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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Wool Exports Down by £14 Million

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 6

CANBERRA, Wed: The value of Australian wool exports during the first two months of the current financial year fell by…

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The Home Garden Vegetable crop planning

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 15

Competent gardeners often fall into the same errors as armatures when it comes to providing the family with a sufficiency of each…

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Wheat Stabilisation Ballot

The Observer · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 7
Also in The Corowa Free Press

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said he was delighted with the result…

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Wool Sales Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 4

On Monday, 11th October, New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., brought forward a catalogue totalling 6830 bales…

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Rice shortage benefits our butter men

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The rice shortage in South-East Asia a few years ago is still benefiting Australian dairymen,…

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Special Sheep Sales Local and District Reports

The Pastoral Times · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 3

The Australian Estates Co. Ltd. and Goldsbrough More and Co., Ltd.. agents in association, report having conducted a Special…

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Slight World Wool Increase Expected

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 4

That world wool production will show a slight increase of about one par cent, during 1954-55 is the official estimate of the…

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Late Commercial Crossbred Wool in Demand

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 22

GOULBURN Thurs.: The market for cross[?] wool ruled in sellers’ favor at the second day of the Goulburne wool sales today. Nearly 2500…

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Wagga Drover Travels Sheep Too Slow: to Pay £68/11/-

The Pastoral Times · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 9

WAGGA drover George McLaughlin this week pleaded not guilty to one charge and guilty to another of failing to travel stock the prescribed statutory daily distance…

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Took cattle into “pleuro.” quarantined area: Man fined by Rutherglen Court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 14

Fronds Edward Oscor Fleischer, of Howlong, was fined £7 and ordered to pay £6/13/- costs in Rutherglen Court on a charge of droving cattle into a pleuro-pneumonia quarantine area…

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“Flying Squads” move New Season’s Wool

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 October 1954 · page 9

The above photograph shows a new idea, being used to speed up handling of this season’s wool. The wool firm, Bridgland Brown Pty. Limited, has organised some of its wool handlers into teams called “flying squads”, which work in conjunction with classers in their wool…

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He Is Hopeful on Wool

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 October 1954 · page 1

The wool market should continue to expand and production must keep pace, the New Zealand member of the…

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Springhurst Butter Factory Another good year is reported

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 October 1954 · page 2

Chairman of directors of the Springhurst and District Dairy Company Ltd. (Mr. S. G. Williams) said in his address to the…

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Wangaratta News Wangaratta, Sun.: Weekly Cattle Market Forecast

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 October 1954 · page 5

Wangaratta may shortly have a weekly, instead of a fortnightly cattle market. This is announced by Mr. F. Ballantine, secretary of…

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Commercial Wool Values Firm

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 13

SYDNEY, Mon.: Values were generally firm for better style wools carrying light fault at the opening of the fifth series of wool sales today. Fleece…

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American Sheep Growers Visit Hay District

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 1

On Friday last a party of six American sheep growers and one Departmental man, who are touring Australia…

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Sheep Advance 10/- To 15/- At Fortnightly Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 1

The A.M.L. & F. Co. Ltd. report having yarded 4000 good quality store sheep at the Deniliquin Associated Agents’…

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Farmers oppose tariff increase on tractors

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Mon.: The Australian Primary Producers’ Union today asked the Tariff Board not to grant a N.S.W. firm’s request for a 25 per cent, duty on imported tractors…

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In Albury Court Yesterday Stock inspector denies Howlong farmer’s “vindictiveness” allegation

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 5

A Howlong dairy farmer, in Albury Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, claimed that the stock inspector of the Albury Pastures Protection Board had quarantined his milking herd “out of vindictiveness.” He also told Mr. Letts,…

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