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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Club Dance Fund for Junior Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1952 · page 1

At the dance held by the Dungog Boys and Girls Club (recently renamed Dungog Social Club) in the James Theatre on Thursday night,…

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Bulk Wheat From Silos

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: The N.S.W. Superintendent of the Australian Wheat Board (Mr. G. G.l Nicholls) announced…

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Prospects For Trade In Wool Fabrics

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Stronger trends the demand for wool from time to time were more attributable to fear of shortage…

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Good Displays By Junior, Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 3

Displays by Junior farmers in the agricultural pavilion at the Cessnock show were Splendid, said the district…

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Experienced Farm Workers Available in April

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 1

"Some five hundred migrant rural workers! now grape-picking in the Murray Valley, will be available…

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More Cattle and Pigs Destroyed

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 1

REGINA (Saskatchewan): Police yesterday shot an additional 115 cattle and pigs infected with hoof and month…

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Dunmore Dairy Farm Sold

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 2

J. Enright (merged with the New Zealand L. and M.A. Coy. Ltd:), in conjunction with Wilson and Keppel, of Paterson,…

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Driver for Greater Production. Writer Examines Upper Hunter Problems. Smaller Farms Seen As Solution

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 1

Under the caption, "Only a Rich Man Can Buy a Dairy Farm," Leo Butler, in the "Newcastle Herald," gives prominence to the closor settlement which has taken place in the Muswellbrook area in recent years. The writer quotes Mr…

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Reaction to Mr. Menzies' Appeal. Psimary Producers & Tax Concessions. "Farmers Unmoved Ry Appeal," Says Wheatmen's Official. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 2

The industry's representatives said to-day the price factors, taxation adjustments, and improved supply of essential…

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Butter Price Request Got Quick "No"

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 2

LISMORE—The British Ministry of Pood took only three minutes to flatly reject an Australian case for a rise…

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Two More Cattle Stabbings Detective Investigating

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

Stabbing of more beasts on Mr. Amos Rumbel's Brookfield property has added to the mystery of…

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Government Modifies Wool Growers' Tax

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 4

CANBERRA: Payment of Provisional tax by wool growers' would be modified immediately and the whole system of provisional tax reviewed next financial year the Treasurer (Sir Arthur Fadden)…

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Cattle On Two Days Show Rebuffed By Society Said President

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 2

Members of the Hunter Volley Dairy Cattle Breeders Associotior. lost night reaffirmed their decision to press for a two days exhibition of dairy cattle at the Maitland Show…

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Cattle Slasher Strikes Again Cow Found Dead in Same Paddock at Brookfield

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

The blood-thirsty Brookfield "Slasher" has been at work again and added another cow to his long list of animal victims. This maniac drove his sharp knife…

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Beef Cattle Industry Is Backward In North Australia Pioneer Methods Need Changing Says Michael Sawtell

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

The beef cattle industry in the north of Australia is as backwards and as wasteful as a black's camp. That is the real reason why there is a shortage in this country, Mr. Michael Sawtell, well-known Bushman and Author told Dungog Rotary Club. Mr. Sawtell said the beef cattle squatters of the north are not really growing cattle…

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Dairy Import Restrictions Bill

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON The bill to repeal U.H import restrictions on foreign dairy products has died in the U.S Senate…

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Agreement for Dairy Products

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: A major longer agreement for one supply of dairy commodities to the home and export…

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Junior Farmer Radio Competition

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 3

Cliff Blake, secretary of the. Muswellbrook Junior Farmer Club, and one of the leading: junior farmer cattle judges,…

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Two Schools For Junior Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham) said that a Junior farmers' School for boys would be held at Yanco…

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Butter on the Black

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 March 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Queensland Gutter is being sold in Sydney on. the blackmarkets up to 4/6 [?] —1/45 [?] over the fixed retail…

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