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Farming & the land, 1949

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Rats and Rain Ruin Last Season's Wheat Wheat Board's Colossal Blunder

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

Thousands of bags of last season's wheat are rotting at railway sidings in western N.S.W. Rats, mice and rain have played havoc with the bagged grain, which has not been shifted because…

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Wool Costly

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 8

IT is hard to understand why in the greatest wool-producing country in the world it is practically impossible to obtain…

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Wool Costly

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 8

IT is hard to understand why in the greatest wool-producing country in the world it is practically impossible to obtain…

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Wool Costly

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 8

IT is hard to understand why in the greatest wool-producing country in the world it is practically impossible to obtain…

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Wool Costly

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 8

IT is hard to understand why in the greatest wool-producing country in the world it is practically impossible to obtain…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Wool Costly

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 8

IT is hard to understand why in the greatest wool-producing country in the world it is practically impossible to obtain…

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Poisoning of Sheep Weed Blamed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 3

Heliotrope weed causes toxaemic jaundice in sheep, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research…

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Low Stocks of Wool Abroad

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 12

Government stocks of wool in the U.S. are falling rapidly. On October 1, 1948, wool in all hands in the U.S. was 23…

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U.S. Has Dollars, We Have Wool--Let Us Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 8

AMERICANS complain that Russian buying has pushed up the price of wool…

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Rabbit Menace To Wheat Crop

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The rabbit pest has caused big losses to wheat farmers in the central…

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Skein Wool Bargain

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 3

IN Murdoch's advertisement in the "Daily Mirror" yesterday the price of scarce NETTA BOUCLE WOOL was…

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Skein Wool Bargain

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 3

IN Murdoch's advertisement in the "Daily Mirror" yesterday the price of scarce NETTA BOUCLE WOOL was…

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Skein Wool Bargain

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

IN Murdoch's advertisement in the "Daily Mirror" yesterday the price of scarce NETTA BOUCLE WOOL was…

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Skein Wool Bargain

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 12

IN Murdoch's advertisement in the "Daily Mirror" yesterday the price of scarce NETTA BOUCLE WOOL was…

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Skein Wool Bargain

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 12

IN Murdoch's advertisement in the "Daily Mirror" yesterday the price of scarce NETTA BOUCLE WOOL was…

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Wool Expert Returns

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 5

DR. EDGAR BOOTH, former chairman of the International Wool Secretariat, who arrived in the Athenic…

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Wool Expert Returns

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 5

DR. EDGAR BOOTH, former chairman of the International Wool Secretariat, who arrived in the Athenic…

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Wool Expert Returns

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 5

DR. EDGAR BOOTH, former chairman of the International Wool Secretariat, who arrived in the Athenic…

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Rabbits Devastate Country Worst Plague Yet Inroads on Wheat Crop

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

REPORTS of damage caused by rabbits throughout Australia reveal that the nation is suffering what is probably the worst rabbit plague in its history…

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Visit From Wool Expert

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 5

DR. EDGAR BOOTH, former chairman of the International Wool Secretariat, who arrived in the Athenic…

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