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Farming & the land, 1954

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Sheep show next week

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 July 1954 · page 24

Officials of Albury Show Society anticipate that the ninth annual sheep show next Tuesday and…

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How to treat “wooden tongue” 99 complaint in cattle

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 July 1954 · page 10

Complaints such as “wooden tongue” in cattle are always problems in dairying districts, and if spasmodic cases could be treated as soon as they were detected, the wastage of animals could be reduced, says Mr D. McQueen, veterinary officer of the Victorian…

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Farmers Must Stu Markets

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 July 1954 · page 10

“Fanners must study world markets,” Mr. H. Flanagan, general president of the Agricultural Bureau of N.S.W.., said this week…

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Heavy lag in supplies of farm materials

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 July 1954 · page 10

The supply of most steel products required for the farm has deteriorated very markedly in the last six months. In a report on the machinery and materials…

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What the Sheep and Wool Industry Means to Albury

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 7

When we consider for o moment what the sheep and wool industry means to Albury and district, we realise that it is a vital point of the commercial stability of the town…

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Albury Sheep Show

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 2

Record entries are convincing proof of the popularity of the Albury Sheep Show be held tomorrow…

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Will Open Sheep Show

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 1

Mr. Amos J. Peasiee, U.S. Ambassador to Australia (above), will open the Albury Sheep Show at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Mr. Peaslee is a distinguished U.S. lawyer and successful grazier. He will be the first U.S. citizen to have opened…

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Mustering Sheep at Jingellic

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 3

The beauty of the Australian countryside is reflected in this picture, taken on a station properly at Jingellic,…

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Wool Bureau director to study wool promotion overseas

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 14

Mr E. W. Foster, the Australian Wool Bureau’s Director of Promotion, will leave Australia shortly to make a thorough investigation…

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“Wheat Demand Increasing”

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 2

QUEBEC, Sun.: Sir John Teasale, chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, said at Winnipeg, Canada, today that there were…

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“Bonnie Doon” Sheep Doing Well

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 7

The “Bonnie Doon” merino stud (Messrs F. C. Clark and Sons. Boorowa, will have two-tooth rams [?]ssed and available on October…

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Points to Be Observed When Branding Sheep

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 15

Important advice to wool growers has been given by the chairman of the Australian Wool Bureau (Mr C. B. Bali). Mr Ball said that in spite of all the publicity…

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Sheep Breeders’ Part in Fight Against Synthetics

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 14

The question of synthetics and their influence on our wool clip is again being given prominence in the newspapers. In recent months various important people have contributed articles giving their views of this debatable subject, and…

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Sheep industry is back-bone of our economy

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 10

On such an important occasion as the Albury Sheep Show, it is appropriate for me to review some of the outstanding recent developments affecting the sheep industry…

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More Wool Promotion in U.s

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 9

NEW YORK: In view of the rapid growth and the increasing prosperity of the West Coast of the United States and the…

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Our prosperity depends on the wool industry

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 13

The continued prosperity of the wool industry is of vital importance to Australia. Notwithstanding the remarkable and encouraging growth of secondary industry in this country in recent years, wool, in point of value of output, is still our largest single industry…

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Blowfly Costly to South African Wool Growers

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 11

The blowfly pest costs South Africa more than £1,875,000 annually, according to Mr S. W. Bosman, sheep and wool…

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Use of South American Wool in United Kingdom

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 6

Before the 1939-45 war, the United Kingdom used to import considerable quantities of South American wool for special purposes, such as blending of Argentine…

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Technical College’s Part in the Wool Industry

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 3

No longer does the Sheep and Wool Department of the Albury Technical collage specialise in the teaching of wool classing as a profession only, but rather, in a more general…

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Science works for wool as well as for synthetics

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 4

In the public mind the word “science,” when used in connection with the development of textile fibres, has come to be regarded as almost synonymous with synthetic fibres…

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