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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1959

216 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 11

Total Clearance at Big Cattle Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 18 September 1959 · page 8

In Deniliquin’s biggest single sale of cattle from one vendor this year, F. S. Falkiner & Sons Pty. Ltd. grossed £37,874…

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Wool now takes the lead

The Pastoral Times · Friday 18 September 1959 · page 4

Overshadowing even its buoyant recovery in price and world consumption after its deepest recession in ten years, was the…

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Wheat Board Elections To the Editor

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 22 September 1959 · page 2

Sir,— Ballot paper have now been issued by the Commonwealth Electoral Office to all registered…

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Dairy Students [?]Come on Thurs[?]

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 22 September 1959 · page 4

Seventeen students of Hawkesbury Agricultural College dairying course will visit Deniliquin on Thursday…

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Placings in Berrigan Crop Competition Judge’s Report

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1959 · page 7

Five contestants entered in the competition compared with the three entries of last year…

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Clean Wheat Essential

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 6 October 1959 · page 7

The Chairman of the Grain Elevators Board (Mr S. C. Hodgson) said last week that during the coming harvest his Board…

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Registered Sheep to Be Offered

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 October 1959 · page 3

The Australian Society of Breeders of British Sheep (Victorian branch) will hold a sale of registered sheep at Echuca…

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Credit Sales of Wheat

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 October 1959 · page 3

“When accumulated stocks of primary products — particularly wheat — are difficult to sell, the suggestion is occasionally made…

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Trouble from wool packs

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 October 1959 · page 5

Jute in wool causes faulty finished cloth because it has a low affinity for most wool dyes and so may appear as undyed fibres on the fabric surface. A small length of jute yarn,…

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Wheat Handling More Efficient

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 October 1959 · page 1

ELECTRIFICATION of augurs at Deniliquin wheat bulk-head is well advanced, the Chairman of the Grain Elevators’ Board (Mr. Harold Glowrey) said in Melbourne this morning…

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Good Clearance at Special Sheep Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 October 1959 · page 6

NEW ZEALAND LOAN & Mercantile Agency conducted a successful special sheep sale at Deniliquin on Tuesday with 16,000…

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Wool Promotion Expansion, Development

The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 October 1959 · page 4

The year just concluded was one of expansion and development in the organisation for wool promotion in Australia,…

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Dress Making for Girl Jnr. Farmers

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 October 1959 · page 1

A dress-making competition, for girl Junior Farmers in the south-western area will be held at Wagga next Monday. The…

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Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 October 1959 · page 4

At the third series of wool sales for the 1959/60 Season held on October 5 to 8, the average price realised for Greasy wool…

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Increased Wool Earnings

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 October 1959 · page 8

In a review of official figures issued by the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers, Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd. report…

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More Wool Sent by Rail

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 October 1959 · page 8

Increase in wool consignments is a pleasant feature of this year’s Victorian Railways traffic said the Acting Victorian…

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Wool meets challenge from synthetics

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 October 1959 · page 8

WOOL is moving cut to meet the challenge of synthetic fibres with the aid of the three C.S.I.R.O. Wool Textile Research Laboratories, which were formed only ten years ago…

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Cattle Averaged £41’17’4 at Special Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 October 1959 · page 5

At a most successful cattle sale in Deniliquin last week, John MeNamara & Co. Pty. Ltd. sold 544 cattle at an…

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Council could lose Urban farm lands

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 October 1959 · page 1

VIGOROUS opposition to a proposal to excise 12,000 acres of land from Deniliquin Municipality is likely to come from Council. Latest moves in the proposal to alter the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 27 October 1959 · page 7

DENNYS, LASCELLES LIMITED offered their second catalogue of new season’s clip on Tuesday last…

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