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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

1,665 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 82 of 84

Wool Planning After J.O Finishes (To the Editor)

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 December 1949 · page 1

Dear Sir,—A plan has been prepared for the marketing if wool after JO. finishes, as it probably will in June, 1950…

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Junior Farmer Scholarship Results. Third Prize to Baerami Creek

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 December 1949 · page 1

Several Junior Farmers in New South Wales have been assisted in their education through scholarships provided by the Rural Bank. This…

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Stock Inspector Reports Good Crops, Pastures

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 December 1949 · page 4

There were no reprts of outbreak in disease in the Denman-Singleton Pastures Protection Board area during November, the stock inspector (Mr…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle TUESDAY, 20th DECEMBER, 1949. The Challenge To-day to Junior Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 December 1949 · page 3

THE world to-day is tottering on the edge of a great precipice. Below are stretched the yawning jaws of starvation. Everyone is faced with…

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Heavy Grain Crops in America

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 December 1949 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Dee. 20.—U.S. maize production, estimated at 3,377,000,000 bushels, was the second largest in history, and…

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Tea And Butter Rationing To Be Examined

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 December 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wed.—The Federal Government has ordered a survey of the butter and tea position to determine whether…

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Butter Output Increase

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 December 1949 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thursday.— Australian butter production in October, a month of increased seasonal output, was the highest for…

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Wool for Next Year’s Sales

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 December 1949 · page 4

In the second half of the 1949 1950 wool selling season, 220.000 bales of Australian wool from the Joint Organisation stocks will…

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Closer Settlement Farms

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 December 1949 · page 4

MUSWELLBROOK, Thursday.— At the annual meeting of the Muswellbrook and District Closer Settlement Committee. the secretary (Mr…

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Wheat, Butter and Cheese Prices to Be Subsidised

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 3

The Federal Government will pay wheatgrowers 5d a bushel subsidy for wheat used in home consumption…

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Tumut Butter Pay

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 2

The 181 suppliers of cream to the Tumut butter factory receive cheques for the October pay amounting to a total of…

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Butter, Cream Controls Unwarranted

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday. — There was every good reason supporting the agitation for the removal of restrictions on the sale of both hotter butter…

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Wheat Trucked at Quirindi

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 1

QUIRINDI, Friday.—A tremendous amount of wheat is Sowing district railheads. At Quirindi 175,000 bushels had…

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Tea and Butter Rationing to Be Examined

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 5

CANBERRA: The Federal Government has ordered a survey of the butter and tea position, to determine whether rationing can…

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Maitland Stock Sales Market Fob Cattle Unchanged

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 1

Competition wag very keen on Monday at Campbell's Hill saleyards for cattle, sheep, pigs and calves, because the sales were the last until…

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Local Wheat. Harvesting in Full Swing

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 8

There is every indication that the wheat crop in the Merriwa district this year will be a record one. The yield is expected to…

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Season's Record at Wool Sales Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 5

A State record price for the season, of 161d, for greasy merino, was established at Wednesday's wool sales, the…

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The N.S.W. Dairyman and Breeder Special Section Local Dairymen Give Their Views Two District Farmers Answer Our Questions

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 2

Each month our special representative will put leading questions to o dairyman and a breeder These men will be selected from all districts. This month we approached Mr. S. M. Fry, of Paterson,…

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Dairy Officer Warns Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 2

Mr. H. Harrison, senior Dairy Officer of No. i district, warns dairymen now that hot weather is here to take every precaution In…

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Scone Court of Petty Sessions Stealing Charge Against Wheat Board Officers Dismissed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 2

Before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., on Wednesday last, two officers of the Australian Wheat Board were charged with stealing a coil of barbed wire, valued at £2, the property of Wootton Pastoral Company,…

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