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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

1,683 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 85

Dairying Prevention of Ropy Cream

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 March 1942 · page 3

Ropy cream is due chiefly to bacteria in water supplies, especially in swamps, stagnant dams, etc.; also to unclean, dusty yards and bails, dairies…

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Vegetable Share Farmers Required for Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 March 1942 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture advises that on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area there are at present about fifty vacancies for share…

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Farmer Injured

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 March 1942 · page 2

Ray Penfold (51), farmer, of Aberglassyn had to seek ambulance afternoon when while setting in a fence post he struck hle right…

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The Home Vegetable Garden How Long Do Crops Take to Grow?

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 March 1942 · page 5

Not only do vegetable seeds vary greatly in the time taken to germinate, but the plants vary in the time they occupy in maturing a…

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Assault Alleged-Down at the Farm Primitive Weapons Used in Brawl. Case Adjourned to April 7

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 March 1942 · page 1

The peaceful atmosphere of Quorrobolong, sweltering in the heat of a sub-tropical afternoon, was rudely…

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Singleton Wool

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1942 · page 3

Mr. J. A. Haling's wool clip from Sirigleton was appraised in Winchcombe Carson's Newcastle catalogue last Friday, the wethers making 18d,…

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Successes at Cattle Show

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 March 1942 · page 6

At the United Stud Beef Cattle Breeders’ Association’s cattle exhibition held In Sydney. Fenwick Bros., of Myall Creek, were…

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Review of the Butter Industry

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 March 1942 · page 6

Prescott, Pty., Ltd., In a report dated March 28, report that since last report many dairying districts, particularly on the…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 4

THE FARMERS AND GRAZIERS' CO.-OP. CO., LTD., reports on the 26th inst.:—We submitted our Appraisement…

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Wool Appraisements

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 4

On Friday, March 27, Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd., Newcastle, submitted to appraisement approximately 700 bales of wool, comprising for the…

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Livestock and Wool

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 3

Livestock owners have expressed doubt as to whether they should insure the whole of their livestock. The Commission has decided that it…

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Live Stock and Wool

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 3

Live stock owners have expressed doubt as to whether they should Insure the whole of their live, stock. The Commission has decided that it…

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Wool Sales at Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 4

Messrs “Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd, Newcastle, submitted to appraisement at Newcastle approximately 700 bales of wool…

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Exhibition of Stud and Beef Cattle

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 2

Stud and beef cattle valued at more than £50,000 paraded before judges on Saturday at the first indoors exhibition of the United…

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American Wool Prices Dominion Mill Activity

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 4

Prices for wool are showing a slight advance in the U.S. (states Winchcombe Carson, Ltd.). Quotations for tops on the New York…

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Junior Farmers' Notes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 1

My first duty this week is to acknowledge the gifts of money made so generously to the Lady Gowrie Fund. The following members have…

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Non-stripping of Dairy Cows Approved As a War-time Practice

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 3

The chief of the Division of Animal Health and Nutrition of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Dr. L B. Bull), has prepared for the…

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Control of Bean Fly in Autumn-sown Crops

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 3

For the successful production of late summer and autumn beans in most coastal areas north of Sydney, writes Mr. W. L. Morgan…

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Canadian Wheat for Iran

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 1

OTTAWA March 31.—Grain circles in Winnipeg reported that Iran had purchased 370,000 bushels of Canadian wheat. It…

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South Australia Forced to Import Butter

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 6

Following a further fall in butter production in South Australia last week, factory outputs in that State are now described as lower than for…

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