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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

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Sheep Cheaper At Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Thursday. — Pitt, Son and [?] Ltd., report that [?] sheep and [?] were penned with a [?]…

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Subsidy for Dairymen

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY Thurs.—The Federal member for Robertson, Mr. T. Williams, stated that the need for an early announcement…

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Free Advice for Britain’s Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 3

CANBERRA: Fifteen hundred specialists are to be enrolled into a new service which will put free advice on all manner of…

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Subsidy for Dairymen Urgent Imperative Owing to Drought Conditions

Singleton Argus · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 4

The need for an early announcement regarding an additional subsidy to be paid to milk producers in milk zone areas…

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New Uses for Wheat Include Starch

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 1

OTTAWA Jan 5 —The Canadian Associated Press says that the National Research council in a preliminary report announced…

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Improved Wheat Yield

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY Monday — According to estimates made in wheat trade quarters, the Australian wheat yield this season will be…

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Advances to Co-operative Dairy Societies and Rural Co-operative Societies

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1

(1) To Purchase Fodder— Terms of Advance.—Interest 3%, repayable by instalments over three years…

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Gloucester Dairy Co. Milk Supply

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

At a very largely attended meeting of shareholders of the Gloucester Co-operative Dairy Co, Ltd. hold on Friday last, it was unanimously decided…

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Pastoral Prospects at Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 4

SINGLETON Wed.— the Denman-Singleton stock inspector (Mr. J. B. Bentley) reporting for the month of December…

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New Wheat Guarantee Plan Announced

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA Wed.— A permanent plan to stabilise the wheat industry was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley )…

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Sheep Firm At Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Thursday — Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: 35,853 sheep penned of mixed quality. The market was firm, best…

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Stocks Of Wool In America

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK Jan 10.—Discussing British request for a loan George Sokolsky, writing in the New York, “Sun,” points out that…

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Bank P[?]operty Disposed By Lottery Bolw[?]ra Farmer’s Luck

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 2

Here is an teresting story of early Maitland taken from “Mercury” of 1849— on the 2nd January, 1849, when the property of the defunct Bank of A[?]stralia (don’t confuse it with the “Asia”)…

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Display for Show Junior Farmer Club

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 3

Members of the Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers’ Club will make a non-competitive display at Maitland show, which opens…

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Illuminating Figures 33,880 Cattle, 89,718 Sheep Sold Through Yards

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 2

The Town Clerk (Mr. J. A. Doring) (supplies the following figures in relation to stock sold through the Scone Municipal yards for the year ended…

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Butter Price America

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 2

WASHINGTON Jan. 10. — To offset expiring subsidies and stimulate declining butter production, the US Department of…

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Coming Cattle Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 6

Farmer & Clarke stock agents, of Jandowie (Q.), have 2500 beautiful quality station-bred Herefords already booked for their annual beef breeders'…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 3

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: At our Sydney catalogue yesterday, 5777 bales of wool were appraised. The Westbourne section Merivale…

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Delay in Wool Shipments

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK January 11.—Delay in getting wool shipments from Australia may have a quickening effect on the demand for…

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Less Wool for Appraisement

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE Friday — The chairman of the Australian Wool Realisation Commission (Mr, J. P. Murphy) stated that wool…

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