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Farming & the land, 1949

7,152 stories in Sydney's papers · page 68 of 250

"Betty" Is No Dumb Sheep As This Photograph Shows

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

"Betty" the lamb keeping abreast of the news while she sits in her own armchair. The pet lamb,…

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"Betty" Is No Dumb Sheep As This Photograph Shows

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

"Betty" the lamb keeping abreast of the news while she sits in her own armchair. The pet lamb,…

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"Betty" Is No Dumb Sheep As This Photograph Shows

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

"Betty" the lamb keeping abreast of the news while she sits in her own armchair. The pet lamb,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

"Betty'' Is No Dumb Sheep As This Photograph Shows

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

"Betty" the lamb keeping abreast of the news while she sits in her own armchair. The pet lamb,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

"Betty" Is No Dumb Sheep As This Photograph Shows

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

"Betty" the lamb keeping abreast of the news while she sits in her own armchair. The pet lamb,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

"Betty" Is No Dumb Sheep As This Photograph Shows

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

"Betty" the lamb keeping abreast of the news while she sits in her own armchair. The pet lamb,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

"Betty" Is No Dumb Sheep As This Photograph Shows

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

"Betty" the lamb keeping abreast of the news while she sits in her own armchair. The pet lamb,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

"Betty" Is No Dumb Sheep As This Photograph Shows

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

"Betty" the lamb keeping abreast of the news while she sits in her own armchair. The pet lamb,…

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No Authority To Sell Wheat On Sliding Scale

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 16

AUSTRALIAN Government representative to the International Wheat Conference at Washington had no authority to cell Australian wheat…

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Reduced Wheat Sowings Recommended In U.S.A.

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 13

RECENT American comment has suggested that world wheat supplies may soon he large enough to meet any likely demand. Reduced sowings this year are recommended In the U.S.A., said Mr. P. C. Druce, an economics…

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Must Nominate for Wheat Cttee by March 28

The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 3

NOMINATIONS of wheatgrower candidates for the State Wheat Committee close at noon, on Monday, March 28,…

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Novel Trial By N.Z. Sheep Dogs For Sydney Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 12

FOR the first time in Australia there will be an exhibition by six sheep dogs working as a team in a novel sheep for trial, at the forthcoming Sydney Royal Show. Unique obstacles will be placed at various positions in the ring, when,…

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Exchange Problem Check To U.S. Wool Buying

The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1

RECOMMENDATIONS to the U.S.A. Senate Foreign Relations Committee made by the Chairman of the Boston Wool Trade Association (Mr. John Wright), on February 21, have been forwarded to the N.S.W. Graziers' Association…

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No Sign Of Decline In Demand For Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 2

REPORT from London states that "the demand for raw wool in all consuming countries shows no sign of dimintshing and with competition…

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Queensland Model Farm Plan To Aid Dairying

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 18

BRISBANE.—Development of model farms from dairying properties is to be undertaken by the Agriculture Department throughout Queensland to stimulate efficiency of production in the industry. The Agriculture Minister (Mr. Collins) said that the scheme, to be financed from the all-States annual Commonwealth grant of £250,000 made available last year, was part…

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N.S.W. Farmers Seek Extended Dairy Scheme

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 4

NINE N.S.W. rural producers framed recommendations on their State's rural problems that were adopted by the Liberal…

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Coastal Dairy Farm Competitions Entries Close On April 30 For This Year's Contests Organising Committee's Decisions

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 4

ENTRIES for the Coastal Dairy Farm Competitions will close on April 30 next and district judging to select the finalists of compete for the championships will begin soon afterwards. This decision was made by the organising committee on Monday…

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Govt. Won't Agree To Wheatman At Wheat Talks

The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 7

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Mr. Pollard said in Parliament to-day that the Commonwealth Government had informed the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation that it would not meet the cost of a…

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End of Low Grade 1947-8 Season Wheat In Sight

The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 2

BY the end of this month the last of the inferior shot and sprung export wheat from the 1947-48 season crop in N.S.W. will have left country sidings and either be in fee Sydney terminal or in ships en route to India and the East…

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Stabilisation Safeguards Sought Minister Asked To Extend Butter Price Guarantee Period Pig Industry "Languishing"

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 9

WRITING of the contract for the sale of butter to the United Kingdom at 20/7 (Aust.) per cwt. above the objective payment to factories to return 2/2 per lb. commercial butter at factory platforms called for immediate action, declared the general president (Mr. R. C. Gibson) at the meeting of the central executive council of the…

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