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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1960

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Store Cattle Market at Standstill

The Pastoral Times · Friday 22 April 1960 · page 7

With dry conditions offering little or no inducement to buy store cattle, and with the biggest number of cattlemen for years visiting Sydney for the Royal Show, country Saleyards were silent this week…

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Conference On Wool Research

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 April 1960 · page 3

Leaders of wool research in Australia will represent the nation at the second International Wool Textile Research Conference in Harrogate, England, next month. The delegation will consist of 22 scientists from the…

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Average Farmer Was £2000 in Debt

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1960 · page 4

The moat comprehensive survey of Australian wheat farming yet undertaken disclosed that the average…

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Properties Subject to Erosion Should Be Farm-planned

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1960 · page 3

Farm planning on Riverina properties subject to soil erosion would ensure best land use and protection against…

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Uptrend at Cattle Market

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 May 1960 · page 1

Wet weather dominated proceedings at a Store Cattle Sale at the Deniliquin Municipal Saleyards yesterday, held under the auspices of Goldsbrough, Mort and Company Limited and the Australian Mercantile,…

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Wheat Exports Create Problem

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 May 1960 · page 7

The appearance of European nations as exporters, of wheat is aggravating a major problem created by the accumulation of…

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Prices Drop in Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 May 1960 · page 2

Wool values shed 2d to 3d per lb. (clean) when sales were resumed at Brisbane and Geelong last week following three weeks of recess. This contrasted sharply with a rise of lid per 11d per lb. clean at the re-opening…

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Special Sheep Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 May 1960 · page 2

YOUNGHUSBAND LTD., & DALGETY CO. LTD., report holding their conjunctional Special Sheep Sale at Wagga…

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Sydney Sheep Show Sets Record

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 May 1960 · page 6

Remarkable interest is being shown throughout Australia in this year’s Sydney Sheep Show, to be held from June 1 to 4…

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Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 24 May 1960 · page 6

At the eleventh series of wool sales for the 1959/60 season held on May 9 to May 12, the average price realised for greasy wool…

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Dairy Executives Confer in Sydney

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 24 May 1960 · page 3

General Manager of the Berriquin Co-operative Society (Mr. J. D. Crockett) and Deniliquin Branch Manager (Mr. B. J. Hill)…

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Premier Praises Sheep Pioneer

The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 May 1960 · page 6

When viewed in proper perspective the activities and achievements of John Macarthur provide one of the most colourful and, in certain respects, one of the most inspiring chapters in our national history…

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Managers Comment On Sheep Show

The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 May 1960 · page 6

A record number of 2,467 entries have been received for the 1960 Sheep Show to be held at the Sydney Showground from…

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Dogs Kill More Than 100 Sheep

The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 May 1960 · page 1

The Jerilderie Diggers’ Race Club suffered a serious loss last weekend when dogs killed 36 ewes and 80 lambs in a flock…

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Dogs Kill 116 Sheep

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 31 May 1960 · page 1

Dogs, which attacked flock of sheep owned by Jerilderie Diggers’ Race Club, killed 36 ewes and 80 lambs…

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Heavy Wool Buying Revived at Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 3 June 1960 · page 8

Cables at mid—week from U.K. and the Continent triggered—off a revival of heavy buying at wool sales in Sydney, and Geelong last, week, Dalgety’s report. It checked the easing tendency of recent weeks and put the better types in…

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Wagga Special Sheep Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 7 June 1960 · page 3

[?] Dalgery & C[?] Ltd. [?] Younghusband Ltd., [?] In conjunction, report [?] conducted their May…

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Improved Equipment Wanted to Handle Area Wheat Crops

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 7 June 1960 · page 2

Members of the Wheat Board and the Grain Elevators Board will visit the Central Murray district to consider claims for better equipment to handle wheat harvests. The president of the Central Murray Farmers and Settlers’ District Council (Mr…

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Store 'Cattle at Deniliquin

The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 June 1960 · page 4

The Australian, Mercantile Land & Finance Co. Ltd. report having yarded 1200 store, cattle at Deniliquin…

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Cattle Market Very Firm

The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 June 1960 · page 7

The A.M.L. & F. Company, Deniliquin, report having yarded 1,200 store cattle at Deniliquin on Friday, May 27…

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