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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

1,691 stories in Murray's papers · page 65 of 85

Five Youths in Prison Farm Break

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Two more youths made a break from Langi Kal Kal prison training farm near Ballarat tonight…

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Wool Sale Report

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 24 September 1952 · page 6

Mossrs Elder, Smith and Co, report under date 15th September The 1952-59 wool selling…

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Wool values expected to firm

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 September 1952 · page 6

Buyers from every interested overseas country will attend the wool sales to be conducted in the Wool Exchange, at Albury…

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Wool prices up in Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 September 1952 · page 14

ADELAIDE, Tues.: The second Adelaide wool sales opened today with estimated to be 7½ per cent above those of the closing day of…

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Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 3

Younghusband Limited report having held their first sale of the season on the 18th inst., when they offered a particularly attractive lot…

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Sympathetic to wheat plan

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wed.: The Minister for Agriculture (Mr Graham) to-day assured Mr Crawford (CP, Barwon) that the State…

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Spring Favours the Wheat

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 2

So far the spring weather has been favourable to all parts of the wheat belt in New South Wales, and wheat and oat crop prospects…

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4,000 Cattle Vaccinated Against Pleuro

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 7

Special attention is being given by Veterinary Officers of the Department of Agriculture to pleuor-pneumonia outbreaks which have…

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£19 m. in wheat fund

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 4

CANBERRA, Wed.: After collections of export tax were made from the 1951-52 wheat crop, there would be about £19 million in…

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Wool Values Harder at Newcastle

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Wed.: The market at the second day of the opening wool sales at Newcastle today showed a hardening tendency. It showed all the…

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Wool Values Up at Albury: Top Price 110½d

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 1

A line of super merino wool brought fop price of 110½d. at Albury brokers’ opening sale of the 1952-53 season in the Wool Exchange yesterday. Prices were up 2½ to 5 per cent on Melbourne sales last week…

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All eyes were on buyers as they “battled” for the district’s wool (“Mail” Special)

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 11

Hundreds of border graziers, a stub of pencil in one hand, a catalogue in the other, peered anxiously down from the public gallery of Albury’s Wool Exchange yesterday at 75 grim-faced buyers battling for the pick of the Riverina fleece…

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Queensland expects record wheat crop

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thurs.: The Queensland wheat harvest this year is expected to reach the record figure of about 16 million bushels…

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Wool Sales

The Observer · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 1

Trices were up 2½ to 5 per cent on Melbourne sales last week at the Albury brokers' opening sale of the 1952-53…

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Wool Usage

The Pastoral Times · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 7

At United Kingdom textile centres, the quantity of wool on hand is estimated to be equal to four months’ supply compared…

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Wool Up at Newcastle

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.: Wool: prices today regained the level at which they began the Australian season on September 1…

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Wool Values Firm at Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Thurs.: Prices were fully firm on yesterday’s rates when the wool sales closed today with best 2½ pc higher. Top price was 104d for…

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Wastage in Dairy Stock Sterility Greatest Cause, Says Mr. Graham

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 3

"Sterilfty is the cause of what is probably the greatest wastage of stock in the dairy industry," said the Minister for…

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Junior Farmers' Essay Competition "Our Visit to Piggin's Poultry Farm

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 3

The result of the Junior Farmers' Essay Competition, dealing with the recent field day at Mrs A. Piggin's chick hatchery…

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University Students Want Farm Work

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 1

Students from the University of Sydney, Faculty of Agriculture, are seeking form employment, to cover their November…

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