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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

1,819 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 91

Deniliquin Sheep Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 4

Ten thousand sheep have already been advised for John McNamara and Co.’s special sheep sale at Deniliquin on Thursday, January 25. Further…

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Motor Cars, Wool and Wheat Why the Preferential Treatment (To the Editor)

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2

Sir,—I understand that the Government’s proposal to find £1,500,000 to [?] the building of motor cars in Australia has been agreed, to by all…

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Rust in Wheat Crops Ford Resistant: Dundee Susceptible

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 7

Heavy rains last November in several sections of the wheat belt stimulated extensive development of stem rust in crops already sappy and…

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Rust in Wheat Crops Ford Resistant Dundee Susceptible

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 4

Heavy rains last November in several sections of the wheat belt simulated extensive development of stemrust in crops already, sappy, and…

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Pastoral Increasing Interest in Pasture Improvement

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 7

"The activity in regard to the establishment of sown pastures that has been in evidence in recent years was continued during 1938-39, and…

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YACKANDANDAH Sheep Track In Crash

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 7

With 65 sheep aboard, a motor truck driven by Mr. Gordon Cleland, of Yackandandah, overturned when the front wheel brakes locked as the…

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Death Due to Anthrax? Drove Infected Cattle

The Pastoral Times · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 4

A drover named Welsh, who cut the shoulder from a beast killed by anthrax, has died in Narandera Hospital. Welsh used the-shoulder to feed his…

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Surplus Wheat Letter From Scientific Council

The Pastoral Times · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2

Mr. J. A Lawson M.L.A. (Murray), has received the following letter from the secretary of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research:—…

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More Sheep Penned at Albury, But Fewer Sold

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 3

While actual sales of sheep at the Municipal sale yards were down on the figures for 1938, the number penned comprised the best total since 1932…

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Distribution of the Wheat Bounty Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 8

The Rural Bank, which is the distributing authority for the wheat bounty in N.S.W. is now making the necessary calculations to determine the…

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Death Due to Anthrax? Drove Infected Cattle TOCUMWAL

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2

A drover named Welsh, who cut the shoulder from a beast killed by anthrax, has died in the Narrandera Hospital…

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Large Sale of Canadian Wheat Winnipeg, January 10

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 8

It is understood that 22.000,000 bushels of wheat and flour were sold to-day overseas, mostly to the Allied Cereals Board. It is the largest sale…

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Wheat for Britain Sale by Commonwealth. ADELAIDE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2

The Minister for Commerce (Senator McLeay), who is touring wheat areas of the Mallee, announced, to-night, that the British Government…

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134,574 Bags of Wheat Deliveries at Deniliquin Station

The Pastoral Times · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 1

DELIVERIES of wheat over the weighbridge to the Deniliquin railway station amount to 134,574 bags for the current season…

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Anthrax in Cattle Affections Found in Mob at Tocumwal Drover Later Ides

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 1

Twelve of a mob of cattle, which arrived at Tocumwal last week to be trucked to Newmarket saleyards, Melbourne, have since…

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Australia’s Wool Cheque to Be £75 Million Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2

Proceeds to Australia from the sale of the record clip this year would be £75 million, the secretary of the N.S.W. Graziers’ Association (Mr…

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Britain to Buy 56 Million Bushels of Our Wheat Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 8

The Minister for Commerce (Senator Macleaby) who is touring the [?] areas of the Mallen announced to-night that the British…

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Millions of Bushels of Wheat All Silos Are Crammed More Grain Still to Be Harvested Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 8

Reports from the country Indicate that adequate measured arc being taken to protect an overflow of wheat at [?] from weather and [?]…

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Finance for Farmers and Graziers Should Be Modernised

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 1

In the past both the wool and wheat industries have been temporarily organised, in some respects, under fixed selling conditions, writes the…

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[?]Ng the Farmer [?]vice on Various Subjects [?]ral [?]Ming [?]Ooklet

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 7

[?] New South [?] has been con[?] Murrumbid[?] to isolated…

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