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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

1,448 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 26 of 73

Sale of Australian Wool New Markets Sought in East

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 1

India, China, and other countries are being approached to take Australian wool. Avenues for export are now being exploited in…

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Fencing Wire for Flooded Farm Areas

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 2

Dungog branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council has been busily engaged in an effort to procure plain and barbed wire for farmers in the…

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Share Dairyman and Owner Interesting Court Case

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 1

Before Mr. A. E. Hodgson P.M., at Aberdeen Police Court on Friday last, Leslie Harold Hedges, share dairyman, sought to recover an amount of £30 from Rowley Stewart, being payment as part proceeds of a dairy run on shares between Hedges and Stewart. A cross action…

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Mammitis in Dairy Cows Most Cases Contagious

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 3

Most cases of mammitis that occur on the dairy farm are contagious. Not only is the infection transmitted from cow to '…

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Poultry Farmers Form District Council Stronger Action Wanted From Executive

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1946 · page 3

A meeting of poultry fanners from Maitland, Newcastle, Cessnock and Kurri, held at West Maitland last night, decided to form a district zone council of the Associated Poultry Farmers of Australia…

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Cattle Firm, Sheep Down at Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 3

There was a smaller yarding of £50 fat cattle at Campbell’s Hill saleyards to-day, the number of buttocks being…

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Australia's Wool Sales

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 2

Australia's wool exports have increased sharply. Exports for the first 10 months of the financial year totalled 2,155,877 bales, worth…

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Shooting of Farmer In New Zealand

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 1

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Mon.— Shortly before a farmer was shot dead the farmer has said, “I’ll kill the b—,” the 14-years-old son…

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Dingoes On Doyle's River Cattle Killers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 May 1946 · page 3

During the last winter the dingoes caused a lot of worry at Doyle's River and surrounding districts. They are called dingoes, but they resemble a…

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Farm Hand Breaks Record at Wagga

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 7

WAGGA, Thursday.—Breaking the course record. Farm Hand won the Digger’s Cup yesterday for the second time fn succession,…

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Electric Motor , Stolen from Dairy

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 5

When Mr. M. J. Crittenden, of Raworth, went to his dairy yesterday to start the motor for his milking machines, he discovered…

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Sheep on Display

Singleton Argus · Friday 31 May 1946 · page 4

Exhibits valued at more than £100,000 faced judges at Pyrmont today in the first post-war snow of the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders'…

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Sheep Show First Since 1941

The Scone Advocate · Friday 31 May 1946 · page 1

The first sheep show since 1941 opened in Sydney this morning. It is the 47th show conducted by the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders'…

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New Wool Price Scheme

Maitland Mercury · Friday 31 May 1946 · page 5

WASHINGTON May 31.—The Sepate Special committee has approved of the proposed new price support plan for wol…

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Sheep Exhibits Valued at Over £100,000

Maitland Mercury · Friday 31 May 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY Friday.—Exhibits valued at more than £100,000 are facing the Judges at Piermont to day in the first post-war show…

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Bernborough and Flight's Trials. Prospects for N.s.w.-england Match. First Post-war Sheep Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 31 May 1946 · page 2

BRISBANE: Bernborough and Flight, strongly favored rivals for to-morrow's £10,000 Ahern Handicap at Doomben, were out for steady trials…

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Won't Stand Rabbit Farmers

Singleton Argus · Friday 31 May 1946 · page 6

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said at the annual conference of Pastures Protection Boards in Sydney that he had had reports…

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Slipshod Farmers Under Fire at Muswellbrook "Consumer Bearing The Burden"

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1946 · page 2

MUSWELLBROOK, Saturday.- Inefficient and slipshod farmers were under fire at the meeting of upper hunter regional committee yesterday. Mr. George Searl, of Singleton, said that…

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Rabbiters Making More Than Wool-Growers

Singleton Argus · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 1

New England graziers are to complain to the Taxation Department that rabbiters on their properties are "making fortunes…

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Wool Sales Offering by Winchcombe Carson

Singleton Argus · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson, Newcastle, offered 2361 bales of wool in their catalogue on Friday. Results included: L. C. Worgan, Inverell…

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