate and…

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Frost Damaged More Wheat Than Diseases

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 4

Although the 1953 average-[?]cre yield of wheat was a record for New South Wales, the damage caused by frost was estimated to be greater than the combined losses attributed to disease…

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Wool Prices Continue To Rise SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 1

Keen competition was evident at the wool sales yesterday, when values were firm to 21 per cent dearer than when the…

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Wheat in Aust. Is Cheapest in World: F. & S. Chief

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 2

Australians were consuming the cheapest wheat in the world, the General President of the Farmers and Settlers' Association (Mr. Scilley) told a meeting of the Dubbo branch and visitors from other district…

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Financial Aid for Farmers

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 1

The chairman of the Rural Reconstruction Board, Mr. E. A[?] has announced that any farmer is entitled to apply…

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Values Firm At Sydney Wool Sales SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 1

Values were firm and in some cases tended to rise at the Sydney wool sales yesterday. The Sydney Wool Selling…

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MOTORS & MOTORISTS More Machinery Means Easier Work, And Higher Farm Production

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 2

Dubbo farmers could make their work much easier and their farms more productive if they used more mechanical aids, a farm machinery expert said today. In Switzerland, one of the smallest countries in the world, farmers had found from experience that it paid to be mechanised and on the average more farm…

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Expert Advice for Farmers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 5

So that increased extension services will be available to the farming community the Food Production Council and the…

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Wool Sales

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 1

Wool values continued to harden in Sydney to-day when Dalgetys tooped the present series at 168½d. for…

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Wool Report

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 6

On Wednesday, 4th instant, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., brought forward a…

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The Week In The Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 7

In almost perfect rhythm with the memorable pre-Easter sale of 1951 (though in a much lower key), the wool market advanced to a new seasonal peak this week, confounding the belief of buyers and sellers that an 80,000…

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Demand for Wool Outstrips World Production

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 2

In almost perfect rhythm with the memorable preEaster sale of 1951 (though in a much lower key), the wool market advanced to a new seasonal peak, confounding the belief of buyers and sellers that an…

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Spica Wheat Interest in N.S.W.

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 9

Numerous requests have been received by the Queensland Department of Agriculture from New South Wales farmers…

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Wheat Talks May Be Ended Soon WASHINGTON

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 1

Wheat exporting nations have proposed that negotiations by 46 nations for a new international wheat agreement…

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