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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

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Control of Brown Vegetable Weevil in Well-established Crops

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 August 1942 · page 3

Mr. T. McCarthy, Chief Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, advises that in areas where the larvae or grubs of the brown vegetable…

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More Dairy Cows This Year

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 August 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY Friday.—The Director-General of Manpower, Mr. Worth, said to-day that more dairy cows would be producing…

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Deferred Pay Off Dairymen

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 August 1942 · page 2

GLOUCESTER Friday— Gloucester Dairy Co. decided to distribute to suppliers £7767 deferred pay, at the rate of [?]…

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More Sheep in N.s.w

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY Saturday— The number of sheep in New South Wales at the end of March was 56,737,000 an increase of…

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Fodder Millet for Quick Crop

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1942 · page 6

The provision of green fodder crops from late spring to early autumn is of considerable importance to the stockowner— not…

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Labour for Tobacco Crop Harvest

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Saturday.— The[?] necessary steps will [?] to ensure that labour [?] provided to harvest this [?]…

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Employment of Women on Farms

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1942 · page 3

The president of Port Stephens Shire Council, Cr. Parish, submitted to last meting a report in connection with…

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Singleton Cattle

Singleton Argus · Monday 17 August 1942 · page 4

At Homebush last Thursday Bailey Bros., Singleton, secured 32 bullocks to 516/17/, avg. £16/6/; J. and W. Reynolds, Ravensworth, 13 vealers…

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Bishop’s Pastoral Address Denouncement Of Vices

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 August 1942 · page 2

Speaking yesterday on the Virtues of temperance, the Bishop of Maitland, Most Rev. Dr. E. Glasson, C.S.S.R., In his pastoral…

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Wool Sales Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd

Singleton Argus · Monday 17 August 1942 · page 4

On Friday, August 14, Messrs. Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd., Newcastle, submitted to appraisement approximately 2,200 bales comprising clips almost…

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Wartime Demand for Honey and Beeswax Economic Importance of Bee-farming

Singleton Argus · Monday 17 August 1942 · page 4

During the last war and postwar periods the demand for honey and beeswax became so great that both local and…

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Muswellbrook Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 August 1942 · page 3

Messrs A. E. Barker and Sons secured: Ewes 14¾d, 13¼d, broken 11¼d, at Messrs Winchcombe, Carson and Co's. Newcastle appraisements on…

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More Sheep in New South Wales

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 August 1942 · page 3

The number of sheep In New South Wales at the end of March was 56.737.000. an increase of 1,168,000 on the number a year ago…

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Big Wheat Plan for Kenya

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 August 1942 · page 3

LONDON August 17.—The greatest wheat-growing plan ever devised in Africa has been launched by the Government of…

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New Process for Removing Grease From Wool in Bales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1942 · page 1

In Australia, scouring of all wool before export has often been advocated. The chief objection to such action is that mill sorting of the…

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Junior Farmers' Notes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 August 1942 · page 1

I must firstly apologise for the absence of these notes from this paper during the past three weeks, but even Junior Farmers are liable to be…

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Dairying Industry. Committee's Inquiries

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 August 1942 · page 4

The Minister for Commerce, Mr. W. J. Scully, stated that the Commonwealth Government had given consideration to the interim report which…

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Dairying Industry

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1942 · page 2

The Minister for Commerce, Mr. W. J. Scully, stated on the 11th inst. that the Commonwealth Government had given consideration to the interim…

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Conditions in the Dairying Industry

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 August 1942 · page 5

Prescott, Pty. Ltd.. in a review of the dairy situation report that in nearly all districts in N.S.W. pastures are in good condition…

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N . S , W . Wheat Prices

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 August 1942 · page 5

Rates fixed by the Australian Wheat Board are : Millers [?]ots : All prices for exportion application to the Board…

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