The Farmers' and Graziers' Co-of. Grain Insurance & Agency Co. Limited. 25th MARCH, 1952. Wool Report
We sumbitted a catalogue of 3336 bales on Monday, 24th instant. The selection was drawn mainly from the late shearing…
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Farming & the land, 1952
1,661 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 84
Quest for Star Junior Farmer
The Junior Farmer Movement is trying to find the outstanding Junior Farmer for 1952. This boy or girl will be known as the…
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Five Italian migrants, who have been selected for the rural workers’ pool, will arrive in Maitland during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Picture on Farm Front Is Grim Hundreds of Acres Still Barren Wasteland (By a Staff Reporter)
When the Federal Member for Pater son (Mr. Allen Fairhall) last week paid a visit to Maitland at the invitation of the South Maitland Flood Mitigation Committee to view some of the aftermath of flood devastation, he said in private conversation to members of the delegation that he was surprised that so much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pig Gave Farmer a Cow of a Problem Unusual Happening at St. Albans
For quite a number of weeks recently, Mr. J. Dean, who owns a property at St. Albans, was mystified by the apparent lack of co-operation by a dark jersey cow he owns…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Victorian butter is being sold.on the "black" in Sydney at up to 6/- a lb…
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MELBOURNE: Victorian butter distributors would be asked to help relieve Sydney’s butter famine, the secretary…
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LONDON: A report, submitted at a conference of a Yorkshire regional board of industry yesterday said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter on “The Black” at 6/-Lb
SYDNEY: Victorian butter is being said on the “black” in Sydney up to 6/ [?] lb. The butter, brought to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Throws Angry Bull And Escapes
From Lower Bucca comes the story of an action packed half hour in which two prize bulls and a well-known Lower Bucca farmer were the leading actors. The story was told by the farmer…
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MELBOURNE : The Australian Wheat Growers’ Federation, at its annual conference, urged the Federal Government…
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Taken from hill near East Greta, this picture shows water impounded still in the Louth Park area, notwithstanding the fact that drought has predominated in the area for many months. Not a single farm paddock here is producing a vestige of fodder or a crop of any kind. Still lies deeply in paddocks claimed to be as fertile as anything in the rich Hunter Valley. Most of the farm owners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers Have “Itchy Feet”
Farmers in the South Maitland area had “Itchy feet,” because they knew that a rise in the Hunter River would got…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Getting the Soil Worked Again Is Somebody’s Responsibility Inactivity Of Officialdom Blamed For Migration From District Farms (By a Staff Reporter)
Farmers visited this week during the course of inspection of flood-ravaged, desolate, district properties were unable to give an answer to the question of how the parlous state of the rural industry of this rich agricultural area can be remedied…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland District Farmers’ Nightmare
The Hunter River to-day flowing leisurely towards long ago when turbulent waters tore way the levee [?] of the silt-filled stream was taken on Mr. M. downstream from McRae’s Hollow, through which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmers’ Show Displays
The possibility of deleting individual junior farmer classes, other than those for livestock, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Singleton Cattle For Sydney Show
SINGLETON: Two brothers from Singleton will be keen exhibiters in the Australian Illlwarra Shorthorn dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pleas That Fell on Deaf Ears Scheme To Help District Farmers Turned Down (By a Staff Reporter)
Following disclosures this week of the parlous state of farm wastelands in the Maitland district, inquiry was made on progress made by representation to officialdom, both by way of correspondence and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schools for Junior Farmers
Two Schools of Instruction for junior farmers will be conducted at the Hawkesbury and Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Show of Aberdeen-angus Cattle
At the recent annual show and sale of the famous Aberdeen-Angus cattle at Perth, Scotland, the supreme champion of the show, Evaberg of Hampton Lucy, a ten-months-old pedigree bull, was sold…
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