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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

1,616 stories in Murray's papers · page 61 of 81

Soft-line Wool Jersey Dress

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 7

This Douglas Cox dress is made in knobbly wool jersey with a softy draped V neckline and gathered skirt. The colour is guava red…

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Wool Suit with Reversible Topcoat

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 3

Philip Mangone of New York designed this ensemble with a reversible topcoat in wool boucle tweed and nutria for worn over…

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M.i.a. Sheep in History's Biggest Stock Air Lift

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 2

A flight of 5000 miles from Singapore to Israel was made recently by 119 sheep from the Benerembah district…

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Home wheat price of 12/6 a bushel suggested

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Mon.: Describing the proposed three-State wheat pool as unworkable, a spokesman of the S.A. flour milling industry suggested today that S.A., N.S.W. and W.A. should agree to the home consumption wheat…

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Farm Apprenticeship Scheme Praised

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 2

An apprenticeship scheme for form careers would be one of the greatest innovations for the future welfare of this country and its people, the assistant Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn, the Right Rev. K. J. Clements, told…

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Over 120 buyers here for wool sales starting to-day

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 2

More than 120 buyers will compete for 18,000 bales of wool today and tomorrow at the opening of the new season’s wool sales in Albury. Catalogues consist of…

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Bury Sets Season’s Best Wool Price

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 1

Best price for the new Australian wool season. was obtained in Albury yesterday with a lot of four bales of Merino from Jindera, which realised 130½d a pound…

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Confident tone in opening wool sales at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 6

The 1953-54 wool season opened in Albury yesterday when the associated Albury woolbrokers submitted 18,000 boles to c large attendance once of buyers representing all sections of the trade. The offering, consisting of approximately equal proportions of Merino and…

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Happy Farmers Say . . . . This weather is “just the thing”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 2

Warm weather which followed last week’s seeking rain was described by district farmers last night as “just the thing”…

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Big boost likely for farm areas

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 10

CANBERRA, Wed. : The Commonwealth Government would probably soon be spending nearly £1 million annually on State…

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Rain-making as big aid to the farmer

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 September 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.: [?] making technique could Increase rainfall effectively over a belt of Eastern Australia 300 to 599…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 3

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that at the first series of wool sales for the 1953-54 season, held on September 14th to 17th,…

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Australian Cattle As Good As Argentine

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 1

Australian cattle compare very favourably with cattle in the Argentine and are affected by few of the disease problems that have…

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Remanded on Wool Stealing Charge

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 6

Arthur John Rudd appeared at the Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday on two charges, firstly with stealing and secondly…

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Cheap Bread or Fair Wheat Price?

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 3

The obstinate refusal of the Governments of Victoria and Queensland to recognise the basic right of wheat growers to make…

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DEALER'S £90 FINE; Attempted Sale of Lice-Infested Sheep

The Observer · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 4

A fine of £90 was inflicted in the Dubbo Court on August 14th following the conviction of a dealer charged with…

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Albury sales set seal on wool values

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 9

Opening sales at Albury on Wednesday and those of yesterday were of great significance to the district…

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Wool Stability Factor in U.s.a. Soviet Buying

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 4

As predicted several weeks ago by Dalgety's correspondents in U.K. and U.S.A., the entry to the market by Russia and America…

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Dairying industry probe

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thurs.: An Australia-wide survey of the dairying industry, covering more than 1000 farms, will begin probably next…

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News features for the man on the land Japs expected to fee keen wool buyers

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 September 1953 · page 9

That there may not be a serious curtailment of Japanese wool buying in Australia during the main selling season is suggested…

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