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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Demand for Cheap Wool

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A surprising feature of this week's wool sales in Sydney has been the extent of the trend in demand for the lower quality wools…

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Federal Member Opposes Wheat Bill

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 3

Mr. Hugh S. Roberton, Member for Riverina, and member of the Country. Party, speaking on the Wheat Bounty Bill…

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HIGH U.S. Level of Crop Production However Wheat Is Now Below Avenge

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 6

Crop production levels in the United States fids year stand at one of the highest levels in history, according to…

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The Week in the Wool Market

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 2

The second half of the wool season, which opened this week in Sydney and Adelaide, revealed further evidence of stability…

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Sydney Wool Sales DALGETY & Co. Report

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 2

Best wools were again relatively cheapest at the Sydney wool sales on Wednesday when quotations for fine quality and carding…

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Sound Wool Position Reasonable Confidence Justified

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:--The wool trade faces 1952 with the raw material soundly situated in regard to supply and…

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Sheep Drenching Mortalities Some Precautions When Using Carbon Tetrachloride

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 3

The heavy sheep mortalities sometimes sustained by graziers after drenching their flocks with carbon tetrachloride against liver…

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Oats Can Partially Replace Wheat In Poultry Rations

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 6

"Oats are satisfactory as poultry teed even when fed in a high proportion as a substitute for wheat in both mash and grain…

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Saving Sheep for Sentimnet Ancient Breed First Grazed in Britain

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 2

Special efforts are being made on the Isle of Man to preserve the last of the Laghtana--an ancient bree…

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Drought Relief for Dairy Farmers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 2
Also in Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., to-day announced details of a Relief Scheme to…

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Confidence in Wool Oulook. But No Reason To Be Recklessly Cheerful

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1

The wool trade facet 1952 With the raw material soundly situated la regard to supply And demand, says a…

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For the Man on the Land How far will wheat rationing go in N.S.W.?

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 4

Wheat rationing has definitely started b New South Wales and will continue throughout the year. What we would all like to know it whether…

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Tax "takes all of some farm profits Graham's Claim

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Imposition of provisional income tax based on an imaginary income for a…

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Destruction of rice crops by wild duck

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1

Mr. E. C. Tweedie. general secretary of the Rice Growers Association of Australia, Leeton, writes:—This subject has become one of the utmost concern and a major one to almost every ricegrower throughout the Murrumbidgee and Wakool…

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Linseed Crop Growing Competition S. J. Hinton Winner on Irrigated Areas

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 2

The Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W. has announced the winners of the 1951 Championship Linseed Crop Growing Competition, which was open to growers throughout the State. The winners are:—…

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At 17, Wilma Is a Full-time Farmer

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 3

When Wilma Wohlers came home from Horsham High School on June 9, 1950, she found her father had had both lees broken when his horse bolted. Wilma refused to go back to…

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Today's Homebush Market Sheep and Cattle Down

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday—The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co., Ltd. report that there were 14,913 sheep, 6858 lambs and…

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Record Wheat Stocks on Farms

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 4

More wheat than ever before was being held on farms in New South Wales because of the serious drought position. The State superintendent of…

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Princess to Stay at Sheep Station

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 4

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will stay at the Cuppacumbalong homestead of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Snow, near Tharwa…

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