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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

2,466 stories in Riverina's papers · page 17 of 124

Fire! on Cowabbie Sheep and Wheat Destroyed

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 2

Cowabbie regarded as the greatest district fire danger centre, had the expected fire last Saturday, with a moderate westerly…

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Wagga Special Conjunctional Sheep Sale

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 3

Daigety & Company and Younghusband Limited, agents in conjunction, Wagga Wagga, report having held their usual monthly…

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Wheat Payment Pools 11 and 11A

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 2

Refunds of Wheat Stabilisation Fund on Pools 11 and 11A, are to be paid on 6th March, so the Federal Minister for Commerce…

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Reserve Wool Price Plan Referendum Compulsory

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday — Voting will be compulsory in the referendum of woolgrowers on the plan to establish a…

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Payment for Wheat on a Quality Basis

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 4

The wheat grading controversy has been reopened as an outcome of the recent fixing of the F.A.Q. in New South Wales. Certainly die fixing of a so-called fair average…

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World Record of 427d for Wool at Geelong

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday: A jump of 16d per lb in the world record price for any type of wool took place…

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Home Price for Wool? Alternative to deduction scheme

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 4

"Critics of the wool sales deduction scheme have failed to produce any acceptable alternative," says the Bulletin of the Federal…

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OVER £6 for Sheep in Junee Yards Catte Prices on the Declinng Market

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 5

The Junee Associated Agents (A.M.L. and F., Wagga, J. J. S. Glass and Co., Junee, A. S. Leahy and Co., Junee, and Younghusband…

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Only Odd Pens of Good Sheep in Yards C.P.S. Reports on the Sydney Markets

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 6

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd, reports the following sales at Homebush market on 19th,: Sheep: 7,259 sheep; 7,231 lambs…

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Farm and Fodder Competition, 1951

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 2

The Royal Agricultural Society has decided to conduct a Farm and Fodder Competition again this year, as a result of the…

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Tuberculosis Cows in Western District Dairy

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 2

Six dairy cows from a herd supplying a western district town with milk for human consumption were found recently to be…

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Bonus Paid for Linseed Crop

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 2

Since the publication in last Tuesday's issue of Mr. W. R. Watkin's report on this season's linseed crop, word has been received that despite…

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Junior Farmer State Champion Francis Smith, Of Wallendbeen

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 5

The 1950 Junior Farmer Sheep and Wool (Division 11) State Champion ship has been won by Francis Join Smith, aged 19 years, of "Glenroy"…

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Aust. Scientist's Discovery in Sheep-Breeding

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 February 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.): Twice-yearly breeding of sheep by injection was expected to become economically worthwhile…

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Demands Details of Proposed Wool Scheme

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 February 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Full details of the proposed Wool Stabilisation Plan should be made public immediately, so that growers might thoroughly examine it in all its implications before the vital referendum…

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Wheat Crop Lower

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 1

The Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics estimates that the 1950-51 Australian wheat harvest will total 183,445,000 bushels. This…

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Wagga Sheep Sale

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 6

Dalgety and Co. and Younghusband Ltd., agents in in conjuction junction, Wagga. report having held their monthly sheep…

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The Gundagai Hospital Auxiliary’ Wool Appeal

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 1

Further donations have been received for the Gundagai Hospital Auxiliary’s wool appeal, and the list now reads:…

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Wheat Variety Trials Tests in Colinroobie-Brobenah District

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 2

Mr. W. R. Watkins, District Agronomist, has forwarded the following report on the wheat variety trials conducted in the Brobenah…

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N.S.W. Bill Soon to Compensate Owners of T.B.-Infected Cattle

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.) said at the weekend he would introduce a Bill into the next session of Parliament for the payment of compensation to owners of cattle which die or are…

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