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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,730 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 64 of 87

The Hunter Valley Dairy Co

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 6 September 1951 · page 3

The Chairman of Directors, (Gen. J. D. Richardson) moving the adoption of the Balance Sheet, at the Annual meeting last Wednesday,…

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World’s Largest Dairy

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 September 1951 · page 3

A dairy to accommodate 20,000 milch buffaloes is being built at Aarey, twenty miles outside Bombay, India,…

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Soy Bean Butter

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 3

Mr. D. M. Shand, of Armidale, said that soy beans could provide a good butter substitute to meet the present…

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Butter Supplies Withheld. Action Supported By Upper Hunter Farmers Demand for 3/6 LB

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 1

The Upper Hunter District Council of the Primary Producers' Union, at a special meeting held at Muswellbrook yesterday, unanimously adopted the following resolution, submitted by the…

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Evening Frock—it's Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 10

This beautiful pearl grey short skirted evening dress is in face cloth. The designer, Alwyn, has trimmed the…

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May Export Butter If Price Rise Not Given

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 1

N.S.W. butter factory representatives decided at a conference in Sydney to tell the Premier, Mr. J. McGirr,…

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Demand for Butter Exceeded Output Milk Supplemented By Distant Centres

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 2

Throughout practically the whole of the year, output has been out of balance with the demand for butter, milk, and milk products, the auditors (Messrs. Short and McGee) reported to the annual meeting of…

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Milk Zone Dairymen's Council

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 3

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council was held in Sydney on 30th August, Mr. E. J…

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Run Over by Farm Roller

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 3

A ten-years-old boy was seriously injured to-day when he was run over by a horse-drawn farm roller…

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Dairy Production Improving

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 3

The dairy officer for the Hunter (Mr. J. W. G. Smith) said that production was vising and this should…

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Dairy Farm Competition Winners

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1951 · page 2

The district dairy officer (Mr. J. W. G Smith) announces that Jud[?] in the district dairy farm…

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Premier May Be Looking for Way Out Leaving Decision On Butter Price to Caucus

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1951 · page 2

If the Premier (Mr. McGirr) persists in his present attitude towards the butter position we will have the riditulous position of New South Wales butter being sent to Vicoria or South Australia and returned…

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Pastures and Crops Need Rain

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1951 · page 5

Milk production is rising and will continue to improve should there be early rain, states the district dairy officer (Mr. J. W. G. Smith) in his…

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Short Week Factor In Dairy Decline

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1951 · page 2

The introduction of the 40-hours week in secondary industries, with its resultant leisure hours no week-end work, has contributed in no small manner to the decline in dairy production, the…

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Cattle Unchanged; Sheep Cheaper

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 3

Pitt, Son and Badger’s report: 13,958 sheep and lambs, mostly trade quality: prfrme suckers…

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Support for Butter Producers

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 2

The Maitland branch of the milk Zone Dairyman’s Council, at a meeting on Saturday night, decided to support…

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Values for Fat Cattle Firm

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 3

Although some drafts of good, medium and lightweight cattle were included in consignments, good bullocks…

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Blackmarketeers Make Big Clean-up Huge Profits On Butter And Potatoes

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Blackmarketeers are making huge profits from food items in short supply in New South Wales. They are making £1000 on a trailer load of 200…

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Farming Notes Potato Acreage On Hunter Half Normal

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 4

The acreage of potatoes sown on the Hunter will be approximately 55 to 60 per cent, of normal, but this…

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Local Dairymen Do Well In Department's Competition

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 2

Well-known local stud cattle- owners. Messrs W. L. Heuston & A. S. R. Shearr, scored well in the dairy farm…

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