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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

1,514 stories in Murray's papers · page 74 of 76

Stockpiling of wool packs urged

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wed.: The Australian Woolgrowers’ Council has given an undertaking to the Federal Government that it will urge…

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Aust. Minister Hits at U.S. Farm Policy

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wed.: The Australian Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. McEwen, yesterday criticised the American Government’s policy of ridding itself of surplus farm…

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Wool and Stock

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 2

Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd. (incorporating the business of Wilkinson & Lav ender Ltd.) wired under…

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Pulpy Kidney Danger in Sheep

The Observer · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 7

Mr. R. H. Faulk, veterinary officer at Cootamundra, advises that losses of up to 30 per cent, resulting from pulpy…

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N.S.W. wheat harvest 37 million bushels

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The wheat yield in NSW this year would be approximately 37 million bushels the Minister for Agriculture (Mr,…

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Berrigan Crop Report

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 4

In his report on the seasonal conditions as at the end of November, the Berrigan District Agronomist (which includes…

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Junior Farmers Social

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 3

A number of High School students, and Old Students attended a break-up social at St. John's Hall at…

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Farmers Will Have Many More Mouths to Feed

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs.: Substantial increases in rural production will be essential if the demands of Australia’s grating population ere to be met over the next 22 years…

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American Farmers to Visit Hebe

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 December 1954 · page 28

The Mayor (Aid. Bunton) was advised yesterday that a party of 23 American fanners would visit Albury late in January. The party…

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Grow Quality Wheat, Advises Crop Judge

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 13

Australian farmers must concentrate on quality in wheat as well as in other primary products. This advice was offered…

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Wanted—a Mozaic Sheep

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 13

Graziers are combing Australia’s 127 million sheep population for a rare sheep…

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For Wool Theft

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.: A 54-year-old laborer was today sentenced in Quarter Sessions, to two years’ gaol for the theft of 75 bales of…

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Wool market trends

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 13

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: The first half of the 1954-55 wool selling season is drawing to a close, with the market showing…

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New Wheat Proved Satisfactory

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 17

Early this year the Victorian Department of Agriculture distributed 1500 bags of the new wheat…

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Semi-trailer hits sheep at Wang

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 1

At 7.15 a.m. yesterday a heavily-laden semi-trailer collided with a large flock of sheep on the Hume Highway at…

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Wool price recovery restores confidence

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 13

The recovery in wool prices has done much to restore a flagging overseas confidence in the…

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Wheat industry in melting pot (To the Editor)

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 16

Sir.—In the last few days concern has been expressed by certain members of the Federal Parliament on the large quantity of…

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Care of cream on the farm

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 13

Hot, dry and windy conditions during the next few months will aggravate the fly and dust nuisance…

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Floods Swamp Rich Farmlands

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 26

DUBLIN, Fri.: The worst floods in 75 years have submerged the rich agricultural district of central Ireland under a huge lake, varying…

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Wheat harvest— 155m. bushels

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 9

CANBERRA, Mon.: The estimated area sown to wheat grain in Australia this season is 10½ million acres, or about the same…

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