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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

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Gloucester Cattle Topped the Market

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 8

Reference to Gloucester cattle which frequently topped the market at Homebush at the beginning of this century…

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Dairymen's Cheque Gloucester Factory Pay

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 2

Gloucester district dairymen received another big cheque last month for the supply of milk and cream to…

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Record Steel Output Farmers Will Benefit

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 7

Australia's record steel production announced by the Minister for National Development (Senator Spooner) last…

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Local cattle

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 1

P. M. McTaggart, Singleton, secured to £34/12/-, an average of £20/8/10 per head for a consignment of nine…

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Butter cheapest essential food produced

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 2

It cannot be refuted that butter is still one of the cheapest essential foods produced to-day, Mr. Don…

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Pink eye common in cattle

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 4

Ophthalmia is prevalent among cattle this year and outbreaks have been investigated by officers of…

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Prime Cattle Firm At Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson’s report: 38,83 sheep of all descriptions available, Prime firm, plain and medium…

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Prime cattle again scarce and firm

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 2

Prime cattle, although rather scare at Homebush on Thursday, March 26, were keenly sought, and…

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Soft-line Wool Jersey Dress

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 3

This Douglas Cox dross is made in knobbly wool jersey with a softy draped V nackline and gathared skirt. The colour is guave rod…

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Dairy Co. does well with cheeses at Royal Show

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 1

The Singleton Central Sooperative Dairy Co. Ltd. received one first and four second prizes in the cheese for…

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Big troughs make watering dairy herds easy

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 4

Concrete troughing is one of the best methods of handling water supplies for dairy herds…

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Swamp Yields Rice Crop

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 3

A mangrove swamp on the Skarsies River in North-west Sierra Leone has been converted into good rice producing…

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Young Farmers' Leadership Competition Commonwealth Final

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 1

The Commonwealth finals of the 1953 young farmers' leadership competition will be broadcast from the A.B.C…

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Hunter Valley Dairy Drive

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 1

A production drive in the Hunter Valley dairy industry was initiated at a conference held at the Hunter…

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Farmers Displaying Self-Help Again

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 2

Formers in the Bolwarra area are again about to display self help which has characterised activities during and following flooding of recent years. On April 8 a start is to be made to strengthen…

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Favourable Wool Demand

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1953 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report that increased supplies of merino wool this season have coincided with…

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Cattle Truck Overturns No Injuries

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 1 April 1953 · page 4

Hunter Transport Company's trailer carrying 20 head of stock and Mr. Geo. Reeves' car collided at the…

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Take Care with Sheep Drenches

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1953 · page 8

Mortality from arsenical poisoning may occur if sheep drenches containing arsenic are not carefully…

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The week in wool

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1953 · page 3

This week's wool auctions throughout the world became the cynosure of all trade eyes; they commanded the attention not only of those vitally concerned with the wool industry…

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Baerami Creek Girl Is Youngest Cattle Judge

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1953 · page 1

Youngest competitor in to-day's junior cattle judging competition at the Royal Show will be 10-year-old Kay Duggan, of Baerami Creek…

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