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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Graziers Anxiously Scan the Wool Horizon

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 7

At the down of the new wool year, groziers this week were anxiously surveying the horizon for portents likely to determine the values that the world’s…

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For the man on the land Confidence in Wool Continues

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 4

Everything points to another year of prosperity for woolmen, at least so for as prices are concerned. How the season may treat them is another matter. Some of the clip now…

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U.S. Army's Big Order for Wool New Subsidy Plan Causes Speculation

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 6

The first offerings of the new season will be very representative of the earlier shearing districts of the…

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M.I.A. Agricultural Extension Notes M.I.A. crops need water Recent Rains Inadeduate

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 4

Despite the recont rain on the M.I.A.—184 points was the highest recorded—the greatest depth to which it penetrated the soil was only about 12 inches. Drawing attention to this…

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Deniliquin Takes to Dairying

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 3

Rapid expansion is taking place in the dairy industry in the Berrigan and Deniliquin districts…

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Yanco Experiment Farm and High School Win Awards at Wagga Show

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 6

Yanco Experiment Farm won the following, awards in the dairy cattle section of the Wagga Show: 1st prize, cow, dry, 3 years or…

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Record Apple Crop Fills Cool Stores

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 3

A record apple crop has filled all cool storage space to capacity, the Department of Agriculture's Division of Horticulture…

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Marked Trend From Wheat to Sheep in Coolamon Area

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1954 · page 4

The trend from wheat to sheep in the Coolamon-Ganmoin- Marrar area has been most marked, but the average farmer has not as yet a knowledge of intensive sheep husbandry equal to that of his previous occupation of wheat farming…

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Butter quota

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham) announced today that the quota of…

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Sheep with Cattle

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 30 August 1954 · page 7

It would pay many sheep farmers to run beef cattle with their sheep on improved pastures, said Mr. R. C…

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Light Sheep Yarding Increases Values

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 30 August 1954 · page 1

A light yarding of only 14,709 sheep and lambs at Homebush on Thursday, August 26th, made competition…

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Opening Wool Sales Values Lower

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—Values for merino wools were 71 to 10 per cent, lower than last season's closing rates at the…

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Commercial Possibilities For Intensive Hand Feeding of Sheep

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 7

Commercial possibilities exist for the growing and fattening of sheep by intensive hand feeding, Dr. G. L. McClymont, special…

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Wool Values Lower at Opening Sales

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Values for Merino wools were 7½ to 10 per cent lower than last season's closing rates at the…

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Milling Quality Important in Field Wheat Test

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 2

Milling quality of grain will play an important part in deciding the winner of the R.A.S. 1954 Championship Field Wheat…

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U.S. Farm Bill to Aid Other Countries

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 2

Under the agricultural bill approved by U.S. Congress, President Eisenhower now has authority to barter, lend, or give to…

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Junior Farmers' Notes Purchase Wire Recorder and Film Projector

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 2

The Junior Farmers' Clubs of this Area have recently purchased from the Irrigation Research and Extension Committee a film…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 1
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SYDNEY. Wednesday—Values were at times up to 2½ per cent, lower for merino descriptions at the wool sales…

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Smart Wool Day Dress

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 2

Unusual side buttoning and neckline treatment—with contrasting half, collar—gives added, character to…

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