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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

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No Need To Hold Junior Farmer Exhibitions

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 March 1953 · page 4

Junior farmers could run a successful show of their own, but there was no necessity for it in Maitland, the district…

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Farmers Must Be United

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 March 1953 · page 5

SINGLETON: Full utilisation of food produced was important to world unity and peace, Mr. C. L. Gibson…

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Annual Special Dairy Cattle Sale Record Realisation

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 2

W. Bailey and Sons, auctioneers, Singleton, report holding the most successful dairy cattle sale ever held at the Singleton Saleyards…

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Scone Pig, Calf and Dairy Cattle Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 10

Scone Associated Agents report yarding 156 pigs, 95 calves and 64 dairy cattle on Wednesday last. The pig market was about…

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Butter Price Rise Tipped

Maitland Mercury · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE: Representatives of dairy farmers to-day predicted a rise of 6d a 1d, is prise of butter from July 7…

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Special Store Cattle Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 2

Scone Associated Agents report having held a special store cattle sale at the Scone Municipal Saleyards on Tuesday last…

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The Week In Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 4
Also in Singleton Argus

Sydney Wool Sales this week showed a continuation of the sustained, if not spectacular, competition which has created…

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Noted Sheep Expert Dies in Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 5

Mr. J. M. Coleman, principal livestock officer in the sheep and wool section of the Department of Agriculture, died of heart…

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The Farmers and Graziers' CoOperative Grain Insurance and Agency Co., Ltd., 5th March, 1953. Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 6

We submitted our catalogue of 4624 bales on Wednesday, 4th inst. It was largely representative of the Northern and…

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Battle Against Synthetics Wool Use to be Promoted

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 6

Speaking of the future of the wool industry this week, Mr. Allen Fairhall, M.P., said that events of the last few years…

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To-day's Australian News Heavy Transport Losses; Threat of Higher Fares—higher Price for Butter Forecast—t.v. Effect on Radio Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 1

An 8/- increase in town allowance for Broken Hill employees was announced to-day by the State…

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Junior Farmers' News

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 6
Also in The Scone Advocate

The Graziers' Association of New South Wales has decided to make available to the Junior Farmers' Clubs' Council of New…

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Denman Branch Milk Zone Dairymen's Council Annual Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 6

Denman branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council held its annual meeting on Thursday last, 5th inst…

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Dairy refrigeration causes alarm

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 2

At a meeting of the Singleton branch of the Primary Producers' Union yesterday it was decided to advise the…

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Farmers see Fordson show at Mt. Thorley

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 2

The most comprehensive mechanised demonstration yet staged in the Hunter Valley by a Ford dealer was held on Messrs. W. G. Russell and Sons' Mount Thorley property yesterday…

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Army Chief to Meet Farmers

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: The G.O.C. Eastern Command (Lieut.General Berryman) will bo to the Singleton area next…

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Scope of advances to farmers enlarged

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 March 1953 · page 1

The State Government has enlarged on the scope of advances administered by the Government Agency Department of the Rural Bank by which finance is made available to dairy…

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Centipedes Sheltered in Sheep's Wool

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1953 · page 3

Centipedes, which had crawled into the fleeces of heavily woolled sheep, maroon ed by floodwaters of the Gil…

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