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Farming & the land, 1953

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Improved Balance In Our Economy Favored by Good Seasons & High Values Wool Chairman's Address

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 6

(The following speech was delivered by Mr. W. D. Wharton, Chairman of Directors of Winchcombe Carson Ltd. at the annual meeting of the Company in Sydney recently). Since I addressed you here twelve months ago, we…

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Modern Milk Bottling Plant Dairy Co's New Enterprise

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 8

A unique venture in the provision of bottled milk to sparsely populated and remote country areas as well…

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Dairymen's Confidence in Mr. Sedgwick

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 6

Dairymen of the milk zone have returned Mr. F. J. Sedgwick as their representative on the Milk Board for the next seven years. In the ballot, which closed…

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Film Sight For Junior Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 2

An enthusiastic- audience viewed an interesting array of films at the monthly meeting of Maitland Junior…

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Junior Farmers Again Prominent At Show

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 2

It would be bard to find a better exhibition in the world than the one staged by Maitland district junior farmers at the last Maitland show. The Junior Farmer movement was a fine organ…

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Lesson for Dairymen

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 3

SINGLETON: “It was up to dairymen in the Singleton district to strive towards the standards reached in the dairy…

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Junior farmers

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 8

Judge: Produce, S. Parish, Esq.; Cattle, Geo. McGillivray, Esq. GRAIN…

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Farm produce Judge: S. Parish Esq. GRAIN

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 8

Maize, light, C. Shearer 1. A. Nowlan 2; dark, A. Lan 1 and 2; heaviest B. Ernst 1, C. Shearer 2; Silver Mine C. Shearer; Golden Superb. C. Shearer;…

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Junior farmers double size of their exhibit

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 1

Singleton Junior Farmer Club has almost doubled the size of its exhibit at this year's show…

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Cheap Substitutes Threat to Dairymen

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 17 October 1953 · page 1

Manager of Nowra Co-op. Dairy Company (Mr. J. R. Graham) at the annual meeting of the Dairy Farmers'…

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Wheat growers president says: "Stop playing with bags of bran —use planes and troops against grasshoppers"

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 October 1953 · page 4

A spirited attack on the "bags of bran" approach to grasshopper control was made in Sydney by the President of the Wheatgrowers Union, Mr. Claude Renshaw. "This playing around with bags of bran must cease. The…

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Digging Of District Potato Crops Should Start In Three Weeks

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 October 1953 · page 2

The State-wide potato famine which has caused prices to rocket to £112 a ton will be partly relieved soon when Maitland growers harvest their early crop. a prominent district farmer…

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Farm Science and Lagging

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 October 1953 · page 3

Mr Sandford Beggs, president of the Graders Association told the association’s annual meeting…

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Fairhall praises local farmers' production effort

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 October 1953 · page 2

Singleton and district farmers were making a magnificent contribution to the Commonwealth Government's campaign for increased food production and the standard of their…

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U.k. Girls Train to Become Farmers' Wives

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 October 1953 · page 2

LONDON.—The work of the girl who marries a farmer is so important that the Education Committee…

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High-priced Butter

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 2

IT is disturbing that butter should be regarded as a high-priced luxury by parents of young children, but that is how the situation has developed. Although it bears the retail price of 4/1 i a pound,…

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To-day’s Leader High-priced Butter Potatoes Under Cover Of Darkness

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Semi trailers and trucks, loaded with potatoes for the record Sydney market, are crossing the Queensland N.S.W. border secretly under cover of darkness…

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Challenge To Farming Community

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: The annual conference of the NSW Country Press association was opened today by the High Commissioner…

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How Parents Benefit From Junior Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 3

One of the lease stressed roles played by the junior farmer movement in the farming community was the “re-education” of the parents of club members…

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Wheat Breeding Research

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 October 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY: The N.S.W. Flour Millowers’ Association planned to give an annual contribution to Sydney University for…

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