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Farming & the land, 1953

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World Record Wool Price

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 1

GEELONG, Thursday: A world record price for greasy Merino lamb's wool was reached here today on the last…

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More Wool Consumed Prices Compared

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 4

Winchcombe. Carson Ltd. report: World wool consumption is practically keeping pace with production. Under thee conditions…

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Ophthalmia of Cattle (Pink-eye or Eye-blight)

The Gundagai Independent · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 2

Ophthalmia is prevalent among cattle this year and outbreaks have been investigated by officers of CSIRO’s…

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Big Wool Prices at Goulburn Sale

The Gundagai Independent · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 2

The sixth series of sales were commenced in Goulburn on Wednesday 25th instant, when Farmers and Graziers…

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Beef Cattle at Sydney Both Shorthorn Championships To Coonong

The Gundagai Independent · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 1

Shorthorns made a grand display at Sydney Royal Show on Friday, where the influence of recently imported sires from…

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Beef Cattle in Sydney Galloways Make Their Show Debut

The Gundagai Independent · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 4

There was widespread interest in the first showing of Galloway cattle in Australia. All the animals on parade were…

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The answer to synthetics is better wool

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 4

The only way to get at the facts behind the wool versus synthetics controversy is to go [?] search of them in the laboratories, factories and warehouses in America and the United Kingdom. Without the intimate…

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Wool and Its Price Firm Values Desirable

The Gundagai Independent · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 1

The greatest surprise of the current wool season has been the rapid clearance of accumulated stocks in…

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The Week In Wool Dalgety's News Service

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 4

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

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New Wool Bureau to Fight Synthetics (Dalgety’s News Service)

The Gundagai Independent · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 2

With the objective of providing the wool industry with an organisation better equipped to meet the competition of synthetic fibres, the Commonwealth Government has introduced the Wool Promotion Act 1953, which replaces the present…

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Vegetable Prices Soar Unusual Weather Upsets Crops

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday—Vegetables today sold at the highest prices of the year. Growers and…

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Will It Ever Come to Dispossession of Bad Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 4

Professor Wadham's shake-up warning to farmers at last week's F.S.A. conference was given much more judiciously than were similar warnings by Mr. McGirr (then N.S.W. Premier) and Mr. Hawkins (Minister for Lands) a year or so earlier…

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Banks Should Help with Farm Finance

The Gundagai Independent · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 6

Australian farmers who adopted new methods to increase production deserved encouragement and financial…

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Says Record Wool Price 'Fantastic'

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1953 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday: The record price of 428½d paid yesterday for one bale of lambswool sold at Geelong…

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Wheat Plan Needed Before Acreage Raised: Wagga Conference

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1953 · page 2

The general president of the Wheatgrowers' Union of N.S.W. (Mr. C. D. Renshaw) told a meeting of about 80 farmers at Wagga yesterday that he "could not recommend increased wheat acreage unless a wheat…

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Junior Farmers to Form District Council

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1953 · page 4

At the annual meeting of the Wagga Junior Farmers' Advisory Committee last night, it was decided that a District Council would be formed, including the centres of Wagga, Junee, Downside, and possibly Humula and Collingullie…

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Cattle Prices Easier

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 4

Messrs Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. advise on to-day's stock sales at Homebush as follows: 27,179 sheep and lambs were…

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Sheep Values Irregular

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 2

Prime lambs met with good competition at Homebush on Thursday March 19, and very firm values were maintained…

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Wool Dresses

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 3

Charming teenage dress in checked wool. Douglas Cox presents it in toast and gold…

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Bigger Wool Consumption

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 2

World wool consumption is practically keeping pace with production. Under those conditions any appreciable…

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