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Farming & the land, 1953

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Leeton Cattle Sale

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 2 January 1953 · page 5

New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. report having yarded and sold 77 Fat and…

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Phenomenal Wheat Yield

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The wheat harvest in N.S.W. this season was beyond all expectations, and was described as "phenomenal" by a Wheat Board official…

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Wheat Payment No. 15 POOL

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 2 January 1953 · page 1

A payment of 1/6 per bushel bulk, and 1/9 bagged is to be made on No. 15 Pool—1951-52, on February 15 next…

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Plastic battle dress may [?]ffect wool

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 3

TOKYO, Sunday (A.A.P.): Nine hundred American and United Nations servicemen in Korea are experimenting with…

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290,000 Cattle a Year Fatten on 175 Acres

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 1

A visit to an Arizona (U.S.A.) stock yard with 35,000 hand-fed [?]eeves fattening with a gain of 2½ld per day on an area of 175 acres, was…

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Million Cattle Lost in North

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday: The full impact of the two-year drought now breaking in the Northern Territory would…

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Work of wool body praised

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: Mr. W. Ward, former president of the British Wool Federation, reached Sydney by air today from London on a visit to Australia and New Zealand…

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Wool Market Strength Supply Position

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., reported on 30th December: The confident tone of the closing wool auctions for the first…

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N.S.W. Wheat Harvest Forecast of 44½ Million Bushels

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 6

A final review of the wheat crop position in New South Wales indicates a yield of 44½ million bushels of grain and…

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Drop in U.S. farm exports

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Monday (A.A.P.): The Agriculture Department yesterday reported a 25 per cent drop in…

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Wild Ducks in California Present Serious Threat to American Rice Crop

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 4

The following article is an extract from the American Rice Journal, dated November, 1952:-…

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Wagga Agricultural College Appointment of Mr. J. M. Ballantyne as Supervisor, Farm Operations

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 2

Mr. J. M. Ballantyne, District Agronomist, Wagga, has been appointed as Supervisor, Farm Operations, Wagga Agricultural…

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Rain Did Not Harm Wheat Crop

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: No damage was done to the wheat crop by yesterday's rain, but it caused a two-day…

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1952 And Wool

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 9

After eight months of strong healthy stability, wool meets the close of the first half of the 1952-53 selling season on a…

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Distribution of wool profits

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Federal Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Commerce (Mr. Swartz) said…

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Attractive Spring Suit in Lightweight Wool

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 5

A Carven two-piece in minute Shepherd’s plaid wool. The pouched cut of the sleeves is emphasized with a circular shoulder yoke treatment mounting to a high pique-covered collar. THE WEDDING took place at…

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Big Drop in Wool Sales to America

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday: Figures for the shipments of wool from Australia during the five months ended,…

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Cowra Farmer’s Arm Amputated Torn By Rollers Of Pick-Up Baler

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 10

Landale Walked Dun, 44, of “Bonny Braes” Wattamondara, had his arm amputated following an…

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Bright Wool Outlook Good Supplies Essential

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd, report: The welfare of the pastoral industry chiefly depends upon two factors. Seasonal conditions…

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N.s.w. Can Wipe Out T.b. in Cattle

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 4

Few better New Year resolutions have been made than that of the Department of Agriculture to wipe out tuberculosis from all dairy herds' in New South Wales. It cannot be done in one…

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