Junior Farmer Movement in N.S.W. Now Has Over 12,000 MEMBERS The Boy of Today is the Man of Tomorrow
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1950 · page 4
The Junior Farmer Club movement, established in New South Wales in October, 1928, by the Department of Education with the co-operation of the Department of Agriculture, has never looked back from the day of its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Don't Use Cloths to Wash Dairy Utensils
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1950 · page 2
Cloths should never be used for washing dairy utensils, according to the Division of Dairying of the Department of Agriculture…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1950 · page 4
The President of the Rural Bank Mr. C. R. McKerihan, in a brochure published by his bank for the Junior Farmers, said—"Through every age…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1950 · page 2
Mr. G. J. Korff, a Morpeth farmer, has lost an estimated £4,000 through Hoods within 12 months. His 40-acre mixed farm at Berry Park, about two…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 June 1950 · page 3
Butter production from New South Wales factories is now at a low level, and distributing agents are importing large…
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Singleton Argus · Monday 26 June 1950 · page 2
A pen of 200 merino two and three year old wethers sold for £7/3/1 a head at Younghusband's sheep sale at Temora…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 June 1950 · page 3
Fine-woolted Merinos may compete more than favourably with other breeds using highly improved pastures, judging from incidental results of C.S.I.R.O. experiments now in progress. This suggests a reversal of the trend away…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 4
Pitt Son and Badgery report: 23,486 sheep and lambs, mostly good trade quality. Prime wethers and heavy lambs were scarce. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Race Against Time To Save Buildings Volunteers Aid Farmer Denman, Tues
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 4
Erosion of the river banks in the Denman district is on a colossal scale. A race against time developed when dairy buildings and a big corrugated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sultana Bud Examination for 1950 Crop Potentialities Less Than for Last Year
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 1
Every year since 1945 a selection of sultana canes in the Sunraysia district has been examined misroscopically by officers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flemington Sales Thursday, 22nd June Cattle
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 3
From the outset competition was particularly keen, and values were generally from £1/-/- to £2/-/- and more in places above last Monday's…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 2
PROLONGED heavy rains will bring about a serious setback in dairy production in New South Wales. The floods came just when autumn was ending, and even in the ordinary course of events the nutritive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: Flight of Dairying. Heavy Toll of Life After Iraq Explosion
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 1
DAMASCUS, June 28. — Eighty people were killed and hundreds Injured when a depot containing Inflammable and explosive…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 2
Mr. G. J. Korff, a Morpeth farmer, has lost an estimated £4,000 through floods within 12 months 'reports the "Dungog…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 June 1950 · page 5
Pitt. Son and Badgery report: —The sheep and lambs were of fair quality. Prime wethers, ewes and heavy lambs were in…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 June 1950 · page 4
SYDNEY, Thurs. — A large quantity of fodder for flood-bound dairy stock was being loaded on a coastal steamer in Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairyman Says Action Is Wanted
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 June 1950 · page 1
Many Lower Hunter dairymen suffered heavily in the flood of June last year, and their losses have been mounting since then,…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 5
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, Scone, held the fortnightly sale of sheep and cattle at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Higher Price For Butter?
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 7
The Commonwealth Government has asked the State Prices Ministers to raise the price of butter from 2/2 to 2/6 1b. Announcing this…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 7
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—We sold 11,200 bales of wool at our Sydney sales on Tuesday. The market generally was firm on Monday's level…
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