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Farming & the land, 1950

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Permanent Farming

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 42

LIVESTOCK production belongs with permanent farming, especially where planned carefully in terms of proper land use, maintenance of soil fertility through…

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Dairy Production In Netherlands Still Increasing

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 6

A SURVEY published by the Central Bureau for Statistics in The Hague shows that milk production in the…

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N.s.w. Farmers Shun Soybeans

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 15

TOTAL known plantings of soybean in N.S.W. are only about 10-acres this season. This was revealed recently when…

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Soldier Farms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 8

State Cabinet yesterday approved a bill to validate the titles of a number of soldier settlement leases made doubtful by a recent…

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£26,000 Offer for Stud Farm

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 28

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The well-known stud, Kismet Park, Sunbury, was offered at auction this afternoon on behalf of Sir…

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£26,000 Offer for Stud Farm

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 28

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The well-known stud, Kismet Park, Sunbury, was offered at auction this afternoon on behalf of Sir…

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Wheat Terms Agreed on

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 2

Britain and Australia are authoritatively reported to have come to terms on the sale of some…

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Wheat Terms Agreed on

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 4

Britain and Australia are authoritatively reported to have come to terms on the sale of some…

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Wool Firm in London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 24

LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.-Reuter).--All greasy and scoured merinos were very firm at the London wool…

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Record prices for sheep at Nyngan

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 10

Ewes brought record prices at the Nyngan stock sales on Wednesday. Auctioneers sold a line of 700 merino ewes,…

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Down Turn in Wool Prices

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 10

Wool prices showed a slight downward trend at this week's Sydney wool sales, but the fall appears to be due more to the decline in quality than to definite weakness in the…

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U.s. Wool at Lowest Level

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 24

U.S. produced 253,350,0001b. of wool for 1949, the smallest on record, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture…

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Wheat Sold to Britain Stalemate On Price Ends

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 1

It was learned in Sydney yesterday that Australia has come to terms with Britain for the sale of 20 to 30 million bushels of wheat…

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Smashing Wool Records

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 19 March 1950 · page 10

TWO-THIRDS of the way through this season, the wool clip has realised all but £8.6…

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Drover Drowns Trying To Save Sheep

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 19 March 1950 · page 3

Floodwaters sweeping along the Bokhara River into northern New South Wales on Friday night trapped and drowned a 26-year-old drover, Joseph Milton, who was trying to save…

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600,000 Tons Of Wheat Sold To U.K.

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 19 March 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Saturday.— The chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, Mr. F. H. M. Cullen, to-day announced…

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Haul of Butter Coupons

The Sun · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 2

A commercial traveller had been led into a butter coupon racket and trapped by an agent provocateur,…

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London Wool Firm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 4

LONDON, March 19.—Australian wool was very firm at the London wool sales on Friday. A feature was the appearance of strong…

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Price of Wheat to U.k. Kept Secret

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Sun.--The Australian Wheat Board will not announce the price Britain is to pay for Australian wheat until Australia has…

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Record entries for Royal Easter Show Cattle Move to Grounds

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 7

Entries for many sections at the Royal Easter Show had broken records, the secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society (Colonel Somerville) said last…

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