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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1945

1,183 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 60

Synthetics Serious Rival to Wool

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY Sat—A warning to wool producers that synthetic clothing material now reaching the Australian market, far from…

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Cattle Cheaper At Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY Monday.—Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: 54,315 sheep and lambs penned, the general quality a little improved…

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Cattle Sale At Armidate

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 2

Fittier Bros., of Armidate and AML and F. Co. Ltd-&.auctioneers in conjunctions, indicate by advertisement ln this Issue they have…

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Grim Winter for Sheep

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY Wed.—Unless extensive rains fell shortly, woolgrowers throughout Australia would be faced with a grim future, the…

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Apathy Displayed by District Farmers

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 2

District farmers gave a very marked display of apathy yesterday, on the occasion of a meeting of Singleton branch of the Primary…

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Crown Lands Breeding Grounds for Rabbits Local Farmers Want Menace Cleaned Up

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 2

The Minister for Lands, or the appropriate authority, is to be requested to have rabbits destroyed on vacant Crown lands,…

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Farmers Want Priority for Army Trucks Decision of P.p.u. Meeting

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 2

Central Executive of the Primary Producers' Union is to be asked by the local branch to make representation to the…

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Sheep and Wool Values Good Length Wools Scarce

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—Fixed prices for wool since the war started have been valuable, not only because of revenue from the clip, but…

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April Wool Appraisements

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 3

The selection at Winchombe Carson's April wool appraisement in Sydney last Wednesday totalled 2196 bales. The effects of the drought…

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Wheat Imports From U.S.A. CANBERRA

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 2

The Commonwealth Director of Agriculture, Mr. Bulcock, stated-to-day that Australian negotiations to obtain 6,000,000 bushels of grain from…

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Conditions in Dairy Areas

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 4

Prescott, Pty. Ltd., state that since last report almost all dairying districts in New South Wales with the exception of the…

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“Primary Industry Must Be Sound” Milk Zone Dairymen’s Annual Meeting

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY Friday—All sections of the community were more of less dependent on the primary industries and unless these industries were sound the country could not be sound at heart said Mr. W. W. Elkin in his presidential report to…

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Excellence of Cattle at Gloucester

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 April 1945 · page 4

GLOUCESTER: When officially opening the Gloucester Show, Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald paid a tribute to the excellence of the cattle…

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Fat Cattle Easier Fat Sheep Firm at Maitland Sales

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 April 1945 · page 3

There was a small yarding of 650 fat cattle at Campbell’s Hill saleyards to-day. A number of prime mediumweights and heavy…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 April 1945 · page 3

The Farmers & Graziers' Cooperative Co.Ltd. reports on the 19th inst.:— We submitted our catalogue No…

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Germans for French Farms

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 April 1945 · page 1

PARIS April 22—The French Finance Minister, M. Plevans, said in a broadcast that German prisoners would be made to…

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Germans to Work for French Farmers

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 April 1945 · page 3

The French Finance Minister (M. Plevens) announced that German prisoners would be made to work for French farmers as the first…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 April 1945 · page 4

The Farmers and Graziers' Cooperative Co. Ltd. reports on the 19th inst.:- We submitted our catalogue No. 16…

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Commonwealth Rationing Commission Butter Supplies

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1945 · page 1

This week and next, retailers in butter could obtain supplies up to 50 per cont. of February's deliveries without being dependent on the…

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No Wheat for Power Alcohol

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 April 1945 · page 1

MELBOURNE Tues.—Although the power alcohol distillery at Warracknabeal is now ready for production it is not likely to…

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