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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

1,514 stories in Murray's papers · page 57 of 76

Sheep and wool information at Melbourne Royal Show

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 14

Information for shipowners will be displayed on a new stand in the Agricultural Pavilion at the 1954 Melbourne Royal…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 7

The Australian Estates Co. Ltd., report having offered 5256 bales on Wednesday when widespread demand held prices firm…

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Wool Buyers Entertained

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 2

About 120 visiting wool buyers, in Albury for the sales tomorrow, were entertained at a cocktail reception at the New Albury Hotel…

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Wool Sales Here To-morrow ' Albury brokers optimistic

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 2

Albury brokers ore most optimistic about the results of the two-day, new season wool soles starting tomorrow. They expect closing late…

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Gerogcry wheat men will vote “Yes” al ballot

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 14

Meeting of Gerogery primary Producers’ Union at Gerogery recently decided to support "Yes" vote at the forthcoming ballot on the new wheat stabilisation plan for N.S.W…

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Junior Farmers' Success at Albury

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 3

K. R. Maclean, "Ormsby Jersey Stud," Corowa, had more successes with his entrants in Albury Show against stiff…

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Further Payment on Pool Wheat

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.: A further payment of 4d per bushel for both bagged and bulk .wheat in No. 16 pool (1952-53 season), bringing…

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Wool Sales at Albury Today

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 2

Japanese, United Kingdom and Continental buyers are expected to participate at the first Albury wool sale for the season, which…

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Wool Values Harden at Newcastle

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 22

NEWCASTLE. Tues.: The wool market showed a hardening tendency for some lines at the opening of New castle wool sales today. Brokers’…

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May be too much wheat to store

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.: A warning to Victorian farmers that their wheat crop this year may be too big for available…

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Weekly Sheep Sales in Albury

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 2

As from next Wednesday, Albury sheep market will be conducted weekly. Yesterday was the last day in the series of…

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Preparing for new season’s wheat

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 20

Mew season’s wheat would be handled by a quick turn-round of [?] trucks between the silos and sun-terminal at Junee, silos…

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A new butter bowl in the Central Murray ?

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 9

The astonishing butter production results arising from what is described by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture as “a pronounced swing to dairy farming” in the Central Murray…

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Melbourne Show District Success in Fat Cattle Sections

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Fat cattle entered in the 1954 Royal Melbourne Show were bigger, better in quality and better…

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“Yes” vote appeal for wheat plan

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 14

SYDNEY, Wed.: The vice-president of the Wheotgrowers’ Union of N.S.W., Mr. R. K. Tilson, today appealed for a “Yes”" vote for the proposed new stabilisation and orderly marketing…

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New season’s record wool price at Albury sales

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 1

An Australasian record price for the 1954-55 season was established at the tint Albury wool sales yesterday, when 122½d per pound was secured for a super merino clip, bearing the well-known brand, RD/FAIRFIELD, sold…

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U.S. wool men coming here to learn our methods

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Wed.: Six American wool growers and wool experts from the US Department of Agriculture…

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Farm mechanisation in China

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 9

A Chinese trade delegation recently visited the headquarters of the Massey-Harris-Ferguson organisation at Coventry and…

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Sheep Weight Guessing Comp. at Show

The Observer · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 5

Three people, Messrs. G. Macklan, M. Knobel and J. Thompson, guessed the exact weight of the sheep (1091b.) at…

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The Week in Store Sheep Market

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 1

Despite protracted dry conditions over the central half of N.S.W., no big numbers of sheep have been forced on the market…

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