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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

1,683 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 85

Big Sale of Dairy Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 3

SINGLETON Friday.— we of the biggest sales in me story [?] dairying industry will lake place…

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Wheat Stabilisation

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 3

When the time comes for the Federal authorities to give consideration to the future of the wheat industry and possible…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 6

Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd., report: Although the daily offerings in Sydney are appreciably lighter in the New Year the appraisement…

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Soviet's Amazing Discovery. Perennial Wheat

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 4

Our Soviet ally has already shown the world that she is not behind the most advanced countries in modern military…

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Science and Wool a Moth-proofing Process

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 5

Wool is gradually accumulating stronger defences against the invasion of its consumptive territory fay competitive fibres…

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Tool of Sheep Blowfly Annual Loss of £3,000,000

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 5

Australia's sheep and wool industry suffers an annual loss of £3,000,000 due to blowfly strike. This means an added cost of about…

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The Wool Trade and the War. Effect on Appraisements

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 8

Messrs Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report:—"The year is opening in a period of world-wide tension with the outlook…

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Problem of Farm Labor

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 6

The Commerce Minister (Mr. Scully) in confident that some relief will be given to rural industries to meet the shortage of labor caused by army…

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Decay of the Dairy Industry. Tweed Shire Council Alarmed at Position

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 4

The time is coming when, if dairy farmers are not given a better price for their product, the Government will have to keep…

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A Farmer on the Warpath

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 6

James E. Downes, dairyman, of Yallah, was recently charged at the Albion Park courthouse with assaulting a milk tester, and also…

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Fine Tomato Crop

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 2

Mr Walter George, of George Street, has at the rear or his residence an exceptionally fine crop of tomatoes, of the Break-o'-Day…

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Outlook Black in Hunter Valley Some Farmers Leave for Munition Factories

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 4

"Unless useful rains fall soon, the outlook for the Hunter and Central coastal districts will be black indeed."…

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Alcohol From Wheat

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 1

CANBERRA Monday.— Discus[?]sions are proceeding between the Commonwealth Government and the Colonel Sugar…

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New Chief Dairy Inspector

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 2

Mr. George McGilvray, assistant herdmaster in the Department of Agriculture, has been appointed to the position of chief…

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Farmers Don't Favour Daylight Saving

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 2

At the annual meeting of the Glendon branch' of the Primary Producers' Union, which was held on Friday night last, members…

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Normal Wheat Harvest

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 6

MELBOURNE Tuesday.—The chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, Sir Clive McPherson, has announced that the…

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American Wool Needs Italy's Plight

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 1

The plans of the United States Government to call up an army running into many millions gives an indication of the probable vast…

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Wool Report The Country Producers' Selling Co., Ltd., report 8th inst

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 2

Our next appraisement, No. 67, will be complete for preliminary valuation on 14th inst., and the catalogue will be finalised on the following day. The…

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Tick Fever on the Increase All Dairying Districts Endangered

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 1

In the last five years the number of outbreaks of tick fever (redwater) in New South. Wales has progressively increased and the…

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Chief Dairy Instructor Mr. G. McGILLIVRAY

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture and Forests (Captain the Hon. W. F. Dunn, M.L.A.) has announced that Mr. George McGillivray has been…

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