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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Dairy Production on the Lower Hunter Proposal for Barrage Near Raymond Terrace

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 July 1952 · page 4

There is so much to be done in the Hunter Valley to foster food production that there is always the danger of concentrating attention upon one important project and forgetting another equally important one…

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Myxomatosis Off-Shoot Killing Dogs Claim Mallee Farmers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 July 1952 · page 3

MILDURA:—Dozens of valuable dogs in the Victorian Mallee are dying from a disease claimed to be an off-shoot of…

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Steep Fall in Dairy Production

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 July 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY Butter and cheese production in Australia fell steeply for the year ended for the [?] May…

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Dairymen To Define Attitude On Cartage System

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 July 1952 · page 2

All dairymen and share dairymen in the Singleton district have been asked to attend a meeting next Monday to define their attitude to milk cartage…

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Sharp Drop In Dairy Industry Output SYDNEY

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 July 1952 · page 2

Milk butter and cheese production fell sharply for the -year ended in May. This was revealed in…

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Cattle Industry Important to Gloucester

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 19 July 1952 · page 1

The importance of the livestock industry to the Gloucester district was emphasesed in a report by Mr. G'enn…

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How Can We Step Up Primary Production Mr. Gibson Puts Up Five Year Plan A.B.C. Interviews Dairying Experts

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 19 July 1952 · page 1

People are now drinking more milk than they were before the war, stated Mr. G. McGillivray, Chief of the Division of Dairying in a recent A.B.C. discussion with Mr. Clarrie Gibson, President of the P.P.U., and Mr. Albert Date, Rural Economist. Pre-war the gallonage…

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Second Airlift of Sheep

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 July 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Pilot Warren Penny to-day expects to begin as second airlift of starving sheep, marooned by floods…

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Test Case By Wool Dealers

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 July 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Mr. Simon Isaacs, Q. C, in the High Court Australia, said today 500 wool dealers throughout the Commonwealth…

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Dispute Between Farmers And Carters Working To Climax

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 July 1952 · page 3

Dairymen (n the Singleton district will call tenders for all milk runs carrying to the Singleton Central Dairy Company’s factory if carriers in the area decide to strike…

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Wool Research in Scotland

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 23 July 1952 · page 2

The Scottish Branch of the Wool Industries Research Association in Galashiels which was established in 1944, is maintaining a close contact with Scottish manufacturers, and is helping them to solve production problems and…

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Demand for Wool Exceeds Supply

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 July 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE—The president of the Graziers' Federal Council (Mr. W. A. Gunn) said he had returned from a…

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Heavy Horses Disappear From Our Farms Urgent Warning to Breeders

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 23 July 1952 · page 2

Heavy horses are so fast disappearing from our rural countryside that in six or eight years time the youngest of them still at work will be over 15 years of age…

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Junior Farmer Column Dungog Junior Farmer's Hold Field Day

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 23 July 1952 · page 1

On Saturday last, Dungog Junior Farmer Club members visited Mr. Edgar Lowrey's farm for the purpose of holding a Field Day. In addition, representatives were present from…

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Dairymaen To Meet Carriers On Friday Will Call Fresh Tenders If Dispute Not Settled Amicably

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 July 1952 · page 1

A committee of five dairymen appointed at a special meeting of the Singleton branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council on Monday night will meet representatives of the Carrier's Association in a last attempt to avert a threatened strike by local mill carters. The meeting, which was arranged by the dairymen soon after midnight on Monday,…

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Young Woman Farmer, Also Auctioneer

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 July 1952 · page 4

OTTAWA: In Canada on a goodwill mission Is Dodo Griffiths, 21-years-old farmer of Tregaron in the weish country…

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New Season's Wool Young Sheep Scarce

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 July 1952 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. re­port: Consumers requiring merino lambs and hoggets wool will pro­bably find their wool supplies of…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 July 1952 · page 4

"The revelation this week by the Commonwealth Statistician that winter (wool) clothing is dearer than a year ago, and…

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Dairy Cattle Classes At Maitland Show Council Will Not Changes Conditions For Section

Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 July 1952 · page 4

The Maitland Show Council has advised the Hunter Valley Registered Dairy Cattle Breeder's Association that no major alterations are likely in the conditions of entry or number of days cattle will be…

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Wool Up In London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 July 1952 · page 6

Prices at the opening London wool sale on Wednesday advanced sharply from the levels that ruled at the previous sale…

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