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Farming & the land, 1947

2,230 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 112

Production of Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 1

Australia produced 63 per cent of the total wool output of the Dominion last year, compared with 65 per cent, of the 1934-38 average…

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Dusts for Controlling Wheat Weevils

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 1

THE use of mineral dusts for protecting wheat stored in bulk depots is described in Bulletin 199, just issued by the Council…

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Wool Sales Again in Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday: Wool sales were returned in Melbourne today when at the opening series for the second half of the season 7300…

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Less Wool But More Money

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Although wool sold during the six months July to December, 1946, was 230,000 boles less than the corresponding period of the…

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Many Novel Ideas in Wool Display

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 4

Moth-proof blankets and striped wallpaper sprayed with wool dust were among the wool features in the Home Exhibition opened at the International…

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A.M.L & F. Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: The Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd. offered a catalogue comprising mostly good and average…

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Infertility in Sheep Pasture Management As Means of Control

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 4

A recent statement by the Western Australian Department of Agriculture describing further investigations con. cerning the detrimental effect…

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U.s, Concern About British "Wool Monopoly"

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 1

GHEYENNE (Wyoming), Monday: Asserting that American wool-growers were suffering by the operation of the "British wool…

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No Higher U.s. Tariffs on Australian Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 4

In spite of renewed appeals by American wool growers for protection, the change to Republic control in Congress is not likely to result in a higher…

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Wool Values Up by £4½ Million at 1946 Sales

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Although wool sold during the six months July to December, 1946, was 290,970 bales less than the corresponding period of the previous year, revenue was up by £4,476,127…

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Record Grain Sorghum Crops

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 2

Although no dependable figures were yet available, it was certain that more grain sorghum had been sown in New South Wales in the last two months…

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Winner of Progressive Farmer Competition To Visit Leeton Again

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 3

MR. A. K. Gardiner, winner of the Rural Bank and Station 2GZ Progressive Farmer Competition, who recently returned from a…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 2

On Monday the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Sydney, offered a representative selection drawn from many parts of the State…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., report: We sold 9000 bales of wool at our Sydney sale yesterday. Any change in values was upward. There was good…

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Appointed to Wool Secretariat

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 6

LONDON, Tuesday: Mr. R. D. Wilson has been appointed Director of Economics at the International Wool Secretariat, succeeding…

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No Provision for New Wheat Silos

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 3

The construction of new silos was urged in the Assembly by Mr. W. A. Chaffey (C.P. Tamworth), who criticised the Government for its failure to…

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Protecting Bulk Wheat with Mineral Dusts

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 6

A mineral dust fumigation method for controlling wheat pests applied to 16,000,000 bushels of heat in Victorian bulk depots…

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Riverina Wool Offered at Sydney Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 3
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Bidding was brisk at the Sydney, wool' sales yesterday, when a catalogue of 12,072 bales was offered…

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Higher Wool Tariffs Urged for America

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: Mr. Prank Barrett, Republican member of the House of Representatives for Wyoming, testified at the hearings…

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