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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

1,448 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 42 of 73

Opening of Wool Sales Opposed

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 August 1946 · page 4

The decision of the Wool Realisation Commission to hold wool sales in Sydney in September might well mean a complete…

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British Butter Pay Government Should Give All to Producer

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 August 1946 · page 2

The Australian Government should give the producer the full amount made available by the British Government for…

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Wool and Top Prices South African Trade

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 August 1946 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: On present indications a revision in prices for Bradford tops will be necessary when wool auctions…

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New Dairy Buildings. Board's Attitude

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 13 August 1946 · page 3

The Milk Boardr has advised the central executive of the M.Z.D.C. that in the case of dairy farmers who were desirous of completing new…

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Maize Instead of Wheat

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 August 1946 · page 6

SYDNEY Wed.— Now that the failure of much of New South Wales’s north-western wheat crop seamed certain farmers should…

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Australia’s Butter Increase Last Year

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 August 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY. Wednesday. — Australia’s butter production for the year ended June 30 last was 145,315 tons, which was 7833…

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Huge Trucks Carry Wool to Market

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 August 1946 · page 2

With the curtailment of rail goods traffic a new form of transport has entered the field to carry she primary pro[?] to see and…

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Transport Of 140,000 Sheep

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 August 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY Thursday.—A fleet of 30 lorries on the move day and night in the past few weeks has transported 140,000 sheep to…

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Wool Gowns For Royal Family

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 August 1946 · page 3

LONDON: Graceful Chilton dresses and new British featherweight wool gowns have been designed by the Queen’s…

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Wheat Harvest Cannot Be Good One

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 August 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY Thursday.—The wheat harvest this year could not be a good one, declared the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) to-day,…

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Markets for Australia’s Dairy Produce

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 August 1946 · page 4

In an article in a recent issue of the “Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics,” written as a preliminary report on a…

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Millions of Sheep Lost

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 5

The number of sheep and lambs available for shearing in N.S.W. this year is the lowest since 1924. N.S.W. graziers have lost a total of…

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Heavy Toll Of Sheep And Lambs

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Friday,—New South Wales graziers have lost a total of 16,500,000 sheep and lambs during the last two years, said…

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Wool at an Ounce a Yard

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 4

New and attractive woollens manufactured in Britain will soon be on view. They will include the lightest wool fabrics which have ever…

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Minister Speaks on Wool Profits Intention to Return Surplus to Growers

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 2

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Hon. W. J. Scully, said in the Houses of Representatives, regarding the wool disposals plan, that…

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Farm Water Supplies Act

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 3
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The Minister for Conservation, Mr. George Weir, M.L.A., announced yesterday that the Farm Water Supplies Act which had been passed during the…

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Parasites of Farm Animals

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 8

Among the more spectacular drugs of the past decade is phenothiazine. Sines [?] discovery as an anthelmintic (worm remedy)…

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Australian Dairy Produce Output for 11 Months

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 August 1946 · page 2

For the 11 months which ended with May last, Australia produced 138,667 tons of butter and 38,812 tons of cheese…

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Butter And Milk Bonuses

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 August 1946 · page 2

GLOUCESTER: Last month cream supplies to Gloucester Cooperative Daiyr Company were paid 1/7½ for choicest and 1/5½…

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