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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

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Keen interest In Wool Week

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 2

Albury retailers are, showing a keen interest in “Wool Week”, from March 23-27, and plans are being made to display all shop…

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Victorian young farmer for Coronation

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.: Desmond Bennett, a member of the Yinnar senior section of the Young Farmers’ Clubs, is Victoria’s…

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Commercial Record Prices for Wool

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 14

GEELONG, Wed.: Record prices for the season in Australia, to 421d per lb. was paid for one bale of super merino lambs’ wool grown by E. and…

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Unskilled migrants are a “menace” to farm machinery

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 10

Skilled New Australian form workers ore d great asset to the country, but unskilled are a menace because of their lack of knowledge of mechanical farming. This was the result of a…

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Wool and Stock

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 2

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

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Take Care With Sheep Drenches

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 4

Mortality from arsenical poisoning may occur if sheep drenches containing arsenic are not carefully prepared and…

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Wheat agreement believed near

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 11

WASHINGTON, Thurs.: International Wheat Council Chairman. Mr. F. Sheed Anderson, says there is “certainly a chance" that…

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The Week In Wool

The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 2

Though some irregular tendencies disturbed the even tenor of the wool-week markets at Sydney and Melbourne, values for…

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Deniliquin Wool Sold By Younghusbands

The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 3

A letter from Younghusband Limited, Melbourne, gives details of prices received at the firm’s recent eighth sale of the…

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Henry the Seventh good for Warwick Farm

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 15

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Conditioned by two recent races Henry the Seventh in the Sunnybrook Handicap is rated one of the best bets at Warwick Farm on Saturday…

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A Farmer Fined

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 11

A Rand district farmer. Leslie Stewart Edwards, of “Belah” Rand, pleaded guilty to failing to have his tractor decarbonised at…

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Nutrition in sheep husbandry important

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 17

Important of nutrition in sheep husbandry could not be overstressed, Mr R. D. Eastoe, sheep and wool officer of the Southern…

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How women may help in Wool Week

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 6

In support of “Wool Week,” which will take place from March 23 to 28, Albury branch of the CWA is staging a large competitive…

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Wool firms decide to by-pass sales in Perth

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 1

PERTH, Fri.: Because of the poor quality of the local wool clip some wool buying firms will no longer operate on the…

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Personality of the Week Sends wool to his former captors

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 10

One of Albury’s leading commercial managers, who was for a time a prisoner of war at Kobe, Japan, now sends wool there through Japanese agents. He is Mr. Robert Gregory…

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News features for the man on the land Flock classing advisable (By our Wool Expert)

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 10

Annual closing end culling of ewes is advisable. This is essential to the maintenance or improvement of quality in the breeding flock. No country in the world has…

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Farm Houses in Midst of Surging Waters

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 3

We Australians have experienced floods but not as bad as this one. This picture was reproduced from a Dutch weekly…

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Ocean Spray looks good at Warwick Farm (From “Glenloth”)

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 February 1953 · page 23

Ocean Spray and Henry the Seventh should each win at Warwick Farm today. Form of candidates is as follows : TWO YEAR OLD COLTS and…

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Wool Position Still Good

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 March 1953 · page 2

The wool position in Australia continues to be very promising. The latest figures available, to the end of…

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Wool and Stock

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 March 1953 · page 2

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

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