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Farming & the land, 1954

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This Week in Wool (Dalgety's News Service)

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 3

Trends of instability which in[?]ltrated the opening wool sales of the second half-season are as yet only small clouds…

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Australia’s Wool Cheque Up £20 Million

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 4

An increase of more than £20 million in the wool cheque for the half year ended December 31, 1953…

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Soil Conditioner Boosts Crops

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

Liquid soil Conditioner was being used on various crops in the United States as an insurance against unfavorable growing…

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Huge crop of 'cots from Branches Rested on Ground

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

Messrs R. and L. Helson of Farm 1747, Leeton. have just finished harvesting -their biggest crop of apricots, three…

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Trampled Upon by Terrified Horse Farmsr Severely Injured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

Mr. J. Plcken, a tanner employed on Mr. Hatch's farm No. 325, Wainoon, was driving a spring cart into the farm on…

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To Inoculate Wagga Cattle: Pleuro Scare

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 2

About one thousand head of cattle in the Wagga District, covering 30 properties, are to be inoculated by the Wagga Pastures Protection Board…

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Spraying wheat for weed control

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 3

Trials carried out at Wagga Agricultural College show that any commercial variety of wheat can be safely sprayed with 2.4D for skeleton weed control…

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Confidence is keynote with wool

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 4

Now that the second half of the wool-selling season has got right into its swing, we have every reason to be satisfied with both prices and prospects…

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Fed. Govt. buying Zebu cattle for New Guinea

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday: The Government is making arrangements for the purchase of six Zebu cattle from the United States for breeding experiments in Papua and New Guinea. The Minister for…

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Today's Homebush Market Prime Lambs and Cattle Dearer

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 4

The commonwealth Wool and Produce Co. Ltd., reported that there were 12,999 sheep, 8065 lambs and hoggets, and 4577…

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U.S. Wool Tariff No Change Proposed

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 1

The statement by the United States Secretary of Agriculture on behalf of the Eisenhower Administration…

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Goulburn Wool Sales Medium And Fine Wools Show Rise

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 7

At the fourth series of Goulburn wool sales conducted by Farmers and Graziers on 20th and 21st…

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U.N.O. Buys Stud Sheep From Junee To Be Used For a Pakistan Trial

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 8

The United Nations Organisation has completed arrangements for the purchase of seventy Junee district…

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Better Aprons on Silo Hoppers. Would Avoid Big Lost of Wheat in Season

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 7

Throughout the State a tremendous amount of wheat must be lost each harvesting season because of antiquated…

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Farm Scarcities Fading Record Outputs

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 7

Record amounts of fencing-wire, galvanised Iron and steel fence posts were made in the year to June 30…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 1

Goldsbrough, Mort, Co. Ltd. report 20th January: This week when the Melbourne sales were resumed, Russia again…

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This Week in Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 3

A record post-war year of raw wool imports into Britain in 1953, amounting to 827.7 million lb., equivalent to a little more than 70 per cent, of Australia's 1953 all-time record wool clip, is a reminder…

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Mr. Graham Against Wheat Plan

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 1

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said he would oppose the Commonwealth Government's wheat…

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U.S. Wool Tariff No change proposed

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 4

Winchbombe, Carson Ltd., report: The statement by the United States Secretary of Agriculture…

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Migrants Man Farms

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 4

During 1953 about 1,200 migrants, chiefly in NSW and Victoria, have been clearing and doing other farm work for which…

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