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Farming & the land, 1954

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War on Wheat Price

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 5

Canada's wheat price reduction to 15s 10d a bushel could be the beginning of a wheat price…

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War on Wheat Price

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 24

Canada's wheat price reduction to 15s 10d a bushel could be the beginning of a wheat price…

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Wool BUYERS Give £1250

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE.—The 150 members of the Victorian and South Australian Wool Buyers…

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Forecast Of Wool Output

The Land · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 44

Canberra: Australia's total wool production in 1953-54 is forecast at 1,260 million ib.(in the grease),…

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Trouble When Cattle Swallow Nails, Wire

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 31

As cattle swallow their food without chewing it, it is quite a simple matter for a piece of wire or a nail to pass with the food down the gullet into the paunch and…

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Country Stock Newcastle: Sheep Prices Ease

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 42

The supply of sheep and lambs at the Newcastle saleyards was light yesterday. The supply of lambs was much…

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Running the World's Largest Sheep Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 13

WILGENA, Australia's and the world's largest sheep station, is 3,000 square miles in area—one-sixteenth the size of England. IT is in Central Australia, where, although the soil…

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Uncertain About 1954 Wheat Area

The Land · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 16

ALTHOUGH the 1954 wheat position in the Inverell district was somewhat…

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Vic. Stops Ballot On Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 8

CANBERRA, Thursday. —The Acting Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Senator G. McLeay, said…

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Wheat Plan to the Editor

The Land · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 51

Sir, — C o n t i n u a n c e of wheat stabilisation Is very necessary for the wheat industry…

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Monday Homebush Stock Markets Sheep Numbers Fall

The Land · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 46

The State Marketing Bureau reports: Supplies on Monday showed an appreciable decline, the yarding…

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Livestock Review Prices Of Store Sheep Up

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 15

Prices of store sheep at auction and privately rose sharply this week because of the recent good rains…

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Control of 331 Wool Stores

The Land · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 44

The 331 wartime wool scores were vested in the Australian Wool Bureau as from January 9 last…

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May Sell Our Wheat To Japan

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 34

The manager of the Australian Wheat Board, Mr. C. J. Perrott, considers there are…

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No Extra Wheat In Lime Trials

The Land · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 39

LIMING experiments at Wagga Agricultural College have indicated that lime will not increase wheat yields, Mr. E. Tindale, agronomist conducting the…

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On the Land Tuberculosis In Cattle A Menace

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 15

Bovine tuberculosis is the worst disease of beef and dairy cattle in New South Wales. It costs the pastoral industry tens of thousands of pounds each year in direct losses, and many thousands more because tubercular stock cannot produce as…

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Wool Sales Prices Firm At Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 15

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.— Prices at the Newcastle wool auctions yesterday, were fully maintained to-day…

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U.K. Wool Market Holds Firm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 9

A total of 43,000 bales were cleared at the conclusion of the third series of the London Wool Sales on Friday, January 29. The Committee of London…

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Wool Stores Handed Back To Bureau0

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 8

Wool stores built during World War II and now handed over to the Australian Wool Bureau will be retained as a safeguard against another war…

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3,730,000 Acres Of Wheat Sown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 16

The Government Statistician, Mr. S. R. Carver, estimates that 3,730,000 acres of wheat was sown in New South Wales for the 1953-54 season…

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