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Farming & the land, 1955

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Nursery Rhymes And Real Dairy Keynote Children's Biggest Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 August 1955 · page 1

The basic purpose of the exhibition is to encourage children to drink more milk…

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Research Stepped Up At Famous Dairy Institute

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 August 1955 · page 5

The Hannah Dairy Institute, founded in 1928, is one of the most famous research centres in the world. The Institute is situated on the farm of…

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Crop Growth Halted On Monaro

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 August 1955 · page 6

With the exception of cereal rye, crop growth in the Monaro is at a standstill…

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N.Z. Farm First In Postal Adoption Scheme

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 August 1955 · page 29

First farm in the Commonwealth postal farm adoption scheme launched by the Association of Agriculture with aid from the Nutfield Foundation is that of a…

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Finley Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 August 1955 · page 15

Result of a war service land settlement ballot for six Finley farms has been…

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C.W.A. Support For Farmers And Settlers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 August 1955 · page 17

Governments start at the top and move people about to suit their policies but organisations like the Country Women's Association and the Farmers and Settlers' Association start with the individual and put his interests…

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Pastoral Workers

Tribune · Wednesday 17 August 1955 · page 15

BROKEN HILL (NSW): Australian Workers' Union members meeting here on July 31 decided to wire Conciliation Commissioner Donovan…

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Dairy Farmers Blast Fadden

Tribune · Wednesday 17 August 1955 · page 14

BRISBANE: Sir Arthur Fadden, Federal Treasurer and Country Party leader, is under angry attack from dairy farmers in his own electorate of McPherson. HE was criticised and heckled at a…

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Mosaic Sheep Help Wool Production Problems

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 22

Mosaic-type sheep at the C.S.I.R.O.'s Sheep Biology Laboratory at Prospect, near Sydney, haye already indicated that high wool production does not necessarily go hand in hand with high density…

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CROPS Bright Prospects For Wheat Harvest

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 34

Wheat crops are now making headway following the excellent start they got during the sowing season, the cereal specialist, Mr. Walkden Brown, said recently. If anything, too much…

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New peak In Quality For Dairy Cattle Breeds

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 9

BRISBANE.—Interstate judges at the Royal Show on Monday praised the solid progress being made by most of the stud dairy cattle breeds in Queensland. The…

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Wool Lectures

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 14

Three of the articles appearing in this Wool Review are from lectures delivered in…

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Inverell Wheat Assured

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 27

Sub-son moisture reserves in the Inverell district are sufficient to ensure a satisfactory…

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Wool Harvesting Time

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 14

"This is wool-harvest time for the grazier," comments Mr. L. H. Beveridge, Sheep and Wool officer. Western Agricultural Region, Dubbo…

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American Wool Waste Imports

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 4

American imports of wool waste Increased nearly threefold in the first quarter of 1955 compared with the same quarter of…

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Dollars For Wool Traders

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 14

The South African Reserve Bank will allocate dollars to certain wool firms In the Union to permit them to trade on the…

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U.K. Wool Consumption

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 8

For the first time this year consumption of wool in the United Kingdom did not show an advance…

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Belgium Using More Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 10

The future for wool in Belgium, especially Australian wool, seems very encouraging…

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Germany Takes More Wool

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 3

During the first five months of this year exports of wool from Australia to Western…

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Big Sheep loss In Sth. Africa

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 17

More than 7200 sheep die in South Africa every day, reports the Australian Wool…

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