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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

2,503 stories in Riverina's papers · page 33 of 126

Sheep Die Two Days After Blow Fly Strike

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 7

District graziers are expressing the greatest possible concern regarding the blow-fly strike which bas appeased in the flocks of this…

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Country Producers Selling Company. Moderate Supply of Useful Sheep

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 3

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. reports the following sales at Homebush market on 30th. of last month:…

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Bale of Wool Fell on Man’s Neck

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 1

A bale of wool fell on a man’s neck at Farmers and Graziers’, Goulburn last week. The man, Leslie Goodchild, of…

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World's Sheep Tally Drops in Two Years. Australia One Country Where Population Up

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 6

The latest available figures show that the world pastured 634,000000 sheep, or 59,000,000 less than in 1958-39. report Messrs…

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District Sheep Fl Ck R V G Outbreak of Fly Strike Causing Great Loss

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 2

AN OUTBREAK of fly-strike unprecedented in its intensity, is attacking sheep, particularly the heavily wooled merino flocks in the South-west of the State, causing hundreds of thousands of pounds damage in both loss of next season’s wool clip and mortality in sheep…

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Junior Farmers Supervisors Large Areas to Be Investigated

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 1

Following a question in the Legislative Assembly by the Leader of the Country Party (Lt.-Col. Bruxner), the Minister…

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Local Items Irrigation Farm Sold

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 2

Mr. T. E. Wright, property agent, Leeton, reports the sale by public auction of Farm No. 1144, Merungle Hill, on account of Mr…

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Farmers Still Can’t Get Plant Position Worse Than War Years

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 6

The supply of farm machinery and spare parts is now worse than during the war peiod and soon farmers will be unable [?]o carry on…

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Butter Stabilisation

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 3

It has been said that the future of the dairying industry is secure and that returns are guaranteed until 1952. That is a gross…

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Leeton Sheep Sale

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 1
Also in The Murrumbidgee Irrigator

The market at Leeton conducted by the Associated Agents was buoyant on Monday, 27th March, when 5000 fat and store sheep were…

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2600 Sheep Drowned Near Jerilderie

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 1

Two thousand six hundred sheep belonging to Mr. J. Steele, of Coleambolly, near Jerilderle, perished in swirling flood waters…

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Local and General Local Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. report that recent wool sales included:…

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Sheep Flocks Ravaged Outbreak Of Fly Strike Causing Great Loss

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 2

An outbreak of fly-strike, unprecedented in its intensity, is attacking sheep, particularly the heavy wooled merino flocks of the…

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Colleambally Station Loses 3058 Sheep Steele Bros.' Big Loss in Yanko Creek Flood

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 2

Word was received at the "Argus" office yesterday that Messrs. J. G. and F. P. Steele, of Colleambally station between Narrandera and…

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Good Farmers Will Get Free New Zealand Tour

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 2

A free educational tour of New Zealand will be provided for two N.S. Wales farmers who prove their capacity to grow and store feed in good…

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Crop Report South Eastern Riverina

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 3

Mr. G. C. Bartlett District Agronomist, Albury, reports: on March 31: The past two months have been…

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The Rock Crop Competition the Urgency of Bulkhead Handling

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 4

Deputising for the President of the Farmers and Settlers Association (Mr. W. R. Scilley), executive members of the Association…

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Tuberculosis In Dairy Herds Compensation Fund Proposals

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly Mr. W. Frith (C.P., Lismore) asked the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) what progress had been made…

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Dairying Industry Assistance Act

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 2

The Chairman of the Australian Dairy Produce Board, Mr. G. C. Howey, has frequently claimed that the Commonwealth…

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