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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

1,484 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 75

Adequate Supply of Sacks For Coming Wheat Harvest Minister’s Assurance To Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. [?] H. Graham, was loudly cheered when he told the annual conference of the N.S.W. Farmers and Settlers’ Association that last year’s difficulties about the supply of corn sacks…

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Worm Infestation in Young Cattle Drenching Not Sufficient for Control

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 7

In wet seasons especially, ami particularly if animals are poorly nourished, kept on the same overstocked ground or on swampy…

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Junior Farmers at Branxton Committee Formed at Public Meeting

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 7

A provisional adult advisory committee was formed at Branxton during the week-end to undertake preliminary…

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Discussion of Wheat Agreement

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, August 7. —The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved the International wheat agreement, but no action to…

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Newcastle Wheat Silo Closed

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3

NEWCASTLE.—The wheat silo closed at 6 p.m. yesterday, with one million bushels, the capacity of the silo…

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Wamberal Pea Crop Is District Record Expert's Views Making a Success of Farming

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3

Picking has commenced on a record Gem pea crop at Mrs. H. Swadling's property at Wamberal. Mr. Gordon Smith, one of…

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Farm Engineering Mixing Concrete How to Estimate Quantities of Materials Required

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3

The question often arises on the farm as to how much cement, sand, and metal will be required for concrete for a particular job. In…

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Poultry Farmers Endorse Scheme For Egg Price

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3

Poultry farmers, last night at the meeting of Maitland. branch of Associated Poultry Fanners of Australia, decided to endorse the scheme…

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Moving The Wheat Crop

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.— The Premier (Mr. McGirr), forecast that before Christmas the N.S.W. Railways would shift to the seaboard…

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Charged by Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 2

SINGLETON, Monday. — Mr. Erio Clark, of Broke was conveyed to Danger Cottage Hospital by Singleton Ambulance on…

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Sheep Irregular In Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.— Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report 20,610 sheep penned of good quality. The market was irregular. Heavy lambs were…

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Russia’s Grain Crop

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 1

LONDON, August 9.—Moscow Radio says that the Russians have harvested half of Russia’s grain crop, which is 25,000,000…

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Pig Raising by Junior Farmer

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 2

The Newcastle Abattoir has [?] the co-operation of the Ray[?] Terrace Junior Farmers’ Club. [?]ganised a pig-rearing project…

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Pig, Calf and Dairy Cattle Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 1

New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. (inc. in Eng.), Scone, report having yarded 321 pigs and 49 calves at their…

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Wheat and Coal

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 4

From country areas the Government will be asked why it is prepared to allow huge dollar expenditure on the despatch of large…

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Wheat Exposed to Damage

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Country Party Leader (Mr. Bruxner) said to-day some losses in the balance of last year’s record wheat…

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Mice and Rats Reason for Shifting Wheat

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 1

Mr. J. P. Abbott, Federal member for New England, told the Manilla branch of the Farmers & Settlers Association last Friday…

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Dairy Registration

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 2

Some confusion appears to exist amongst local dairy farmers whose farms are situated within the newly created Milk Board…

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N.Z. Young Farmers At Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 2

SINGLETON, Tuesday.—A party of New Zealand young farmers paid a visit to the Singleton Dairy Company and to Mr. A. S. R. Shearer’s…

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The World’s Biggest Pig Farm

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 1

LONDON, August 10.—The world’s biggest pig farm will be established near Blair Athol, Queensland, with the object of sending half a million pigs annually to Great Britain…

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