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Farming & the land, 1954

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Honour For Local Junior Farmer

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 2

Junior Farmer, P. Ryan of Lockhart, has been selected to attend the annual School of Instruction at Wagga Agricultural…

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Jottings Farm Drudgery

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 1

Irrigation funning on the M.I. Areas has during the past decade seen great strides towards the more efficient handling of…

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Sheep Up at Homebush. Cattle Also On Higher Level. SYDNEY

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 6

Dalgety's News Service reports that at the Homebush sale to-day 26,824 sheep and lambs were yarded…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 4

MELBOURNE. Tues: There was a comprehensive range of wools on offer when the 12th series of Melbourne wool…

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Wool-growing Costs Stable

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 2

Recent trends in the Australian wool growing industry justified an optimistic view of its future prospects. Evidence is now…

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World Wool Output Is Up

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.): World wool output in 1954 season will be 4,420- million lbs., greasy basic, compared with en estimated 4,370-million lbs produced in the 1953…

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Subsidy, Stabilisation Cain's Move on Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The Premier (Mr. Cain) told the executive of the Wheat and Woolgrowers' Association to-day that he would suggest to the…

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Subsidise Wheat for Stock Feed Cain Suggests Premiers' Talks

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday— The Premier (Mr. Cain) told the executive of the Wheat and Woolgrowers' Association that…

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Wool Trade Nears End of Season Firming Tendency Maintained

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd:, report: With the wool trade nearing the final week of the 1953-54 selling season in Australia,…

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Sheep Drench

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 4

Reduction in the dose rate of phenothiazine — a drug used to drench sheep against worms—is warranted,…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Rates remained firm at the Melbourne wool sales today. The Riverina district was…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—Dalgety & Co., Ltd., report that exceptionally strong competition from Bradford developed for…

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Top Price for Midkin Wool

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Wool from the biggest single flock of sheep in Australia brought the top price at Sydney wool sales to-day…

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Wool insignia used in U.S.

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wednesday (A.A.P.): Wool industry groups in the United States were using a distinctive seal…

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Care needed with wool for U.S.

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 5

More care must be taken with the classing of Australian wool for the United States market, to meet competition from synthetics…

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Competition From Wool Synthetics Must Be Fought

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 2

More care must be taken with the classing of Australian wool for the United States market, to meet competition…

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Wool Market Firm As Season Nears End

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 2

With Continental wool buyers still doggedly pressing their bids for the fast disappearing lots of better…

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No Need for Panic About Wheat, Says Graham

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: There was no reason for all the panic about the wheat position, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said today…

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Junior Farmers to Tour United States

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 1

Two Junior Farmers, one the winner of a recent wheatgrowing competition and the other a soil conservation expert, will…

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Apple crop best for ten years

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 2

The State's apple crop this year was the best for 10 years, the Chief Horticulturist of the Department…

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