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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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100 Years Farming at Bolwarra

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 2

Amongst the pioneers of farming in the Maitland district was the late Mr. George Mead and this month his descendants…

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Improvement to Farms Tax Allowance

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Graham, said on Wednesday last that if more graziers realised that money spent on pasture…

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Pastoral On Sunday Observance

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1948 · page 6

In i Lenten Pastoral the Arch[?] and Bishops of the Anglican Church in Australia have addressed the church people on…

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Sheep Brighter at Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.— Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report 20,994 sheep penned, of mixed descriptions. Grows sheep were brighter and…

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12th Junior Farmers' Show

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 2

The 12th annual show of the Junior Farmers' Club of Raymond Terrace was held on Friday [?] Saturday, February 2[?]th and 21st, and was a wonderful succes[?] 30 per…

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Upper Hunter Junior Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 4

MUSWELLBROOK: There was a large attendance at a meeting called for the purpose of forming a District Council of the…

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Butter Price to Dairy Farmers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 4

"The Chifley Government's rejection of the dairy industry representatives' majority recommendation of 2/1½ a lb to farmers…

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World Wheat Scheme

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Eritain has noticed the 38 nations’ wheat conference that it is unable to accept the draft of the…

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Price Of Export Wheat

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.E), Feb. 27 (AAP-Reuter),— It is officially announced that New Zealand; from January 18, Increased the…

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Record For Scoured Wool

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 4

BRISBANE: The last day of the wool sales in Brisbane yesterday sedan Australian record for scored wool and a Queensland record for…

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£76,000,000 for Wool

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday. — The [?]veragt Price per in, of wood said in Australia in the seven months ended July 31 at /37 was 33 per cent…

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The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance Agency Company Limited. 19th. February, 19-18. Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 8

We submitted a generally attractive catalogue of 8,310 bales on Wednesday, 18th instant. The selection included quite a number of spinners' wools,…

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Wool and Top Prices Japan's Mill Output

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd. report:—Although prices for tops in Bradford have moved upwards…

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Body Strike in Sheep Promising Experiment With B.H.C. at Scone

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 5

The recent spell of cool wet weather has rendered sheep particularly susceptible to blowfly strike. During this period body…

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Improvement to Farms

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Graham, said recently that if more graziers realised that money spent on pasture improvement was deductible…

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Junior Farmers Have Profitable Field Day

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 5

A successful field day, promoted by Baerami Creek Junior Farmers’ Club, was held at Baorami Creek in glorious…

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Cattle Stealing Charges

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 March 1948 · page 3

A further remand until March 9 was granted at West Maitland court to-day in the case in which Athol Smith, 27, cattle dealer,…

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Sheep Deaer at Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: 15,290 sheep p[?]ned of mixed quality. Lambs were very strong and prime grown…

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Fat Cattle Values Show Reduction

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 March 1948 · page 3

Fat catle quality was slightly inferior to last week in a yarding of 800 at Campbell’s Hill sale yards to-day, when a mixed draft…

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Gloucester Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 2

At Winchcombe Carson’s Home[?] auction last Monday [?] [?]…

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