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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,729 stories in Murray's papers · page 65 of 87

Margarine or Butter?

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 2

The price of butter in Victoria may be 3/2½ a lb, but, the substance on sandwiches aboard the “Spirit of Progress” looks awfully like…

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Sheep Stealing Penalties

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 4

The Federal Rural Conference of the Liberal Party has found that the penalties for sheep stealing are Inadequate…

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Play Politics with Butter

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 3

THE obstinate refusal of the State Government to increase the price of butter to the level ruling in all other…

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Queensland to Get Butter

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 15

BRISBANE, Thurs.: Butter will again be available to the public tomorrow, following a meeting between the acting…

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Alleged Overcharging for Butter

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 3

We are advised by Mr. F. S. Middlemiss, District Prices of Acer at Wagga, that complaints have been received from border…

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Less Wheat Sown

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 1

The Wheat [?] in Australian had dropped from 13,800,000 acres in 1947-49 to 10,600,000 acres in 1951-52…

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Further Wheat Pool Advance

The Observer · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 2

Approval has been granted for the payment of the third advance of 1/- per bushel on wheat marketed through No…

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“Wheat Belongs to Growers”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 9

CANBERRA, Thurs.: The Government did not intend to interfere unduly with the administration of the Australian Wheat…

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Good Clearances. Prices at Sheep Sale

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 2

The special off-shears sheep sale conducted by Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. in conjunction with Younghusband…

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N.S.W. Sheep Population Increase

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 1

The number of sheep in New South Wales was 54,111,000 at March 31, 1951, an increase of 813,000 as compared with the…

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Shortage of Wheat for Poultry

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 1

Australian Poultrymen are so desperate over the shortage of wheat for stock feed that they are prepared to pay the export…

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“Unjust Anomaly Over Cattle Compensation Tax”

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 4

Speaking on the Cattle Compensation Bill Introduced in the Legislative Assembly this week by Mr. E. H. Graham, M.LA.,…

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Oaklands Wool Exhibition and Bazaar

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 1

The second annual wool exhibiton and bazaar conducted by the Oaklands Bush Nursing Association and local branch of…

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Successful Special Sheep Sale Finley, N.S.W.

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 7

New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. (Inc. in England) report having conducted a special sale of 8150…

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Expert Says Complete Wool Substitute Near

The Observer · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 7

"In the near future artificial fibres having all the properties of wool will undoubtedly become available," said Dr. P. R. McMahon, Associate Professor of Wool Technology, N.S.W. University of Technology, in an…

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Wool Prices Up by 50 P.c

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 15

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Wool prices in Australia this week have risen as high as 50 per cent, compared with values ruling last week…

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Praise for British Farmers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 3

The British farmer is a better husbandman than the American according to the report on "Productivity in Agriculture"…

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Minister's Faith in Junior Farmers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 1

"I have great faith that Junior farmers-- the primary producers of tomorrow-- will answer the call of this country…

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COMMERCIAL Associated Wodonga Special Cattle Sale

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 18

Dalgety & Co. and Gippsland & Northern conducted a large special cattle sale at Wodonga yesterday when they submitted upwards of 2000…

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Strength of the Wool Market

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 2

The marked improvement in wool prices at sales this week bears out what the “Mail” has stressed on more than one occasion that in a wool-hungry world prices cannot recede to anything like uneconomic levels. Prices at the opening sales in…

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