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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Wheat MONEY Ready Now

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 4

Applications for wheat warrants are now being received at Narromine the silo manager, Mr. R. L. Pepper, said this…

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Competition Keen at U.k. Wool Sales

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 2

Competition at the close of the London wool sales was often intense as the home trade and other Continental buyers…

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Trials of Wheat, Oats and Barley At Trangie Experiment Station

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 4

Every year at the Trangie Agricultural Experiment Station promising new cereal varieties are tested against those at present recommended. This is part of a Statewide system of investigation run by the NSW Department…

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Flourmiller Urges Need for More Wheat Types Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1954 · page 5

Principal wheat exporting countries, including Australia had a great deal more to do than merely grow the wheat, chairman of the NSW Flour Millowners' Association (Mr. M. R. Dunkley) said…

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Four Points On Farm Machinery

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1954 · page 2

Complete economic mechanisation on the small farm is only possible when built up progressively and justified by…

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Distributing Farming Machinery

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1954 · page 3

When a manufacturer has perfected a farm machine his troubles have only just begun, says "Power Farmer"…

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Silo Chief Urges Farmers To Care for Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 5

Wheat-growers should take every precaution to see that wheat handled on farms and in trucks did not become weevil-infested, said the Manager of the Government Grain Elevators (Mr. S. C. Hodgson)…

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Rain Below Average Baradine Wheat Lower

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 1

Rainfall records in Coonabarabran for the year 1953 were blow the yearly average since 1880, when…

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Wheat Types Recommended for 1954 Sowing

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 2

The following wheat variety recommendations for 1951 sowing have been announced by the Division of Plant…

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US Interest Grows In Austn. Jersey Cattle Stud SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 3

One of the weightiest packs of stock books sent by air from Australia to the United States has reached Washington for permanent location in the American Department of Agriculture's library…

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Tomato Crops Healthy

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 2

Tomato crops were healthy the District Agronomist (Mr. N. S. Tickner) said in his monthly report…

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Monthly Review of Crop Conditions 1953 driest year since 1946

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 8

Last year was the driest since 1946, when a total of 1403 points was received. hTe total of 1555 for 1953 was nearly seven inches below the average. However, the results of the season have been…

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Confident Outlook For Wool

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 2

Wool sales continue in recess, Now Year sales not being scheduled to commence until Monday, in Sydney. The…

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Good Prospects for Wool Sales

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 3

The trade gradually faces the [?] of auctions for 1954 with [?] says a wool report by [?]…

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Dubbo Wheat Good Quality This Year Says Miller

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 2

"Wheat grown in the West over the past year is equal to the best grown in the North-West of the State and that is saying a lot," the manager of the Dubbo Milling Co. (Mr. J. H. Hiatt) said today…

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New Developments in Production of Wheat and Rice

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 1

Significant developments in wheat and rice production and marketing are referred to in [?] wheat News [?] is…

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Monthly Crop Review

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 3

This month has been the [?] December [?] 1959, when only nine [?] was [?] where[?] our total [?] inches below [?] 1959 [?]inches at Dubbo…

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Wool sales resume to-day

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 8

The opening sales in Sydney of the second half of the 1953-54 Wool Selling Season commence to-day when series No. 9…

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Consumption Of Wool In America

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 5

The Bradford Wool Tops market is at a standstill with the tendency to await a testing at the resumption of…

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Japan Active At Wool Sales SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 2

Japanese buyers were active at the opening of the wool sales in Sydney yesterday, when values remained…

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