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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1945

1,183 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 58 of 60

The Farm Home a Seasonable Recipe Crystallised Apricots

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 December 1945 · page 1

Select the fruit, carefully, using only firm, ripe, good coloured fruit, and remove the stone by slitting carefully down/one side and easing the…

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Importance of Dairying Industry

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 December 1945 · page 2

The production of milk per annum In Australia ranges from 950,000,000 gallons to 1,250,000,000, gallons according to…

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Medium Sheep Cheaper

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 December 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY Thurs.—30,427 sheep and Iambs penned, with, a moderate showing of good trade and prime sheep, with a decided increase…

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Wool Appraisements Suspended

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 December 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY Thurs. — Wool appraisements have been suspended owing to the severe rationing of electricity for power and…

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Dairy Industry

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 December 1945 · page 2

Sir,—I recently had the pleasure of reading an article in your paper written by a “Student Dairymen” It is a pity the…

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Poultry Farmers Concerned About Conditions

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 December 1945 · page 2

Poultry, farmers are greatly concerned about the uneconomic conditions applying to the industry at the moment, particularly…

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Gift of Sheep for Britain

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 December 1945 · page 4

The Rylstone Shire Council has donated 100 head of sheep to the Pood for Britain Fund. Te Chairman of the fund (Mr…

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Mattland Stock Sales Cattle Prices Rise

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 December 1945 · page 1

There was a yarding of 850 fat cattle at Campbell's Hill saleyards on Monday, but the quality was not as good as at recent sales, and the…

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Milk Zone Dairymen's Council Salisbury

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 December 1945 · page 2

A meeting of members of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council was held at Salisbury Hall on Tuesday night, 7th December. Shelton's bus ran from…

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Meeting of District Dairymen Criticism of Milk Board Registration Fee

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 December 1945 · page 5

At a meeting of district dairymen on Tuesday last there were same heated arguments concerning the Milk Board's increased…

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NZ Ex-Serviceman as Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1945 · page 3

AUCKLAND (N.Z) An extra course for ex-servicemen at Massey Agricultural College (New Zealand) commenced with an…

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Hints on the Branding of Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 December 1945 · page 6

Whatever method of branding is adopted, the best result cannot be secured unless the branding iron is properly heated and…

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Pen of Cattle Makes £20 10/ At Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 December 1945 · page 3

A better quality yarding of 850 tat cattle was forward to-day at Campbell’s Hill saleyards. The proportion of bullocks was…

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Crops From Desert Airfields

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 December 1945 · page 6

LONDON: On behalf of the Air Ministry, Professor Raymond Stoughton has been sent to Egypt and the Soudan to…

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Wootton Sheep

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 December 1945 · page 1

Mr. W. A. Bishop, director and manager of the Wootton Pastoral Co. Pty. Ltd., owners of Wootton Merino stud…

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Wool Appraisements

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 December 1945 · page 10

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd., (Sydney and Newcastle) report: Wool appraisements have been suspended owing to the severe rationing of electricity for…

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Wool Report Report on Appraisement No. 177 held by Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co., Ltd, Sydney, on 4th December, 1945

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 December 1945 · page 2

The greater proportion of our selection, which was offered for final appraisement to-day, showed clips of better class merino types, these being…

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Trouble Down at the Farm Quorrobolong Raid

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 December 1945 · page 4

The case in which Thomas Edward Kenneth Lewis, of Quorrobolong, chained Harry Siever with entering enclosed…

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New Buildings at Farm Home. Extensive Programme. Director Visits Muswellbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 December 1945 · page 7

Mr. R. H. Hicks, Director of Child Welfare, visited the Muswellbrook Farm for Boys last week. The Director was…

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Farmers Complaint to Council. "Rabbits From Roads Invade Gardens."

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 December 1945 · page 10

In a letter read to the Shire Council, A. S. Andrews, a Martindals farmer, asked that steps be taken to deal with the rabbits which, he said, had…

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