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Farming & the land, 1953

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More Raw Wool Expanded Consumption

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 2
Also in The Gundagai Independent

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Increased production of wool in Australia and a slightly higher estimated world…

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Record Average Price for Gundagai Wool

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 8

Mr. Martin McCormick, of South Gundagai, obtained the extraordinarily good average price of 108 4-5 per pound…

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Wool Research Leads to a Noble Prize

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 8

The truly synthetic fibres such as nylon and Terylene may be said to have been born in a test tube and bred in the laboratory; the sections of the textile industry that use these modern fibres have therefore taken to scientific research as…

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International Wheat Agreement

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 1

The International Wheat Agreement was devised to obviate the extreme fluctuations which so often have affected the open wheat market. When the now…

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The Week in Wool

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 3

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

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The Wheat Price Australia's Quota?

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday —The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. McEwen, has asked the Australian Wheatgrowers'…

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Prices Very Firm at Store Sheep Sale

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 2

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

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More Raw Wool Expanded Consumption

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carton, Ltd. report;—Increased production of wool in Australia and a slightly higher estimated woild output, has…

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Prosperity Leads to Carelessness with Wool

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 4

It is one of the anomalies of prosperity that it usually brings a good deal of degeneracy with it, and the longer the prosperity lasts the more marked is the falling away from normal…

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Wool Research Leads to a Nobel Prize

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 3

The truly synthetic fibres such as nylon and Terylene may be said to have been born in a test-tube and bred in the…

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Position of Wool Sound. Bettor Then at Higher Prices

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 3

Increased production of wool in Australia and a slightly higher estimated world output, has not affected…

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For the man on the land to Be or Not to Be: the Wheat Agreement

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 4

This has been a momentous week in the wheat world in Australia as well as abroad, and at the time of writing, issues of tremendous importance to growers and consumers alike are still in the balance. Few food price battles have…

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Junior Farmers Form New Council for District Clubs

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 2

At a meeting of the Junior Farmers last night, at the Demonstration School, a new council, which will bind together clubs from Wagga,. Humula, Downside and possibly Junee, was formed. Eligible to loin this…

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Yanco Junior Farmers hold trials

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 3

Yanco Junior Farmers' Club recently conducted judging trials to select teams for a Junior Farmer district fled…

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Grasshopper Plague Fears Damage to Crops

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 6

Fears of a plague build up of grasshoppers next Spring were reported this week by Officers of M.I.A…

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Poultry farmers should cull bad layers now

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 6

In many countries the end of summer and coming of autumn marks the season of lower egg laying and consequent scarcity of supplies. Australia is fortunate in that her cereal resources [?]bel the…

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No Entry Fee for Junior Farmers in Sheep Show

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1953 · page 4

The N.S.W. Sheepbreeders' Association will not charge an entry fee or levy a fodder fee on Junior Farmers who compete in the two classes set aside exclusively for them at next month's Sydney Sheep Show. The competitions for pens…

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Beef cattle breeding experiments

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1953 · page 4

Scientific experiments by the C.S.I.R.O. to develop in Australia a new breed of beeF cattle more resistant…

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Britain buys Canada's wheat

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.): While the future of the International Wheat Agreement is in doubt, abnormally large…

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