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Farming & the land, 1954

1,932 stories in Riverina's papers · page 55 of 97

New Wool Season

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 July 1954 · page 1

Early July shearings are now reaching Sydney and Newcastle stores, and If this rate of receivals is…

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Lean Time for Yass Cattle

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 July 1954 · page 1

Cattle in the Yass P.P. Board district are all on the decline, showing the effects of the grave food shortage and…

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£20,000 Sheep Thefts Inquiries at Hay

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 July 1954 · page 1

Police investigating the theft of £20,000 worth of sheep from the Riverina district have now switched…

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Early Vote on New Wheat Scheme

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 July 1954 · page 2

The Minuter for Agriculture and Food Production, Hon. E. H. Graham, MLA, stated this week that the five year wheat…

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Big Increase in Wool Sales at Goulburn and Newcastle Wool Stores are now Empty

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 July 1954 · page 7

While statistical officers are busily calculating the precise amount of Australia’s third biggest wool cheque and its average return per bale and per lb, the silent, empty wool stores throughout Australia indubitably testify to the…

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Road Transport of Cattle Cheaper Than Rail in N.t

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 July 1954 · page 3

The vast advantages of a road system over the transport by rail of cattle in Northern Australia…

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This Week in the Wool New Season's Clips Reaching Stores

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 July 1954 · page 3

The first dips of the new season are now arriving in Australian stores in increasing volume, and in Sydney already there is almost sufficient wool to fill the opening catalogues…

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Vic. Wheat Carryover

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Victoria will have a wheat carry-over exceeding the 26,000,000 bushels indicated early this year by the Australian Wheat Board…

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Puzzle Disease Threat to Sheep

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 7

Following his resignation from the N.S.W. Dept. of Agriculture to enter private industry. Mr. Alex B. Mc-Lennan, former District Livestock…

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The Week in Wool

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 6

The first dips of the new-season are now arriving in Australian stores in increasing volume, and in Sydney already there is…

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District Success at Albury Sheep Show

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 9

At the recent Albury Sheep Show, the second largest sheep show in Australia. Messrs. Parmenter…

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New Hope for Wheat Stabilisation

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 4

At long last we are getting somewhere with wheat, the prospect for stabilisation having been .so far advanced at the Premiers' Conference this week that a five-year price and marketing plan is now virtually assured…

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£20,000 Sheep Thefts Inquiries At Hay

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 1

Police investigating the theft of £20,000 worth of sheep from the Riverina district have now switched investigation to Hay…

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Cattle Breeders & Fatteners Association Formed Marked Improvement in Industry

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 2

At a meeting held in the C.W.A. Rooms on Wednesday night a Cattle Breeders and Fatteners' Association was formed. It was stated that during the past 12 months the fat cattle industry on the Area had shown marked…

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M.i.a. Agricultural Extension Notes Ignorance Could Mean Failure Hint to M.i.a. Farmers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 4

The opening of the irrigation season on the M.I.A. afters the winter recess will be a signal to informed M.I.A. farmers to make plans to irrigate early. Making this statement, Fruit…

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Tuberculosis-free Dairy Herd

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 1

Congratulations to G. J. Kelly and Mrs. V. J. Kelly of the "Viarea" Guernsey Stud, Farm 31, Almond Road…

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Boree Creek sheep sale

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1954 · page 4

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Boree Creek, conducted a special sheep sale on…

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Early Ballot on Wheat Plan

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1954 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said yesterday that a ballot of…

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Two Inches Needed: Crops and Feeding Deteriorate

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1954 · page 2

A fall of at least two inches of rain was required to arrest a marked deterioration of crops and pastures in the Wagga district, the District Agronomist (Mr. J…

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Wool Buyers and Essential Holiday Recess

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 2 August 1954 · page 6

The recent London Wool auctions early in July cannot be taken as a safe criterion of the present world…

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