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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

1,730 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 74 of 87

Butter Up to 3/1½ Premier's Announcement Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 October 1951 · page 2

The Premier, Mr. McGirr, announced this afternoon that the price of butter in N.S.W. would be increased…

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Dexter Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

A breed of cattle little, heard of here, but not unusual in England is the Dexter—Britain's smallest breed Often exhibited at dairy shows…

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Cattle Crutches

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

The veterinary clinic of the University of California is using a walking crutch for animals with fractures that are high or that are so…

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Scone Market Report Pigs, Calves, and Dairy Cattle

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 4

New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Scone, report having held their monthly sale of pigs,…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

The Fanners & Graziers' Cooperative Grain Insurance and Agency Company, Limited, report 11th October, 1951:…

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Wool Report the Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Ltd. 11th October, 1951

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 4

We submitted our catalogue of 4747 bales on Monday, the 8th instant The selection was drawn largely…

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Historic Holding Won Local Dairy Farm Competition

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 1

Mr. G. V. Ralston's historic holding, Porphyry, Seaham, won the district award for the N.S.W. Dairy Farm competition as 'well as the…

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Milk for Poultry Farmer Shows Benefits of Dairy-poultry Combination

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

"A farmer at Rooty Hill who keeps dairy cows as an adjunct to his thriving flock of eighteen hundred layers recently demonstrated the…

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Maitland Fat Stock Market E. W. Sparke, Pty., Ltd., reports : Sheep

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 6

About 1600 fat sheep penned, being a heavier supply. Lambs and hoggets formed the greater proportion of the offering, with…

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Several Years to Repair Damage Done to Dairying

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 1

"It will take several years to repair the damage done to the dairying industry over the past three months." stated the general manager…

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Hybrid Maize Scores Again Fine Crop at Berry

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

"Half a acre of a crop of Standfast hybrid maize on a dairy farm, at Berry—carefully measured by a departmental officer—was recently…

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Trichomoniasis Apparent in Dairy Herds

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

Trichomoniasis in cows appears to have been introduced into the district herds, the stock inspector (Mr. A. T. Ellis) told the Maitland…

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Threat to Take Farms

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 5

The N.S.W. Government would resume unproductive farms, Mr. A. Nardi said in Lismore on Friday last. Mr. Nardi, who is the district…

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Dairy Production Rising

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

Dairy production in this district is rising slowly and will continue for some time, states the district Dairy Officer (Mr…

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Butter Versus Margarine

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 18 October 1951 · page 1

Increased production of margarine as a means of offsetting the shortage of butter, and averting an increase in price, was strongly opposed in the…

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Hunter Valley Dairy Co. Handling Near Record Milk Supply at Muswellbrook

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 18 October 1951 · page 5

The Hunter Valley Dairy Co. was now handling 27,000 gallons a day at its Muswellbrook plant. This is in addition to the daily intake from…

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Paterson Farmer Not Guilty Of Assault

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 October 1951 · page 2

After a retirement of a quarter of an hos[?] a jury at the Qau[?]ler Sessions at East Miffed yesterday returned its finding that Richard Wilkinson, a Paterson farmer, was not guilty at a charge at…

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Wool Price Rise

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 October 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Wool prices rose 5 per cent, at tho close of the third Molbourne series of [?] yesterday…

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Shorter Week For Dairy Farm Hands

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 October 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Dairy-farm employees will work a 48-hour six-day week from the first pay period In November, the…

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Demonstration Of Farm Machinery

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 October 1951 · page 4

Worth of the David Brown Crop master tractor and implements was shown at Largs pulled a three furrow…

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