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Farming & the land, 1954

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Record Apple Crop

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 3

The State's record apple crop, estimated at 2,400,000 case this year, was almost a million cases more than the…

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Crop Rotation Essential in Potato Growing

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 3

Crop rotation is essential to profitable potato growing. Potatoes grown year after year in the same area rapidly…

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Must import butter

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 1

PERTH, Friday: A fall in butter production in Western Australia meant this State would have to import 10,000…

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Unrepresentative Sheep Show

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 4

Does prosperity breed cosualness? It looks rather like it in the sheep world, if we may judge by the poor support of Merino breeders at the Sydney Sheep Show. But there may be other…

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Dane Sees Big Dairy Future at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 2

Wagga and districts east of it have a great future in the dairy industry, the Shell Oil Co's Agricultural Field Officer (Mr. J. O. Cogan) said this week…

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Today's Homebush Market Sheep, Lambs, and Cattle Dearer

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY. Monday—The Commonwealth Wool and Produce CO., Ltd. report that there were 13,410 sheep and 10,037…

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Gulargambone Farmer Reaps Freak Wheat Crop

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 4

As a result of a combination of grasshopper plague and abnormal seasonal conditions, a Gulargambone…

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Death of Wheat Expert

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, the Hon. E. H, Graham MLA, paid a tribute today to the late J. T…

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Magic Eye Teds Wool

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 2

One of the most recent developments in electronic instruments for testing the condition of wool yarn is to be exhibited by a Yorkshire firm at Olympla during the 1945 British Industries Fair held slmuitaneously in London and…

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Data Sought on Sheep Sex Changes

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 3
Also in The Gundagai Independent

SYDNEY, Sunday: The Department of Animal Husbandry, Sydney University, has asked N.S.W. graziers for information about sex changes in sheep grazing…

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Sydney Sheep Show Entries of High Standard

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 1

Sydney Sheep Show judges were unanimous that standards were maintained in all sections, and that good…

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Show to Cater for Smaller Wool Men

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 6

The novice and small grazier sections of the Sydney Sheep Show will be extended next year…

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Has New Breed of Sheep Been Produced? Talk Of Animals Hopping On Two Legs

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 6

In a case at Bega District Court a verdict for £2036 was given against a farmer, Frederick…

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Freak W[?] Crop [?] Four Months

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: As a result of a combination of grasshopper plague and abnormal sessional conditions…

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Wool Season Ending

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report on 1st June: As the 1953-54 wool selling season enters its final month with…

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Sydney Wool Report

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. telegraphed last night: We sold 6,340 bales at our auction today; strong general competition; all…

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Sydney Wool Sales: Values Firm

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: Values ruled firm when compared with Brisbane closing rates at the wool sales today…

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Confidence in Future of Wool

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon.: A survey of the possibility of enlisting the cooperation of more wool producing countries…

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Wool Production Countries to Expand Output

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 1

PRETORIA (Transvaal) Tuesday—South Africa, New Zealand, and Australian wool interests expressed' their "full…

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