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Farming & the land, 1948

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Sheep Show Dinner Another Successful Function

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1948 · page 4

The annual sheep show dinner was held last night at the Albion Hotel, and proved to be the usual convivial and…

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No Solution Yet for Egg Farm Dispute

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 June 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: After a conference of parties in the Carter Bros.' poultry farm dispute at Werribee had failed to…

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Sheep Sales

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 2

Two important sheep sales are listed for next week. The first is on Monday next (June 21st), at Goelgowi yards…

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Wool Report

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 9

We submitted a catalogue of 5721 bales oil Monday, 7th inst., the selection including a number of autumn shorn clips from the war…

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Good Promise for Wheat Crops inWyalong Dist

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 4

WEST WYALONG, Wednesday: Excellent rains falling at a most opportune time have assured a good winter growth of…

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Wheat Acquisition Case

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 1

Appeal to Privy Council The Executive Council, F. & S. Association has decided in favour of appealing to the Privy Council in the…

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Wool and Money

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 4

The strength or otherwise of the wool market is chiefly a reflection of the activity in the world's mills and the sales of…

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Market Reports London Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 5

Wool sales in Sydney last week were confined to one day, Monday, June 7, to allow buyers to attend the final series of sales…

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More Wool Wanted Contrasts In Prices

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 5

The great need of the wool industry is greater production. The world's present clip of merino is inadequate for existing…

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North Coast Maize Crop Threatened

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 1

An official of the State Agricultural Dept. said last night that the floodwaters might destroy 40,00 acres of ripening maize…

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For The Man on The Land When Will Wool and Sheep Values Fall?

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 4

With the close of the New South Wales wool selling season in Sydney, sheepmen can look back on a period of rising values far beyond the expectations of the most optimistic among them…

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Drenching Sheep Precautions Necessary When Using Carbon Tetrachloride

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 3

"Can you give me some information on carbon tetrachloride as a drench for sheep? I have heard of some mortalities…

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Wool Report the Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited. 8th June, 1948

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 4

We submitted a Catalogue of 5,721 bales on Monday, 7th inst., the selection including a number of Autumn shorn clips from the far…

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Wool Appraisements. Winchcombe Carson Ltd. [?] on Wednesday:—

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 4

"We hold 4300 bales of wool at our final Sydney sale of the season on Tuesday, The market generally ruled firm, with good competition from Continent…

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Farmers & Settlers' Association Annual Meeting of Murrumbidgee District Council

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Murrumbidgee District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in the Criterion Hall on Wednesday…

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The Law and Noxious Weeds a Publication Necessary to Every Farmers

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 3

It is common fallacy among newcomers to gardening that there is some quick and unlaborious method of getting rid of…

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New Poultry Officer for Wagga Farm

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Two new livestock officers have been appointed to the poultry branch of the Department of…

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Govt. Farm Employee's Retirement

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 2

Mr. W. Brentnall, an employee of the Wagga Experiment Farm, retired yesterday after 35 years' service with the IAN JOHNSON'S FAMILY: Baby Rob (right), who was injured in a fall this week, photographed recently at the Johnson home in Middle Park (V.) with Mrs. Johnson and elder son Bill…

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World's Need of Wool

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 3

AMSTERDAM, Fri. (A.A.P.): The world still greatly needed wool, and the industry had a good future, the president of the…

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"Remarkable" Wool Season Nears End

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: The wool season now drawing to its close was the most remarkable in wool history, the president (Mr…

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