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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Butter Rationing in Sydney N.Z. Supplies Likely

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 February 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY.—Many Sydney grocers yesterday began to ration butter to customers following a warning by…

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London Auctions Of Australian Wool LONDON

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 February 1952 · page 3

The value of wool sold for Australia in seven months of the previous selling season ended on January 31, was…

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Cliff Blake. Outstanding Junior Farmer Stock Judge

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 February 1952 · page 5

Winner of the cattle judging competition at the Paterson Show, Cliff Blake, 14years-old member of the…

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Junior Farmers’ Show

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 February 1952 · page 3

RAYMOND TERRACE: Three Junior Farmer Clubs— Tomago, Hollow Tree and Bob’s Farm Anna Bay— are…

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Farm Scrap Iron Aids U.S. Defence

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 February 1952 · page 3

The farm scrap iron drive to aid the United States defence program is rolling along at a rapid rate. The…

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Mt. Thorley Jnr. Farmer For Royal Show

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 February 1952 · page 2

Kenneth Hill, of Mount Thorley, is one of the junior farmers who have been chosen to attend the Royal Show…

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Record Cattle Entries For Sydney Show

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 3

Entries this year by beef and dairy cattle breeders and herdsmen have created a record for the Sydney Royal Show. The society has received 2954 entries, 446 in…

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Sydney’s Milk, Butter Supplies To Be Cut

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: Due to shortages caused by the drought and bushfires, Sydney’s milk and butter supplies will be cut from this week-end. Milk is to be cut by one-third, suspending the…

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Shire Seeks Gazettal of Access Road Would Give Direct Service to Dairy Farms Says Engineer

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 1

Wallarobba Shire Council decided on Tuesday to make application to the Department of Main Roads for the gazettal of a road of access on the western side of the Paterson River, providing a connection between the Lamb's…

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Butter Sold Under Counter

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Butter is again being sold under the counter,” following a 50 per cent, cut by distributors…

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Fat Cattle Dearer at Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 3

About 900 fat cattle yarded at Maitland sales today, most of which were of a plain description…

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Butter-Cut Effective Here From To-day

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 2

Maitland re[?] were informed to-day by distributing agencies that butter supplies to the city were to be cut 50 per cent from to-day. Until such time [?] conditions improve in the…

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Still Time to Avert Dairying Calamity

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 2

Rain, even to the middle of March, weald come in time to avoid a calamity in the dairying industry in the Hunter Valley, the district dairy officer (Mr. J. W. G. Smith) said to-day…

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Sisters As Junior Farmer Judges

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 2

Three sisters from Mllfield Junior Farmers’ Club were among the eight potential farmers who completed in the…

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High Standard of Jun. Farmer Show Tomago’s Close Win In District Exhibit

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 4

District exhibits staged Ay clubs at the Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers’ Club show were of a particularly larly high standard, and all judges commended the Variety and quality seen in the display…

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Record Entries In Dairy Section Of Royal Easter Show

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 1

Entries for the dairy cattle sections of the 1952 Royal Easter Show — to be held from April 4 to April…

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Some Plans To Lift Dairying From Doldrums

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 1

The latest destroying tech- By J. D. Richardson, Chairman of Directors, Hunter Valley Co-Op-Dairy Co. Ltd The dairying industry is in a very unsound and unhealthy condition due to causes that are well-known and need not be recapitulated here…

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Mechanization Of U.S. Farms

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 2

Collective bargaining goals of the National Farm Labor Union (N.F.L.U.), which recently held its 17th annual…

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Butter Will Be Dearer

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 1

CANBERRA: A possible in crease of [?] in the price of butter is expented [?] Federal Cabinet [?] until…

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Cattle Record For Sydney Show

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Breeders will exhibit 1860 cattle at this year’s Royal Easter Show—the greatest number in the 136 years of…

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