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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

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“Dairymen Giving Up Farms” Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 4

“No wonder people give up dairying when they cannot get a [?] price for their butter,” said [?] chairman of the Producers’[?]…

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Junior Farmers Returning Home

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 2

Members of the Junior Farmers’ Club of Griffith and Leeton photographed at the Albury Drill Hall prior to making the return journey. They have been touring the Goulbura Valley studying irrigation methods…

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Wool Deal with Japan America to Provide Finance New York

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 1

The Tokio correspondent of the New York “Times” says that he understands that an Australian wool deal for Japan is about to be…

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99 Ex-Servicemen Get Farms To Date SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 1

Canadian soldier settlement scheme of which he had just received details, was superior to the one now operating in NSW, the State president of…

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“Reprieve” For Backyard Poultry Farmers SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 2

Backyard poultry farmers will be permitted to continue running 40 birds until the end of 1947. This information has been given by the Minister for…

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Wodonga Cattle Market

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2

There will be a yarding of 1331 fat cattle. 504 choppers. 746 store cattle, 45 bulls and 63 dairy cattle at today’s Wodonga market. The older of sale is: N.Z. Loan…

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Wagga Special Sheep Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2

DALGETY & CO. LTD. and YOUNGHUSBAND LTD. Wagga Wagga, report holding their January special sheep sale at Wagga Wagga on…

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Commercial Albury Special Sheep Sale

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2

John McNamara and Co. Pty. Ltd. report: We submitted 12 [?] store station-bred sheep at our Albury special sale on Monday, January 24. Special feature of the…

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Commercial To-day’s Sheep Market

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 4

JOHN McNAMARA & CO. PTY. LTD. report direct from Newmarket saleyards. this morning: Wethers easier. Ewes 2/- lambs 1/—…

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Wool Price Average Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 5

Average price for greasy and scoured wool sold to date in Australia this season is 23.58d. per lb, compared with 26.95d. per lb in 1924-25 season,…

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Destructive Fire at Butter Factory Stops Ice Production a Serious Position

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2

Shortly after midnight on Sunday, the community, or rather those who were fortunate enough to have got to sleep on…

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Wool and Stock Reports the Riverine "Grazier" Office

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2

Owing to the holiday yesterday there were no stock sales at Home-bush…

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Wool Deal with Japan “Violent” Opposition From Certain Quarters at Canberra Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 8

Some sections of the Federal Government’s advisors are violently opposed to the reported Australian and American wool deal to provide…

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"Miserable Subsidy System" Leading to Collapse of Dairy Industry

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

Mr. Scully and Mr. Dedman were quoted in the Legislative Assembly as authorities for the statement that the Federal…

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Communists and Farmers

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 3

Sir.—Farmers are offered an insult to their Intelligence in a letter from president Sharkey, of the Communists. Having been advised by his local stooges that…

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Farmer’s Fatal Fall Into Tank MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 5

Claude Laidlaw, aged 40, farmer, whose body was found in a water tank on his property al Ayrsford. near Terang, early yesterday, apparently died…

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Sheep Louse and Ked Cause Serious Loss To Sheep and Wool Industries

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 4

Sheep louse and sheep ked cause serious loss to the sheep and industries, points out the Division of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture. Both are proclaimed notifiable diseases under the Stock Diseases Act, and any stockowner who finds that his…

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Wheat Crop Poorest for 26 Wears Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 4

Fair average quality standard for wheat for 1946-47 season has been set at 62½lb. imperial bushel for bagged and bulk wheat. A spokesman for the…

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Quota Sought on Wool American Senator’s Move Washington

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 6

Senator Edward Robertson, Republican member for the wool-producing State of Wyoming, In a letter to the Secretary of State…

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Communism and the Farmer

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 3

Sir,—After reading Mr Sharkey’s very sympathetic letter to farmers, I had visions, through a mist of tears, of collective farms, Cossack dances,…

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