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Farming & the land, 1954

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The Week in Wool Dalgety's News Service

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 6

With a cheque for £390,000,000, Australian wool growers closed their books last week for the third richest season in wool's history…

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Huge Wool Cheque for Four Years Half-penny Per Pound Drop on Average

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 3

With a cheque of £390,000,000, Australian woolgrowers closed their books last week for the third richest season…

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For the man on the land Who was the founder of our wool industry?

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 5

The recent article in the "Advertiser" by Eric Irvin on the founding of the Australian wool industry reopens a question which is likely to be a source of controversy for generations to come, probably as long as history continues to be written…

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Will Start His Poultry Farm Despite Dept

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 2
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SYDNEY, Friday — An Englishman said today he intended to begin poultry farming "in a big way" near Sydney, despite…

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Tumbarumba Property Sold to Local Farmer Record District Price Of £33 an acre

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 2

A 695 acre grazing property in Mannus Valley, Tumbarumba district, was sold last week to a former Whitton resident, at a…

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Lower Pig Prices Farmers Apprehensive

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 6

Pig producers fear that the public is losing Its taste for pork, states the president of the New South Wales branch of the…

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Apathy to Farming

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 4

By Mr. R. C. Cotton, Rural Vice- President of the N.S.W. liberal Party, and farmer of Oberon. A statement by the N.S.W…

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Record Apple Crop

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

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

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Albury's Big Sheep Show

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1954 · page 4

As adverted in to-day's columns, the Albury Sheep Show is expected to be the largest yet staged. This is…

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Concern Over Show Cattle in Parade

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1954 · page 2

Two of the largest exhibitors of beef breeds at the Wagga Show have expressed concern at the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association's insistence on exhibitors of beef cattle remaining for the second grand parade…

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Letters to the Editor (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents) Wool future assured

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1954 · page 2

SIR,—During the past eight, selling Masons in Australia, wool has realised at public auction no leas a sum than…

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Butter Industry's Doubtful Future

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 2

The Australian dairy industry will, no doubt, continue somewhat precariously along its accustomed course, following the…

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Butter Most Important Mlk Product in N.s.w

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 6

Two thirds of (the milk produced in N.S.W. is required to meet the butter requirements of the population, Deputy…

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Gundagai Junior Farmers’ Field Day

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 2

Members of the Gundagai Junior Farmers Club had a grand day out on Sunday, 25th June last, when the…

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Farmers Must Study World Markets

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 7

“Farmers must study world markets.” Mr. H. Flanagan, General President of the Agricultural Bureau…

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Heavy Flour Shipments Over 1½ million bushels, or 16 per cent of wheat available or export as flour from New South Wales this year were required to produce the 30,000 tons shipped lastmonth

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 7

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said this [?] that if the present…

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Wool Report

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: The level of the wool market at the closing sales in Australia last week maintained the steady…

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M.I.A. Agricultural Extension Notes M.I.A. Farmers Unanimous Call Co-operate Scheme Should Continue

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 4

Representatives of every farm district on the M.I.A. excepting take Wyangan which failed to arrange representation—accepted unanimously the report of the president of M.I.A. District Council of Extension Groups (Mr. Noel Hogan) at the annual…

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Dispersal Sale of Rice Farming Plant

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 3

As advertised fully in our last issue, a Dispersal Sale is to be held at Wakool on Friday next of a rice Carmine plant, on account…

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