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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

1,683 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 85

Hunter Wool

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 June 1942 · page 3

Appraisements in Winchcombe Carson's Newcastle wool catalogue last Friday included Mrs E. I. Mitchelhill. Inglewood. Muswellbrook…

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Cattle Dearer At Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 June 1942 · page 3

WINCHCOMBE, Carson Ltd., report: Cattle—2066 yarded. Prime were 10 to 20/ dearer, others firm. Best[?]vealers to 58/…

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Newcastle Wool Sale

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 June 1942 · page 3

On Friday last, Messrs. Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd., Newcastle, submitted to appraisement approximately 1000 bales comprising mostly,…

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Crushed Wheat As Dairy Feed Action by Minister for Commerce

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 June 1942 · page 1

Important steps to increase the output of dairy products in Australia have been taken by the Minister for Commerce (Mr Scully) since…

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Wool Sales at Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 June 1942 · page 6

Messrs Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., Newcastle, submitted to appraisement approximately 1000 bales, comprising mostly…

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War Insurance on Wool

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 June 1942 · page 5

MELBOURNE Monday.—Under amendments to National Security (War Damage to Property) Regulations provision has been made…

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Cattle Values Unchanged To-day’s Stock Sales

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 June 1942 · page 3

There was a full supply of fat cattle, comprising 840 beasts and about 50 crackers and bulls, at Campbell’s Bill saleyards to-day…

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Power Alcohol to Be Distilled From Wheat Huge Plants Being Built in Australia

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 June 1942 · page 1

Power alcohol is to be distilled from wheat in four huge plants being built in Australia. The plants will produce a total of…

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Upper Hunter Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 4

Results secured in Winchcombe, Carson's Newcastle wool catalogue last Friday included Mrs. E. Mitchellhill, Inglewood, Muscle Creek, xbred…

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Higher Wool Price Good General Benefit

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 4

The announcement that the British Government has granted an advance of 15 per cent, in the average price paid for the next…

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"Might Well Have Been Postponed." The Wool Price Announcement. Graziers' President's Comments

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 4

Mr. H. R. Cowdery, president of the Graziers' Association of N.S.W., stated last week that like the early warning of clothes rationing, the…

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Junior Farmers' Notes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 1

On Saturday, 30th May, I visited the plots of the following boys: Arthur Allen, Ray Mears, James Fitzhardinge and Ian Reed. I also called on Keith…

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Vegetable Weevils and Cutworms Serious Menace to Vegetable Crops

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 3

Entomologists of the Department of Agriculture consider that spring sowinge of vegetables will be very severely damaged by the brown vegetable…

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An Ode to the Farmer

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 2

The farmer leads no E Z Life, The C D sows will rot; And when at E V rests from strife, His bones will A K lot…

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Control of Potato Crop

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 3

CANBERRA Tuesday.—Anyone in Victoria, New South Wales South Australia, Tasmania or Queensland who grew one…

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Welfare of the Dairy Farmer Discussed Question of Prices of Milk, Butter, Cheesemanpower Problems Large Gathering Passes Number of Resolutions

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 June 1942 · page 4

Several important matters concerning the welfare of the dairy farmer were discussed at a meeting of the Singleton branch of the Primary Producers' Union and dairymen held in the C.W.A. Rooms yesterday…

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Price of Wool

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 June 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY Wednesday.—The Minister for Lands, Mr. J. M. Tully expressed strong dissent from [?] opinion of the president of…

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Training Farm for Women’s Land Army

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 June 1942 · page 6

SYDNEY Wednesday — The Chairman of the Advisory Council (Mr. A. W. Skidmore) states that a new training farm for…

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Must Submit Unappraised Wool

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 June 1942 · page 6

MELBOURNE Thursday—The Central Wool Committee points out that persons having unappraised wool in their possession…

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Manpower on Farms

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1942 · page 3

At the P. P. U. branch meeting on 15th last, the President, Mr. G. J. Russell referred to the man power position on farms. He said man power had been called…

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