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Farming & the land, 1954

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Junior Farmers Field Day at Barellan

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 2

On Monday next Junior Farmers will hold a Field Day at Barellan Programme will include judging competitions for…

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Overseas Tourists Report to M.I.A. FARMERS

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 4

Many centres in United States, ranging, from famous irrigation centres such as the Imperial Valley California to…

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Junee Council May Undertake Campaign of Testing Local Dairy Herds for T.b. Animals

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 3

The Jnnee Council may embrace a campaign of testing dairy herbs for tuberculosis, which, the health inspector, Mr. C. King, told this week's meeting, was something that every Council should undertake,…

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No Transport for Sheep: Markets May Suffer

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1954 · page 2

Victorian buyers at a special Wagga sheep sale yesterday will not take actual delivery of their purchases for nearly a week because of lack of rail transport…

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The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Limited. Wool Report

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 13 September 1954 · page 2

The first catalogues or the 1954-'55 season were submitted in Sydney on Monday, Aug. 30. A good volume of competition was…

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Beef Cattle From Eleven Districts Met at Young

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 13 September 1954 · page 2

The spectacular progress of stud beef breeding in the Young district was underlined last week, by the impressive…

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Wool at Sound Level Despite Price Drop

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 13 September 1954 · page 2

Wool is 15 per cent. cheaper than at the close of lost season. After two seasons of relative stability, the graph line of wool prices has recorded a sharp vibration, which, however, may portend…

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Cattle Prices Reach Record High Gundagai Associated Agents Regular Monthly Market

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 September 1954 · page 4

The Gundagai Associated Agents report having held a most successful cattle sale on Friday last, 10th September, at which a quality yarding of 600 cattle were submitted to auction and a total clearance effected at prices which…

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Graziers Must Watch Production Costs Review of the Wool Inductry

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 September 1954 · page 2

(Extracts from Winchcombe Carson Ltd. Annual Review) Wool being Australia’s major rural product has again proved by far, the most valuable source, of the country’s export income, and the following table will show the…

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Galore Sheep Sale

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 1

Younghusband Limited, Lockhart, Albury and branches, in conjunction with Mr. E. E. [?]dorf, Galore agency, report [?]…

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Cattle Sale at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 2

The recent rise in meat prices was reflected in values for cattle at Wagga cattle sale yesterday…

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Boree Creek Sheep Sale

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 3

New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co. Ltd., of Boree Creek, report having conducted a highly successful sheep sale on Monday, 13th…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—Merino wools were fully firm when compared with the Brisbane closing sales last week, at the wool sales…

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Impounding Fees for Sheep Too High Says Councillor

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 1

When it was announced at Council meeting on Thursday night that the new impounding fee for sheep will…

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Good demand at Melb. wool sales

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: Merino wools sold at rates equal to those at the season's opening sales in Sydney and at Brisbane when the first Melbourne…

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Sale of Irrigation Farm at Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 2

Mr. T. E. Wright, Licensed Property Agent of Leeton, reports having completed, the sale of Messrs. Donovan Bros…

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A Weekly Column for Women A Tea Cosy Like A Basket of Flowers Made in Thick Wool The Main Part is Knitted in Moss-Stitch

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 7

Materials: Two ounces of thick wool in blue or main colour preferred, and small balls of 2-ply or 3-ply in various colours for the…

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Demand for Unsalted Butter

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 2

Unsalted butter is being used dally in Sydney in increasing quantities and is being commercially produced to…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Values for Merinos ruled firm at the wool Bales today. Comebacks and crossbreds…

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Less Wheat in World '55 CROP Big Drop On American Continent

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 7

World wheat production prospects for 1954 are somewhat less favourable than at this time a year ago. when a…

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