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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

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District Wool Prices Excellent Realisations at Albury Merino Fleece to 78d

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 3

The Farmers and Graziers Co[?] Ltd., Albury report underdate 28th January last:— The 1948.9 wool selling season…

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For the Man on the Land Stabilising Wheat on a World Basis

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 4

Long before the world food shortage has been overcome, wheatgrowers will have to put on their thinking caps. The world is really a very selfish place, and by…

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Big Peach Crop Expected Programme of Thinning

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 1

MR. Bruce French, Fruit Research Officer of the Department of Agriculture at Leeton, stated on Wednesday, that It is…

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Desert Turned Into Farmland

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 3

A RUSH of applicants for land in the 90-mile Desert of South Australia has resulted from the successful soil experiments…

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277 Sheep Disappear From Gregadoo

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 2

Wagga detectives are investigating the disappearance of 277 Corrledale ewes from Gregadoo. The sheep are branded bar…

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Russia and World Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday. Russia gained a direct say in the wheat price negotiations today when she was elected to the…

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Sheep Could Swim

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 4

At Broadmarsh, near Hobart, is a sheep which has become a champion swimmer. Dogs chased it into the River…

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Pass the Wool Please!

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 3

To-day I ate wool—crystallised wool called Botanein-P and made in American laboratories, cables a wool reporter from Bradford…

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Wheat Cheque £30 Millions Less

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday — Commonwealth Government official believe that Australia's wheat cheque will be about £30 million…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 2

The country Producers obtained for A. W. Donaldson, Temora, AAA. 75d; J. A. and H. J. Bushell, Combaning, AAAE, 761d; W. T…

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Sheep Dog's Long Trek

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 3

Mr. P. H. Lowther, butcher of Coonamble, went to Tumut before Christmas on a holiday visit to relatives. He took with him a sheep…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 2
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Under keenly sustained competition from all sections of the trade, the market at Sydney wool sales yesterday was fully…

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Yesterday's Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd. wired us today: We sold 10,600 bales of wool at our Sydney auction yesterday. Competition was…

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Wheat Stabilisation in Danger?

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 2

Until finality is reached in the deliberations of the international wheat conference, which is now in session in Washington, and until the final terms of the proposed international wheat agreement can be examined,…

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Australia Names Wheat Price

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 5

Australia, this week, named her price for wheat for the next few years at 10/ a bushel, which is the same as last year…

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High Wimmera Wheat Yields

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 5

Phenomenal yields were recorded in the Wimmera (Vic.) wheat championship, when the first, second and third crops all yielded over 60…

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More New Zealand Sheep for Lockhart Stud

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 4

It will be remembered that after gaining first and champion awards at the last Lockhart Show, Mr. E. E. Heckendorf's top Romney Marsh…

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U.s. Demands for Our Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 2

Mr. R. A. Ellen, Australian Trade Commissioner in New York, has reported that during 1947-49 the demand in U.S…

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New Wheat Pact Condemned at Henty Meeting

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 3

"If this international wheat agreement—which was conceived in secret by the gentlemen of commerce who devised the stabilisation scheme that was, allegedly, to solve the problems of the wheat industry…

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