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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

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Smaller Wheat Crop Forecast

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 1

WASHINGTON: The United Stakes Agriculture Department yesterday forecast a world bread-grain drop of…

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Pitt, Son & Badgery Wool Sale

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 4

Last Thursday Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd., Newcastle, offered at auction their first catalogue of 4700 bales in…

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Junior Farmers’ Field Day

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 2

Singleton junior farmers have won the Gilbulla Cup for the second consecutive year. They competed against teams…

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Dairy Company Payments

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 2

GLOUCESTER: The Dairy Co. paid out £54,573 for supplies of milk and cream for August…

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Star Junior Farmer Finalist Has All-Round Ability

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 2

Mist Lois Brown, of Raymond Terrace, one of the 12 of the N.S.W. finalists in the Star Junior Former, competition, has proved an able administrator and outstanding organiser for her club…

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Junior farmers to help at Singleton show

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 2

The Northern Agricultural Association has agreed to appoint selected Junior Farmers from the Singleton…

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Forecast of world grain crop WASHINGTON

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 2

-The United States Department of Agriculture yesterday forecast a world bread-grain crop of about…

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Martindale farmer found shot

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 1

The body of Gordon Murray was found by a neighbour with a shotgun beside him on his farm at…

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High Price for Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 September 1953 · page 1

The Plashett Pastoral Co., Jerry's Plains, recently gained a very high price for a mob of 50 grassfed Poll…

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Land For Junior Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 September 1953 · page 1

SINGLETON: Mr. J. Charlton, president of the Hunter Regional Council of the Junior Farmers’ Movement…

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Trace Element Project For Junior Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 September 1953 · page 4

The junior Farmer Movement in New South Wales is planning o project for members to investigate the response of improved pasture to trace element applications…

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Girls Prominent In Outdoor Activities Of Junior Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 September 1953 · page 3

Girls are invading many Junior farmer sections which were previously the province of boys only and are meeting with a marked degree of success. The district organiser of the…

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Dairying Industry Survey

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 30 September 1953 · page 1

An Australian-wide survey of the dairying industry, covering more than 1000 farms, will begin probably…

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N.S.W. dairy output rises

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Butter, Cheese and milk production in N.S.W. rose by 14,807 tons in the year ended June 30,…

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Lack of standard costly to farmers says J.S. Haig

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 September 1953 · page 1

Failure by the Milk Board to adopt a measure for standardising milk had cost Hunter Valley Co-op. Dairy Company suppliers £138,675 during the year ended last June, Mr. J. S. Haig…

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Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 1 October 1953 · page 1

The meeting of the Junior Farmers Club and Advisory Committee was well attended in…

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Milk Production Increasing But Farms Need Good Rainfall

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 October 1953 · page 2

Although milk production was increasing slowly in most parts of the Hunter Valley rain wot needed urgently to counteract the effects of cold windy weather and to prepare for summer…

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Hereford Cattle Sale

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 3

An outstanding draft of Hereford cows and vealers was recently sold by Plashett pastoral Co. Ltd., at Jerry’s…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 7

The Farmers Graziers' Cooperative Grain insurance and Agency Company, Limited, report 29th September,…

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The Week in Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 8

On Thursday, 24th ult., Messrs. Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., Newcastle, offered at auction their first catalogue of 4700 bales in the 1953-54 season. The wools were drawn…

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