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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Beef Cattle Competition Breeders Should Get Ready Now

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 3

A beef cattle breeders' competition, promoted by the Agricultural Bureau of New South Wales and the…

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The Week in the Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 6

World-wide interest is now centred on the opening of the new wool-selling season in Sydney, on September 1st…

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Valuable Farm Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 1

A notice of transfer of 57 acres of farm land, situated near Muswellbrook, was before the Shire Council on…

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Lower Hunter Dairymen Inspection of Upper Hunter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 10

In perfect weather yesterday, and when the Upper Hunter countryside was showing at its best, a party of about 280 shareholders and suppliers of the Hunter Valley Dairy Company from the Lower…

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Dairying Industry A.W.U. Log of Claims Basic Wage of £13/5 Sought

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 5

The Australian Workers' Union will ask on behalf of dairy employees for a 40-hour week in a log of claims to be…

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Great Future Seen For Dairy Company

Maitland Mercury · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 3

General manager of the Hunter Valley Cooperative Dairy Co. (Mr. J. I. Scarr) told suppliers yesterday he could see a great future for the company. There was unity among the farmer-shareholders…

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Smallest Orange Crop At Wyong

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 6

There was not a single orange in Wyong packing house last Friday and MonMonday—the first time it has…

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New Plant Science Aids Farmers Blooming Profits

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 4

Harry Whitcombe, a California beekeeper, is hailed in an August Reader's Digest article by Frank J. Taylor as…

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Hormone Residue Can Be Deadly for Crops

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 3

All fruit and vegetable growers are again urged to be particularly careful regarding vessels in which…

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Sea Wolf Best Bet Engaged in Spring H'cp. at Warwick Farm

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 6

One of the best bets at the Warwick Farm meeting to-morrow would appear to be Sea Wolf in the…

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Englishman Controls His Farm by Walkie - Talkie

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1952 · page 2

The radio farm is here. Mr. H. G. Cole-Tinsley, who farms about 2,000 acres at Holbeach Lincolnshire, has equipped…

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Larger Cattle Supply

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 3

The offering of 900 fat Cattle at Maitland saleyards today was the biggest for some Weeks, and was generally of…

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Record Crops of Rye and Wheat

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON: Abundant wheat and [?] crops might give the world a record bread-stuffs harvest, this year, the…

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Cattle Bogged In Silt

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 3

SINGLETON: Cattle were being bogged In the soft slit left at Bulga by recent floods Mr. S. G. Andrew said to-day…

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Cattle Cheaper At Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson's report: 26,878 sheep of mixed quality. Suckare grown lambs plain grown sheep .easier,…

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Butter or Margarine? There's No Difference In Food Value

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 2

Butter and margarine can have the same practical nutritive value, Mr. G. Loftus Hills, Officer in…

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Control Of Cutworms In Pastures And Crops

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 3

Outbreaks of cutworms ore occurring of present different ports of the State. These caterpillars can occur in enormous numbers and attack pastures and crops, causing heavy damage…

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New state Award For Dairying Industry Milk Zone Council Seeks profit Margin

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 2

The management committee of the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council has directed the attention of the Milk Soard to the probable introduction of a new state award for the dairying industry prior to the…

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Gloucester Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1952 · page 4

At their Homebush auction on Monday, Winchcombe Carson sold for A. Sansom, Gloucester, 24 bullocks to £42/7/,…

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