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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1964

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This Week in Wool Bright 1964 Outlook for Wool

The Western Herald · Friday 17 January 1964 · page 12

New year prospects for the wool industry were the best in seven years, Dalgety and New Zealand…

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She Shears 196 Sheep a Day

The Western Herald · Friday 17 January 1964 · page 2

In New Zealand a 19 year-old girl after 12 months shearing has acquired enough stamina…

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Australian Wool Industry Conference Backs Five Year Programme

The Western Herald · Friday 17 January 1964 · page 11

The Australian Wool Industry Conference on January 8th agreed on a 40-10 vote to back a five year…

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S-t-r-e-t-c-h Wool Cloth Out Soon

The Western Herald · Friday 17 January 1964 · page 8

The special qualities of all-wool cloth will be available soon in stretch fabrics. They will be made by a…

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Vacuum Wool Press

The Western Herald · Friday 24 January 1964 · page 13

The development by the C.S.I.R.O. of a process for the vacuum pressing of wool bales has aroused…

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Pastoral Cooperatives in N.S.W. Qld. Join Forces

The Western Herald · Friday 24 January 1964 · page 3

Two of Australia's oldest and leading pastoral co-operatives have joined forces to form a large…

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"Ostrich" Attitude Disastrous for Wool Industry

The Western Herald · Friday 24 January 1964 · page 2

The sole objective of the Australian Growers' Wool Marketing Committee was to emphasise the…

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Wool Quality Drive Begins End of 1964

The Western Herald · Friday 24 January 1964 · page 8

The International Wool Secretariat will launch its Woolmark programme in seven northern…

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Bourke Pastoral and Agricultural Ass'n. 1964 Show Dates May 8th and 9th

The Western Herald · Friday 24 January 1964 · page 7

In an endeavour to provoke more interest in the Wool Exhibit section at the Annual Show on May. 8th and 9th the P. & A. Association, at its meeting on Friday night last decided to have separate sections…

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Farm Tree Planting

The Western Herald · Friday 24 January 1964 · page 11

In the 1963 planting season, fanners and graziers purchased 301,000 trees from the nurseries of…

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Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 3

In a buoyant wool market prices rose 2 1/2 to 5 per cent at Sydney Wool sales on Thursday, 23rd…

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Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 11

The Fanners and Grasiers' Co-Operative company limited reported on 22nd January…

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This Week in Wool Buoyant Wool Market

The Western Herald · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 4

Spectacular baying by Eastern Europe was the of this week's Australian…

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Billions From Wool

The Western Herald · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 2

Since the end of World War II wool has earned a prodigious £6,159,700,000 in export income for…

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N.S.W. Has Greatest Sheep Number

The Western Herald · Friday 31 January 1964 · page 10

Australia's greatest sheep state is New South Wales. A census in March 1963 revealed that New South…

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Sheep Research

The Western Herald · Friday 7 February 1964 · page 3

The Graziers' Association of N.S.W. mutton and lamb committee believes there is argent need for…

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Brisbane Wool Selling

The Western Herald · Friday 7 February 1964 · page 11

The executive committee of the Graders' Association of N.S.W. has reaffirmed its policy that…

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This Week in Wool Japan's Wool Textile Boom

The Western Herald · Friday 7 February 1964 · page 2

Only about 20,000 people are employed in Australia's wool textile industry compared with 164,000 in…

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Safety in Wool Clothing

The Western Herald · Friday 7 February 1964 · page 4

With accident reports lowing that 87 per cent. of all deaths from burns are caused by…

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Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Friday 14 February 1964 · page 13

Widespread competition forced wool prices to the highest point of the current season at last week's…

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