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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

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Holbrook wheat yield will be light

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 11

Continued wet weather has caused excessive rank pastures. Much of this feed will have low nutritive value once the seed…

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Wheat stock feed subsidy plan ‘outed’

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The Commonwealth Government’s £4 million wheat for stock feed subsidy plan was rejected by State Ministers for Agriculture at a special conference today…

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Wool Storemen to Resume Work

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The wool storemen’s dispute was settled at a compulsory conference today and all storemen have been directed to resume work on Monday. The dispute caused…

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Repayment of £45,000,000 Wool Levy

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 1

A satisfactory agreement has [?] reached, following negotiations between the Australia Wool Realisation Commission…

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Food Front Crisis Stirs M’sP to Action Will Advise Government on Farm Production Problems

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thurs.: Thirty-one Liberal and Country Party members today elected an unofficial committee to advise the Government on primary production problems. The secretary of the new committee, Mr Bate (Lib N.S.W.), said he…

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These motions were carried by farmers’ delegates

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 13

Motions carried by the Federal conference of the APPU on the last day of its sitting in Albury yesterday included…

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“Farmers’ Gift of £80m. a Year to Boot, Shoe Makers”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 1

Boot and shoe manufacturers were being subsidised by £80 million annually by Australian farmers…

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Farmers at Albury talks attack taxes : criticise Sir A. Fadden

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 8

Abolition of payroll tax and Federal land tax is being sought by the Australian Primary Producers’ Union. Delegates to the union’s conference at Albury…

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Radio quiz makes this farmer “furious”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 1

“Every time I hear Bob Dyer’s radio quiz I get furious,” Mr A. Nandi told delegates to the Federal…

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Farmer Alleges Iron Racket

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 10

Australian made Iron was being sold at blackmarket prices by racketeer importers, Mr F. W. Jacob, Burrumbuttock, told…

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40m. bushel wheat yield is expected

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 November 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri; The wheat acreage in NSW this season is not likely to exceed 2,500,000 and the total yield is expected to be…

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Plane dives into linseed crop

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 November 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Fri.: While a Tiger Moth plane piloted by Lioned Tremaine was flying five feet above a linseed crop near…

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Sheep survived A-bomb blast, but dogs were killed

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 November 1951 · page 3

LAS VEGAS, Sun.: It was revealed today that sheep, protected by cover and tethered about 6000 feet from where the atomic bomb was touched off on Thursday, survived the blast with nothing more than a slight and…

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Bulk-Handling Wheat on the Farm Growing Trend in N.S.W.

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 November 1951 · page 1

There is a growing trend in many New South Wales wheatgrowing areas towards wheat being bulk handled and stored…

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Wool sales here this week

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 November 1951 · page 8

There will be more Sydney buyers than usual at the wool sales which open in Albury tomorrow. This is due to a strike of…

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First of New Wheat in Silos

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 November 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: The first of this season’s wheat was delivered into silos in north-west NSW today…

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Preliminary Wheat Forecast for N.S.W.

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 November 1951 · page 1

The [?]th [?]n wheat harvest in New South Wales is expect[?]t[?] yield [?] million bushels. This forecast was given…

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Junior Farmers' Club Formed in Corowa

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 November 1951 · page 3

At a public meeting in the Municipal Council Chambers on Thursday evening last the first active steps towards the…

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“Drought would ruin many farmers”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 November 1951 · page 14

SYDNEY. Mon.: If drought, or even dry weather, hit NSW in the next few months many farmers will face disaster…

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They all went by air-down to the farm !

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 November 1951 · page 8

When Mr Len Henderson said goodbye to some years of aircraft engineering on Sunday morning he, nevertheless, left…

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