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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Wheat Growers Seek Incentive

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY: Delegates to the 65th annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers Association made it clear in their…

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Wheat Grown at Pokolbin

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 5

Mr. Owen Matthews, of Pokolbin, has successfully grown wheat on his property in that district…

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Suspended Sentence Bellbird Man's Theft of Cattle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 5

Sentenced of 12 months imprisonment imposed on Ronald Neville O'Hearn, 20, taxi-drivers, of Bellbird, on two…

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Cattle Compensation Act To Operate From Sept.1

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 5

The Minister, for Agriculture, Mr. E. H. Graham, announced yesterday that the Cattle Compensation Act would come into operation on September 1. "Diseases for which…

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The Week in the Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 4

After more mature consideration, the wool trade is now less apprehensive regarding the probability, of a sharp slump in wool…

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Wool Supplies and Trade Trend To Woollens

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 4

The supply position continues to be the most important influence on the wool market, states…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle Friday, 8Th August 1952. Cattle Compensation Act To Operate From 1st September

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., has announced that the Cattle Compensation Act would come…

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Upper Hunter Farm Grand Championship, Coastal Division

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 7

An Upper Hunter River dairy farmer and his son have found in extensive improved-pasture cultivation the answer to many problems which hitherto have limited milk production in N.S.W. The…

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M.z.d.c. News Dairying Award

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 5

No agreement has been reached concerning the representation necessary from employers on the Conciliation Committee…

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Scone Dairy Wins Coastal Section Of R.A.S. Championship

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 1

Messrs. W. M. and B. Alford, of "Colyille," Scone, were judged winners of the coastal division of the…

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Farmers Warned Of Rust Menace

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 4

Rust is stealing hundreds of thousand of pounds a year from the pockets of Australian farmers,…

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The Week in the Store Cattle Market

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1952 · page 2

Reports from all Dalgety offices predict that with the flush of pasture now in prospect along the Central-West,…

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Cattle Compensation Act To Operate

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham) announced that the Cattle Compensation Act mould…

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Travel Of' Dairy Herds

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 6

Regarding the movement of dairy Herds across roads to turn-out paddocks, Mr. P.W Smith, Secretary of Maitland…

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Farmers’ Damage Will C Exceed £400,000 Huge Sea Of Sand And Silt Stretches For Miles

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 1

Several hundred farmers in the area of see, silt end send, stretching for miles beyond Maitland, to-day started the melancholy talk of trying to assess the terrific devastation caused, by fast week’s floods. Accurate assessment is hot possible, because so many factors have to be…

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Productivity, Main Need in Dairying Industry

Singleton Argus · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 4

Dairying- had reached a point in its economic affairs when the greatest possible emphasis must be…

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Rhodes Scholar Returns to Farming

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 August 1952 · page 4

Dr. R. C. R. Cuninghame, N.S.W. Rhodes Scholar for 1949, who has just returned from Oxford, says he plans…

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Irrigation Could Be a Private Venture Leeds to Farm Stability

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 August 1952 · page 3

"In addition to Government action, the practice of irrigation can be extended considerably by the…

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Relief to Be Sought for District Farmers Government To Be Asked For Feed And Seed

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 12 August 1952 · page 1

A largely attended representative conference at Maitland Town Hall this morning decided to send out on urgent call to the Government to assist farmers who have suffered staggering losses as the result of fast week’s disastrous floods. Feed will be sought immediately to prevent starving stock from dying, [?]…

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Bolwarra Farm Sold

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 12 August 1952 · page 3

Another example of the value of Hunter. River properties among the richest , in the State was the recent…

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