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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,730 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 39 of 87

District Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 3

Wool sales conducted on 29th May by the New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co. Ltd. included: E. H. Googe, Wybong, EHG/HILLVIEW/MBK, 4…

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Butter Rationed To. Singleton Shops

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 6

BUTTER supplies have been severely rationed to stores in Singleton. It is feared that the degree of rationing will be increased as supplies become shorter…

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Shortage Of Grain And Wheat

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 4

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. J. Mc Ewen) referring to current trends in Australian…

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The Farmers & Graziers' Cooperative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Limited. 1st Jane, 1951. Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 4

We submitted a catalogue of 5,360 bales on Thursday, 31st May. The selection was drawn principally from the Western, North-Western and…

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Wool Report the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Inssurance & Agency Company Limited 1st June, 1951

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 7

We submitted a catalogue of 5360 bales on Thursday, 31st May. The selection was drawn principally from the Western,…

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Against Wool Plan to the Editor

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 2

Dear Sir, As a small woolgrower who has already been robbed of 20 per cent, of my wool cheque, I…

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To-Day's World News Farmers Flee Before Onrushing Waters. Dam Bursts. Flood Rains in Coastal. Areas. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 1

A fifteen foot high wall of water swept through farmlands in the Rocky Creek Valley, 29 miles north-west of Lismore, this morning, when a dam…

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State’s Rice Crop May Be Record

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 3

Mr. W. M. Curteis, rich specialist of the Department of Agriculture, said that this season’s rich crop in New South…

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Junior Farmers’ Competition

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 7

Judging would soon begin for the junior farmers’ clubs competition, for which the Rural Bank was awarding a…

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Rain Will Boost Dairy Production

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 5

Dairy production would be boosted considerably throughout Die Hunter Volley as the result of the present rains, the district dairy officer (Mr. J. W. G. Smith) said this morning…

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Poultry Farming Not Spoonfed Industry

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 5

Mr. E. Harlington who recently retired from his post as principal poultry officer of the Department of Agriculture, has been associated with poultry farming since early boyhood, and has been pantry farming in New south Wales…

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U.s. Farm Families Prefer One-story Houses

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 2

A recent survey of farm families living in the northcentral part of the United States reveals that they prefer…

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Farming Notes Grasses Help Farmers Conserve Soil

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 2

Although grasses should be chosen carefully from the stand-point of feed production, a farmer cannot go far wrong in conserving soil if he sows any good grass with his legumes, according to…

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Butter Shortage Brings Chaos

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1951 · page 1

The 50 per cent, cut in butter supplies had done more than any other shortage to break down goodwill, New castle grocers said on Tuesday…

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Local and General Butter Is Short

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1951 · page 2

Local housewives cannot understand why they are limited to half a pound of butter, this being a dairying district. The week-end requirements are…

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Milk Zone Dairymen's Council Dungog Branch

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1951 · page 2

A most interesting lecture was delivered in Dungog by Mr. Smith (Dairy Officer, of Maitland) at the Globe Cafe, at the last meeting of…

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Farmer Retired

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1951 · page 1

Mr. James Dorney, who has been associated with the Eagleton district for 60 years, is retiring from farming. He was…

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Increase in World’s Sheep

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 2

The U.S. Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations estimates world sheep population at 752 million at the begining of the…

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Russian Wheat Reaches India

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

HONGKONG (A.A.P.-Reuter): Two shipments of wheat for [?] reached Bombay from Russia by the steamships Krasnodar…

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Dearer Sheep, cattle Market

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 2

At to-day a Maitland fat stock sales[?] for both [?] cattle and sheep advanced compared with last day’s rates…

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