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Farming & the land, 1954

6,775 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 250

Wool for Soviet

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 13

NEWCASTLE, Thurs-- The overseas freighter Stentor will begin loading wool for Russia…

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Finance All Wool Steady

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 34

Prices were firm for all types of wool at the Sydney sales yesterday…

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I.W.A. Wheat Sales' Serious Lag

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 8

Importing countries which signed the new International Wheat Agreement last year have been slow to take up…

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Women's Interests On The Air Farmers Tura Playwrights

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 7

WHEN Mr. and Mrs. Henry Howlett set out at four o'clock on Saturday mornings with a load of…

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SHEEP New Method Of Wool Baling Cheaper, Simpler

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 8

A new method of pressing wool bales perfected by the Department of National Development could mean a saving of £400,000 a year to the Australian wool industry. The new method…

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Farmers Abandoning Irrigated Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 30

Deniliquin farmers are changing over from irrigated wheat because of heavy watering costs. Yields from irrigated…

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Culinary Butter Proposed

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 40

TOOWOOMBA.—A suggestion has been made here that culinary butter…

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CROPS New Canadian Rustproof Wheat Pleases

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 34

There is considerable interest in Canadian prairie provinces over a new wheat variety…

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Orderly Wheat Marketing

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 11

Sir,—It is my opinion that wheat stabilisation in its present proposed form does not give additional…

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World Wool Purchases

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 50

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: It now appears clear that increased, purchasing of raw wool by several countries…

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Weaker Wool Values

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 16

Wool values again weakened in Sydney this week. The finer wools, of…

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Temora Wheat Sub-terminal

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 3
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The Temora bulk wheat sub-terminal is to be opened by the Minister for…

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More Wheat Stores Urged

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 2

THE answer to the present wheat problem ought to be more storage rather than less acreage, Mr. Keith McKenzie, of Mudgee, said last week. Mr. McKenzie recalled…

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Panther Tops Wheat Trials

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 14

PANTHER headed a wheat variety trial at Inverell recently for the second successive…

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Germinated Wheat for Feed

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 42

A LARGE South Australian poultry former is successfully feeding his laying hens on germinated wheat…

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£31m. more from wool

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 16

CANBERRA, Thurs.--Australia earned £31,422,000 more from wool exports in the six months to…

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Wool Pressing Without Caps

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 13

COMMONWEALTH scientists have discovered a new method of pressing wool in standard packs without loose caps. Picture shows fop of test bole, illustrating the nest close of the flaps. (Report,…

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Wool and the People

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 39

If wool had freest born "only this morning" people would think it was one of the…

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Wool Gift for Queen

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

THE Australian Wool Bureau will present The Queen with a gift of coatings, suit lengths, and garments made from it bale of finest Merino wool. The Bureau received…

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