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Farming & the land, 1949

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Britain Uses More Wool

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 6

Consumption of wool in Britain has risen 20 or 25 per cent, since pre-war, according to an analysis prepared by the…

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Effect of Exchange on Farm Income

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 3

In 1931, when the Australian pound was unexpectedly devalued in terms of sterling there were many law suits over payment for Australian primary products…

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Green Crops Save Orchard Soil

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 5

The value of growing green craps in orchards during autumn and early winter to prevent soil erosion has been demonstrated…

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Stock Inspector's Report of 1891. Noxious Animals and Birds :: Low Wool Values

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 5

The annual report of the Inspector of Stock has been issued, and furnishes many items of interest. The report dealt with travelling…

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Effects Oe Exchange on Farm Income

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 5

In 1931, when the Australian pound was unexpectedly devalued in terms of sterling, there were…

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Progressive Farmer Team

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 6

The report of the Rural Bank Progressive farmer team has just been published…

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A Desert Dairy Farm at Whyalla, South Australia

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1949 · page 4

"You can always get milk production if you are prepared to pay the price," states an article in the New Zealand Dairy Exporter in describing…

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EDITORIAL Exchange and Farm Income

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 August 1949 · page 2

IN 1931, when the Australian pound was unexpectedly devalued in terms of sterling, there were many law suits over payment for Australian primary products for which selling contracts were quoted in sterling. The…

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Scone Cattle Market

Singleton Argus · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 3

New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co., Ltd., Scone, report having conducted their store cattle sale in conjunction at the Sonne…

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Fat Cattle Rise £1 At Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 3

Fat cattle rose an average of £1 a head at Campbell’s Hill saleyards to-day. Good bullocks and young cattle, which have…

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Relief for Small Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 2

A communication from Senator McKenna, read at yesterday’s meeting in Maitland of the Paterson Federal Electorate…

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Warwick Farm Being Rebuilt

Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The A.J.C. continuing to reconstruct the arwick Farm racecourse in adiness for meetings in the…

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Farmers to Visit Muswellbrook

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 2

VACY: An enthusiastic party farmers from Vady.and district has accepted an invitation the Hunter Valley Dairy…

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Junior Farmers at Quirindi

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 6

QUIRINDI—The membership of the Junior Farmers’ Club is increasing and at present there are 87 active members on the roll…

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South Africa’s Worst Drought in 100 YEARS Famine Stalks In Wake Of Crop Failures(By a Reuter Correspondent)

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 4

JOHANNESBURG: Drought which in some areas is the, worst in 100 years is parching great tracts of Southern Africa front the Cape to Kenya. In many places, crop failures have brought famine stalking in its wake…

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Hobartville Starters is Derby Prospects Season’s Colts Do Not Compare With Last Year’s Crop

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 5

Racing ever the next few weeks will help to unravel the chances of Derby cote and define the stayers from the sprinters. On Saturday many of the best colts and fillies in action will be seen with the colours up in the Hobartville…

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Textile Products Must Be Branded Wool Promotion the Reason

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 August 1949 · page 1

Compulsory labelling of textiles, which is expected to come into general operation in the Commonwealth on…

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EDITORIAL Progressive Farmer Report

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 August 1949 · page 2

THE report of the Rural Bank Progressive Former Team has just been published. In a foreword the Commissioners of the Bank say: “When three practical farmers nearing the prime of life tour the world…

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To-day's Leader: Progressive Farmer Report ‘Hands Off Police Demanded by Yugoslavia Resistance To Continued Russian Interference

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 August 1949 · page 1

LONDON, August 24.—Yugoslavia has demanded that Russia maintain a "hands off" policy in Yugoslavia's internal affairs This was laid down in a new Note to the Soviet Union arising of Russia's protest against Yugoslavia's arrest and detention…

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Five Junior Farmers Will Fly From N.s.w. to Perth Royal Show

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 August 1949 · page 4

Hunter Valley Junior Farmer Clubs have been asked give £40 towards a State-wide appeal by the organisation funds to fly five members to the Perth Royal Show in October…

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