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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

1,683 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 85

The Man on the Land-- Pastoral. Method of Docking Lambs As a Factor in Susceptibility to Blowfly

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 4

The results of a number of trials conducted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research during the last few years have definitely shown…

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Peeps Into the Past Cattle Through Towm "At Breakneck Speed Drovers Making Rodeo Ground of Town's Principal Streets

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 4

Within the course of the past year or so complaints have been raised in Council over the racing tactics of milk lorries—they were…

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Junior Farmer's Success. Muswellbrook Boy Gains Scholarship

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 1

A junior farmer, George H. Bennett, of the Musweilbrook District Rural School, has been awarded the Department of Education's…

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Use Farmyard Manure. to Compensate for Superphosphate Shortage

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 4

"Dairy farmers would be well advised to make the best use of farmyard manure now that restrictions have been placed on the use of…

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Manuring the Green Crop

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 2

Green manure crops should be given some manure or fertiliser dressing even if the crop consists of volunteer weeds. Maximum growth is thus…

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Most Dairy Cows

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 2

Half the dairy cattle and more than a third of the pigs in New South Wales are owner by farmers on the North Coast. Statistics taken in 1940…

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Importance of Fodder Stocks Minister's Appeal to Every Farmer

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 6

The exeremely dry conditions which prevailed until quite recently over most of New South Wales, and still persist in some…

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Coastal Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1942 · page 5

Sales at Winchcombe Carson’s Homebush auction last Thursday included J.A Latlomre Bundook 23 bullocks to [?]…

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Insurance on Wool

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY Saturday.—War damage insurance on stored wool is now compulsory under the National Security Regulations and…

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Potato Crop Prospects

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1942 · page 4

The State Marketing Bureau in a review of inland potato crop conditions as at February 18 sates that early plantings were…

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Sheep Cheaper at Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 March 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY Monday.— Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:— 46,070 sheep penned: grown sheep were easier an 1/ lower,…

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Pleuro Test on Cattle Method Outlined

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 March 1942 · page 5

The method of taking blood [?] from cattle for complement fixation test for pleuro is [?] by Mr. E. A. Lucas, stock…

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Big Bushfires in Victoria Farmer Burned to Death

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 March 1942 · page 2

James Butler Hodgson (67), farmer, of Hedland, South Gippsland, was burned to death, many homes were destroyed, and considerable damage…

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Cattle Dips Damaged

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 3

GRAFTON Tuesday.—It was. found to-day that high explosive had been used to partially wreck two cattle dips in the Ulmarra…

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Butter Rises 1d Lb. Aid to Dairy Industry

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 1

A rise in the retail price of butter of one penny a pound throughout Australia has been announced by the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 2

Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd., report: March 6: The main wool appraisement season in Sydney is now rapidly drawing to a close, and at the…

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Cattle Movements and Condition

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 4

Very slack cattle movements are reported by the auctioneers. With the exception of a few fats from favoured localities the market has…

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DAIRYING. De-horning of Dairy Cattle. Treatment of the Calf

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 3

Horns of dairy cattle serve no useful purpose, and are a source of much danger and annoyance. Only in the case of high-class animals that are…

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Sydney Wool Appraisements

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report that 2663 bales of wool were appraised at their final catalogue for the main season in Sydney on Monday. Results…

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Junior Farmers' Notes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 1

The opening theme of this week's notes must be one of thanks to a very kind benefactor. On Thursday last the club was delighted to receive…

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