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Farming & the land, 1950

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Information and Help Largest Sheep Station

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 20

A READER has asked what is the largest sheep station and the largest shearing shed in Australia, and for details of the record hearing tally, with machines and hand shears. Kooba Station, Darlington…

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Wheat Harvest 79 m. Bushels

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 12

TOTAL. N.S.W. wheat harvest is expected to be about 79,000,000 bushels this season…

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Query on Silo Wheat Weights

The Land · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 7

Breeza F.S.A. secretary (Mr. J. E. Gray) has written to F.S.A. headquarters stating that silo wheat weights at that centre were…

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Canadian Wheat Deal with Spain

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 20

OTTAWA, Friday. -- Canadian shippers have completed arrangements to ship 300,000 bushels of wheat to Spain, the…

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Canadian Wheat Deal with Spain

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 20

OTTAWA, Friday. -- Canadian shippers have completed arrangements to ship 300,000 bushels of wheat to Spain, the…

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£225,000 Wool, Tallow Blaze

The Land · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

Thousands of bales of wool an[?] barrels of tallow were destroyed [?] fire at a wool realisation storage sh[?] in Footscray, Melbourne, on Mond[?]…

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116¼d. for Comeback Wool

The Land · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 28

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. reports: The second half of the wool selling season so far as Sydney is concerned was successfully inaugurated this week…

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Vic. Wheat Variety Gives Big Yield

The Land · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 9

A 100-ACRE crop of "Magnet" wheat at Junee Reefs this season yielded at the rate of 54 bushels to the acre…

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Minister On "Hitch" In Wheat Deal

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday.-- The Minister for Commerce (Mr. McEwen) today commented on cabled…

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Black Oats Prolific In Parkes Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 16

BLACK oats in Parkes wheat crops have been more proline this season than during recent years reports the…

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Minister On "Hitch" In Wheat Deal

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday.-- The Minister for Commerce (Mr. McEwen) today commented on cabled…

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Storage of Wheat Need For Silos

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

Bulkhead storage of wheat was not regarded as the best means of storing wheat that could not be moved quickly to the seaboard,…

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Wheat Harvest In Canada Shows Decline

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 18

DESPITE an increase of 3,400.000 acres over 1948 plantings the official estimate for Canada's wheat harvest is…

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Hitch In Wheat Deal With Britain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 19 (A.A.P.).—Negotiations for a big purchase of Australian wheat by Britain…

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Spain wants wheat to avert famine

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 8

OTTAWA, Thursday.--Spain has appealed to Australia to sell her several shiploads of wheat to help avert famine. The present Spanish bread…

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Wyalong Wheat Yields Better Than Expected

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 12

WEST Wyalong district wheat yields have been better than expected, due mainly to beneficial November rains, reports the…

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Wheat Purity Falls In North West

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 9

WHEAT seed purity standard in the North West is not as high as it was, according to the Gunnedah agronomist (Mr. O'Reilly)…

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N.s.w. Wheat "Only Fair"

The Land · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 7

Grain quality of this season's wheat crop in N.S.W. was only fair, cereal specialist of the Department of Agriculture (Mr. G. Nicholson said…

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Clash Of Views In Scotland On Polled Cattle

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 8

WHEN the question of importations of polled Ayrahires and Shorthorns from U.S.A. and Canada was discussed at a meeting of the directors…

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Wool Cheque May Be £220 Million

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 1

Trade experts believe this season's wool cheque will exceed £220 million…

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