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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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Wool Report The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Limited report:— 20th January, 1948

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 4

We Submitted a catalogue of 7,120 bales on Monday, 19th instant, comprising generally good selection with a number of attractive wools. There…

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Wool Top Values Fine and Coarse Crossbreds

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 9

Prices for tops in Bradford were freed from control last October and the quotation for average 64’s tops was 79d. Values have…

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Wheat Sowing, 1948 Use Best Quality Seed Available

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 6

Shot and sprung wheat should not be used for sowing if it is possible obtain seed of better quality. On the other hand, plump bleached grain…

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This Year’s N.S.W. Wheat Harvest Preliminary Estimate

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 9

Preliminary estimates of the 1947-49 wheat crop of NSW, issued by the Government Statistician (Mr S. R. Carver) are:—…

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Temporary Hay Baler How To Improvise From a Wool Press

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 6

Many inland farmers growing lucerne, either under irrigation or grazing areas, at times have suitable cuts which would make excellent hay…

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Gundagai Man’s Brother Mangled to Death Accident in City Wool Plant

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 5

Mr Sydney Taylor, aged 48, brother of Mr Roy Taylor, of Gundagai was mangled to “death in a wool scouring plant at Botany last week…

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Dutch Migrants To be Farmers

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday: Forty Dutch former migrants who will arrive in Australia in March, will be trained on Australian farms by experienced…

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Farm Prices Must Eventually Fail

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 2

"There have been so many warnings in the last two years from bankers, economists and businessmen that prices of our agricultural exports will…

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Sheep and Wool Instructor to M.i.a

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 3

MR B. M. Savage, H.D.A., has been appointed as District Livestock Officer (Sheep and Wool) to the M.I.A…

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Wheat

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers Co-op Co., on behalf of the Wheat Board have over 72,000 bags of wheat stacked in the Ganmain railway…

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Wagga Sheep Market

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 4

The associated agents of Wagga —Dalgety and Co., Younghusband Ltd., New Zealand Loan. A.M.L. and F. Co., Fanners and Graziers…

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Wheat Crop to Britain Australia “Ungenerous”

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 1

With the arrival of Australia’s first shipments of this season’s wheat in Great Britain, criticism is being heard in many quarters in Britain…

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Says Wheat Silo at Bomen Urgently Needed; Local Farmers Handicapped

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 5

The lack of a wheat silo at Bomen u handicapping local farmers, Mr. W. V. Baikie, a silo official, said last night THE size of the district warrants a silo of 100,000 bushels' capac-…

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Testing Germination of Wheat

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 4

BECAUSE of the bad harvesting season, there will be much damaged seed used for sowing, and the question of the value of this…

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Revised Estimate of Wool Clip

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 4

The National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia and the Australian Woolgrower's Council, having reviewed the estimate of the…

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Big Price for Wool at Goulburn

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 2

At Goulburn yesterday, probably reached the highest point so far attained for wool. Top price was for Colin Howard, of…

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110d Paid for Wool at Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 1

GOULBURN, Thursday: At the Goulburn woolsales today offerings probably reached the highest point so far attained for wool…

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Schute, Bell, Badgery, Lumby Limited Wool Report

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 2

On the 22nd instant we offered 4,500 bales to auction, the catalogue embracing wools from, most pastoral districts of the State, some nice wools from New…

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50 Per Cent Drop in Greasy Wool Exports

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday: Australian exports of greasy wool In the first half of the 1947-48 financial year were nearly SO per cent…

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Single Fruit Farms Letter to Narandera Repatriation Committee

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 1

The secretary of the Narandera and District Repatriation Committee has received the following letter from the secretary of the Closer…

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