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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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Wheat Board Sells 20 to 30 Million Bushels Sold to Britain

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 1

Australia has come to terms with Britain for the sale of 20 to 30 million bushels of wheat and flour. The Australian Wheat Board has not yet disclosed the price, but the grain trade believes that it is about…

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Wants Inquiry Into Dying Skeleton Weed Serious Wheat Losses In Neighbouring Districts

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 6

A recent article in the "Southern Cross" and republished in the "Independent", referring to skeleton weed in the Junee district…

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Average Wool Prices Indicate Trend Main Season Concludes On a High Note

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 7

The main Sydney wool selling season has practically finished, after the most remarkable nine months selling period ever…

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Accurate Railway Wheat Estimates Only 1,800 Bags Out In 4,500,000 Calculation

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 6

Estimates of the amount of wheat to be transported by rail during and after the 1949-1950 harvest have proved to be…

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For The Man on the Land Is Flour Slump a Sign of Wheat Price Decline?

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 4

Nothing has better illustrated the decline in the world wheat situation than the slump in export flour. The position for Australia is serious. More so than for any of the other exporting countries because none…

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Dry land wheat trials Yields and behaviour of varieties under test in the Brobenah-Barellan district during the season 1949-50

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 4

In co-operation with the farmers, the Department of Agriculture conducted demonstrational trial plots of wheat varieties on three properties in…

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Farmers & Settlers' Association Corobimilla Branch

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 1

A meeting or the Corobimilla Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in the hall on Friday, 10th March. There were present Messrs. C. R…

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Warning to Irrigation Farmers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 2

With the height of the water in the Murrumbidgee River rising rapidly and likely to exceed all previous records, all farmers on the irrigation…

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Correction in Farm Price

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 1

We wish to direct attention to the advertisement appearing on Page 5 of this issue, re Good Small irrigation Farm For Sale. In our last issue…

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Sale of irrigation farm at Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 4

Mr. T E. Wright, licensed property agent, reports Having sold Mr. L. Tuckett's irrigation farm No. 893, Whitton, containing 54G acres, by…

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Rate of Sowing Lucerne "Don't Risk A Thin Crop

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 3

When sowing lucerne don't run the risk of a thin crop through parsimony in seeding or by using poor quality wed, warns the…

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Heavy Loss in Tobacco Crop. Wind and Rain Causes 10 per cent. Reduction

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 3

Field mould had developed rapidly during the last few weeks, and had already caused 10 per cent loss in tobacco crops in the…

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Junee Rail Officers and Flood Work Trains Stopped to Pick Up Dairy Produce

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 3

The Junee District Superintendent of Railways (Mr. J. J. O'Neill) and his outdoor assistant (Mr. A. Jones) have a personal…

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Multiple Bee Stings Well-known Farmer’s Close Call

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 2

On Wednesday last, Mr. G Furner, senr., collapsed and was in a critical condition as a result of multiple bee stings and severe…

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Big Increase in World Wool Production

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1950 · page 4

World wool production in 1949 was 3780 million lb., greasy according to an estimate by the U.S. Department of Agriculture…

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Nangus Wool Sold

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 27 March 1950 · page 4

On Monday 13th March, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd brought forward a cataloghe totalling 7472 bales…

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Rabbits on Sheep’s Back

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 27 March 1950 · page 4

It has been claimed that Australia rides on the sheep’s back, and when the Murumbidgee rose to flood height rabbits heeded this…

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Gundagai Graziers Worried As Flies Attack Sheep

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 27 March 1950 · page 4

The recent wet weather has brought with it a savage attack by blowflies on all sheep throughout the Gundagai district…

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Woolgrowers Snap Sheep From Adelaide Meat Market

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 March 1950 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sunday: Graziers who are snapping up sheep to cash in on the high wool values are paying "cattle prices" at the markets, and are responsible for the greatest sheep boom of the century…

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Damage Revealed As Flodd Waters Recede Stock Drowned, Crops Ruined, Fences Damaged Rose Brothers Lose 950 Sheep

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 27 March 1950 · page 1

AS THE FLOOD WATERS RECEDE THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE TORRENT WHICH SWEPT DOWN THE VALLEY BECOMES APPARENT. MANY CROPS HAVE BEEN RUINED, FENCING HAS BEEN SEVERELY DAMAGED, AND WHILST MOST…

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