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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1958

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Berriquin Co-op Considering Extension Town May Yet Get Butter Factor

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 September 1958 · page 1

The Board of Directors of the Berriquin Co-operative has been granted a licence to build a dairy products factory in Deniliquin, and is negotiating for a block of land here…

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Tobacco Crop “Doing Well”

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 September 1958 · page 6

A TOBACCO crop planted on the property of Mr. L. T. Nicholas at Mathoura is coming on well…

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Cattle Prices Lower

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 9 September 1958 · page 1

The Deniliquin Stock and Station Agents Association held their usual fortnightly cattle sale yesterday. There was a…

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Berrigan Man Wins Sheep Competition

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 9 September 1958 · page 2

District judging in the Rural Bank’s fat lamb breeders’ ewe competition ended with 1st prize going to Mr. G. Fox of “Boxley,”…

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Wool Sales

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 11 September 1958 · page 2

N.Z.L. Sydney report:—On Thursday, 4th September, we brought forward a catalogue totalling 5714 bales…

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The Week in Wool Bradford Eager to Stabilise Wool

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 11 September 1958 · page 5

The down-trend in the wool market has been halted. It is significant that British buyers called the…

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Ideal Conditions Assure Bountiful Crops

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 11 September 1958 · page 2

With the countryside in the best condition for many years and spring now at hand, growers are turning their…

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[?]Wes Wanted for [?]Ew Farms

The Pastoral Times · Friday 12 September 1958 · page 1

[?]wo million more cross-bred ewes will be needed to [?] new farms created by the utilisation of Snowy [?] waters on both sides of the Murrumbidgee. [?] sheep and wool officer of the N.S.W. Department…

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Butter Factory Profit £14,568

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 16 September 1958 · page 8

Over forty shareholders attended the annual meeting of the Berriquin Co-Operative Society last week…

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Research by C.S.I.R.O. Workers Shows Wool Cleared In Blanket Scare

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 16 September 1958 · page 1

WOOL has been cleared of suspicion as an agent for spreading infection in hospitals. This morning C.I.S.R.O. headquarters supplied the “Pastoral Times” with first information of results of…

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The Week in Wool Bradford Says Wool Recovery Now on The Way

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 18 September 1958 · page 4

Gathering influences for rising confidence are now slowly but surely turning the tide in the wool market…

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Sheep Dog Trials Sunday, October 6. Entries Invited

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 18 September 1958 · page 5

Entries are invited for the Sheep Dog Trials to be held on Eastern Park on Sunday afternoon, 5th October,…

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[?]Ajor Single Wool Use

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 September 1958 · page 1

[?]L BLANKET produ[?] Australia last financial was 1,851,000 (the largest use for wool in…

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Land Made Ready For Rice Crop

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 September 1958 · page 1

Growers are now busy preparing land for the 1958-59 rice harvest in the irrigation districts west of Deniliquin. Rice, still classed as a “temporary” crop by the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission,…

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Wool Sale Prices

The Pastoral Times · Friday 26 September 1958 · page 5

SOME district prices from the opening day of the second series of Melbourne wool sales :…

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Mathoura News More Wool Railed Out

The Pastoral Times · Friday 26 September 1958 · page 6

In the twelve months ended August approximately 200 more bales of wool were railed out of Mathoura than were carried out by rail in the previous year. The stationmaster (Mr. J…

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Best Time to Shear Sheep?

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 September 1958 · page 7

THE practice of early shearing of sheep in Victoria, the southern Riverina and South Australia has lately attracted considerable comment in the agricultural Press…

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Wool Bales Stolen From Niemur

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 September 1958 · page 1

THREE BALES of wool (one each of fleeces, bellies and pieces) were reported stolen to police by O live Swarson of…

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Putting Permanent Pleats in Wool

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 September 1958 · page 5

The recently discovered durable creasing process for wool garments is now in use in the United Kingdom, reports…

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Production Figures at Experiment Farm

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 30 September 1958 · page 5

Over the last 12 months at Lecton Experiment Farm 1000 grown sheep were fed from an area of 370 acres of irrigated…

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