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Farming & the land, 1952

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Sheep Drenching Mortalities Some Precautions

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 2

The heavy, sheep mortalities sometimes sustained by graziers after drenching their flecks with carbon…

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Cheaper wool in Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.: Best wools were again relatively cheaper at Sydney wool sales today, when…

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Narrandera Monthly Market Sheep Averaged 62/1

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Narrandera, report having yarded 2500 store sheep and 60 head of fat and store cattle…

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This Week’s Wool Market

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 1

Best wools were again relatively cheaper at the Sydney sales yesterday, when quotations for fine quality and…

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Sound Wool Position Reasonable Confidence Justified

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 1

The wool trade faces 1952 with the raw material soundly situated in regard to supply and demand. No…

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U.s. Wool Prices to Be Cut

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Wednesday (A.A.P.): The United States has ordered the celling prices of wool reduced by 20 per…

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Graham's Plan to Lift Wheat Production Reduced taxation and more machinery, parts

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday. The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) today advocated reduced taxation to encourage greater wheat production and primary production…

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Linseed Award Goes to Gogeldrie Farmer

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 2
Also in Daily Advertiser

W. Hinton, of Gogeldrie, won the Royal Agricultural Society's award for the 1951 championship linseed crop-growing competition of…

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Greater Output of Margarine “Poor Compliment To Pioneers of Dairying”

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 3

The decision of the State Government to increase the quota of table margarine manufactured in NSW for…

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Pea Vine Residue Excellent Cattte Fodder Tumut Farmer’s Large Pit Silos

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 3

“PEA VINE RESIDUE — ONCE A USELESS LEFTOVER WHEN PEAS HAD BEEN CANNED OR QUICK FROZEN—IS NOW BEING PUT TO USE AS A VALUABLE AND HIGHLY - SUCCULENT SILAGE FOR CATTLE”, SAID F. NICHOLSON DISTRICT AGRONOMIST OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, IN TUMUT…

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Sheep Increase, Wheat Falls in Acreage

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 2

Sheep in NSW had increased by 8,000,000 in the last three years. The president of the Rural Bank of NSW (Mr. C. R…

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Amazed at N.z. Fat Sheep, Cattle Stud-master Surprised at Area of Fertile Land

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 3

Hops are grown in the southern island of New Zealand, therefore the breweries are well catered for, but we do not like…

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No Butter Cuts Yet

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1
Also in Cootamundra Herald

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Spoken-men for two major butter distributing firms in Sydney said tonight they had not rationed…

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Periodical Sheep Classing Needed

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 6

However small the flock, sheep should be classed periodically to ensure maximum returns. Keep the following desirable characters…

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Bencubbin Most Popular Wheat Statistician Look Crops Over

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 7

Most popular variety of wheat grown in New South Wales during the year 1950- 51 was Bencubbin, according…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

SYDNEY, Friday—The market at the Sydney wool sales yesterday ruled firm compared with Wednesday for all average to…

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Local Wool Appraisements

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: We offered 12,900 bales of wool at auction privately at our Sydney sale on Tuesday. There…

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