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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

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Wool Section Dominated By Merinos

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 8

Merinos, in which the fine, medium and strong' classes were evenly represented, dominated the wool exhibits…

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Pleuro In Cattle At B[?]

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 1

Pleuro [?] has been diagnosed in a [?] of [?] cattle brought from a Queensland station in [?]…

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Investigation Of Reports On Sheep Stealing

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 3

Following [?] ep had disappeared [?] large numbers throughout the Peak Hill district the Farmer and…

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Jury Acquits Trangie Man On Cattle Stealing Charge

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 1

A man and his wife embraced p[?]onately in front of the dock in Dubbo Court last Wednesday night when the man, William Walter Th[?] carpenter, drover of Trangie was [?] on a charge of cattle stealing…

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Wheat Scientist Awarded High Honor Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 4

Dr. O. H. Frankel, Chief of CSIRO's Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal…

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Wool Research Led to the Nobel Prize

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 4

LONDON: The truly synthetic fibres such as nylon and terylene may be said to have been born in a test-tube and bred in the laboratory. The sections of the textile industry that use these…

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Prices Firm At London Wool Sales LONDON

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 3

The London wool sales were continued, with an offering of 11,570 bales, of which 11,000 were sold…

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Wheat Bulkheads Asked for by Narromine F. and S.

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 4

Rain caused the annual general meeting of the Narromine, Farmers and Settlers Association to be postponed, and an…

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Farmers' Returns

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 3

Police today appealed to farmers and graziers in the Dubbo district who have not returned figures of statistical importance…

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Senior Group to Work with Junior Farmers

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 3

Following the success of the Junior Farmer movement at Peak Hill it has been decided to form a senior group. The…

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Russia Is Still Eager For Wool SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 1

Russia again sought the best wool at the Sydney sales yesterday. Repeating the previous day's…

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MOTORS & Motorists Continued Farmers Are Using More Tractors

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 4

By March, 1952, the number of tractors in use on Australian rural holdings had grown to 143,497, it was reported in…

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Cattle Breeder Appeals for Cooperation Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 2

There is a regrettable absence of cohesion between stud and commercial shorthorn breeders in Australia…

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"Never Before Has Wool Market Been So Strong"

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 3

Wool prices stepped up to a new seasonal peak at Newcastle, Goulburn, Geelong, and Auckland, demonstrating the extreme world demand for both merino and crossbred in the closing stages of the…

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Soviet Interests Buy Health in Wool Market Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 1

Russian operators at the Sydney Wool Sales yesterday refused to be outbid for selected lines and paid top prices, sometimes 1/- a pound above other continental operators…

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Bakers Or Wheat To Blame For Poor Bread? SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 1

The low quality of NSW bread would be improved by night baking, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said today. But some bakers were hiding behind the smoke…

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"Cattle Drive"

The Western Herald · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 10

Univer sal- International's Technicolor "Cattle Drive," starring Joel McCrea and Dean Stockwell and showing next…

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Pastoral Workers Want Increased Wages

The Western Herald · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 6

A good attendance of Pastoral workers held a meeting in the Palais Royal on Sunday, May 10th. Mr. P. Devereux…

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Fine Fleeces Praised By Wool Judge

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 1

"The wool entered in the Dubbo Show this year compares favorably with last year's entries and there are some very…

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U.S.A. and Wool Synthetic Competition

The Western Herald · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 12

Winchcombc, Carson Ltd. report:—Despite the growth in output of some of the newer fibres in the United States in…

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