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Farming & the land, 1949

2,211 stories in Riverina's papers · page 6 of 111

WOOL 1948 AND 1949 Prices and Stocks

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd. report that wool values show good prospects of continuing on attractive levels this season. Prices…

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Current Wheat Returns Exceed Those for Ten Years

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 6

Although there is still a considerable amount of wheat to be delivered to sidings throughout the Riverina, already 3,619,945 bags…

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Dairy Costs to Be Reviewed

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 2

A further review of the coat at producing butter and cheese will take place this year, the general president of the Primary…

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Desert Turned Into Farmland

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 2

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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Farmyard Manure on Lawns ?

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 2

Farmyard manure should be used with discretion where lawns are concerned, warns the Division of Plant industry of the…

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Mystery in Tarcutta Dairy

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday: Mysterious happenings on the dairy farm of Laurie Wilkinson, about 11 miles from Tarcutta on the…

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Wool 1948 and 1949

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 2

Wool values show good prospects of continuing on attractive levels this season. Prices for Bradford tops give a sound…

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Japanese Cause of Wool Price Increase

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Local woolbrokers are of the opinion that buyers operating on behalf of Japanese interests…

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The Strike and the Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 2

Wool sales to begin in Sydney on Monday may be postponed because of a threatened strike over pay for causal workers in…

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£100,000,000 Wheat Cheque for Australia

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday: Australia's cheque for the 1948-49 wheat harvest amounted to over £100,000,000. Mr Pollard…

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Illabo Wheat May Have Been Record Excellent Sample of 68lb Could Take Australian Honors

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 7

Information is being sought from the Dept. of Agriculture to ascertain whether Messrs Truelove Bros. of Illabo have established…

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"British Farm Mechanisation"

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

Members of the P.A.H. Society decided at the committee meeting last Saturday night to secure free specimen copies of…

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Ardlethan Sheep Sale

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 2

A report of the sale held at Ardlethan on Monday of this week is to hand from J. Kennedy and Co. Pty. Ltd., who advise having had a…

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Wheat Clearance Delays

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 4

The delay in clearing trucks at the Newcastle elevators has resulted in the loss, in one week. If 1000 bulk wheat trucks to the…

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Greasy Wool Record Price

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 1

A record average of 65.7M per lb. was paid for greasy wool auctioned in Australia in December…

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Huge Wheat Cheque for Aust

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 1

Australia's cheque for the 1948- 49 wheat harvest amounted to over £100,000,000, Mr. Pollard announced…

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Confidence in World Wheat Prices Reassuring

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 4

Recent sales of wheat on the international market indicate a degree of confidnece in prices that is reassuring and would seem to justify the maintenance of Australia's quotation at 15/6 per bushel for…

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Bright Wool Outlook Consumption Exceeding Production

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 2

The outlook for the second half of the Australian wool selling season is promising. Great Britain and the Continent have purchased…

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Record Price Obtained for Greasy Wool

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: A record average of 5S.76d per lb. was paid for greasy wool sold at auction in Australia in December. The previous record was 51.17d in November…

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Illabo Wheat Just Misses Record Few Statistics Available to Department

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 7

The highest bushel weight for wheat recorded by the Department of Agriculture is 69 12 1bs for a sample of Boomey grown at…

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