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Farming & the land, 1951

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Butter Obtainable Easily at Albury

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 2

Butter is short af Cootamundra, but not at Albury. Junee railwaymen travelling to Albury in the course of their…

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Butter 'Hoard' to Ensure Supply—finnan

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: Investigations by Prices Branch officials into the "hoard" of butter in a Pyrmont cold storage plant…

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Wool Basically Sound Confidence Needed

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd. report that, although prices for wool at [?] auctions were higher than those ruling at…

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Sydney Faces Meat Famine Sheep Not Reaching Markets

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—There is every indication that Sydney will be faced wth a meat shortage next week…

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Chairman of Wool Board Outspoken on Textile Labels

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 3

Accusing the Commonwealth Government of having made a complete volte-face on textile labelling, Mr. Douglas T. Boyd, Chairman of the Australian Wool Board, stated that at the request of…

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Lucerne in the Wheat Rotation Successes With Sown Pasture

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 3

As lucerne is becoming more popular with the wheat farmer for use in the wheat rotation a trial in the wheat rotation, a trial was commenced in 1947…

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Lockhart Meeting Rejects Wool Plan Emphatically Fear of Government Control

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 1

Mr. T. L. Bull, of Narrandera, on Friday afternoon at Lockhart, addressed a representative meeting of woolgrowers from the Lockhart, Urana and French Park districts, and was listened to with earnest attention in his appeal for a "No" vote…

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Alarming Decline in Dairying

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 2

The many problems of the housewife have recently been aggravated by a scarcity of butter which the experts advise is…

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Fat Lambs and Pastures Course to be held at Yanco Experiment Farm

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 1

Final arrangements for a short course in sheep and pastures at Yanco Farm have now been made said the Manager of Yanco…

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Early Crop of Potatoes Work to be put in hand

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 4

"Potato growers contemplating planting an early spring crop should make arrangements immediately for their seed." advises Mr. A. C. Orman,…

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Wheat in Superphosphate Bags Farmers Worried

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 4

Despite the assurances of the Department of Agriculture, the Cowra District Council of the F. and S. Association, is…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The final series of Melbourne wool sales for the 1950-51 season concluded today, with values steady…

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Stored Butter to be Placed on Market

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday: A total of 71,000 cases of butter now held in cold-storage in Sydney would be fed out regularly on to…

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Advance on No. 13 Wheat Pool

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 1
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The chairman of the Wheat Board (Sir John Teasdale) announced yesterday that…

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£500 Fines on Former Wheat Agent

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Fines totalling £500 were imposed on a former Wheat Board agent. Arthur John King, 45, laborer,…

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One-third Drop in Wheat Acreage

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The New South Wales acreage under wheat in 1950-51 dropped 33 per cent below the 1947-48 acreage,…

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Local Items Pullitop Red Cross Wool Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 2

The final total raised in the Pullitop Red Cross wool appeal is £141/19/9, states the hon. treasurer (Mr. I. S. Peacock)…

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Bulk Wheat Storage Programme Announged by Mr. Graham

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 3

The greatest single programme of bulk wheat storage construction ever undertaken in this State was announced by the…

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No Substitute for Wool. Synthetics Fail to Reach Standard

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 3

Although prices for wool at Jung auctions were higher than those ruling at closing sales a year ago, the market did not…

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