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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,730 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 58 of 87

Will Synthetics Replace Wool? Growers' Views

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 1

Most Australia woolmen believe that the sheep will always beat the chemist, according to a survey conducted recently by Scnute,…

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Roads Blocked, Farms Isolated

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Outlying farms are isolated and roads blocked, because heavy snow has again covered the Southern tips…

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Decomposed Aroma in Butter

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 3

"After rancidity, decomposed aroma is perhaps the most objectionable fault found in butter, and manufacturers and the trade…

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Flare-up Over Butter Price

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — An official of the Australian Dairying Equalisation Committee said today that the increase in the…

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Suspended Sentence for Cattle Theft

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 4

MURRURUNDI: At Murrurundi Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., William Gordon Penfold and Percy…

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Farmers Claims Butter Price Rise Inadequate Threat To Export Supplies Or Discontinue Production

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Butter producers, dissatisfied with the 6d a pound increase, threaten to export all supplies or discontinue production. ' An official of the Australian Dairy Equalisation…

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Hours Claimed by N.s. Wales Dairymen

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: The Australian Workers' Union is planning a case for an aw aid, including a 40-hour week, for the 60,000 rural workers in New South Wales…

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District- Council for Junior Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 2

Maitland Junior Farmers Club advisory committee will support the formation of a district council at Maitland…

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Junior Farmers Show

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 3

DUNGOG: Bandon Grove, Junior Farmers Club inaugural show was an outstanding success with approximately 400…

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Optimism on Wool Sales

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Brokers expect wool values to be fully maintained at the new season sales, beginning in Sydney on Monday, following…

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One-day Cattle Shows Urged Divided Thought Prompts Wider Approach

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 5

One-day cattle shows would encourage more exhibitors to display their stock, it was claimed at a meeting of the Hunter Valley Group Agricultural Societies in Maitland this morning…

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Warning That Sydney May Be Without Butter All Producers Willing to Withhold Supplies

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Non-butter producing areas of the State might be without batter by the end of the month, unless the price was increased by 11½d a pound, an official of the Primary Producers' Onion warned to-day…

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Dairymen Fined

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 5

KURRI KURRI: Raymond Worrell, a milk vendor, of Abermain, and his brother, John Worrell, who pleaded guilty to a…

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Paterson Junior Farmers' Club

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 4

PATERSON: Organisation of the Paterson Junior Farmer's club was carried a stage further when the 16 club members…

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Wool Consumption

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 August 1951 · page 7

During June, the rate of wool consumption in the United Kingdom textile industry declined sharply for the tenth…

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Factories Withhold Butter Supplies Politicians Blamed By Dairy Association

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 August 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY: The attitude of politicians has forced butter factories to decide to withhold supplies from Sydney and Newcastle, said the chairman of directors of the N.S.W. Dairy Co-operative Association (Mr. J. O. Lancaster) Last…

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Decomposed Aroma in Butter

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 August 1951 · page 3

"After rancidity, decomposed aroma is perhaps the most objectionable fault found in butter, and manufacturers and the…

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BUTTER! (To the Editor)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 August 1951 · page 3

Sir,—To read the Sydney Press at the present time one can only presume that the shortage of butter is entirely…

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Singleton Delegate To Conference Claims: High Wheat & Wool Prices Do Not Cause Inflation

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 August 1951 · page 6

HIGH prices for wool and wheat did not cause the Present inflation crisis. It had rather paid for the import of goods which secondary industries had been unwilling or unable to pay…

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One-Day Cattle Shows Urged

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 August 1951 · page 1

Delegates to the Hunter Group of Show Societies in Maitland yesterday referred to the success of one-day exhibitions of dairy cattle at South Coast shows, when they urged the limitation to one day…

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