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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

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Millet Crop Conditions Smaller Crop This Season

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 5

Due to excessively wet and unfavorable conditions during the winter and spring, and the recent flood rains experienced in the Hunter and…

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Record Price for District Farm

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 2

Mr. J. F. Gaynor, jnr., of Marrar, has purchased from Mr. E. Muller, of Marrar, the property “Oakleigh,” of 959 acres at Dullah. The price…

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Record Wool Price in London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 2

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.): A record price of 290½d stg.—362½d. Aust.—was paid for scoured Merinos at the opening…

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Dairy Officer's Report Time to Prepare Land for Sub. Glover Sowing

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 2

The Wagga District Dairy Officer (Mr. C. E. Chapman) in his report on conditions during January states that lucerne, and…

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Country Producers Selling Company Report on Sydney Sale of Sheep and Cattle

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 5

The Country Producers Selling Co. Ltd. reports the following sales at Homebush market on 1st February…

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Wool in Short Supply Cotton Similarly Situated

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 4

The wool market shows no sign of declining and its buoyancy is reflected in the prices for tops aboard…

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More World Record Prices At Goulburn Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 2
Also in The Gundagai Independent

The general upward trend of wool prices was again evident at the fifth series of Goulburn wool sales conducted by the…

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World Record Wool Price to Rev. Fr. C. P. Lehane

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 1

The owner of the crossbred wool which created the world record price of 269d at Goulburn last week was Rev…

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Bank Sponsors for Junior Farmers

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 1

A 10-day school of instruction for 60 selected junior farmers will be sponsored by the Bank of New South Wales at Hawkesbury or Wagga…

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Abscesses Cause Sheep Losses

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 4

An abscess condition, particularly of the legs and lower abdomen, has been responsible for the deaths of a number of lambs and…

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Machinery on Wheat Farms Survey of Operating Costs

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 3

When planning for developments in farm mehanisation, manufacturers, distributors, public authorities and farmers in the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 4
Also in Cootamundra Herald

SYDNEY, Monday: Values generally for all descriptions at the wool sales today when compared with the close of the…

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Burned Sheep Sent to Market; Men Charged

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday: Nearly 200 sheep, badly burned in a recent grass fire, arrived by road transport at the Newmarket…

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The Russian Wool Stock Pile

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 3

"Reports that the U.S.S.R. and other Cominform countries, have been stock-piling wool by purchases in the world's markets,…

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Local & General Geelong Wool Sales

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 4

Geelong Woolbrokers report that at wool sales held on January 16-17 the average price realised for greasy wool was 193.58…

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Gold Rush Days Surpassed by the Merino Sheep

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 2

The opulent gold-rush days on Ophir, Bendigo Ballarat and Coalgardie have paled into insignificance beside the…

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Wool Prices Fall

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 5

CAPETOWN, Tuesday: Prices at Durban's wool sales tell as much as five per cent yesterday. In East London prices were…

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Sydney Wool Market Firm at Lower Rates

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The market was firm at the lower rates ruling on the previous day for all descriptions at the wool sales…

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