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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

1,665 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 84

Buying for Japanese at Wool Sales

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Brokers said last night that buyers operating on behalf of Japanese interests are believed to be…

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N.s.w. Farmers in N.z. Dungog Represented

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 2

The party of 58 N.S.W. farmers has arrived iu New Zealand. Farmers will study the agricultural activities of New Zealand and learn…

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Dairy Herd Sold At Clarence Town

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 3

J. Enright and T. Carlton report that a large number of buyers attended Mrs. J. s. Smith’s sale yesterday, and a highly satisfactory…

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Touring Junior Farmers Visit Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 3

A party of 28 Junior farmers from the Central West visited Maitland to-day on a 13 days’ tour embracing the Hunter Valley, Gosford, Woy…

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Use Farm Manure with Discretion

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 2

Farmyard manure should be used with discretion where lawns are concerned, warns the Division of Plant Industry of…

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"Bad Farmers" Cause Rabbit Plague

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 4

"Bad" land owners are blamed by the Lands Department superintendent of vermin and noxious weeds (Mr. Pemberton) for any…

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Crazing of Lucerne Points in Management of Crop

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 3

In dry districts the value of lucerne as a grazing crop is commending itself increasingly to stock owners. Being very…

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Cattle Firm; Lambs Dearer

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson’s report 32,567 sheep, mixed Quality. Ewes firm, wethers brighter, lambs 1/ to 2/ dearer. Best ewes to 5½d,…

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Desert Turned Into Farmland

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

A rush of applicants for land in the 90-Mile Desert of South Australia has resulted from the successful soil experiments carried. put by the Council for Scientific…

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Canada's Larger Grain Crop

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 3

The Canadian grain situation has changed considerably from that which prevailed a year ago, states the Australian Government Trade Commissioner in Ottawa, Mr. C. J…

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Store Sheep Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3
Also in Singleton Argus

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Scone, report having held a very successful sale of store sheep in the Scone Municipal…

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Injured While Mustering Cattle

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 5

While mustering cattle at Broke. Frank McNamara was thrown from his horse, injuring his leg…

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Canadian Wheat Price

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 5

OTTAWA, Jan. 21.— The price for wheat for the 1949-50 crop sold to Britain under the four years' Anglo-Canadian wheat…

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Australia's Wheat Cheque Canberra

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 7

Australia's wheat cheque for the 1948-49 wheat harvest will amount to over £100,000,000, while…

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WOOL: 1948 AND 1949 Prices and Stocks

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Wool values show good prospects of continuing on attractive levels this season. Prices for Bradford tops give a sound indication of the rise in the market during the past 12…

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Twice Round the World is Travel Record of Retering Constable W.J.R. Boyd Has Been Policeman (Twice), Soldier (Twice), Dairy Hand, Sailor, Wheat Lumper

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 6

Twice round the world on ships is the travel record of Senior Constable W. J. R. Boyd, at present on lons service leave from the New South Wales Police Force, from which he will retire in June next…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle FRIDAY, 21st JANUARY, 1949. Ban on Sale of Sweet Cream. Loss to Dairy Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3

Mr. L. C. Turton, general secretary, Milk Zone Dairymen's Council, writes: On 17th January the general secretary of the Milk Zone Dairymen's…

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Junior Farmer 'Bus Tour. Education by Travel

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3

It has been said that travel Is a valuable form of education. The twenty-eight Central West junior farmers,' Interviewed at Branxton,…

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Baerami Lucerne Crop

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 8

A report has been recived from Baerami Creek that fair crops of lucerne seed are to be seen in the district, and harvesting has already commenced…

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