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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

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Albury Sheep Show More space for trade exhibits

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 2

Additional floor space will be used to house trade exhibits at; the Albury Coronation Sheep Show in Dalgety’s wool store on…

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London wool brokers may operate here

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 10

Border district representative of the Committee of London Wool Brokers, Mr. K. R. W. Kear, may soon make his headquarters at Albury…

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£50m. involved in wool tax appeal

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 5

LONDON, Tues.: A test case to determine the liability of Australian wool growers for income tax upon distribution made to…

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Wheat Board’s Life Is to Be Extended

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 16

SYDNEY, Tues. : The Australian Wheat Board, will be able to market N.S.W. wheat for another three years, under legislation approved by State Cabinet today…

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Lack of rain dims prospects of good wheat, oat harvest

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.: The Department of Agriculture's cereal expert, Mr. G. Nicholson, said today that the present outlook for wheat and oat crops had deteriorated. A continuation of the existing dry weather and severe frosts would…

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487,000 Acre Farm to Be Sold

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 16

BRISBANE, Tues.: The British Food Corporation’s farm in Queensland is to be cut up into 12 grazing blocks and 63…

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Can Wool Prices Hold?

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 July 1953 · page 2

THE wool-seeling season which ended last week proved to be one of the best on record. prices receded…

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Coronation Sheep Show expected to be best yet

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 July 1953 · page 2

Albury Coronation Sheep Show and sales next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday are expected to be the best so far held, and entries are higher than any previous year. N.S.W. and Victoria are…

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Wool Futures How the Futures Market gambles

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 July 1953 · page 10

The recent opening of the London Wool Tops Futures Market has aroused much interest in Australia, where many growers ore asking how the plan works and what ore the commitments…

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Our wool clip expected to reach all-time record

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 July 1953 · page 8

CANBERRA, Wed.: Australia’s wool production for 1952-53 is expected to reach the all time record of 1,280,000,000 lb. and to exceed the previous year’s clip by 18.5 per cent…

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Depends on Price of Wheat Minister’s comments on possible bread price rise

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 July 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wed.: If the price of bread was increased there would still be a considerable saving on much of the “rubbish now being sold as bread,” the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr…

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Drove Sheep Without Permit

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 2

Hay district drove Thomas Taylor, was fined £2/8/- with 12/ costs and £4/4/ professional costs by Mr. O. J. Lake S.M. in the Hay…

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Wool and Stock

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 2

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

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Corried Ale Sheep for Soldier Settlers

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 2

Applications by men on war service land settlement farms to go into the ballot for the 160 Corriedale rams donated by the…

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Prices of Butter and Cheese Not To Increase

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 1

The Federal Cabinet, decided on Thursday, July 2, 1953, that there will be no increase in wholesale and retail butter and…

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Last Of Wool Sales at Geelong

The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 7

The Geelong Woolbrokers’ Association reports that at the eleventh and final series of wool sales in the 1952 53 season held…

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Strong Wool Demand Is Expected At End Of August

The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 6

With the all-time record clearance of 3,821,900 bales (462.979 bales more than in the previous season) for a…

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Barellan Farmers Seek Snowy Water for Irrigation

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 2

Landholders in Barellan, Grong Grong, Binya, and Ballandry districts, have decided to ask for irrigation water from the Snowy…

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Longer Life for Farm Implements

The Observer · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 6

Blades of a rotary hoe treated with a special wear-resisting alloy lasted 8½ times longer than normal steel blades in…

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Bacon Curing on the Farm

The Observer · Friday 10 July 1953 · page 6

The curing of bacon on the farm should be conducted only during the winter months, advises Mr. G. M. D. Carse, a…

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