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Farming & the land, 1949

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Another Wool Record Gone

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

THE Australian wool price rocord was again brokon this wook when Italy paid 156d. por lb. for lour bales of superfino Morino at…

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New Record Wool Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday. —The second Australasian wool record in two days—159d —was established at the final…

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Contenders For Victorian Wheat Championship

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 6

FIVE finalists in the Malice Wheat Crop Competition are to compete for the Victorian R.A.S. £30 championship…

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Sheep Deaths From Feeding on Heliotrope Weed

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

SEVERE outbreaks of one form of so-called toxaemic jaundice occurring in sheep in New South Wales and Victoria over the past 20 years have been caused by sheep feeding on the annual weed heliotrope…

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British Sheep Show and Sales at Goulburn

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

ENTRIES for the show of British breeds sheep to be held at Goulburn on January 27, total 236; and 774 sheep will be…

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Wool Fashions For Tiny Tots

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 9

BRITAIN'S Royal Baby has been the inspiration for many attractive displays at Parisian shops specialising in…

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Wool Staying Up Optimistic Outlook

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 6

Just when many people are feeling that the wool boom is too good to last, Dr. Booth comes home from the…

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Wheat Harvest About 64 Million Bushels

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

THE optimistic wheat forecast of the N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) is not likely to be realised, it was…

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Freight on Cornsack; Wheat Bd's. Statement

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 22

PROVIDED arrangements could be made to have cornsacks transported in truck lots, growers would be expected to pay only truck lot…

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German Mills Work Wool For Britain

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 5

TOPMAKING establishments in Germany are still combing a limited amount of wool for British concerns…

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Plan For Wool Interests U.S.

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Thurs.--Financial circles in New York and Boston are…

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Results of Upper Hunter Wheat Variety Trials

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 13

WHEAT trials on Mr. A. M. McMillin's properly at Scone have given some interesting results as shown by the…

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Another Pool Advance on Low Grade Wheat

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

FURTHER payments will be made to growers who delivered low grade wheat into No. I IA Pool, the general manager of the Auntralian…

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N.S.W.Wheat Harvest; Statistician's Inquiry

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 7

FINAL estimates of the current wheat harvest in New South Wales will shortly be made. The Government Statistician (Mr. S. R…

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Wool Values Should Stand Says Dr. Booth

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

EVERY country in the world wants Australia's wool and there is no reason why the present average price should drop,…

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Champion Slopes Wheat Stripped 14 Bags P.A.

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

MR. H. R. ROSS of J. A. and H. R. Ross and Cullen Bros., of Garangula, Harden, who won the R.A.S. Southern Slopes wheat…

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The Woo! Trade; Brokers' Reports Sound Wool Position

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 25

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Both United States and Australian millmen have bought fair quantities of wool in Australia this season, but their…

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Future of Wool Prices Expert Is Confident Big World Demand

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

THERE is no reason why the price of Australian wool should fall, says Dr. Edgar Booth, former chairman of…

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Breeding Farm. Stock. Veterinan To answer your question our veterinarian must know all the facts. Therefore, give full particulars of the malady when you write. All inquiries should be addressed to "The Land" Newspaper. Box 1558, G.P.O., Sydney, and not to our veterinarian personally. T.B. In Cattle On The Increase

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 16

REPORTS in the daily press appear to indicate that tuberculosis ts rite in certain districts. In some particular areas the figure of even 50 per cent, of affected cattle has been mentioned. How far these reports are correct it is not possible to say, hat allowing a wide margin for exaggeration it would appear that T.B. is on…

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New Use for Seaweed in Fine Woollen Laces (From the Aust. Wool Board) London, Dec. 24

The Land · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 18

A NEW use has been found for seaweed, which, when developed, is estimated will utilise hundreds of thousands of tons of…

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