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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Protection Is in Sight for Wool Users

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 5

At last we are coming within tight of the enactment of one of the most overdue pieces of protective legislation the public has ever asked for…

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Return to Wheat Growers of £9m. Tax Money

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thurs.: The Minister for Commerce and Agricuture (Mr. Me-Ewen) today announced the unconditional return to wheat growers of…

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Wheat Crisis Storage Problems F.s.a. Opinion

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 1

The Federal Government should pay for the storage of wheat surpluses exceeding the normal carryover,…

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Fence Damaged, Sheep Strayed Sergeant's View On Danger to Traffic

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 7

because the prescribed penalty is 5 a head for straying sheep and 58 head wens in question in the case before…

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Confidence in U.S. Reflects in Sales Report of Recent Wool Market

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 2

A feature of the closing sales in Sydney before Easter was the leace demand for comebacks and fine…

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For the man on the land Will it take drought to save the wheat position?

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 5

It is a sad reflection on the wheat situation in Australia that drought seems to be the only direct avenue through which our surplus can be cleared in reasonable time. From a livestock point of…

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Leeton Junior Farmer to Visit Royal Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 6

The Bank of New South Wales is again assisting with the comprehensive programme organised for…

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"I Shift Your Crop"

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 4

The blame for the piling up of pouches and lack of lug boxes after the recent peach processing programme can be laid at…

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M.I.A. Extension Notes M.I.A.'s return to grass Farmers' Quest for Seed Supplies

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 4

Expansion of M.I.A. irrigated pastures to 100,000 acres within a short time has been firmly predicted and sub and rye remains the basis of this great return to grass. Coat of subelover seed and…

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Local Junior Farmer To Visit Royal Show

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 1

The Bank of New South Wales is again assisting with the comprehensive programme organised for junior farmers attending the…

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Coolamon to Participate in Farm and Fodder Competition

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 8

At the last meeting of the committee of the Coolamon A. & P. Association, it was decided to conduct a district Farm and Fodder Competition, the winner of the local…

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Smart Wool Frock

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 3

This frock in grey wool was modelled by Miss Peggy Ralton for Paull's, at the Home of Compassion mannequin parade on Wednesday night. With loose three-quarter sleeves and plain neckline, the…

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50,000 Head of Cattle Evacuated

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 1

DARWIN, Friday: Drovers have begun a mass cattle evacuation to shift 50,000 head from Wave Hill Station in a desperate attempt to save them from one…

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R.A.S. judge praises beef cattle exhibits

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: The beef cattle exhibition at the Royal Easter Show today was easily the best in the show's history, leading Australian beef cattle expert Mr. J. Tanner said to-day…

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Butter Versus Margarine

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 4

Dairy interests in Australia, New Zealand and Denmark will pay £125,000 sterling to a campaign to…

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Beef cattle show

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday: The president of the Poll Shorthorn Society of Australia (Mr. H. Mackinnon) today…

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Decline in U.s. Wheat Crop

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Drought and dust during the last four months in the southwestern United States was sharply reducing the 1954 winter…

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Fairbairn attacks Labor wheat plan

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 3

It came as no surprise to him to learn that N.S.W. Agriculture Minister, Mr. E. H. Graham, had praised Dr. Evatt's election plan for wheat, because Mr. Graham…

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Arthur Fuller on Wool Payments

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 2

“Can the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture state the amount of undistributed wool disposal profits,” asked…

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Match Test on Wool and Synthetics

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 4

The Deputy Leader of the State Country Party Mr. S. D. Dickson, Temora, had to burn two samples of…

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