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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

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Farmers Warned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 July 1953 · page 2

Warnings to farmers in all parts of the country about the diminishing, results of myxomatosis cannot be ignored by…

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Commercial Albury Sheep Market

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 18

The following is the order of sale at today’s Albury sheep market: New Zealand Loan, Farmers and Graziers, Gippsland and Northern, John…

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Wheat Board to Continue

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 6

The Australian Wheat Board will be able to market N.S.W. wheat for another three years under legislation approved by…

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They breed sheep for national economy

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 6

Two of Australia’s leading merino sheep breeders agreed that their interest in breeding good sheep was for the good of the nation end future economy rather than for individual fame…

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Trade displays at Sheep Show are the best ever

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 15

Trode exhibits of this year’s Albury Sheep Show are the best ever. A larger area than previously has been taken up by traders…

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Coronation Sheep Snow Is Impressive (By a Staff Reporter)

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 15

Albury’s Coronation Sheep Show is outstanding in every way, end if is a tribute to private enterprise end stud masters of Riverina. The entries are a record…

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WODONGA District Section Hospital Appeal Donations Sought at Sheep Show

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 8

Secretary of the Wodonga Hospital Appeal Committee, Mrs. A. B. S. Collins, appealed to graziers at the Albury Sheep…

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“Can’t make decent loaf from NSW- growm wheat

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday: An expert baker, who said his father and grandfather were also bakers, told N.S.W. wheatgrowers today he could not make a decent loaf of bread from flour milled from the growers’ wheat…

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“Don’t Let Prices Men Get Hands on Our Wheat”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 18

SYDNEY, Tues.: A wheatgrower warned members of the N.S.W. Wheatgrowers’ Union today not to allow Price Minister to “get their hands on the wheat industry.” “The day they do, we can close up our books. For heaven’s sake,…

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Commercial Albury Sheep Market

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 18

The Associated Agents report that at their fortnightly sheep market at Albury yesterday they yarded 5510 head, comprising 4670 fats and 840…

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Wheat Hard to Sell

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 11

SYDNEY, Wed.: The Australian Wheat Board was finding it difficult to sell wheat today, although there was no scare that the price…

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Margarine, as substitute for butter, condemned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Sydney newspapers had recently told him that he would get no support for increased butter prices from “harassed housewives,” the president of the N.S.W. branch of the Australian Primary…

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Congratulated his cousin on Sheep Show win

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 1

Mr. J. E. Jelbart smiles while his son, Mr. T. E. Jelbart (left), “Stony Park West,” Jindera, congratulates his cousin, Mr. Frank Jelbart, “Stony Park East,” on winning the champion and reserve champion awards for Polwarth rams in the horned section of the Albury Sheep Show yesterday. The cousins tied for the points score in the same section. Mr. T. E. Jelbart had…

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Huge wool theft from lorry

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 10

SYDNEY, Wed.: Police toddy recovered a semi-trailer which was stolen with its load of 75 bales of wool from Pyrmont…

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“Albury Sheep Show was equal to Sydney exhibition”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 13

Albury Sheep Show compared more than favorably with the Sydney Sheep Show and it had become widely known to all leading sheepmen throughout the Commonwealth, president of the Rural Sank of N.S.W., Mr…

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Heavier Wool Due to Climatic Conditions

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 5

Heavier wool during the 1952-53 season was due to favorable climatic conditions, not a breeding trend, a spokesman for Dalgety’s…

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More time sought to ratify wheat agreement

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 7

CANBERRA, Wed.: Australia has asked the International Wheat Council for an extension of time to legislate for entry into the international Wheat Agreement. Today was the deadline…

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Near-record Wool Cheque of £404,756,387

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed. : Australia had a near-record wool cheque of £404,756,387 for the 1952-53 season. The amount was the second highest on…

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80 p.c. of our wheat only medium quality

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 11

SYDNEY, Wed.: The Flour Millers’ Association of NSW declared today that 80 per cent of Australia’s wheat lands were…

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Record Attendance at Albury Sheep Show Yesterday (By a Staff Reporter.)

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 12

This year’s Albury Sheep Show has broken records in all departments and it is becoming so large that there is a certain amount of embarrassment likely to result in the years to come…

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