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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1943

1,201 stories in Murray's papers · page 24 of 61

Farming Is Fortunate

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 4

Speaking in a recent broadcast of the remarkable renaissance of British agriculture, the British Minister for Agriculture, Hon. R. S…

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Army Barbed Wire For Farmers MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 2

Army authorities will shortly release a considerable number of tons of barbed wire for the use of fanners, stated the Army Department tonight. The wire to…

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Wagga Special Sheep Sale

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 2

Although the attendance of buyers was not altogether large at the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance. Co 's special sheep sale at Wagga on Monday, still a…

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Advance on Wheat

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 3

The Minister for Commerce Mr. W. J. S[?]).has announced that cab[?] has approved a second advance of [?] per bushel on wheat in No. 5 posl…

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The Price of Wool The Appraisements to Date

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday: The average appraised price for wool per pound greasy, for the Commonwealth to date for this season was 14.08…

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Turning Back The Files... 10 Years Ago: (From the “Pastoral Times,” May 12, 1933.)

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 3

HOLED IN ONE.—Playing at the short hole on the local golf course known as “Porter’s Pet,” Mr. gtorden Lloyd holed out in one stroke…

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Commercial To-day’s Sheep MARKET(Supplied by John McNamara and Co., Pty. Ltd.) NEWMARKET

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 1

Best sheep a shade dearer. Others and lambs, firmer YESTERDAY’S STOCK SALE THE ASSOCIATED AGENTS…

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Feeding of Pigs in Dairying Areas

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 6

Denmark carries nearly twenty-five pigs per ten dairy cows. Few of our dairy farms carry ten pigs per ten dairy cows, and many carry one sow…

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Professor Copland and the Farmer

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 2

The Prices Commissioner, Professor Copland, who has been on a somewhat extended itinerary of the northern portions of this State has been…

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Sheep Skin Sales. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1943 · page 2

There was a good demand for 50,318 sheep skins offered for sale today and the market generally was Arm at recent rates. Merinos, three-quarter to full woolled. best…

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A Fine Record Holdenson and Neilson in Butter-Cheese Competitions

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1943 · page 3

Awards of the Australian Institute of Factory Managers and Secretaries (Victorian division) butter and cheese competitions for 1943 have been released and…

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To Make Farm Machinery Change Over By Big Munitions Factory CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1943 · page 1

As the first step to providing the necessary mechanical equipment to ensure an increase in food production, a [?] munitions establishment has been…

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Use Your Butter Ration This

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 2

There are three simple but vital rules for getting the most out of your buller ration:— (1) Use your entire B oz each week as…

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Australians Must Eat Less Butter. Sacrifice To Help Britain : ½lb. Week for Each Person

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 2

Front today, all butter will be rationed to half a pound a week for every ration book holder. This announcement was made yesterday by the Minister for Trade and Customs (Senator Keane )…

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Wool Conscious

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 2

Looking to the future—and as a matter of interest to wool growers—press reports intimate that the International Wool Secretariat at Home…

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Post War Wool Marketing

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 4

"Our next appraisement fixture in Sydney will be a small catalogue of approximately 800 bales of scoured skin wool, which is to be offered on…

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The New Rationing Butter and Household Drapery

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 1

From yesterday (Monday) every person in Australia is rationed to half a pound of butter a week. E coupons in the new ration books…

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Butter for Britain Minister's Statement on Rationing Scheme

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 3

From yesterday, all butter will be rationed to half a pound, a week for every ration book holder. This announcement was made on…

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Butter Cut Is “Bitter Pill” Rationing Hurts Most People

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 1

The Curtin Government has given the Australian people some nasty knocks since it took office in October, 1941, but the butter…

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Turning Back The Files... 10 Years Ago : (From the “Pastoral [?] May 23, 19[?]

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 June 1943 · page 3

WHO CAUSED FIRE?—In a report to the Coroner it is sugges[?] by the police that the recent fire 2[?] railway wheat stack was [?] by a…

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