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Farming & the land, 1953

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Wheat Production

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 3

The Australian Wheat Board in its latest review concerning wheat production states: Wheat production in the State…

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Wool Dresses

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 2

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

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Wheat Agreement Signed

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 1

WASHINGTON. Tuesday — Representatives of 17 nations, including the United States and Canada, yesterday signed a new…

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Lockhart Agricultural & Pastoral Society Elects News President

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Lockhart Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held in the Memorial Hall on Thursday afternoon. Those present included Messrs…

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Stole a Sheep at Corbie Hill

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 4

At the Leeton court of Potty Sessions on Wednesday, before Mr. K. Smith, S.M., Sydney Francis Scott, Alfred John Hines,…

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Wool Flannel Dresses From Paris

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 6

Caramel-coloured satin-surfaced wool flannel is used in a new and most attractive cocktail dress by Jacques Griffe. The bodice is shirred into a tiny basque from which the skirt falls in ample folds…

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U.K. "tough" on wheat scheme

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.): Confident that Britain will be able to get all her wheat needs for the next three years, British Food Minister Lloyd George is adopting a tough…

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Court Rules Wool Money Was a Gift

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: About £66-million paid to Australian wool-growers by the Federal Government from profits on the overseas sales of Australian wool during World War II was not subject to income tax, the High Court ruled today…

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Concrete Troughs Easily Made On The Farm

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 6

A plentiful supply of clean water is essential if cows are to produce large quantities of milk and remain in good condition. Concrete troughing is one of the best methods of handling the water supply. Troughs of the type illustrated…

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How To Graze An Oat Crop

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 6

No other winter crop will provide such a continuity of green feed as oats, but to obtain the maximum results it must be…

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Grand Unole Wills Farm to Boy, Ii

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 4

All [?]-year-old Mayfield boy Inherits a 640-acre farm at Murraml, from n grand-uncle he had never seen. The boy, Philip…

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West Australian Wins Young Farmers' Competition

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 2

Ian Packham, a twenty-one-year-old wheat and sheep farmer from Tammin, W.A., won the A.B.C's Young Farmers…

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Junior Farmers' Notes

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 3

Clubs have boon very active since the beginning of March. All clubs in the district have held their annual meetings and are organising their year's activities. These arc most commendable and are in worthy support…

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Barathea Wool Suit

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 2

One of the smartest suits in the Douglas Cox collection. Made in black barathea wool, It buttons through to new collar edge…

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Farmer Cup Draw

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 4

Competitors must complete the final round by Saturday, May 9, and for the method of scoring should see the notice…

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Rain Will Benefit the Farmer

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 4

The good soaking rain which has been falling over a widespread area of the Riverina during the last few days has supplemented tank water supplies in the region which were at a…

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New Wool Suit

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 3

Charles Creed designed this “Chocolate Sailor” loose fitted box jacket with accordion pleated skirt. The blouse is of brown,…

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Further Fall in Sheep Skins

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 4

A weaker market again ruled at Dalgely's sheep skin sales in Sydney on Friday last, when prices dropped 3d to 7d per 1b. Merino full made…

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The Week in Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 2

Though the wool market in Australia will remain in recess until April 20, there are portents of easier opening values…

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Court Ruling on Wool Money

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 3

About £56 million paid to Australian wool-growers by the Federal Government from profits on the oversea sales of Australian wool…

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