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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1957

240 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 12

Thursday’s Fortnightly Sheep Market

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 November 1957 · page 6

Approximately 12000 fat sheep and lambs and 3000 store sheep were yarded by the Associated Agents at their regular sale…

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This Week in Wool Cheaper Wool Will Enable Japan to Buy More

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 21 November 1957 · page 8

Wider competition, which steadied prices at wool markets at Sydney and Geelong last week, has raised hopes…

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Melbourne Wool Sales Elder, Smith & Co. Ltd

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 26 November 1957 · page 8

Reporting on the fifth series of wool auctions which opened in Melbourne on November 18. Elder Smith & Co. Limited…

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Crop Competition

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 26 November 1957 · page 1

The crop competition, conducted by the Berrigan A. and H. Society was judged last week, the winner being Mr V. W…

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No "Drought" at Leeton Farm

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 28 November 1957 · page 5

There is every reason to believe that irrigated pastures on the M.I.A. could quite comfortably feed a breeding…

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Geelong Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 3 December 1957 · page 3

The Geelong Woolbrokers’ Association reports that at the Fourth Series of Wool Sales in the 1957/58 season held on 12th,…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 3 December 1957 · page 2

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that at the fifth series of Wool Sales for the 1957 58 Season, held on November 18th to…

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Crop Competition

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 3 December 1957 · page 5

The Berrigan A. and H. Society’s Wheat Crop competition attracted cloven entries, and despite the unfavorable Boason,…

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Rice Crops Show Good Germination

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 3 December 1957 · page 7

Most rice crops in Deniboota and Denimein Irrigation Districts show good germination, and permanent water…

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Values Satisfactory At Sheep Special

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 December 1957 · page 5

The Australian Estates Co. Ltd, and Australian Mercantile Land and Finince Co. Ltd., Deniliquin, report having conducted a…

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Wheat Increase Will Hit All

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 December 1957 · page 3

Deniliquin merchants are incensed at the increased price of wheat in N.S.W. — more particularly because the increase is many times greater than that in Victoria, and because the necessity for the tremendous jump is…

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Champion Wheat Crop

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 10 December 1957 · page 5

The Riverina division field, wheat championship has been judged and the championship awarded to Messrs O’Brien…

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Blighty Farmer Wins State Competition

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 10 December 1957 · page 6

Mr A. M. Doherty, “Tulagi,” Blighty, was successful in gaining State honors in section 1 of the Fat Lamb…

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Federal Member Approached On Wheat Increase

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 December 1957 · page 1

Deniliquin Chamber of Commerce has sem[?] letter to the Hon. Hugh S. Robertson, M.H.R., protesting at the…

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Wool Devalued By Credit Restrictions

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 17 December 1957 · page 4

Eroded by credit restrictions, world economic fears and uncertainties wool prices continued to slide at Sydney and Adelaide to…

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Credit Strains Have Cut Wool Values

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 17 December 1957 · page 8

The crack in the wool market has widened, and values of fine and medium merinos are back at the low levels which in April 1952 ended the memorable slide from the all-time record prices of 1950-51. Except in…

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Fire in Crop

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1957 · page 3

A fire started in a wheat crop being stripped on the property of Messrs I and J. Dickens late on Thursday afternoon…

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Wool Bale Markings

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 December 1957 · page 3

The unanimous approval by representatives of wool growers, brokers, buyers and classers of a scheme for uniform…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 December 1957 · page 8

The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that at the sixth series of Wool Sales for the 1957/58 Season held on December 9th…

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Geelong Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 December 1957 · page 9

The Geelong Woolbrokers’ Association reports that at the Fifth Series of Wool Sales in the 1957/58 season held on 3rd…

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