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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

1,448 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 73

Farmyard Manure

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 4

Farm yard manure is a valuable commodity, says the "Australian Dairy Review." It should not be allowed to go to waste, especially in view of the present…

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State’s Maize Crops Many Districts Need Rain

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 2

In a review of maize crops in New South Wales, the Division of Marketing and Agricultural Economics reports that, generally…

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Wool Report Country Producers' Selling Company [?]Limited

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 3

Our appraisement No. 78 was inspected for preliminary valuation on the 14th instant and finalised on the following day. The catalogue was…

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Kangaroos Eat Wheat Heavy Damage in Pillaga District

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

According to a well-known Pilliga farmer, Mr. H. Stoltenberg, unless a more vigorous policy of kangaroo destruction is permitted during the…

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Swam 300 Head of Cattle at Taree 60 Years Ago

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

An interesting visitor to Taree is Mr. J. Brown, of the Richmond River. It is sixty years since Mr. Brown was last in Taree. In those days the town…

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Average Price of Wool. French and Italian Operations

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: Many growers in Australia will be suprised to learn that the average appraised price for wool in the…

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Farmers May Get Electricity

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 1

Kearsley Shire Council has decided to meet the Superintendent of Caledonian Collieries Ltd: (Mr. N. Clark) and…

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Record in City Milk Hunter Valley Dairy Coy

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 3

Although milk is being rationed in Sydney, the suppliers of the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy and Produce Co. are keeping up their…

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Big Pineapple Crop

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

BRISBANE, Friday.—The pineapple crop in Queensland this year is expected to reach 670,000 cases constituting the third…

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Maltese Farmer Shot Dead Man Charged with Murder

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 3

Paul Grima, 46, a Maltese share-farmer, was shot dead on Wednesday night outside a farm cottage in Walters Road,…

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Feeding Dairy Cows How To Use Green Maize

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 2

Many farmers are now beginning to feed green maize to dairy cows. This fodder is excellent from a production point aspect…

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Sheep Dearer at Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Monday.—Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd., report: 28,308 sheep and lambs penned, the general quality somewhat improved…

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Dairy Science School

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 2

At a Dairy Science School examination held recently at the Hunter Valley Dairy Co., Hexham, by officers of the…

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Wool Marketing. Conference Decisions

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 6

The Australian Woolgrowers' Council invited representatives of the National Council of Woolselling Brokers to meet its representatives for a…

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Dairy Farmers Fined Sold Milk Below Standard

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 2

George William Lodge and Thomas Joseph Warby, dairy farmers living at Miami road, Thornton, were each fined £1, court…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle TUESDAY, 22nd. JANUARY, 1946. Hope of the Industry. Wheat Stabilisation Means Period of Security

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 3

Providing a period of security in which the organisation for future years could be completed, the Commonwealth Government's wheat…

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Farmer Sues Wife Demands Return of Guns

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 3

The case in which Thomas Edward Kenneth Lewis is proceeding against his wife, Amy Hilda Lewis, on a charge of detentinn…

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Soldier Settlers and Single Farms. Attitude of Ex-servicemen's Organisations

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 1

When the War Service Land Settlement Bill was being dealt with in the Legislative Council, the Minister in charge, Mr. R. R. Downing, said that…

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Dairymen Dissatisfied. Return to Board Control Sought

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 6

Dairymen throughout the milk zone are greatly dissatisfied at the Federal Government's subsidy of 3d per gallon for milk, and this was evidenced…

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Soldier Settlers and Single Farms

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 3

When the War Service Land Settlement Bill was being dealt with in the Legislative Council, the Minister in charge, Mr R. R. Downing said that the…

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