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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Slight Fall in Wool Price Hard to Get Basis For Comparison

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 3

Intervention by Russian countries with another batch of weighty orders for best topraaking wools steadied the…

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Competition Not Keen for Wool District Clips Sold at Sydney Auction

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 4

With competition mainly restricted to the Continent and Bradford, the earner, tendency continued at the Sydney…

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Wool Market Firm

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report that they sold 8112 bales of wool at their Sydney sale yesterday to good competition. The…

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Wheat Board chief replies to Mr. Cain

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Every main wheat exporting country was facing a build up of stocks, the chairman…

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Vic. Will Not Alter Its Stand on Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The Victorian Government would not alter its stand on wheat stabilisation under any…

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Russia As a Wool Buyer Post. War Developments

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 3

While Russia has been a very spectacular direct buyer of our wool at occasions during the past year or so,…

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Excellent Prospects for Good Potato Crop

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 8

Potato crops in the Tumbarumba-Batlow district have responded remarkably well to the excellent rain received during January and February, states the District Agronomist (Mr. F. J. Nicholson)…

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The Week in Wool

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 6

Intervention by Russian countries with another batch of weighty orders for best topmaking wools steadied the downward…

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Farmers Meet to Collect Straying Sheep From Moors. Few Fences on Big Tract of English Land

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 6

Sheep are reared in their thousands in the English Midlands and North Country and on rough moorland and wild…

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Anything could happen to wheat price

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 4

The International Wheat Agreement may go over the same precipice as the Australian Stabilisation Scheme and so force wheat back into the hands of…

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W0olshed Trials for Kenaf Wool Packs

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 6

Wool packs woven in Australia from Kenaf fibre grown at Oro Bay, New Guinea, will be given a practical test in Australian woolsheds this season. The picture, taken in Dalgety's Store, Sydney, shows Wool Trade…

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First Kenaf Wool Packs For Woolshed Trials

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 6

Wool packs woven in Australia from kenaf fibre grown in New Guinea by an Australian company, will be tried out this season in a…

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Export Wheat Sales Still Slow India Will Not Take Up Quota

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

Mr. C. J. Perrett General Manager of the Australian Wheat Board, reports that the market remains…

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Dairy clearing sale

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 4

Younghusband Ltd., Wagga, report holding: a clearing sale of 100 dairy cows, 70 dairy heifers and dairy and farming…

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Small Farm at Auction

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 2

Conjunction auctioneers, Bore and Cartes and R. H. Blake and Co., yesterday submitted by auction Mr. R. H…

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Whitton Farmer Killed When Car Struck Bridge

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 2

Mr. William Rhodes, a farmer over the river between Whitton and Darlington Point, was fatally injured when the car…

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Magnificent Crop of peaches on Mr. Ike Walsh's Stanbridge Orchard Ten Ton a Day Deliveries

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 3

A very fine crop of Golden Queen peaches was seen on Mr. Ike Walsh's orchard at Stanbridge on Tuesday afternoon when harvesting was in full swing. Harvesting of the Golden Queens on this farm reached its peak…

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Matong Farmers & Settlers’ Association Anuual Meeting

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 4

At the annual meeting of the Matong branch of the farmers & Settlers’ Association, held on Thursday,…

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Wool position

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday: The Australian wool industry has never been in a sounder position to meet any setbacks…

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Wool Week for Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1954 · page 1

At the request of Mr. E. W. Foster, Director of Promotion, Australian Wool Bureau, the Wagga Chamber of…

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