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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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Americans Wait for Wool Prices to Fall in Aust

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.): American buyers have withdrawn to the sidelines at the wool auctions in Australia this week…

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For the Man on the Land Wheat Grading Must Replace F.A.Q. SYSTEM

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 4

Now that farmers are beginning to appreciate the failure of the F.A.Q. system to advance their interests on the commercial side of wheatgrowing, the stage seems to be set for the introduction of grading as…

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M.i.a. Agricultural Extension Notes Drainage Tests Helped These Farmers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 1

THE fate of the M.I.A. as a primary production centre has been, and still Is, bound up with the problem of irrigation. It was not such a big problem for most of the farmers who first settled the Area about 30 years age. but lack of knowledge, and, in some cases, lack of care, led to…

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Wool Market Firm at Opening Sales

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 1

“Suitable lines compared favorably with the closing rates in June at the Sydney wool sales on Monday” state Winchcombe…

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Dairy Products Agreement

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday: The Dairy Produce Board will meet tomorrow to discuss the new agreement on dairy produce…

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The Wool Outlook Sheep, Lambs And Food

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 4

Unless rates of exchange alter, no reason is in sight which prompts the anticipation of any extraordinary change in wool prices in the…

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Wool Market Firm

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday Broad quality wools are now selling at about 5 per cent below the opening rates of last week…

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Australian Butter And Cheese Higher In London

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 6

Increased prices of 30/- per cwt. for butter and 15/- for cheese will be paid by the British Ministry for Food under the new arrangement with the…

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Wool Prices Likely to Hold

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 3

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Unless rates of exchange alter, no reason is in sight which, prompts the anticipation of any extraordinary…

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Wool Held by Joint Organisation

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 4

Mr. J. Y. Murphy, chairman of the Australian Wool Realisation Commission, on Thursday issued a summary of stocks of Dominion wools held by…

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3,000,000 Increase in Number of N.s.w. Sheep

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: The number of sheep in New South Wales was 3,000,000 higher on March 31, 1948, than on March, 31, 1947, but 10,000,000 below the total at March 31, 1944…

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MR. A. N. Fuller in Parliament How Farmers Can Secure Tractors

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 6

In the House of Representatives recently Mr. A. N. Fuller asked the following question:—Having regard to the fact that the…

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Junior Farmers

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1948 · page 2

The figure of 19,421 which was given in a recent report as the membership of the Junior Farmers' Clubs is the total of those…

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Wool Report

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 16

We submitted a catalogue of 10,-255 bales on Wednesday, 1st September, comprising a representative offering including many well known…

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Goulburn Sheep Skin Sale

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 3

Farmers and Graziers conducted their monthly sheep skin sale at Goulburn an Tuesday last when a very attractive catalogue…

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Wheat Scheme Ballot Papers Out Next Week

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 4
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SYDNEY, Thursday—Ballot pipers on the proposed stabilisation on the wheat industry would of the wheat industry would be posted to…

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Cun[?]dagai Bred World's Champion Butter Producing Cow—melba[?]

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 9

The famous Milking Shorthorn cow, Melba XV, of Darbalara, (4188). By Kitchener, of Darb[?] lara, ex Melba VII, this famous…

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3,000,000 Increase in Number of Sheep in N.s.w

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 2

The number of sheep in NSW was 3,000,000 higher on March 31, 1948, than on March 31, 1947, but 10,000,000 below the…

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Doings with the Man on the Land Worms in Sheep Importance of Good Management

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 16

In addition to regular drenching control of worms in sheep depends upon maintaining general health of the animals and upon management…

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