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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

1,484 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 75

Large Dairy Farms

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 2

Walker Gordon dairy farm located at Plainboro, New Jersey, U.S.A. claims to have the largest certified milk herd in the world.", says the 'Australian Dairy Review'…

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Junior Farmers At Baerami

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 8

MUSWELLBROOK: District clubs will Join in with the Baerami Junior Farmers’ Club’s field day to be held on Wednesday,…

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Gloucester Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 3

At Winchcombe Carson’s Homebush auction last Thursday W.P. Reichert, Gloucester, secured £16/11/ for 1 bullock and…

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More Butter Being Made

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 3

Australian butter production for the six months ended December showed a big rise over the same period in the previous…

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Special Store Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 7

Grainger and Falklner. Pty. Ltd., in association with J. McNamara and Co. report having conducted a special sale of…

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Coal and Steel for Butter

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Feb 20.—It is reliably learned by Reuter that the British and Danish trade delegations have [?] an agreement up to…

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Cattle Stealing Charge Man Committed for Trial

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 2

Theodore Constantine Doring, drover, was charged with having stolen one Hereford bullock, the property of some person or…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle FRIDAY, 20th FEBRUARY, 1948. Junior Farmers' Advisory Committee District Council Formed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 3

There was a large attendance of members, delegates and Junior Farmers at a Junior Farmers' Advisory committee meeting held in the…

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Baerami Creek Junior Farmers. Field Day Wednesday Next

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 3

Miss N. Stewart, of the Department of Health, is making arrangements for an officer of her department to attend the Junior Farmers' field day…

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Junior Farmers’ Show

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 5

RAYMOND TERRACE, Friday. The 13th annual show of the Raymond terrace Junior Farmers’ Club promises to be…

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Butter Factory Accidents Hand Caught in Butter Churn

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 3

Mr. T. ("Mac".) McDonald of Mary Street, butter maker at the Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory, met with, a very painful accident at the factory…

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Faq Standard of Wheat

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sat—The grain trade section of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce fixed the standard of fair average quality wheat in New South…

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Cattle Dearer at Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.— [?] Son and Badgery Ltd. reports 17,170 sheep and lambs penned the quality of sheep being mostly medium lambs…

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Italian Wheat Harvest

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 2

ROME, February 22.— With an expected 1948 European wheat harvest of 50,000,000 tons food experts at the Rome conference of the U.N…

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Many Sheep May Go Unshorn

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 2

Hundreds of thousands of sheep will be going unshorn in a few years unless more shearers are recruited into the…

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Australia And Japan To Trads Again Wool for Silks

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 1

The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, announced yesterday an early resumption of two-way trade on a limited scale between Australia and Japan. Japan, he said would purchase Australian wool and other…

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Wool Yield Increased 40 Per Cent. Pastures Improvement Gets Results

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 1

Wool yield has been increased nearly 40 per cent, an acre by pasture improvement tests in the New…

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Big Demand For Farmlets

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.— Applications from every State have been received by the Roman Catholic Rural Movement office…

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Dairymen Discuss Price Of Milk

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 2

If the Milk Board refuses to grant the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council request for payment of 1/9½ a gallon for milk in March,…

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Junior Farmers Congratulated at “Terrace”

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 2

RAYMOND TERRACE, Monday: The opening of the Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers’ Show on Saturday was performs by the…

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