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Farming & the land, 1953

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Sheep Expert Dies

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 2

Mr. J. M. Coleman, Principal Livestock Officer in the Sheep and Wool Section of the Department of Agriculture, died of a…

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Sydney wool sales

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 3
Also in Cootamundra Herald

SYDNEY, Monday: The market showed a hardening tendency when the thirteenth series of wool sales opened in…

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Extended Farm And Fodder Competitions

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 3

The Royal Agricultural Society is sponsoring State-wide Farm Fodder competitions this year, and £400 prize money and liberal…

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Junior Farmers' News

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 8

The Graziers' Association of N.S.W. has decided to make available to the Junior Farmers Clubs' Council of N.S.W. the sum…

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Few horses on farms now

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: The mechanisation of agriculture by the replacement of the horse by the tractor in the last generation has been spectacular, the Minister for External…

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Ministers' Talks on Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday: State Ministers for Agriculture will confer with the Federal Minister for Commerce…

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Warning to Wool Industry

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday—A warning that the wool industry must increase its efficiency if it is to meet the threat of…

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Ganmain Sheep Sale

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 8

Messrs. Mellor & Murphy report having held their sheep sale at Ganmain on Saturday last, when they yarded 5,500 fat sheep and jambs…

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The Week in Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 8

As the wool-selling season fades into its last quarter, with the bulk of the best wools almost cleared, demand for superfine spinners' wools…

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Tumbarumba Show Awards Cattle Polled Herefords

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 6

Bull, 1 year and under 2: H. Fredricks: bull, under 11 months H. Fredricks; cow, 2 years and over: H. Fredricks 1 and cham-…

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Firm Sydney Wool Market

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—The market ruled fully firm at Tuesday's rates at the Sydney wool sales yesterday…

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Advances Urged on Stored Wheat

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 3

The N.S.W. Graziers' Conference last week decided to ask the Australian Wheat Board to make advance payments for wheat in…

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New wheat plan is unlikely

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Sir John Teasdale said tonight he thought it unlikely there would be a new…

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Solid Demand for Store Sheep at Forbes

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., Forbes, report having conducted their monthly special store sheep sale at Forbes on…

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Wool Prices Against London Buyers

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 2

LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): Prices for all descriptions, moved against the buyer at the first day of the March…

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Today's Homebush Market Prime Sheep and Lambs Firm

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co., Ltd. report that there were 13,714 sheep and 11,546…

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Serious Doubts on New Wheat Plan: Washington Hold-up

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday: Serious doubt was still felt that talks now proceeding in Washington would produce a new International Wheat Agreement, the Minister for Commerce (Mr. McEwen) indicated in the House of Representatives today…

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Aircraft Brings City Businessmen To Inspect Gundagai’s Farming Industries

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 1

An aircraft specially chartered by the Batlow Packing House Co. brought 24 Sydney wholesale grocers to the South this…

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International Wheat Agreement

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 4

The International Wheat Agreement negotiations in Washington, U.S.A., have broken…

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