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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

1,691 stories in Murray's papers · page 18 of 85

Junior Farmers Will Make History At Yanco Tractor School

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 9

First School exclusively for Junior Farmers to be arranged at Yanco Experiment Farm since it was made known that the farm…

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Commercial Melbourne Wool Sales

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 12

New Zealand Loan & M.A.Co. Ltd. have received the following wire from their Melbourne office: “Offered 7250 bales; market compared with opening…

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District Farmers Short of Super for Crop Sowing

The Observer · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 7

Members present at the Henty Chamber of Commerce meeting, held in the School of Arts on Monday night, expressed concern at the inability of wheatgrowers in this district to obtain supplies of superphosphate for…

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“N.s.w. Must Get Wheat From Other States”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Unless the Federal Government took immediate action to hasten the import of some millions of bushels of wheat into N.S.W., the State would be left terrifically…

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Serious water problem faces border farmers Some Cart Supplies As Far As 26 MILES

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 3

Unless rain falls within the next fortnight farmers in the border districts will face a drought. Dams are drying up quickly, and many domestic water tanks are empty. Many farmers have to cart water—some as…

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Junior Farmer Make History [?] Tractor [?]

The Pastoral Times · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 2

First school [?] Junior Farmers [?] at Yanco Experiment [?] it was made [?]…

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District Agronomist’s Report 40 Per Cent. Rice Crop Failure

The Pastoral Times · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 7

MR. G. A, Crawford, in submitting Ms monthly crop report for the western portion of Central Murray region for February, states that owing to absence of rain many farms are short of water due to dams drying up…

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Agistment for Cattle

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 March 1952 · page 2

Agistment for 960 head of cattle Irom burnt-out areas in the Albury, district has been offered by graziers in the Western District of…

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Frenzied rush to buy butter

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 March 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.: Ten women collapsed when several thousand men and women swept into MsDowell’s George street…

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Conflic[?]ing Views on Wheat Holdings

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 March 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri.: The Commonwealth Government has been asked by the State Minister for Agriculture (Mr Graham) to…

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Wheat to go to Qld., Tasmania

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 March 1952 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Fri: The Australian Wheat Board has decided to make available to deficiency States, Queensland and Tasmania,…

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Big cut in area sown to wheat in S.E. Riverina forecast by agronomist

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 March 1952 · page 4

Acrenge under wheat this year in the S.E. Riverina probably will be about 50 per cent. of normal. Senior district agronomist…

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Disease raging among Canadian cattle

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 4

REGINA. Sun.: Three more cattle herds in the Regina area had been found to be infected with foot-and-mouth disease and…

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Gerogery man says that wheat farmers have gone on strike

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 8

Mr T. G. Kirk, of Gerogery, in a letter to the editor, concerning the drop in wheat acreage, declares: “The whole truth of the matter is that…

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Farmers’ leader’s attack on “bungling M’s.P.”

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY, Sun.: Blaming bungling politicians for the continued decline in Australian wheat production, which he described…

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Wool and Stock

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 2

Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd: (incorporating the business of Wilkinson & Lavender Ltd) wired under…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 7

NEW ZEALAND LOAN & MERCANTILE AGENCY CO. LTD., reports for the ninth series of their sale held on March…

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N.s.w. Wheat Committee Alarmed at Wheat Decline

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 1
Also in The Pastoral Times

The N.S.W. State Wheat Committee at its meeting in Sydney this week adopted a resolution viewing with alarm the falling…

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Newmarket Cattle Sales March 5

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 4

Plain quality medium and light weight bullocks comprised a fair percentage of the penning of the 1305 bullocks, heavy…

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