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Farming & the land, 1961

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Wool Storage Figures

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 12 September 1961 · page 2

Figures supplied [?] National Council [?] Selling Brokers of [?]lia show a total of [?]…

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Member Approaches Minister on Farming Problems

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1961 · page 4

Mr J. A. Lawson, MLA, has taken the matter of wheat storage in NSW border districts up with the Minister…

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Wool Festival

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 September 1961 · page 10

Sir, We would like to invite the people of Deniliquin to enter the 1961-62 Wool Festival…

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The Pastoral Times Deniliquin Telegraph [?] From the Files of the “Pastoral Times” 100 Years Ago Today

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 September 1961 · page 9

The trial of Mr. C—,M.L.A., and three other persons charged with conspiring to impersonate voters at the recent Mornington election, occurs in Melbourne this day; application having been made on Monday…

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PASTORAL Times Opinion 19th SEPTEMBER, 1961 the Good Ship Loyalty

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 September 1961 · page 9

Frankly, it is a very difficult thing to speak from the heart through the pocket. Some dedicated people, with a loyalty quotient often far in excess of their financial means, can do…

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535 Acre Farm for S.settler

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 September 1961 · page 7

Two soldier settlement fat Iamb blocks In southern New South. Wales will be open for application late in october…

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Mayrung J.f. Club Lectured on Dairying

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 26 September 1961 · page 6

Mr. D. Scott, of the Department of Agriculture, addressed the advisory committee and members…

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Mr. Hoy to Meet Wheat [?]rowers Here Next Week

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 September 1961 · page 5

The General President of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association, Mr. G. Hoy, will address, farmers here at a public meeting on Tuesday in the Red Cross Hall. The secretary of the local branch of the F. and S…

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Outlook: Becoming Serious Lack of Rain Threatens Crop Yield

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 3 October 1961 · page 1

District growers say the outlook for dryland pastures and crops is becoming serious and unless one to two inches of rain falls within the next few days…

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£60,000 Mushroom Farm for Shep

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 3 October 1961 · page 3

A cultured mushroom farm is to be built at Shepparton soon at a built of about £60,000. The farm is expected to turn…

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[?]R. Hoy on Weevil Infestation Wheat Bd. Determined to Have Clean Sheet

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 10 October 1961 · page 3

Care and co-operation at the beginning of the wheat harvest and right through was the only way to solve the weevil infestation problem, an Australian Wheat Board member, Mr. G. Hoy, impressed on Deniliquin…

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N.z. Girl Farmer on Visit to D’quin

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 10 October 1961 · page 2

An outstanding member of the New Zealand Federation of Country Girls’ Clubs arrived in Deniliquin at the weekend for a week’s visit as the quest of Miss Allison Bradford, of “Carrigan…

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Barham Pastoral Company Wins Newspaper Contest

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 October 1961 · page 4

First place in the “Country Life” Dairy Farm Improvement competition for 1960-61 for the…

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Geelong Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 October 1961 · page 4

The Geelong wool Brokers’ Association reports that at the second series of Wool Sales in the, 1961/62 season held on…

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Both Grow and Sell: Floor Price for Best Wool Returns

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 October 1961 · page 1

It seemed that the Australian woolgrower would have to adopt a floor price scheme and become…

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Dairy Studs’ Success at Royal Show

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 October 1961 · page 1

Two Deniliquin dairy stud breeders had outstanding success with their exhibits at the recent Royal…

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Member Stresses : Need for Review of Closer Settlement Farm Scheme

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 October 1961 · page 9

It is to be regretted that only prospective settlers financially strong enough to develop a farm had any chance of obtaining land under the closer settlement scheme, the Member for Murray, Mr. J. A, Lawson,…

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Five Corowa Farms Up for Ballot

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 17 October 1961 · page 5

Five mixed farming blocks in the Corowa district will be available for application late in…

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Bond for Farmer on Sloane St. Stabbing Charge

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 October 1961 · page 3

A 26-year-old grazier who stabbed his wife in the chest and back in a Sloane st. house in April shortly alter she admitted having committed adultery, was placed on a £500 five-year bond in the Wagga Supreme Court this week…

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Outstanding Sheep Man’s Death Closes Chapter of Australian Wool History

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 24 October 1961 · page 1

The death at Boonoke at 6.45 a.m. yesterday of one of Australia’s best-known pastoralists, Mr, Otway Rothwell Falkiner closes a chapter of Australian sheep breeding history. At 86, Mr. Falkiner was chairman of the vast Merin o sheep breeding empire, F. S. Falkiner & Sons, and a…

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