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Farming & the land, 1947

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Wool Quality Fails To Please Tokyo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1947 · page 4

CANBERRA, Friday.— Because of dissatisfaction in Tokyo with Australian second-grade wools, the…

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Wheat Price Increased Now 14/5½ Bushel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1947 · page 5

The Australian Wheat Board's price for export is now 14/5½ per bushel, bulk wheat basis f.o.r. main shipping ports…

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London Wool Prices Rise 5 P.c

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1947 · page 24

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.). -- Owing to the fuel crisis the full week's total of 26,080 bales of wool was offered today. All was sold…

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Wheat Quotations. Overseas and Sydney. Friday, February 14

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 15 February 1947 · page 4

All overseas quotes are for Thursday, February 13, 1947, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Farmer Crushed To Death By Car

The Sun · Saturday 15 February 1947 · page 1

PERTH, Saturday.--Bowgada farmer, James Hill, 50, was crushed to death by his car at Morawn, a wheat belt town 200 miles north…

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Make Your Butter Go Farther

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 February 1947 · page 40

This week's tested prizewinning recipe shows how to make your butter supply double itself. Extended in this way, the butter is…

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These sheep came 350 miles without water

The Sun · Sunday 16 February 1947 · page 3

Weakened sheep being trampled underfoot in a NSW railways livestock truck. One sheep was found dead and another injured when this van was unloaded in Sydney. They had travelled 350 miles huddled in a standing position and without water…

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Fashion Spotlight Victory for wool in new dresshouse

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 February 1947 · page 41

PARIS, Sat. -- The new star in the Paris dress firmament -- Christian Dior, who showed his first one-man collection at…

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Rain Ends Drought; Crops, Stock Saved

Truth · Sunday 16 February 1947 · page 34

The happiest men in New South Wales yesterday were farmers in Western districts, jubilant because this week's heavy rain had broken the drought and saved their crops and stock. Steady, soaking rain fell…

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A bad week for fowls the Story of a Little Farm

The Sun · Sunday 16 February 1947 · page 15

THIS has been a bad week for ducks and fowls. What goes on in our fowlyard…

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Sheep & Lambs Still Dearer

The Sun · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 2

There was a small yarding of sheep and lambs at Homebush today, consisting of 17,215. including 7497 lambs, and another…

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Wool Prices Improve

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 21

LONDON, Monday.--A general increase in prices of 5 percent, marked last week's wool sales at Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, when…

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Wool Prices Improve

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 21

LONDON, Monday.--A general increase in prices of 5 percent, marked last week's wool sales at Port Elizabeth. East London, Durban, when…

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Funeral Pyre For Dead Sheep

The Sun · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 2

NARRABRI, Monday.--Nine hundred sheep drowned or bogged, were removed from the Narrabri trucking yards…

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Increase in Wheat Export Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 5

"The new export price of Australian wheat. 14/5¼ a bushel (bulk basis, f.o.r. main shipping ports) is an increase of /6 a bushel on the price…

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey & CURLEY Queer Cattle!

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 19

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey & CURLEY Queer Cattle!

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 19

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey & CURLEY Queer Cattle!

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey & CURLEY Queer Cattle!

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