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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,730 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 47 of 87

Sydney Butter Cut Again

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday — While State Prices Ministers in Melbourne are considering an increase in the price of butter…

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Wheat Cargo-diverted

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA: A cargo of wheat on the freighter Daylesford has been diverted from Launceston to Hobart by the Federal…

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Dunolly Bridge Still Unsafe for Cattle

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

The Department of Main Roads has bungled again. In a bid to appease the justifiably angry stockmen of the Singleton district, and so prevent a deputation to the Minister for Transport, they have…

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Further Cut To-day In Butter Deliveries

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 2

Distributors were forced to make a further 12½ per cent cut in butter supplies to Maitland shops to-day. Outlook for the immediate future is not bright and it is likely that the shortage will last until the end of August…

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Dairy Farm Championship

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 2

Competitors in No. 4 District of the 1951 Dairy Farm Championship are: J. Hedge, Hinton Vale, R.M.B…

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Amazed by Cattle Sales to Victoria Many Stock Cross To Southern State

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 2

Reporting to to-day’s meeting of directors of Maitland Postures Protection Boord, the district stock inspector (Mr. Ellis) said he was amazed that cattle men were sending their stock to other parts, when such high prices were being…

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Field Day With Tractors and Farm Machinery

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 4

Even though the major farm machinery firms have already indicated take they will take part in this field day,…

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Spraying Crops From Aircraft

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 6

Aerial spraying of crops in the battle against plant pests and diseases has proved successful in many parts of the…

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Dairy Costs Records

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 2

Hunter Valley dairymen who are unwilling to keep cost of production records on their milk yield are doing harm to their…

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Farmer Took Bull by the Hornsbroke Its Neck

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE—When attacked by a maddened bull near Mount Gambier yesterday, farmer G. J. Uphill grabbed the animal…

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Fashion Talks To Farmers

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

Fashion models will appear at the N.S.W. Agricultural Bureau's three-day conference, July 17, at Richmond…

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Dairy Grant Exhibition

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 2

An exhibition sponsored under the Commonwealth Dairy Grant, and similar to that shown at this year's Sydney…

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Gloucester Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 5

Consignments of Gloucester cattle included to winchcombe Carbon's Homebush auction last Monday were: A Rid[?]eway, It…

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No Butter Price Rise Yet

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 3

State and Federal Ministers reached a deadlock yesterday on a new price for butter. The State Prices Ministers…

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Comment On Inaction On Butter Price

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Australian Primary Producers’ Union federal president (Mr. B. G. Dawson) said today any further delay in…

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Recommends "No" Vote on Wool Price Price

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 1

Speaking at a meeting of Tamworth district wool growers at Tamworth, Mr. J. P. Abbott, former representative for New…

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Flood Insurance Proposal for Farms and Crops

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 1

The Hunter Valley Conservation Trust will investigate the establishment of a co-operative farm and crop flood insurance…

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Dairy Farm Championship District Entries

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 1

Competitors in No. 4 District of the 1951 Dairy Farm Championship include the foluowing from the Upper Hunter district:—…

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Grim Butter Outlook. Sydney Has Less Than a Week's Supply. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 2

Butter stocks in Sydney were dwindling so alarmingly that there is now less than a normal week's supply in store. The…

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Sydney’s Butter Position Serious Less Than Week’s Supply In Store

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Butter stocks in Sydney hare dwindled so alarmingly that there is now less than a normal week’s supply store and the shortage is unlikely to end for at least two months…

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