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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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£257 Mil. Wool Cheque

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Australia’s wool cheque for the 11 months of the current season, ended May 31. amounted…

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Commercial Successful Special Sheep Sale — FINLEY

The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 7

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. (inc. in England) report a most successful sale of store sheep at the…

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Value of Trees as Winter Shelter For Sheep

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 5

Inadequate winter shelter for stock is a weakness in the management of many pastoral holdings, warns E. A. Elliott. Principal…

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Wool Levy Proposed Finance to Guarantee Price

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 4

SPECIAL legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives this week to enable graziers to be levied on their wool returns to ensure reserve prices in future years. The legislation envisages a scheme…

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Riverina Graziers Oppose Wool Levy Plan Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 16

Although the Graziers Association of Southern Riverina, as a member of the Australian Woolgrowers Council, was bound to. accept the Commonwealth’s wool levy legislation, an overwhelming majority of the…

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Wool Levy Half of N.s.w. Growers Favor Scheme

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Half of the woolgrowers in NSW favor the Federal Government’s proposal to impose a levy on growers to…

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Farmers Determined to Present a United Front Says A.p.p.u. Organiser at Henty

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 5

A meeting of members of the Henty branch of the Australian Primary Producers Union was held in the School of Arts, on Tuesday night last week, when…

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South Eastern Riverina Crop Report

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 3

Mr. G. C. Bartlett, District Agronomist, reports followa:-- Season: Very beneficial rains fell Juring the last month This came…

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Don’t Use Cloths to Wash Dairy Utensils

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 13

Cloths should never be used for washing dairy utensils, according to the Division of Dairying of the Department of…

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District Farmers’ Important Decisions

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 13

District Council of the Australian Primary Producers’ Union at a meeting at Culcairn carried 16 resolutions of Importance…

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May Rains Will Assist Germination Late Sown Crops

The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 7

LATE SOWINGS of wheat will be made under ideal conditions due to the rain which fell at the end of May, reports Mr. G. A. Crawford, district agronomist. Patchy germination resulted from May sowings as soil only…

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Winter Pastoral Prospects Are Bright

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 9

There had been no noticeable trend in weather or conditions of pictures during the past month. Pastures were ample…

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“Ample Supplies of Butter”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 23

BRISBANE, Fri.: The secretary of the Queensland Butter Board (Mr. Sheehy) said tonight would be ample supplies…

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Butter Off Ration List, But Tea Remains Seven-year-old Ban Ends Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 1

Immediate abolition of butter rationing was announced tonight by the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies. Announcement was made at a Press conference after a meeting of the Federal Cabinet…

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No Rush to Buy Butter

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 June 1950 · page 5

Albury storekeepers late on Saturday morning reported an absence of “panic buying”, following the abolition of butter…

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Most of Our Wheat Sold

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 June 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Most importing countries were at present concentrating on securing their wheat requirements under…

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Hailstones Destroy Grape Crop

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 June 1950 · page 9

PARIS, Sun.: Widespread hailstorms yesterday destroyed the grape crop in the Cognac district and cut power lines in Metz…

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Butter Rationing Ended

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 3

Immediate abolition of butter rationing was announced on Friday night last by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzles). The price will remain…

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Wool Levy

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 3

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture Mr. McEwen, states that the Australian Woolgrowers Council had informed him it had…

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Sheep Exhibition and Gymkhana

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 2

Although the attendance was not as great as might have been expected and the financial return is lower owing to that fact and the…

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