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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

1,665 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 54 of 84

Cattle Cheaper

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 September 1949 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson’s report: 39,142 sheep of mixed quality penned. The market opened unchanged at Monday’s lower rates Best ewes…

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Conference Asks For Compulsory T.B. Testing of Dairy Cattle (Special Representative)

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 September 1949 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—With the object of safeguarding the general health of the community, the Government is to be asked to bring in compulsory testing of all dairy herds for tuberculosis, and the request is to be made…

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Trees on Farms

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 8 September 1949 · page 5

In the report at the annual meeting of the Hunter Valley Dairy Co., the Chair[?] (Mr. J. D. Richardson) referred as follows to a matter, which is very evident to…

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Hunter Valley Dairy Co

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 8 September 1949 · page 6

The balance sheet as presented at the annual meeting, of the Company, showed that the operations during the year had shown a profit, of £59,505. This had been…

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Scone Pig, Calf and Dairy Cattle Market

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 6

At New Zealand Loan & M.A. Co. Ltd. last monthly sale in Scone of pigs, calves, and dairy cattle, buyers were in…

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Rain Saved Wheat Crops in Riverina

Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—New South Wales experienced one of the wettest periods in history since the beginning of the year, a…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 4

THE Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Co. Ltd. report under date of 2nd September, 1949:—…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 5

The Farmers & Graziers' C-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited, report 2nd September, 1949:…

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No Increase in Butter Price

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 3

The Minister for Price Control (Mr. Finnan) told the Legislative Assembly yesterday that so far as he was concerned,…

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1,000 Or More Cattle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 5

A gift of cows to Macleay dairymen could be 1,000 or more head, the General Secretary of the Milk Zone Dairyman's Council (Mr. Turton) said…

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Wheat Growers' Loss in Coal Strike

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 4

The recent general coal strike cost New South Wales wheat growers a loss of about £800,000, the secretary of the Combined Colliery Proprietors'…

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Wool Report the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance & Agency Company Limited. 2nd September, 1949

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 2

We submitted a catalogue of 8220 bales on Thursday. 1st instant, the selection to a large, extent comprising clips from…

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Future of Wool J.o. Stocks Sinking

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 5

There is a widespread belief in Bradford (Eng.) that the opening strong values paid for new wool may last at least until…

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Bale of Wool Crashes Through Train Window

Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 1

YARS, Friday.—One passenger was seriously Injured and 19 others received treatment for cuts when 46 windows of the first…

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Local [?] Asked to Donate Cattle For Distribution to Kempsey Men

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 7

Stressing the urgent need for the re[?] of dairymen in the Kempsey area who had lost their herds as a result of the recent…

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Wool Values and Trade Recovery in Top Trade

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 5
Also in The Scone Advocate

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report:—The absence of a spectacular rise in wool values at the opening sales of the season, despite a world shortage…

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Appeal for Dairy Stock To Replace Denuded Kempsey Farms

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 2

Voluntary offers having already been made of donations of heifers to help replace the terrific losses suffered in the…

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Wheat Research Institute for Waggo To Cost £52,000

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.) announced today that a contract had been signed for the construction of the New South…

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Bale of Wool Smashes 45 Windows Of Express 19 Passengers Injured, One Seriously

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 5

One passenger was seriously injured and 19 others received treatment for cuts when 45 windows of the first division of the Melbourne Express were shattered near Yass early this morning…

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