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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1943

1,201 stories in Murray's papers · page 57 of 61

Sheep Skin Sales. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 2

Good competition prevailed for 45,555 sheep skins offered for sale today and the market generally was firm at late rates. Quotations: Merino, three-quarter to full…

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Opportunity to Secure Good Fattening Weight Cattle

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 2

On Wednesday December 8. commencing at 1.30 p.m.. a great opportunity will be offered to cattlemen in southern NSW and Victoria, when the Farmers and…

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“Urgent Need of Men O[?] Farms.” Release Too Slow, Says M.P. SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 8

Stressing today that the return [?] efficient experienced manpower to farms was must urgent. Sir Earle Page [?] said today that the de[?]ling in dairy…

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Dairy Board Personnel Reduced SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 8

Reconstitution of Commonwealth Dairy Produce Control Board with a reduction in personnel from 13 to six was announced b[?] the Agriculture Minister (Mr Scully)…

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Students To Do Farm Work SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 1

The Deputy-Director of Manpower Mr Bell[?]more disclosed today that more than [?] University students, most of them in unreserved facilities, had volunteered for…

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Albury Identities “Down on the Farm”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 5

“Of cabbages and kings.” What reader of Lewis Carrot of “Alice in Wonderland” fame will ever forget the last of those four joyous lines enunciated by the Walrus when lie called his motley community…

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“Many Farmers Working in War Factories” Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 December 1943 · page 2

Manpower authorities had received only 10 requests from farmers for the releases of experienced rural workers from war industries, said a spokesman…

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May Make Farm Machinery Idle Munition Factories SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 December 1943 · page 1

Munition factories in towns which are to be closed down or converted to other war uses under the Federal Government’s new scheme of…

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

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 7 December 1943 · page 1

Fat lambs, equal to last Thursday’s quotations. Other classes of fat sheep slightly dearer, in some cases 1/ dearer…

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Tariff Burden on Farmers £62 Duty on Rotary Cultivator Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 December 1943 · page 3

The high price of farm implements in Australia was due to the tariff policy. Mr. A. E. Budd (C.P., Byron) declared in the Legislative Assembly…

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Dispersal Sales of Dairy Herds C.P. Member “Terrified” SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 December 1943 · page 4

“I am terrified to think what will happen to the dairying Industry in the next year or two,” said Mr A. E. Budd (CP. Byron) in the Legislative…

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Tariff Burden on Farmers £62 Duty oil Rotary Cultivator SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 December 1943 · page 4

The high price of farm implements in Australia was due to the tariff policy. Mr A. E. Budd (CP., Byron) declared in the Legislative Assembly. He had recently…

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Wodonga Fat Sheep and Lamb Sales

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 December 1943 · page 2

The following is the order of sale at Wodonga [?] sheep und lamb sale today: Younghusband Ltd, Goldsbrough Mort, Dalgety and Co, New Zealand Loan, J…

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Wodonga Fat Sheep and Lamb Sale

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 2

The Associated Agents report having held their fortnightly fat sheep and lamb sale at Wodonga yesterday, when they yarded 1800 fat sheep and lambs. The…

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Butter and Cheese Production Down SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 2

A return issued today shows that while butter production has improved to the level of 43,965 tons for the four months ended October last, this…

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Cattle Killing in the Country New Restrictions

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 3

A further restriction on the slaughtering of cattle in country districts as from 1st December, was announced last week by the Deputy…

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AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes Save Our Soil a Primary Problem in Post-war Planning

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 4

"A nation has only two real assets-people and land: all other things are ephemeral," observed Mr. Max Henry, Chief of the…

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Harvesting Crop of Flax

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 4

Flax harvesting on the property of Mr P. J. Johnson, "Roe Park." Benalla. one of the three properties inspection by the Rural Reconstruction Commission…

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Farm Butter Transactions Returns Required by the Rationing Commission

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 10 December 1943 · page 6

All producers of farm butter who are registered with the Rationing Commission must send a quarterly return to the State Deputy-Director…

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Currency of Anthrax in Sheep

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 December 1943 · page 3

[?]For the first time this season outbreaks of anthrax are reported from the area controlled by the district veterinary officer in the west,[?] states Mr…

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