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Farming & the land, 1954

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Annual Scholarship for Wool Students

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 7

A Trust fund for an Annual Scholarship for the best all-round student in the first year full, time day classes has been…

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Testing Time in Wool Market

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 8

As the wool-selling season enters its third week, with values attuned at Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, London, and South Africa, it would seem that the market has settled in a pattern of decline, varying…

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Sydney Wool Sales Show Slight Rises

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Values for fine Merino fleece and skirtings rose up to 2½ per cent at the close of the…

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Wool Yield Is Up. But Price Falls

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The wool yield for the first month of the new selling season was more than double that for the same month of last year, although prices…

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Leeton Show to Feature Beef Cattle Particularly for Vealer Glasses

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 2

The growing importance of a new industry that is developing very fast on the irrigation area and surrounding districts…

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U.s. Drops Crop Control Programme

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Thursday (AAP): The Secretary of Agriculture, acting to "relieve the pressure on farmers in…

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Dairy Scheme

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 3

Farmers throughout the district are advised to contact their dairy factory if they desire to participate in the dairy industry…

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Premiums for protein wheat

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1954 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Friday: The S.A. Wheat and Wool Growers' Association committee meeting in Adelaide…

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To investigate wool branding

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: A conference of Australian wool interests held in Melbourne today decided to appoint a committee to investigate the problem of…

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Today's Homebush Market Cattle Slump

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 September 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday — The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co., Ltd. report that there were 10,106 sheep, 7289 lambs…

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Phosphorus may save dairy loss

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 September 1954 · page 3

If phosphorus in the diet of the high producing dairy cow is increased during the last month or so of pregnancy, it is probable that the incidence of milk fever…

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Electricity Most Compete Answer to the Problem of Farm Water Supply

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 20 September 1954 · page 7

Electricity is the most complete answer to adequate and automatic water supplies to all parts of the farm, Mr. J. R. Lloyd, electricity officer of the Department of Agriculture says. Where electricity is…

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Wool Sale Reports

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 8

The Australian Estates Company Ltd. report: The first series of [?] Wool Sales in Melbourne for the [?] Season 1954/55 opened on the 13th [?]…

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Demand Leaps Steel Farm Goods

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 8

'Shortages of some steel products needed by primary produce[?] had not been caused by cuts [?] production, but by the great increases…

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Irrigation on Farm

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 1

Water, at the rate of 2300 gallons per minute, pouring from the 12-inch delivery pipe into the main…

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Soon Be Able to Phone South Whitton Farmers To Be Known As Dallas

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 4

Mr. Tom Roulston and the 17 other farmers in the South Whitton district, will soon be connected to the telephone…

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New Wool Fabric

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 2

Black scroll design on a lapis-lazull blue background is used by Hugh de Givenchy for this wool suit with the…

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New payment in wheat pool

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: A further payment of 4d per bushel for both bagged and bulk wheat in No. 16 Pool…

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New Cattle Rules for R.a.s

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Cattle exhibitors at future Sydney Royal Easter Shows would ring all bulls over 12 months,…

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The Farmers & Graziers' Co-oferatie Grain, Insurance & Agency Co., Ltd. Wool Report (September 16)

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 2

The opening catalogues of the second Sydney series of auctions were submitted on Monday, 13th instant. The resumption of…

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