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Farming & the land, 1951

2,466 stories in Riverina's papers · page 36 of 124

District Sheep

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 1

At Homebush on Thursday, W. D. Miller, Mount Horeb secured 53 wethers £5/19/1, and 68 shorn exbred suckers…

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Ignorance of Sheep Breeders Is Amazing

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 2

“After 18 years in the West I am amazed at. the elementary points overlooked by sheep breeders” said…

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Canada to Increase Wool Flocks

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 4

High prices for raw wool and the urgent need for increased production for domestic requirement have awakened in…

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Wool Levy Ends on June 30

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 4

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. J. McEwen, has announced that the 7[?] per cent, levy on wool would cease after June 30…

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New Wheat Variety Bred by Department of Agriculture

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 4

"Festival, a new rustresistant wheat variety, bred by the Department of Agriculture, lias been accepted for registration," stated…

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Sydney Wool Sales Top Price Realised 231½d

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 4

Wool sales continued under good competition in Sydney on Thursday last, when a five-bale lot from T. A. Field Estates, Congi Station,…

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Pleuro Pneumonia Outbreak in Victoria In Cattle From N.S.W.

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 2

“There has been an outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia in Victoria following introduction of three mobs of cattle from the…

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Position of Wool Futures Sorted Out. Economic Position Is of Benefit to Industry

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 7

The American wool position has partly clarified as a result of the resumption of trading on the New York Futures market, says Messrs…

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Sown Pastures Astonish Farmers in Effective Control of Skeleton Weed at Experiment Plots

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 30 April 1951 · page 3

A number of farmers expressed astonishment at the degree of control of skeleton weed achieved at the Cowra Experiment when they inspected the trial recently before it received its final cultivation…

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Market Firm Sydney Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—The market at the Sydney wool sales yesterday was firm, compared with last thursday's rates, for…

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Decreased Wool Supplies Future Markets

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 3

Winchcomb. Carson Ltd., Sydney, report. The wool market, although lower than at peak levels, has steadied for all well-grown…

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America and Wool the Supply Position

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd report: At a period when demand for wool became somewhat' unsettled because of the…

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M.I.A. Agricultural Extension Notes Bid to Improve M.I.A. Rice Crops New Scheme Ready for Farmers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 2

A bid is to be made to improve M.I.A. rice yields—already among the heaviest per acre in the world—by means of pure rice seed scheme inaugurated by N.S.W. Department of Agriculture…

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Newcastle Wool Sale

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 May 1951 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday: The market was firm on Sydney rates for better class wools, but some other types were irregular…

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Canada to Increase Wool Flocks

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 2 May 1951 · page 2

High prices for raw wool and the urgent need for increased production for domestic requirements have awakened in Canada…

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Bought Four Houses at Junee Sales Confidence in District of Retired Coolamon Farmer

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 2 May 1951 · page 8

Mr. E. Mohr, a retired landholder from Coolamon, who has come to Junee to live, has dominated recent property sales in tills town…

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Wool Report

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 3 May 1951 · page 3

We submitted our catalogue of 60[?]1 bales on Tuesday, 24th instant. The offerings included a number of late shorn clips…

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Homebush Market Lambs Firm-sheep Cheaper

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 3 May 1951 · page 4

Dalgety's News Service reports that at the Homebush sales on Monday 27,461 sheep and lambs were yarded, being fair quality. Prime…

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America and Wool The Supply Position

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 3 May 1951 · page 7

At a period when demand for wool became somewhat unsettled because of the withdrawal of a large…

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Expert Warns of Wool Output Lag

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 3 May 1951 · page 2

Synthetic wool would fill the gap between supply and demand unions woolgrowers in all countries increased production, Reginald Lund said in…

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