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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

1,644 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 83

Burn Charcoal to Help Nation. Farmers Should Build Own Gas-producer Units

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 July 1941 · page 2

Mr. George Wilson, Country Party member for Dubbo, and primary producers' representative on the Commonwealth Liquid Fuel…

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Burn Charcoal to Help Nation Farmers Should Build Own Gas Producer Units

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 15 July 1941 · page 3

Mr. George Wilson, Country Party member for Dubbo, and primary producers' representative on the Commonwealth Liquid Fuel Control…

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Local and General Tenders Lease of Farm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 15 July 1941 · page 2

Mr. R. W. Tighe, Dusodie, invites tenders for the lease of dairy farm of 400 acres for a term of three years. Particulars appear in our…

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Sale of Dairy Heifers

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1941 · page 6

N.Z.L. & M.A. Co., Ltd. (inc. in England), Scone, report:— We wish to draw special attention to the 30 dehorned Jersey heifers for…

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Charcoal Plans Manufacture by Farmers

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 July 1941 · page 6

The State Government is asking farmers to instal kilns to manufacture charcoal for producer gas units…

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Spraying of Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 July 1941 · page 2

A suggestion has gone forward from the N.S.W. branch of the Short-for. Society of Australia to the Minister for Agriculture that cattle…

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1941 European Wheat Crop Appreciable Reduction Expected

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 July 1941 · page 2

The Acting Commonwealth Statistician, Mr S. Carver, said on Monday that it was expected that the 1941 European wheat…

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Women’s Work on Farms

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 July 1941 · page 3

“Assistance to country people should be regarded as national service,” Mrs. J. Cavanagh president of the women’s section of the…

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Tamworth Special Sheep Sale

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 6
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

A sale worthy of special interest to buyers, in search of good quality sheep will take place in the Tamworth Municipal Yards on Tuesday…

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Wheat Plan Supported

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 6

The Agricultural Bureau conference at Hawkesbury College discussed the wheat stabilisation scheme and passed a resolution that it should be…

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Maitland Stock Sales Cattle Values Firm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 1

Sheep were one whining a head cheaper at the Campbell's Hill saleyards, West Maitland, on Monday. Backfatters fell 20/ in value, and…

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New Wool Clip Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 6

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd report: New clip wools are coming into store with a fair degree of freedom, mainly from the west and far west…

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Pipe-organ Assembled As Hobby Wool Appraiser's Feat

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 3

A pipe-organ containing more than 1,800 pipes has been assembled by Mr Arthur Lord in a specially-built two-storey…

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DAIRYING Care of Milk and Cream Prevention of Contamination

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 2

It is a well-established fact—though one not yet as sufficiently recognised by dairymen—that milk and cream are very delicate, that they…

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Charcoal Burning for Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 3

Provided they adopted right methods and used correct timbers, farmers could make more out of the production of charcoal than from the…

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Farm Leases Condemned Experts' Report

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 3

Landlord-tenant agreements commonly used in New South Wales are condemned in the interim report of a committee of experts in the…

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Egg Poll Petition From 261 Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. W. F. Dunn, M.L.A.), has announced that it has been decided to take a ballot on Wednesday, September 10,…

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Soviet's Crops Richest in History

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 5

It is officially stated that the Russian crops are expected to be the richest in the Soviet's history. Harvesting is going on at full speed…

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Ballot Amongst Poultry Farmers. Lodgment of Petition

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 6

The Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. W. F. Dunn, M.L.A.) has announced that it has been decided to take a ballot on Wednesday, 10th…

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