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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1943

1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 48 of 77

Liens on Potato Crops

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1943 · page 2

The Deputy Potato Controller, Mr. J. N. Squires, has started that there seems to the come doubt as to the position of…

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Mechanisation of Dairying

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY Monday.—Mechanisation of dairy farming is developing apace on both the north and south coast, more than a dozen…

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Butter Factory Nominations For Directors

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1943 · page 2

A the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory to be held on September 3, the ballot…

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Wool Held Up Difficulties of Transport

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1943 · page 4

Difficulties are being experienced already In regard to handline the current season’s wool in the country, states a report…

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Liens on Potato Crops. Potato Contracts: Season 1943/'44

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 August 1943 · page 3

The Deputy Potato Controller, Mr. J. N. Squires, has stated that there seems to be some doubt as to the position of holders of liens over potato…

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Farming Harbour Bed

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 August 1943 · page 2

A New Zealand correspondent writes:— "Because an earthquake transformed a lagoon at Napierin to dry land…

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Bureau Discusses Crop Methods

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1943 · page 3

| SINGLETON Tues.— Glenrid[?] Agriculture: Bureau meeting was held or [?] Mr A. Robinson was in the chair and…

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Gunnedah Special Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 11 August 1943 · page 3

Fleming and Ross, Auctioneers, Gunnedah, report having yarded the full number of 1000 head at their sale on Friday last. The yarding…

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Shortage of Dairy Products

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY Wed.—The Director Agriculture, Mr. A. H. McDonald, warned to-day that shortages of vegetables and dairy products…

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Cattle Dearer at Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY Thurs—Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., report: 1173 cattle yarded. The market was exceptionally strong. Prime bullocks…

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Unstable Dairy Outlook

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1943 · page 4

The Governments' main object in granting a subsidy of £6,500,000 to the dairying industry was to provide an incentive for farmers to increase production. There…

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Crop of Appeals Forecast

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY Thursday,— Following the High Court’s decision yesterday, invalidating the National Security regulations dealing with…

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U.s. Models for Farm Machinery

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1943 · page 2

CANBERRA Thursday. — The Director-General of Agriculture, Mr. Bulcock, stated that lend lease provided less than half…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 4
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The Farmers and Graziers' Cooperative Co. Ltd. report on the 10th instant. We submitted our second…

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Wool Sales Winchcombe, Carson Ltd

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: 2925 bales of wool were offered at our Sydney appraisement yesterday, results including: W. O'Keefe…

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Europe's Wool Supply. Normal Large Needs

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—The battles which are being fought by the Allied forces are the prelude to the resumption of consumption of…

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Previous Government's War Policy Commended by Captain Abbott U.C.P. Guarantees to Dairy Farmers. Pay-as-You-Go and Post-War Credits

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 1

Speaking at Muswellbrook on Wednesday night, Captain J. P. Abbott, M.H.R., U.C.P. candidate in the New England electorate, said m[?]…

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Kearsley Shire Health Inspector's Report. Cattle-slaughtered at West Maitland Abattoirs

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 4

The Health Inspector made the following report to the Kearsley Shire Council meeting on [?]uesday night:— "There were slaughtered 310 bovine…

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Farm Mechanisation Scheme. Widespread Adoption on Coast

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 13 August 1943 · page 3

I am particularly gratified to note that the dairy farmers are making so widespread and appreciative a response to my Government's plan for the…

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