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Farming & the land, 1949

2,211 stories in Riverina's papers · page 78 of 111

Junior Farmers' Scholarships

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 4

Entries for the 1949 junior farmers' scholarship competition close on 30th September. For a boy the scholarship will be tenable for three years…

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Junior Farmers' Scholarship

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 6

Entries for the 1949 Junior Farmers' competition close on September 30, 1949. The competition, which is being sponsored by the Rural Bank…

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Junior Farmers Scholarship Competition

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 6

Entries for the 1949 Junior Farmers' Competition close on 30th September, 1949. The competition, which is being…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Under good Continental and British competition, supported to some extent by Australian mills, wool…

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Wheat Sacks Allocated To N.S.W.

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) told Mr. Renshaw (Lab., Castlereagh) in the Legislative…

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Wool Not on Previous Peak Widespread Demand

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson. Ltd. report: The well distributed demand experienced for wool since sterling and other currencies…

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Training Trees For Shade and Shelter At Cowra Experiment Farm

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 4

Many native and planted trees at the Agricultural Department's Cowra Experiment Farm are trained by judicious pruning and…

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Calving Time on the Farm Some Woorthwhile Hints

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 4

Keep cows approaching calving in some fairly small, quiet, well-grassed paddock close to the bails…

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Single Farm Blocks For, Ex-servicemen Many Applications Rejected

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 4

Only, one applicant in forty was getting a block of land under the single-farm settlement scheme for ex-servicemen, and invariably it…

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Silos Ready for New Wheat

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 September 1949 · page 1

STONEY, Thursday—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said he expected all wheat silos to be empty by the…

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Wool Not on Previous Peak, But Widespread Demand

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 September 1949 · page 4

The well distributed demand experienced for wool since sterling and other currencies were devalued has given a fillip to wool values, but has not carried them to the peak levels recorded in September, 1948 and December-February 1949…

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Junior Farmers

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 29 September 1949 · page 2

Entries for the 1949 Junior Farmers' competition close on 30th September, 1949. The competition which is…

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Special Store Sheep and Cattle Sale

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Limited, Forbes, report having held a special store sheep and cattle sale at Forbes on Thursday, 22nd…

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Optimism on Pastoral Outlook

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday: The chairman of directors of Winchcombe Carson Ltd. (Mr. Harold Bell) said today that he viewed…

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Missed Sheep; Sliced Finger

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 2

Mr. A. Tongs, of Almond Road, was not sure whether he was slaughtering a sheep or himself, last Tuesday; when his knife slipped and severely…

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Are Wheat Lands Failing? Value of Crop Competitions

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 3

A question which must agitate the minds of all interested in wheatgrowing is what is to happen to wheat land in the future? Can…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 1

The Melbourne woolbrokers report that at the first series of sales for the [?] season held from 12th to 13th September, the average price…

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May Oppose Butter, Petrol Price Rises

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

MELBOURNE, Friday.—It is unlikely that the inter-State conference of Prices Ministers in Adelaide today will agree to…

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Wheat Trials Inspected at Uranquinty

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 4

Mr. George Nicholson, a cereal expert, on Wednesday inspected he wheat trials at Mr. J. H. Rodham's farm at Uranquinty…

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