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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

1,399 stories in Murray's papers · page 66 of 70

Wheat Harvest

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 29 November 1944 · page 1

The abnormally dry weather of the last few weeks had deteriorated crops to such an extent that the State’s wheat yield had now been estimated…

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Can Sow Record Wheat Acreage CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 November 1944 · page 4

Regulations would not prevent a record wheat crop being planted this year, the Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully) said in the House of…

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Spare Parts For Farm Machinery SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 November 1944 · page 6

Manpower already had been released to firms manufacturing spare parts for agricultural machinery, the Premier (Mr McKell) assured Mr Finnan Lab…

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Substitute Hay Crops

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 29 November 1944 · page 5

With, the fodder position as it is throughout the district, and the whole of the Commonwealth, every effort should be made by landholders whose…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes Sheep-drenching Experiments

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 30 November 1944 · page 4

Variations in the course taken by liquids when swallowed by the sheep are discussed in Bulletin 180, just issued by the Council for…

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Albury Sheep Market

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 November 1944 · page 2

The associated agents report having held their fortnightly cheep market at Albury yesterday, when they yarded 16,500 sheep, comprising 11,000 fat sheep and lambs and…

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Queensland’s Record Wheat Crop CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 November 1944 · page 2

Indications were that the Queensland wheat harvest would be a wartime record, said the Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully) today. “Assistance…

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P.O.W. Helping Farmers Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 November 1944 · page 1

No aliens from abroad would be allowed to remain in Australia after the war unless they were likely to make desirable citizens and no prisoner of war…

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9751 Farms Allotted To Ex-Soldiers SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 November 1944 · page 4

Annual report of the Lands Department for the year ended June 30 last discloses that since the passage of the Returned Soldier Settlement Act after the last…

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Wheat Solving Acreage Restrictions Lifted Canberra

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 December 1944 · page 1

Regulations would not prevent a record wheat crop being planted this year the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) said in the House of…

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Seed Wheat Arrangements For Supplies and Charges

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 1 December 1944 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said today that he had now completed arrangements which…

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A.W.C. APPROVES Increased Wool Levy SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 December 1944 · page 4

The Australian Woolgrowers Council has approved of the increase of wool levy to 2/ per bale for wool research and publicity. This decision…

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Stock of Wheat And Flour Figures Given by Mr Scully CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 December 1944 · page 4

Information on stocks of wheat and flour in Australia was given by the Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully), in the House of Representatives today,…

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Pig Farmer Remanded SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 December 1944 · page 3

A pig-farmer, Clifford Alexander Maxwell 34, was remanded at Kogarah court today to December 5 on a charge of having stolen from the railways goods valued…

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Wodonga Cattle Market

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 2

There will be a yarding of 1065 fat cattle. 727 store cattle 515 choppers, 25 bulls, 18 dairy cattle and 11 springers at today’s Wodonga cattle market. Following is the…

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Victoria’s Wheat Crop Down by 35 Million Bushels MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 5

Only 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 bushes of wheat are expected to be received in Victoria by the Australian Wheal Board the season. The total crop will be from [?]000…

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Solution in Sight Wahgunyah’s Town Cattle Problem

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 6

At a meeting of the committee of [?] of the A. E. Parry Park. Wahgunyah, Mr George C. Kilborn [?] presided. Others present…

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Wool Prospects After The War SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 6

After the cessation of lestilities the resumption of large wool consumption would naturally depend, so far as the European continent was concerned,…

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

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 1

JOHN McNAMARA & CO. Pty. Ltd. report direct from Newmarket saleyards this morning: The display of lambs to-day showed…

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S.e. Riverina Crop Report

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 5

November in south-eastern Riverina has been dry with one or two heat waves. Conditions are much the same as last month’s report, except that stripping has…

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