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Farming & the land, 1952

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Gobarralong Cattle Breeder’s Success at Sydney Show

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 1

Mr J. H. Crowe, proprietor of the “Gobarralong” Hereford stud, achieved a great success at the Royal…

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Who Will Be the Outstanding Junior Farmer?

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 1

The Junior Farmer Movement is trying to find the outstanding Junior Farmer for 1952. This boy or girl will be…

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Gundagai Junior Farmer’s Steer Brings £145 Record Price For Organisation

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 1

A Commonwealth record price of £145 for a Junior Farmer’s steer was paid for “Wambanumba Doddie”, an…

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Urgent Plea to Farmers

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 2

An urgent plea to the Australian farmer to be “sane and plan increased production which will help…

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The Dairying Slump Continues

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 2

Australian milk production in January was more than 30,000,000 gallons lower than in January last year…

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Record Cattle Sale

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

At the Wagga City saleyards yesterday a State record was established when two trucks of Shorthorn bullocks, 31/2 years…

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Show Cattle Above Average Standards

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Despite recent droughts and bushfires, dairy cattle at the Royal Easter Show today were well above average standard. Sections of Jerseys, Ayrshires, Guernseys,…

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Gobarralong Cattle Breeder's Success at Sydney Show

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

Mr. J. H. Crowe, proprietor of the "Gobarralong" Hereford stud, achieved a great success at the Royal Agricultural Show in…

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Milk Plus Wheat for Growing Pigs

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 4

A ration including a small quantity of separated milk, and wheat grain, fed to growing pigs in an experiment at the…

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R.a.s. Show Cattle Sales Down on Last Year

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Market rates at the R.A.S. Show beef cattle sales today were lower than those of last year. The fall was more apparent in the Shorthorn section than…

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Coolac Junior Farmer's Steer Brings £145

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

A Commonwealth record price of £145 for a Junior Farmer's steer was paid for "Wambanumba Doddie," and Aberdeen…

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India Adopts New Cropping Plan

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 8

"In the two years since the Indian Government launched the 'Etawah Pilot Project' in the poverty-stricken Ganges Valley,…

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Outstanding Junior Farmer

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 4

The Junior Farmer Movement is trying to find the outstanding Junior Farmer for 1952. The selection will be made in…

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Farmers criticise Agricultural Department's policy in transferring Mr. W. R. Watkins Meeting Receives Report of Deputation to Minister

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 4

Local farmers again gathered in protest, last Tuesday night, against the transfer from the M.I.A. of Mr. W. R. Watkins, senior agronomist of the Department of Agriculture. The meeting was convened by Leeton…

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Show Dairy Cattle Prices Lower

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday — Prices for dairy cattle at the Royal Easter Show were 30 per cent. below last year's averages…

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Beef cattle prices at show decline

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Stud beef cattle rates at the R.A.S. Show sales today were not as high as last year. The decline in Poll Herefords and Devons today was not as apparent as in yesterday's offering of Shorthorns and Poll Shorthorns…

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Sale of farm at Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 4

Mr. T. E. Wright in conjunction with Mr. M. H. Kellahan, licensed stock and property agent of Leeton, report…

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Today's Homebush Market Sheep and Cattle Firm

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday — The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co., Ltd. reports that there were 7476 sheep and 6972 lambs…

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Wheat Stocks

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said recently it was not true as…

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Beef Cattle Champions at Sydney

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 1

This record class of 74 Hereford bulls, 15 months and under 18 months, was won by Mrs. J. Biddlecombe’s champion bull Golf Hill Gladstone (nearest the camera). This was one of the most striding displays in Sydney last week…

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