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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

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Canada Expanding Wool Production

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 6

Because of the uncertainty of wool supplies from Australia and New Zealand, the Canadian Government is encouraging expansion of domestic…

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Pitt, Son & Badgery's Wool Appraisement

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 3

On Friday last, Messrs. Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd., Newcastle, submitted to appraisement approximately 700 bales of wool, ccmpris.ng for the most part…

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Appeal to Produce More Chaff Mr Scully Asks Farmers to Do a Duty

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 4

"Every farmer can do his duty to his country by making's a special effort to "sow as much oats for grain and oaten hay as…

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Spelling Results at Hunter Street Notes on Junior Farmers' Activities

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 5

Below is published spelling tests conducted at Hunter Street Primary School Tests are conducted for competition for the A.I.F. banners, which…

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When the Invaders Go Home Plans for Stocking Europe's Empty Farms (From an Agricultural Correspondent)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 4

On the day when the last Nazi soldier is driven out of reconquered Europe, what will be the most urgent need of the peoples…

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Coastal Cattle Must Stay

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 2

The chairman of the Commonwealth Stock Dispersal Committee, Mr. E. ,j. Eggine M.L.C., after a committee meeting, stated that-because all producers are now required to give undivided attention to production, dispersal, of stock…

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Cattle Market Stroud Yards

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 2

Mr. Bruce Green, Auctioneer, Stroud, reports that the market was up £1 per head. There was a good yarding, and willing buyers…

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American Wool Prices. Dominion Mill Activity

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—Prices for wool are showing a slight advance in the United States. Quotations for tops on the…

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Dairying. Pasture for Dairy Cows. Points in Grassland Management

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 1

Maximum benefits from grassland are primarily dependent upon proper management, points out a departmental pamphlet on pasture…

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Non-stripping of Dairy Cows Is It Injurious to Milk Flow

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 2 April 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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DAIRYING Pasture For Dairy Cows Points in Grassland Management

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 4

Maximum benefits from grassland are primarily dependent upon proper management, points out a departmental pamphlet on pasture improvement…

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The Farmer's Part in the War

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 4

War conditions have imposed many disabilities on peace-time industry. The effects of the drastic changes are felt everywhere. The rural industry…

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The Farm Garden Value of Humus

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 6

Most gardeners are familiar with the good results obtained from new land, but few cause to inquire into the reason. Such results are…

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Butter and Cheese Quotas

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 4 April 1942 · page 3

Quotas [?] butter and cheese that they be sold in the course of intrastate trade in New South Wales in April are:—Butter, 56 per cent…

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£22,000,000 For N.S.W. Wool

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 4 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday.—The whole of the New South Wales clip of the main shearing has now been appraised 1,250,500 [?] at the…

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U.S. Protects Small Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 4 April 1942 · page 1

WASHINGTON April 3.— For the first time in history, the United States Government has entered the dairy business…

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High Prices for Friesian Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 April 1942 · page 3

Records of 25 years standing were beaten when a bull sold at the British Friesian Cattle Society’s Annual Show and sale made…

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Shipping Pure Better Fat Value To Dairying Industry

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 April 1942 · page 3

Experiment in the production of pure butter rat and its shipment as ordinary cargo, are experiment last may have an important bearing on…

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The Value of the Milking Machine Points of Interest to Farmers

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 April 1942 · page 4

In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of milking machines in this country and the illfavour in which they have been held…

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Pure Butter Fat May Change Dairy Outlook

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1942 · page 1

A development which may revolutionise the outlook of the dairying industry is the production of pure butter fat, which…

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