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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,729 stories in Murray's papers · page 70 of 87

Hay Special Sheep [?]

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 6

New Zealand Loan and [?] cantile Agency Co. Ltd. [?] England), in conjunction [?] Messrs. Goldsbrough M[?]…

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Wimmera will hove good wheat crop

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Mon: Good wheat crops are assured following over-night rain in the Wimmera district…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 6

The Melbourne woolbrokers report that the third series of wool asles in this centre this season concluded on 18/10/5[?],when…

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Yesterday’s Special Sheep Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 8

The Australian Estates Co. Ltd. and the Australian, Mercantile Land and Finance Company Limited report having…

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Wheat Bulkheads Near Completion

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 2

With the approach of the wheat season, bulk storages being erected in the district by the Australian Wheat Board,…

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Wool Values Near Halved

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Mon.: The average price for greasy wool sold in Australia from July to September was nearly half the price…

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Wheat Yield Well Below Requirements

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 1

Wheat harvested this year is likely to be about 30,000,000 b[?]ls short of Australian requirements…

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U.K’s wool pile decision sends up prices in Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: Britain’s projected purchase of 40 million lb. wool pile was the dominant influence in advancing wool values 15 per cent at the Sydney wool sales today, when for…

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“Australia Carrying Full Sheep Capacity”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 October 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.: Australia was now carrying its full sheep capacity under present grazing conditions, president of the Rural…

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Lambs’ wool to 17/- a lb

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 October 1951 · page 19

MELBOURNE, Tues.: Values at the opening of the record series of Geelong wool sales today [?] 10 per cent higher than the…

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WODONGA District Section Wodonga Meeting Discusses Problems of Dairy Farmers

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 October 1951 · page 8

Australia had costed herself out of a profitable export butter market by recent steep increases in production expenses, president of the Victorian Dairy Farmers’ Association (Mr. G. C…

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[?]ospective payments to dairymen

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 October 1951 · page 11

[?]NBERRA, Tues.: Dairy far[?] would be paid their cost [?]oduction—3/6 a lb—[?] for but[?]etrospective to July 1 last,…

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Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 8

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that the second series of wool sales for the 1951/52 season, held on September 24th to 26th and…

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Wool market irregular

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 14

SYDNEY, Wed.: The market at the Sydney wool sales today was irregular for the best fleece wools when compared with the previous…

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Butter subsidy not kept secret

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 4

CANBERRA, Wed.: Government had decided to pay butter producers a subsidy to bring the price to 3/6 a lb because it did…

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Wangaratta News Wangaratta, Wed.: Butter Is “Football”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 14

“The dairying industry has been lade a ‘political football” in the battle between the States and the Commonwealth,” Mr G. C. Howey,…

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12 months for wool theft

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wed,: William Michael Gee, 41, hide and skin dealer, of Merriwa, was sentenced to 12 months’ gaol in Quarter Sessions…

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£45m. Refunds for Wool Men

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.: Woolgrowers would receive refunds amounting to £45 millions about the end of November, Senator…

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Permits to Carry Wool by Road ?

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 12

SYDNEY, Wed.: If rail transport for the carriage of wool to the coast was not available over a period of 14 days, permits for its…

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Rail Freights “Hit Farmers to Leg”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 2

Although home consumption of wheat was likely to rise from 7/10 to 9/6 a bushel by the end of the year, district farmers are going…

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