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Farming & the land, 1954

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New Wheat

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 7

TOOWOOMBA. — Spica, a new wheat released in Queensland this season, proved to be stem rust…

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Wheat Trial

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 20

Mudgee district agronomist (Mr. F. Filan) reports that 13 varieties of wheat in trial plots were…

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People and Paragraphs Pastoral Honors

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 15

AWARD of a knighthood to Sir Walter Merry-man, the well-known stud sheep breeder of Yass, in…

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To Judge Show Cattle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 12

The Registrar of the Royal Agricultural Society, Mr. H. N. Sarina, who announced his appointment yesterday, said…

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Big prices for sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 28

Keen competition has developed for the limited number of sheep on offer…

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Dogs Kill 18 Sheep

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 7

Recently, a Bramfield (Eng.) farmer pleaded guilty to having been the owner of two Labrador…

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Bathurst Wheat Quality

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 12

BATHURST district pioneers claim that some of the highest yielding…

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Sales Of Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 2

Sir,—One of the chief reasons for the large stocks of wheat held by the exporting countries is the ridiculously…

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High Protein Wheat

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 11

A Sydney milling firm, which has been testing Narromine wheat this season, gives the following…

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The Wheat Outlook

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 4

ANY wheatgrower who knows what the seasons are going to be like here and overseas in the next year or two will have no difficulty in deciding what to do about…

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Week's Wheat Deliveries

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 2

The Australian Wheat Board expects another 1,000,000 bushels to be delivered to complete this…

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"Phenomenal" Wheat Harvest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 12

New South Wales had a phenomenally good wheat harvest of high yield and excellent quality grain, Mr. G. Nicholson, acting Principal Agronomist (Extension)…

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World Wool Consumption

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 44

Dalgety's Ltd. report: World wool buyers re-assembled in Sydney, Adelaide and Albury this week and set the second…

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Topmaking Wool Down

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 32

Prices of topmaking wools were slightly lower at the Sydney sales yesterday…

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Albury Wool Sales

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 45

Albury, Thursday. — The Farmers and Graziers (Albury) reports having offered 6,700 bales at the Albury…

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Teasdale 'Told Farmers' Board "Can't Store, Only Sells, Wheat"

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 2

THE Australian Wheat Board was a marketing authority and was not equipped to store wheat from year to year, a wheat marketing authority in Sydney said this week…

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Wheat Harvest Was 'Phenomenal'

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 2

N.S.W. had had a phenomenally good wheat harvest, yields and quality of grain exceeding expectations. Mr. G. Nicholson, cerears…

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First New Year Show Dairy Cattle Feature of Albion Park Diamond Jubilee Show

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 17

ALL pure breeds of dairy cattle were, as usual, a feature of Albion Park Show, held last weekend. This was the Diamond Jubilee year of the…

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Wool Fibre Moisture Absorption

The Land · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 27

MODERN. research had thrown light on many important aspects of wool…

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World Wool Imports Up

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 6

Imports of wool into several of the chief consuming countries of the world showed significant expansion last year, says the International Wool Secretariat in a review of world wool trade in 1953…

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