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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

1,644 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 76 of 83

Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate, The Scone Advocate

The Farmers and Graziers' Cooperative Co., Ltd., reports on the 14th instant: We submitted our appraisement catalogue No. 63 (the 12th…

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Wool Appraisements

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 1

New Zealand Loan & M.A. Co., Ltd., submitted a catalogue of 3356 bales of wool for final appraisement on Wednesday, 12st inst., which…

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Butter Market Federal Action Soon

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 7

A Federal Government decision on the marketing of second [?] Is expected [?] a few days The Minister for Commerce Mr…

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Butter Price. Basis of Claim for Increase

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 5

Mr. A. C. Pratt, president of the Tweed District Council of the Primary Producers' Union, commenting on the refusal of the Price Fixing…

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Cattle Diseases Contagious Abortion. Cause and Cure

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 3

A lecture of considerable interest to local and district landholders and farmers was delivered in Maitland by Mr. D. F. Stewart. It was under…

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LOCHINVAR Farm Hands And Military Work

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 6

Great satisfaction is being expressed by the farmers of the district as the result of representations made by Lochinvar Agricultural Bureau…

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Country Women's Association (Scone) Annual Exhibition. Fine Display of Fleece Wool and Handicraft. Open and District Fleece Championship to Mr. Joseph Barwick, Kiernan's Creek

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 2

The annual exhibition of fleece wools and handicraft, organised by the Scone branch of the Country Women's Association, assisted by a…

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Battle of the Dairy Industry Plea For Increased Price For Butter And Milk

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 4

“The compulsory maintenance of the price of butter and at pre-war level is going to have an injurious effect on. the prosperity of the rural population of the coastal areas of South Wales.”…

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BUTTER-CHEESE Prices Commissioner Criticised BRISBANE

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 3

The secretary of the Queensland Council of Agriculture (Mr. E, Bra[?] ) condemned the refusal of the Price Commissioner to grant an…

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Farmlet Sold

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 4

Frank L. Smith reports having sold -by auction this morning on behalf of the mortgage exercising his power of sale, a farmlet of 5 acres 1…

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1500 Dairy Farm Families

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 20 November 1941 · page 4

That the sale on Australia of butter substitutes was displacing 1500 dairy farm families was claimed in the Legislative Ossembly when, prior to the House…

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Value of Wheat

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 November 1941 · page 1

Results from these experiments again demonstrate the value of including 20 to 301b. per acre of wheat (Florence was used this year) and…

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Straw Pulp for Cattle Fodder

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 November 1941 · page 2

One million tons of staw can be given the feeding value of 500,000 tons of cereals by a new pulping process, which is the…

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Tamworth Stock Market 1500 Quality Cattle :: Thursday Next

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 November 1941 · page 6

Mahony & Co., Pty., Ltd., announce an outstanding sale of cattle for Thursday next, 27th hist., in the Tamworth yards. The yarding will…

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Marketing of Butter Statement by the Minister for Commerce

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 November 1941 · page 3

Mr. W. J. Scully. Minister for Commerce, has announced that the Commonwealth Government has under consideration the action which will be…

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Market Notes Tabulam Cattle Market 1150 Head :: Friday Next

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 November 1941 · page 5

Of the quality yarding of 1150 N. S. Wales bred cattle listed for the Tabulam yards on Friday, 28th inst., there again in a preponderance of…

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Peeps Into the Past Apparent Apathy of Farmers In Connection With Dairying 50 Years Ago (From issues of the "Argus" dated November 18 and 21, 1891.) Visit of Travelling Dairy

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 November 1941 · page 2

Some of our townspeople are of opinion that rather than allow the opportunity for a visit of the travelling dairy to be lost, the Municipal…

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Growing Wheat in Canada Area Estimated at 756,000 Acres

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 November 1941 · page 5

Canada's area of sown wheat this autumn,is estimated at 756,000 acres, or 87,000 acres more than last autumn, it is officially announced. The…

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