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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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Wool Report the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Co., Limited

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 3

We submitted a catalogue of 7566 bales on Wednesday, 21st December, the selection being largely of an attractive nature…

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Fall in British Wool Clip

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 1

The British wool clip has decreased by 33 per cent, since before the war. Mr. J. H. Shaw, a prominent…

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This Challenge of Today to Junior Farmers

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 4

The world today is tottering on the edge of a great precipice. Below are stretched the yawning jaws of starvation…

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Result of Junior Farmer Competition for Scholarships

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 7

Several Junior Farmers in New South Wales have been assisted in their education through scholarships provided by the Rural Bank…

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Farm Wages inn Asia

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Monday: II arm wages in Asia are to be improved, a rise in production is a fundamental necessity, according to an…

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Sheep and Wool Value of Colostrum

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 3

A lamb Which has already suckled freshly-lambed ewe is easier to fear as an orphan by hand (if necessary) than one…

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Weekly Wool Survey

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 3

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd. report: The keen demand experienced from all sections of the buying trade right through…

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More Wool Used Than Grown

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson write: Wool consumption per head of population has not varied to any marked degee compared with…

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Five-Year Dairy Plan Demonstrations on Farms in Wagga District

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham) yesterday released details of the progress made in the Wagga district under the New South Wales Government's five-year plan for the promotion of…

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Bumper Pig Crop in the U.s

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 2

More pigs were saved in the United states during the year just ended than in any of the five previous years, according to the…

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The Challange of Today to Junior Farmers of the Risk Junior Farmers Run

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 4

The Junior Farmers of today have been challenged. They, as the productive agriculturists of tomorrow, must light many…

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Wheat Carting Record

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 6

In the Forbes district a new wheat carting record has been established. A carrier. R. Rosser. brought in a load of 540 bags weighing 38…

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Australia May Lose Indian Wheat Market

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Commenting today on a cable report that India intends to stop all grain import by the…

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The Strong Wool Mill Activity Sustained

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 6

The first half of the current Wool season has proved the most successful selling period ever experienced. Up to the end of November…

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Farmer's Hands Blown Off

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday: A farmer had both his hands blown off today when a plug of gelignite exploded while he was…

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Easter Cattle Show

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 2

All dairy and beef cattle entries for the next Sydney Royal Show on April 1 to 12, must be in by February 13. The society…

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Leeton Cattle Sale

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 4

The last cattle sale for 1949 was held at Leeton on 22nd December, when W. J. Fulton, licensed auctioneer, yarded 150 fat and store…

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Leeton Sheep Sale

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 4

Five thousand sheen were yarded at Leeton on 20th December by W. J. Fulton and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company…

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Wool Report

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 3

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited report under date 22nd December, 1949:…

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Sheep Classing Is Important

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 3

Every breeder would be better off if he discarded all sheep of less than average standard in his flock—in many cases the increase in feed…

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