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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

7,889 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 250

US Threat To Our Wheat Markets

Tribune · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 6

AMERICAN competition threatens to undermine the British market for Australian wheat, with serious consequences to…

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Five girls and 55 men in Tech. wool class

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 24

DETERMINED to join the sheep and wool class at the Technical College, Truda Haddin, of Camden, worked as a jilleroo at Bombala for three months to convince her father her interest in sheep was genuine…

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Tas. wool up; N.S.W. 5 p.c. down

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 7

New South Wales wool prices fell yesterday, but Tasmanian prices rose. The New South Wales sale…

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Sporting Big Card for Randwick Warwick Farm Meeting on Saturday Wattle and Proctor for Double The A.J.C. will conduct a Warwick Farm meeting at Randwick next

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 12

A seven-race card has been offered to the various owners but the response has been so great for the Sunnybrook…

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Easter bonnets designed for cropped hair-do

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 23

PARIS, Wednesday.--The Easter bonnet this year may be large or small, but it will certainly be made to…

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Merino Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 2

Sir,—Regarding your interesting article on the wool industry in Monday's "Herald," it is not generally known that the Rev…

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Pastoral Letter A Challenge To All Catholics

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 4

WHEN a Pastoral Letter carries the signatures of the entire Australian Episcopate, and is ordered to be read in all…

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New Storage Bins To Increase Wheat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 4

New storage bins will be erected at another 12 country wheat silos in N.S.W., said the Minister for Agriculture (Mr…

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Big Rise in Wool to U.s.a

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 11

CANBERRA, Thursday.--Wool exports to the United States between July and…

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Big Rise in Wool to U.s.a

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 11

CANBERRA, Thursday.--Wool exports to the United States between July and…

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Big Rise in Wool to U.s.a

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 11

CANBERRA, Thursday.--Wool exports to the United States between July and…

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Cheque Near £3,500,000 Two Tasmanian Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 5

HOBART, Wednesday.— The wool cheque from Tasmania s two sales this season is estimated at nearly…

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Dairy Factory Manager MR. E. H. Keech Appointed

Nepean Times · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 1

From the applications received in response to advertisements for the position of general manager to the Nepean Co-operative Dairy and…

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Argentine Crops Hit By Drough

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 28

BUENOS AIRES.--Grain crops in a large area of Argentina have been extensively damaged by a severe…

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Argentine Crops Hit By Drought

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 28

BUENOS AIRES.--Grain crops in a large area of Argentina have been extensively damaged by a severe…

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Named Ideal of Farmers

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 1

Virginia Learta Jensen (18), of Blair, Nebraska, U.S., who won the title of "Ideal Farmer's…

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Poultry Farmers Meeting

The Biz · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 8

In spits of the rain on Monday night, a fair number of poultry farmers met in King's Hall, Fairfield West. Keen interest was shown in an address…

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Complete Review Of Sheep, Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 5

PUBLISHED this week by the Commonwealth Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the "Statistical Handbook of the Sheep and Wool Industry," provides a comprehensive coverage in statistical form, of the development of the sheep…

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Farmers Prepare For Wheat Crop

The Land · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 14

TAMWORTH farmers were preparing land for next season's wheat,and where weeds have been controlled, but soil conditions were good, Mr. J.[?]…

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Higher wheat crop estimate

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 9

CANBERRA, Thurs.--The official estimate for the 1949-50 wheat crop is 216,500,000 bushels--the second largest on record…

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