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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

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District Council for Valley Junior Farmers

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 2

Junior farmers in the Hunter Valley have formed their own district council, which will meet quarterly…

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Prime Cattle And Sheep Firm

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 April 1953 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carpon’s report 29,542 sheep of all descriptions available. Market very firm at Monday’s best…

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Gloucester’s Dairy Cattle Improve

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 April 1953 · page 6

GLOUCESTER: Taking at the Gloucester show were first day £41/3/ and second day £806/7/…

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Momentous Year for Dairymen President’s Statement At MZDC Meeting (Special Representative)

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: The pert year hoi been a mementoes one for dairy former throughout the Commonwealth, Mr. J. A. MePhail, general president of the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council, said to-day…

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Junior Farmers At Gresford

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 April 1953 · page 5

One of the main features of the Gresford show, which will open to-morrow, will be the large number of Junior…

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Feeding Wheat Meal to Dairy Cattle

Singleton Argus · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 3

Crushed wheat is a valuable concentrate for dairy cattle, but the following four principles…

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Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 5

Shorthorns: Bull, 12 months and under 2 years, Brunette Downs 1, Jim Wright 2; cow or heifer, over 2 years, Brunette…

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Cattle market firm

Singleton Argus · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 8

There were 3045 cattle yarded at Homebush on Thursday, comprising 2661 fats and 384 stores. The…

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Store Cattle to £26-10

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 6

Muswellbrook, on Friday last, was the venue of an important store cattle, sale conducted' by Dalgety's Sydney, and A. W…

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The week in wool

Singleton Argus · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 7

Merino fleece and skirtings free from vegetable fault, advanced 24 to 5 per cent, in Sydney this week returning to the pic-Easter seasonal peak level of 178d. (clean) for 64's, and 111d far fine crossbred 56's; other…

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Expanding Wool Use a Sound Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: Wool prices, like values for all commodities in world wide use, do not for long remain…

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Sheep Men Offer £500 Reward in War on Thieves

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 6

The rustlers are back again Just as surely as in the Bad Old Days of the century ago when thieves in the night, bewiskered…

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The Week in Wool (Dalgety's News Service)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 4

Merino fleece and skirtings, free from vegetable fault, advanced 21 to 5 per cent, in Sydney this week, returning to the…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle FRIDAY, 1st MAY, 1953 Stage Set For First N.T. Cattle Show and Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 3

INTEREST in the record airlift of stud Shorthorn bulls from Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland to the first show…

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Queensland Junior Farmers to Visit Muswellbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 10

On Wednesday night next, 48 Junior Farmers from Stanthorpe (Queensland), who are on tour of New South Wales, will…

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Restoring Dairy Land Fertility

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 3

Successful dairying involves not only the proper feeding of the herd, but also the proper feeding of the soil—the regular…

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Reconstituted Milk Menace to Industry Dairymen Will Press For Complete Ban On Sale

Maitland Mercury · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 4

Delegate, to the annual meeting of the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council in Sydney yesterday afternoon warned that reconstituted milk was a menace to the dairying industry…

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River Silting Concern to Dairymen

Maitland Mercury · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 4

Sitting of the Hunter River threatened to ruin one of the biggest milk producing districts in Australia Mr. E…

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Dairymen Complain on Silting

Singleton Argus · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY.—Siltation of the Lower Hunter River was a national problem, the Management Committee of the…

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Call-up Affects Dairy Industry, Court Told

Singleton Argus · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 6

The calling up lor National Military Service of a large number of sons of dairy farmers at any one time would have an adverse effect on milk production in the district…

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