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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

2,211 stories in Riverina's papers · page 57 of 111

Beef Cattle Championship Junior Farmers Compete Gundagai Boy Wins

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 4

Roy Lindley, a 12 12 year old member of the Gundagai Junior Farmers Club, has won the beef cattle State Championship of the…

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A Wool Survey

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3

An announcement has been made that the Joint Organisation's floor price for the Australian clip in the coming season will be 7 12 per cent in…

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Wheat Exports From Sydney to Stop

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 2

Colonel G. A. H. Holborow said on Tuesday that bulk loading of wheal for export would end in Sydney this week. Colonel Holborow, New South…

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Country Producers Selling Co. Values for Sheep Under Previous Market

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 7

The Country Producers' Selling . Co. Ltd. reports the following sales at Homebush market on 11th. inst: Sheep: 12,120 sheep, 16,183…

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Foreign Matter in Wool Precautions Necessary When Baling

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 2

More or less regularly each year a General complaint is sent out from Bradford regarding the amount of foreign matter-principally jute…

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For the Man on the Land If the Wheat Growers Were Communists

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 4

If the wheatgrower were like the coal minor he could be sitting pretty today on top of a mountain of grain and refusing to sell a bushel of it at less than 40/…

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Farmers' Tax Guide Deductions for Improvements

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3

Farmers Who will soon have to complete Income Tax returns may be faced with the problem of deciding what farm…

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Hitch Over Visit of N.z. Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 2

Arrangements to entertain 20 New Zealand farmers at Wagga next Monday have been cancelled…

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Junior Farmers' Notes District Council Meeting

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 4

The last meeting of the Leeton District Council had quite a good attendance and dealt with a large number of items, that when…

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Junior Farmers Movement Leeton Club

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 2

During the week a good project inspected was that of Barry and Kerry Rumble. These two boys are combining their respective…

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New Farm Implements

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 6

Two new farm implements, a potato planter and fertiliser distributor, both costing well under £100 sterling, have recently been developed in the…

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Tractor and Implement School in Full Swing at Yanco Experiment Farm

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 6

When a representative of the "Irrigator" called at the Yanco Experiment Farm on Wednesday, some interesting…

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Government To Take Farmers' Land

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 5

Farmers and other landowners in Britain have become alarmed at the possible spread of socialism in Britain to land ownership…

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London Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.): Of the 24,622 bales offered, 23,254 were sold at the London wool sales yesterday…

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N.z. Farmers' Wagga Visit Now Definite

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 1

Despite advice which had been received to the contrary, it has now been learned that the party of New Zealand farmers will be…

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Pastoral Conditions Deteriorated

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Pastoral conditions had deteriorated practically throughout the whole, of N.S.W. in the last month,…

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CAMPBELL “King of Wheat Growers”

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 1

“A white haired American, Thos. D Campbell, of Montana, operates the biggest privately owned wheat farm on earth,” says Joseph Kinsey…

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Fifty Head of Cattle Poisoned Near Bowning

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 1

'Out of a mob of 287 head of cattle travelling Galong to Gunning, 50 have died, presum ably from eating poisoned weed on…

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N.Z. Farmers in Wagga Today

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 3

A party of 14 New Zealand farmers will arrive in Wagga late today. Six of the farmers ate accompanied by their wives…

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Careless Winter Dairying Methods Bring Bacterial Troubles in Spring

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 4

Temperature plays an important part of the occurrence of bacterial defects in milk and cream, points out the Division of Dairying of the…

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