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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

1,662 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 84

Australian Wool Board

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4

At the request of the Australian Wool Board, Dr Edgar H. Booth, chairman of the International Wool Secretariat. London, and Australian…

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Local and General Berrigan Sheep Sale

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

Mr. A. E. MacPherson, in conjunction with Messrs. Younghusband Ltd., will hold an important sale at Berrigan on Tuesday next…

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AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes Artificial Insemination of Stock Proposed Control Legislation

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4

Draft legislation to control artificial insemination of stock practised on commercal lines has been prepared Stock owners will be free…

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Wheat Prices to Be Investigated Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

Appointment of a committee to enquire into the costs of wheat production was announced today by the Minister for Commerce and…

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First Wool Sale at Albury in 1947

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4

The first wool sale in Albury this year opened at the Wool Exchange yesterday when Farmers and Graziers’ Co-op. Co. offered their catalogue. The picture shows the buyers with the names of the world famed they represent. At a wool sale buyers are either in a state of concentrated, energy that amounts almost to frenzy, or are inactive and disinterested almost to boredom. There is no half way. Here one buyer is driving…

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Albury Wool Auctions Resume Advanced Rates on December Closing

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4

The second half of the Albury wool selling season was commenced at the Wool Exchange yesterday afternoon when the Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Co. Ltd. offered the big lot section of their catalogue of 5600 bales…

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Federal Wheat Plan Tangle S.A. Growers Reject Scheme; W.A. to Vote Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

The Federal Government’s wheat stabilisation plan has been brought to a temporary stands till following its rejection by South Australian…

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Albury Wool Sales

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 8

Shippard Bros., "Lister," Henty, obtained the highest price for wool on the opening day of the present wool sales at Albury, reaching 44d. for…

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Japan Wants Autsarlian Wool

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

Revival of Japan's export trade in woollen goods depends largely on conclusion of an Australian wool deal, similar to that made for US…

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Result of Wool Clip Estimated

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

The current Australian wool clip is now estimated by the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia to yield 3,107,878 bales. This…

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Australian Wheat Exports to Britain Down CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

Australian wheat exports could not be increased sufficiently to enable Britain to postpone further stringent bread rationing, officials of the Commerce…

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Turning Back The Files . . . 10 Years Ago (From the “Pastoral Times” January 5, 1937)

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 3

DEATH.—The death occurred suddenly on Sunday afternoon of Mr. Charles Carpenter, an old and highly respected president of Deniliquin…

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Wants to Sell Wool Below Parity U.S. Secretary for Agriculture Washington

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 6

Mr. Anderson (Secretary for Agriculture) has asked Congress to pass legislation immediately to permit the Government to sell its huge reserve…

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No Forests, No Farms!

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 5

Mr E. F. Swain, NSW Commissioner for Forests ,in an address to the Agricultural Bureau of NSW, said: “We learned agriculture by…

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Suffered Wild Dog Ravages Farmers Now Faced With Water Shortage LITHGOW

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 5

Having held out against the ravages of wild dogs, which caused extremely heavy losses to stock, majority of Hartley Vale farmers are now faced…

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Junior Farmers Here After Tour of Goulburn Valley

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 4

Twenty-eight young men, members of extension groups of the Junior Farmers’ Club of Griffith and Leeton arrived in Albury yesterday…

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Wodonga Special Cattle Sale

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 6

Dalgely and Co., Albury, report having held a special cattle sale at Wodonga yesterday, when they yarded 2988 head of store cattle. Over 2500 head were sold at…

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Sheep Skin Sales. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 6

There was a good demand for 50,200 sheep skins offered for sale today arid prices generally ruled at par to ½d and a times 1d a lb dearer. Quotations: Mertno, full…

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Wheat For Britain LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 6

The financial editor of Reuter says that he has learned from responsible grain trade quarters that Britain has bought or is about to buy 500,000 tons…

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Another Shot at the Wheat Problem

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 6

“To ascertain the reasonable costs of production of wheat a bushel in the main wheat-growing districts of • the Commonwealth, and whether basic items of cost could be established as an index to periodical variations in the cost of production,” is the reason given by the…

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