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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1960

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Highest Wool Use for Decade in 1959

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 January 1960 · page 6

The New Year opens cheerfully for the world wool industry. World consumption of wool in the chief manufacturing countries during 1959 was about 16 per cent more than in the corresponding period of…

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Wool Princesses to Promote Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 12 January 1960 · page 5

More than 100 Wool Festivals will be held throughout Australia this year, in a coast-to-coast campaign to sell more wool. Each country town with a population of more…

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Wheat Yields to 20 Bags on Irrigation

The Pastoral Times · Friday 15 January 1960 · page 7

Average yields from irrigated wheat crops has been 10-12 bags to the acre, but many individual crops have been yielding from 14 to 20 bags, according to the Deniliquin District Agronomist, Mr. Paul Druitt, in…

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New Decade will be Momentous for Wool

The Pastoral Times · Friday 15 January 1960 · page 6

As the wool market revs up tor a take-off into a new decade, there is world-wide evidence that multiplying populations with rising living standards are already challenging wool production to meet the…

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Absurd to Sell Wool Without Reserve

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1960 · page 6

Mr R. A. O’Neill, “Myall Plains,” Berrigan, a Councillor of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association, writes in reply to…

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Dairy Farms Available for Soldiers

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 January 1960 · page 6

Two soldier settlement dairy farms near Taree will be open for application later this month, the Minister for Laude…

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New Farm Planner

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1960 · page 3

Mr Jim Phillips has been appointed Investigation Officer and Farm Planner at the Wagga office of the Soil…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 22 January 1960 · page 5

The Australian Estates Company Ltd. report having offered 8,000 bales at the current series of wool sales in Melbourne…

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Tobacco, Cotton Crops Crowing At Barham

The Pastoral Times · Friday 22 January 1960 · page 2

The less popular types of crops — cotton and tobacco — are being grown in the Barham. district this season…

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Melbourne Wool Sales Elder, Smith & Co., Limited

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 26 January 1960 · page 5

The 7th series of Melbourne Wool Auctions was continued on Tuesday when this Company bought forward a…

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Speed Essential in Treating Cattle Poisoning by H.c.n

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1960 · page 4

There arc several ways, in which farmers may treat cattle suffering from FICN poisoning which ifs sometimes caused by…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 January 1960 · page 5

At the seventh series of wool sales for the 1959/60 season held on January 18 to 21, the average price realised for greasy wool…

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Geelong Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 January 1960 · page 5

The Geelong Wool Brokers’ Association reports that at the fifth series of wool sales in the 1959/60 season held on 12th, 13th, and…

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Wheat Research C’ttee Chosen

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 2 February 1960 · page 3

Five representatives from three Victorian agricultural organisations have been appointed to the new Victorian…

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Wool Sales Goldsbrough Mort and Co. Ltd

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 2 February 1960 · page 2

Report: Values ruled firm on the previous week’s sales for merinos, comebacks and crossbreds…

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Good Season for Fodder Crops

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 February 1960 · page 6

Seasonal conditions have been exceptionally favourable for the growth of summer fodder crops, writes Mr. Paul Druitt,…

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District Rice Crops Most Advanced Ever

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 February 1960 · page 1

Rice crops this season are more advanced at this stage than at any time since rice growing commenced in the Demboora and Denimein Irrigation Districts. Mr. Paul Druitt, District Agronomist, in remarking…

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Yesterday’s Cattle Market

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 9 February 1960 · page 1

John McNamara & Co. Foy Ltd., report a highly successful cattle sale when they yarded 450 store cattle at Deniliquin…

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Wheat Area 25p.c Greater Next Season

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 9 February 1960 · page 3

Quality of wheat in standing crops was affected and in many crops grain commenced to sprout. Wheat is still being…

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Rennie Wheat Growers Not Happy with Board Chairman

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1960 · page 4

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