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Farming & the land, 1953

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Young Malayan Farmer Here

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 17 December 1953 · page 5

A visitor from Malaya in the person Mr. Ahmed Shariff paid the district a call last week…

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Trophy to Junior Farmer

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 17 December 1953 · page 6

Recently the Rural Bank of N. S. W. entertained at a dinner in Maitland the winner of the Hunter…

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Hopes For Big Crop Of Wine Grapes

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 December 1953 · page 2

A spokesman for one of the biggest vineyards in the Hunter Valley said to-day prospects were bright for a…

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Upper Hunter Farmers Start Campaign On New Grasshopper Plague

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 December 1953 · page 3

More than 20 farmers at Aberdeen yesterday worked from early morning to dusk poisoning newly hatched grasshoppers as part of a major co-operative destruction campaign…

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Tastier Butter by New Process

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 December 1953 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N.Z.) : A new cream treatment process in the Waikato, to produce tastier butter has been studied…

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The Week in Wool No Wool Price Slide Fears

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 December 1953 · page 8

TRADE RUSSIA AND U.S. IN MARKET ENIGMA BRADFORD DENOUNCES…

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The week in wool

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 December 1953 · page 3
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The curtain fell this week on the first half of the second richest wool season in Australian history. Total realisations are expected to exceed the figure for the first half of last season…

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Season Wool Price Record

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 December 1953 · page 11

A seasonal record price was paid at Newcastle wool sales on Tuesday. The price, Z18d, was…

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£22m. More From Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 December 1953 · page 7

The Australian wool cheque for the live months ended 30th November last was…

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Drought Threat to Thousands of Prize Cattle

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 December 1953 · page 10

Severe drought on the north coast and northern tablelands of New South Wales is threatening to cause the loss of thousands of prize beef and dairy cattle…

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Values for Cattle Firm

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 December 1953 · page 3

A yarding of about 950 fat cattle, the quality being only fair with a greater proportion of the supply made up of…

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Pitt, Son & Badgery wool sale

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 December 1953 · page 5

On Thursday 17th December 1953 Pitt Son and Badgery Ltd. Newcastle offered an attractive Catalogue of…

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N.Z.L. wool sale

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 December 1953 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Ltd., Newcastle offered a catalogue comprising 37787 bales,…

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Newcastle Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 December 1953 · page 4

On Thursday last, Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd., Newcastle, offered an attractive catalogue of approximately 5000 bales at…

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Setbacks to Farming Industry

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 December 1953 · page 2

“In conveying Christmas greetings to producers. I would like to express my sympathy to those farmers in the…

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Farmers Sink Wells In River Bed

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 December 1953 · page 2

SINGLETON: Mr. Basil Monday, the local Milk Board supervisor, said that many riverside properties are…

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Cattle for Moresby

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 December 1953 · page 4

Two hundred and eleyen head of pure bred cattle were loaded into the liner Eaetern Glory, at Pyrmont yesterday…

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Fodder Shortage Is Causing Serious Outlook For Dairymen

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 December 1953 · page 3

Farmers and graziers in the Hunter Valley to-day predicted heavy stock losses unless good falls of rain soon relieve present drought conditions, which have caused an almost 50 per cent fall in milk production…

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Serious reduction in stored wafer or farms

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 December 1953 · page 2

The liver height between Muswellbrook and Singleton is falling rapidly and can be crossed at any place…

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