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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Ministers urge change in financing wheat plan

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.: The NSW Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, Mr. Graham, today urged the alteration of the method of financing the wheat stabilisation plan. Mr. Graham moved at…

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F. and S. Association is opposed to wheat scheme

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.; The general council of the Farmers Settlers’ Association today decided to oppose a wheat stabilisation plan until the Federal Government adopts a more liberal cost of production formula…

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Pastoral Season Summarised

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 1

Drought-breaking monsoonal rains from the Gulf to the south-west of Queensland have transformed the pastoral outlook of…

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Cattle Disease Checked

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 4

An outbreak of contagious pleuro-pneumonia in the Cano-windra district had been successfully checked, officers of the…

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Berrigan Farmer Assists in Wheat Research

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 1

Mr. Don Arnold, of Berrigan, last year conducted an important experiment, designed to…

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Wool and Stock

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 2

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

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District Farmers Dissatisfied with Intake Of Wheat at Henty Silos

The Observer · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 1

Farmers present at the January meeting of the Henty branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, which took place in the Memorial Hall last Friday, expressed dissatisfaction with the receiving of wheat at the…

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Big Wheat Yield at Junee

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 1

A yield of 57 bushels an acre has. been obtained in the Junee district from a crop of Marget wheat. The crop was grown on…

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Wheat Plan Opposition by State Minister

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 1

A Commonwealth wheat stabilisation plan was opposed by the N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham) when…

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U.k. Supremacy in Wool Textiles

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 4

The importation by United Kingdom of 827 million lb. of raw wool in 1953 is a reminder of Britain's supremacy in the field of…

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Britain Supreme In Wool Textile Manufacture

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 2

A record post war year of raw wool [?]perts into Britain in 1953 amounting to 827.7 million lb. equivalent to a little more…

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Wheat Harvest Ends: Exceeded Quarter Million Bushels

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 1

More than 250,000 bushels of wheat, comprising the district’s harvest was brought into…

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Victorian Govt refuses to approve wheat plan

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The Victorian Government again refused to approve the five-year wheat stabilisation plan at today’s Australian Agricultural Council meeting. State Cabinet will…

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Migrants Man Farms

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 2
Also in The Pastoral Times

During 1953 1200 migrants, chiefly in New South Wales and Victoria, have been clearing and doing other farm work for which…

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Rewards From Pasture Improvement Benefits That Accrue to the Farmer (Second Instalment)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 4

The rewards to be gained from pasture Improvement are great. The expense Involved is. an allowable deduction for taxation purposes, it enhances capital values and ensures substantial increase in production…

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Wodonga Cattle Market

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 2

The draw for the Wodonga weekly cattle market will made on Monday morning at 10.30. Because of the holiday…

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Warning lo growers on “any wheat plan”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 3

CANBERRA, Fri. : Wheatgrowers should give very serious consideration to any wheat plan, whether it be internal stabilisation or the International Wheat Agreement, that did not provide for the changing value of…

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New techniques in color printing on wool fabrics

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 13

New research discoveries in the printing of wool have developed a method by which wool fabrics can now be printed in as bright colors as any cotton materials. Not only ore the new colors quite as bright as those…

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New manager of Kiewa Butter Factory served with the U.N. Organisation

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 3

Need for close co-operation among milk producing countries to assist in feeding the under-nourished children of the world was one of the primary considerations today, Mr. L. R. Scharp, newly appointed manager of the…

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