Activities of Junior Farmers' Clubs
All junior farmers in the district are regarded by the organisation as potential competitors in the Rural Bank sponsored…
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Farming & the land, 1951
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Butter Subsidy
SYDNEY: New South Wale[?] Prioss Minister (Mr. Fi[?]nan) sa[?] that the Commonwealth Government would not [?]…
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Severe rationing of butter in Singleton is expected to follow the heavy decrease in supply to the shops which came into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →P.P.U. District President's Address. Future Of Dairying Industry Drift To Wheat and Wool Industries
In his address to delegates at the quarterly meeting of the Upper Hunter District Council of the Primary Producers' Union, Mr. J. S. Haig (President) said the extraordinary prices for wool and high levels for wheat,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Livestock Review Prices Of Sheep Unchanged
Turnover of store sheep last week was steady, and values generally were unchanged for quality sheep. Other descriptions were…
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CANBERRA: The Government's policy was to preserve wool auctions, the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. J. McEwen,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Seeking 1/-Lb. Rise in Price of Butter
MELBOURNE: The Australian Primary Producers Union will ask the Federal Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vast Rise in U.S. Output of Synthetics Substitutes For Wool Ordered
WASHINGTON: The Director of Defence Mobilisation, Mr. Charles Edward Wilson, last week said the United States is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →40-Hour Week Urged for Dairying Industry
The following letter to the Editor of the "Sydney Morning Herald" reviewing problems in the dairying industry comments, in part, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First Annual Field Day for Junior Farmers to Be Held in September
The Dungog District Council of Junior Farmers Clubs will hold their first annual Field Day on Thursday, 27th September…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Open Season for Destroying Wood Ducks Heavy Damage To Crops, Pastures
In view of the serious damage being done to pastures and crops in various parts of the State by enormous numbers of wood ducks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drift From Dairy Industry in Maitland Area Alarming 48 Drop Off Bowthorne Supply in Course of Four Years
What is happening to the Maitland district, so far as the dairying industry is concerned, is exactly what is happening in other parts of the State, particularly in the Central, Northern and Southern Coastal belts, from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer Took Bull by the Horns—and Broke Its Neck
Adelaide: When attacked by a maddened bull near Mt. Gambier last week, farmer G. J. Uphill grabbed the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blackleg Disease Flares Up Again Loss To Dairy Industry
Blackleg disease in young cattle, which gave signs a couple of weeks ago of ob[?]ting, has flared up again, district stock inspector (Mr. Ellis) said to-day The disease is causing most concei[?] in the Wollombi…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Grant Demonstration Day At Denman Improved Pastures Shown
Five years ago, Mr. Eric L. Chauncey and his son, John, both R.A.A.F. veterans, purchased a 127 acre dairy farm of Denman. Neither had nay experience of dairying, although the father was a man of the land, he having been a wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Relief From Butter Shortage Soon
The worries of housewives concerning the butter shortage may be eased shortly, which the steady production rise that is expected to commence within a few weeks. A leading Maitland wholesaler said this morning that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Valley Trust Under Fire Townsmen And Farmers Criticise Lack Of Results Up To Now Chamber Of Commerce President Says Maitland Is In Jeopardy
Several inspection in recent weeks have disclosed broken, unsafe banks of the Hunter River in the Maitland area extending from Oakhampton to Swiney’s Point, Horseshoe Bend, and although the river stream is at present at a height which hides the scars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Payne's Crossing Farmers Claim Hardship
Farmers on the Wollombi side of Paynes Crossing were undergoing worse conditions than ever experienced by the isolated residents of Jerry's Plains, said a Payne's Crossing resident today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairymen Protest Against Plan
MELBOURNE—The executive of the Victorian Dairy Farmers' Association protested – against the Federal Government's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Claims Price Fix Will Hit Potato Crop
Secretary of the Singleton Branch of the Vegetable Growers' Association, Mr. G. Searl, said to-day that if price control…
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