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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

1,842 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 76 of 93

The Farm Home Control of White Ants Protective Treatment for Timber

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 1

The most effective liquid in general use for the treatment of timber to prevent white ant attack is coal tar creosote oil, the effectiveness of the…

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Stole £3073 from Farmer Three Men Sentenced

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 4

A billy-can containing £2026 in notes which was found at the foot of a gum-tree, and another bundle of notes totalling £1047 were produced…

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Farmer Charged Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 7

Charged in the Police Court to-day with having driven a motor car while he was under the influence of liquor and also with dangerous driving…

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Military School Conversion of Scheyville Farm SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 12 October 1940 · page 1

From Monday Scheyville State fining farm, near Windsor will be converged for use into a military school in artillery nail anti-lank…

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Wheat Harvest

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 October 1940 · page 7

A preliminary estimate of the 1940 41 wheat harvest in Sew South Wales is 38.000.000 bushels, which compare with 76,551,000 bushels last year…

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Housewives Propose Butter Rationing

Singleton Argus · Monday 14 October 1940 · page 2

Referring to reports of a reduction in the quota of butter allowed" in British homes, Mrs Eleanor GFlencross, president of the Housewives…

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Wheat Yield Likely To Be Affected By Hot Weather SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 October 1940 · page 5

Mr. A. E. McDonald of the Department of Agriculture, said to-day, that with hot, dry weather over most of the State, many gransiers and…

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Wool Appraisement Sale at Newcastle Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd.'s Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 14 October 1940 · page 3

Messi's Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd., Newcastle, offered a catalogue of 3,169 bales drawn mainly from Moree, Warialda, Tamworth,…

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Dairy Industry Rain Still Urgently Needed Weekly Review

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 October 1940 · page 7

Prescott, Pty Ltd., in their weekly review of the dairy industry, [?] that rain is still urgently needed in many dairying centres arrivals are a little…

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Relieving the Needy Farmers Nearly a Million Allocated

Singleton Argus · Monday 14 October 1940 · page 2

To meet the immediate necessities of farmers in drought-stricken areas, £950,000 will be distributed by the Commonwealth Government,…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 October 1940 · page 6
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 11th instant:— We submitted our appraisement…

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War Savings Wool

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 October 1940 · page 1

Germany, by its failure to secure mastery of English skies no longer hopes for success through a lightning war. Great…

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Greece Wants Wheat (A.a.p. Service) ATHENS, October 14

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 October 1940 · page 2

Owing to the wheat shortage in Greece negotiations are being conducted for the purchase of 50,000 tons from Australia, also large quantities…

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Help Needy Farmers Nearly £1,000,000 Allocated

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 October 1940 · page 6

To meet the immediate necessities of farmers in drought-stricken areas £950,000 would be distributed by the Commonwealth Government, the…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 October 1940 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the llth instant :— We submitted our Appraisement…

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