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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

1,661 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 73 of 84

Dairymen to Meet

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 4

Members of the Maitland branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council are to hold their next meeting at the Personal…

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Better Use of Junior Farm Fund

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 4

A proposed fund to send a junior farmer to the United States, under the farm youth exchange project could be used…

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Lochinvar Farms Change Hands

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 7

Three properties in the Lochinvar-Stanhope district were sold at auction on Wednesday…

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"Farmers Should Save Soil Like Gold"

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 8

"No one can be a good husbandman unless he is interested in his soil and conserves it as if it were gold itself." This statement was made recently to the State Conference of the Agricultural Bureau of New South…

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Local Potato Crops Doing Well

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 6

Potato crops in the Maitland-Singleton area were making good progress, but the potato moth was evident. This was reported by the…

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Millfield Junior Farmers at Maitland Field Day Practical Education

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 9

The first field day of the recently-formed Central Hunter Council of the Junior Farmer movement…

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Higher Prices for Fat Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 November 1952 · page 3

The market for fat cattle at Maitland saleyards to-day opened to keen competition at price 10/ to £1 better…

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Wool Price

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY: The highest Sydney price for the season, 100d a 1b. was paid for five bales of extra superfine AAA…

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Old Pupil Re-visits Millfield School Successful Dairy Farmer

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 November 1952 · page 1

When returning to his Riverstone home after a visit to Cessnock friends, Mr. Roy Turnbull called…

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"Farmers Taking Thimgs Too Easily" Defence Minister Says Producers Too Well Off State Minister's Reply

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 November 1952 · page 2

A statement which the Hon. P. A. McBride, Minister for Defence in the Menziea-Fadden…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 2

We sold 11,000 bales of wool by auction privately at Sydney, on Tuesday. Values in spinners wools showed an…

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The Week in the Store Cattle Market

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 2

From the virtual stagnation of the past two months, the store cattle market has become reanimated to a degree…

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Dairying Industry Award M.z.d.c

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 7

It has been the usual practablished primarily to safe-to forward the rates of pay for dairy employees supplied…

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Cattle Market Dearer

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report that 22,346 sheep of all descriptions were available at today’s sale…

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The Wheat Season

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 4

IT IS A GREAT PITY that the Australian wheat Crop is lessening, especially when the world wants our grain and we are the only major wheat exporting country in the sterling area. Last year…

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To-day’s Leader The Wheat Season Adultery Found Proved

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 1

NEWCASTLE: Judge Am berg in the Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday found the issue of adultery proved in the…

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Cattle Competition

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 November 1952 · page 2

The closing date for receipt of entries in the Beef Cattle Breeders' Competition for 1952, conducted by the…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 November 1952 · page 10

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company, Limited, report:—…

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Merriwa Wheat Growers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 November 1952 · page 12

At the recent meeting of wheat growers, called by the Graziers' Association, it was decided to call for a voluntary…

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Merriwa Field Wheat Competition

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 November 1952 · page 11

Place-winners in the Merriwa Field Wheat Competition, judged by Mr. F. Filan, District Agronomist, Mudge, were as…

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