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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Advance Notice Of Fine Spells To UK Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 January 1952 · page 2

LONDON: During last summer advance notification of fine spells was sent by Britain’s Meteorological…

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Cattle Stabbing At Brookfield

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 2

Police are Investigating a recurrence of cattle stabbing at Brookfield. It is reported that six bead of stock have…

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Cattle Breeding in Britain

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 4

Seen here winding through Strathfarrar, Invernesshire, are some of the store cattle on the ranch of Lord Lovat. ex-Commando leader. Lord Lovat started the herd when he left the Army in 1946, and it is now the largest single unit of its kind in Great Britain. Aibout half the United…

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Confidence Again in Sheep

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 3

Buyers are showing more confidence, in the store sheep market, and the inquiry is stronger. Useful storms in many areas…

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Winter Butter Shortage Now "Certain"

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 1

LISMORE—A butter shortage is certain next winter because of the drought, said the chairman of directors of…

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Cattle Stabbing Again At Brookfield

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 2

Some five years ago, many cattle were found in Brookfield with their bodies ripped with a knife. Every effort was made to apprehend the culprit without success. There has been a re-occurrence of…

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Wool Demand to Recover London Viewpoint

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 6

Production and demand for wool will recover in due time, claims the International Wool Secretariat, London, in its 1951 Wool Review…

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Shanghai Mills Use Own Wool (AAP-Reuter)

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 5

HONGKONG: Shanghai mills, which previously depended almost entirely on Australian wool, bad rapidly…

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Half Yearly Wool Returns 44 p.c. Less

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 1

The Australian wool cheque for the six months ended December 31, 1951, was 44 per cent, below the amount…

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Dairy Farmers Meet Muswellbrook Coal Company Officials At Aberdeen Explanations Asked For Power Black-outs Mr. Hill Puts Company's Case

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 1

A representative meeting of over forty dairy farmers and members of the Aberdeen P.P.U, branch met officers of the Muswellbrook Coal Company, Ltd.,…

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Pilots Spray Farm Crops

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 2

Mote than 6100 airplane pilots, nearly as many as are flying for commercial airlines, are employed in the…

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Drought Relief for Farmers

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham) has announced details of a relief scheme to assist dairy farmers in necessitous…

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High United States-Crop Production

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 6

Crop production levels in the United States this year stand at one of the highest levels in history recording…

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Drift From the Farm

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 2

Federal Minister for Agriculture McEwcn says Australians will have to do without many vital imports unless food production increases. And having delivered himself of these words of…

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U.N. Experts Plan Aid For Farmers

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK—Primary producers should be offered long-term contracts now to guard against a possible trade recession, U.N. economic experts say…

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Maison Dieu Dairy Heads Average

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 January 1952 · page 1

Despite very dry conditions, Mr. w. Clifton, of Maison Dieu, Singleton, had the leading average for December for…

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Cattle Firmer; Sheep Unaltered

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1952 · page 5

Pitt, Son and Badgery’s report: 29,121 sheep, and Iambs, mostly trade quality. Prime descriptions scarce. Market…

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Conference Fails to End Dispute No Agreement Reached On Cattle At Show

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1952 · page 4

The cattle committee of the Maitland Show Council and delegates from the Hunter River Registered Cattle Breeders’ Association could not reach agreement last night on the question of reducing the…

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Corriedale Sheep Record Sale

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 2

Sale records for Corriedale sheep in Australia were broken yesterday when Dalgoty’s, in conjunction with…

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New Wheat Variety

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 4

A new variety of wheat with excellent disease resistant qualities had shown up well under Be[?]-drought conditions…

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