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Farming & the land, 1959

216 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 11

Wool Research Fund Gets Windfall

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 July 1959 · page 1

THE wool research fund will receive £2,400,000 from unclaimed profits of wool sales during World War II. THIS has been announced [?]the Minister for Primary…

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No Ban on Sheep Exports

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 July 1959 · page 1

The Federal Government will not ban the export of sheep for slaughter overseas. The Minister for Trade, Mr…

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Rise in Wool Warehousing

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 July 1959 · page 7

The president of the N.S.W. Graziers’ Association, (Mr. T. M. Scott) said yesterday that strong exception, was taken to…

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Weed Is Severe in Wheat

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 July 1959 · page 1

Although germination over the largely increased wheat area in the Deniliquin district is the best for several…

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Auction System Best for Wool

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 July 1959 · page 2

Australian Woolgrowers’ Council executives have reported strongly in favour of the auction system as the basis of any scheme for the marketing of wool The chairman (Mr. W…

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Wool Excels Synthetics Under Most Tests

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 July 1959 · page 2

The fact that wool surpasses synthetics under almost every test was emphasised by Dr. M. Lipsom, chief of the C.S.I.R.O. Division of Textile Industry, in an address at the National University at Canberra recently…

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Sheep Fertility

The Pastoral Times · Friday 31 July 1959 · page 6

Average Merino lamb-marking figures of about 60 per cent, are accepted as inevitable by many graziers. Yet some are able to…

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Wheat Board Poll

The Pastoral Times · Friday 31 July 1959 · page 1

Nominations close on August 19 with the Commonwealth deputy electoral officer, Sydney, for the election of two N.S.W…

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Wool Still Top Industry

The Pastoral Times · Friday 31 July 1959 · page 6

Wool-growing remains Australia’s most important single industry, Respite spectacular advances by other industries. The Rural Bank quarterly survey. “Trends” issued this…

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Wool Reserve Price Plan

The Pastoral Times · Friday 31 July 1959 · page 1

A proposal may be put to the Federal Government Government to establish a special committee to operate a reserve price plan for Australian wool sales, within existing auction system…

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£2m. More for Wool Research

The Pastoral Times · Friday 31 July 1959 · page 1

Allocations by the Wool Research Committee, totalling almost £2,000,000, were announced by the Minister for…

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More M.I.A. Farms

The Pastoral Times · Friday 31 July 1959 · page 1

First batch of farms on Coleambally irrigation area will be made available during the coming…

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Australian Wheat Board Election

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1959 · page 6

An election is to be held of two representatives of wheat-growers in NSW for appointment as members of the…

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Letter to the Editor Wool Prices

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1959 · page 3

Sir,—Mr C. B. S. Falklner recently stated that redueed wool prices were causeday slackening demand and…

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Revival of Wool Against Chemical Fibres

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 August 1959 · page 3

A world-wide wool revival is gathering strength, with ground being regained from chemical fibres according to Dalgety’s News Service this week. That was being underlined…

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Strong Opening of Wool Sales Predicted

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 August 1959 · page 5

A strong opening for the new season’s wool markets was predicted by Dalgety’s News Service this week. [?] Dalgety’s correspondent at…

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Farm Income Exceeds Estimate, But Drops

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 August 1959 · page 3

Australian farm income for the year ended June 30 last now exceeded by more than one-fifth the estimate made six months ago. that enables it to stand the…

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Butter Payments

The Pastoral Times · Friday 7 August 1959 · page 5

Interim butter and cheese payments to dairy farmers will be unchanged in the 1959-60 season…

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Extension of Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 7 August 1959 · page 9

Extension of the Australian wool-selling season will be discussed at a meeting in Melbourne next Friday…

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Further Rain Needed for Feed and Crops

The Pastoral Times · Friday 7 August 1959 · page 1

ALTHOUGH 72 points of rain fell in Deniliquin during July, further heavy falls are needed to promote growth of dryland pastures to ensure satisfactory summer feed, and for cereal crops…

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