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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

1,443 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 31 of 73

Farmers Complain That Soot From Power House Ruins Crops

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 1

An Oakhampton farmer will ask the C.S.l.R.O. to analyse samples of soot-laden lucerne. The farmer is Mr. W. Scobie and he believes the soot contains a high acid content detrimental to…

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Canada Does Not Want Price War Over Wheat Sales Speculation On Further Cut By America

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 1

OTTAWA: Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent yesterday told the Canadian House of Commons that there was no desire by Canada or the United States to get into a cut rote price war on sales of wheat…

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Voysey Elected to Dairy Produce Board

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 1

In the recent poll, Mr. E. F. Voysey was elected to represent N.S.W. Co-operative interests on the Australian Dairy…

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Electricity Aids Dairy Hygiene Helps Reduce Cost Of Milk Production

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 6

Electricity offers the dairy farmer an effective means to improve dairy hygiene through cleaner production, labour saved, and dairy work made lighter, the rural electricity officer of the Department of…

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Crop Rotation Essential In Potato Growing

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 3

Crop rotation is essential to profitable potato growing. Potatoes grown year after year in the same area rapidly…

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Prime Cattle Dearer

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson’s report: 36,570 sheep penned. Prime lambs scarce and the market opened firm. Best…

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To-day’s Leader Marking Time America May Slash Wheat Price Again Grain Traders Watching Australian Moves

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON: Despite the publicly expressed hope of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Exra Bensan, that a price war will not develop from the lowered wheat export prices announced by the United States…

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Junior Farmers' Needlework Championship

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 6

The following is the official report and Judges' comments on the State Championship…

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Refresher Courses for Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 4

Short term schools for fanners to be held at Hawkesbury Agriculture College this month and nest will…

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Nature in Reverse Farmer Gets Wheat Crop in Four Months

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 4

Grasshoppers and abnormal seasonal conditions turned the cropping cycle, upside down this year for a Gulargamhone,…

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Angus Scooped Fat Cattle Show

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 12

The successful formula of improved pastures plus Aberdeen Angus early maturity and quality, stole the show at…

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The Week in Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 13

In another week of diminishing offerings at a single selling centre, wool values continued their upward trend…

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Grand Champions at Sydney Sheep Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 6

GRAND CHAMPION EWE, from Winbri Stud, Gunnedah, and GRAND CHAMPION RAM from Merryville Stud, Yass, were the winners of top honors of the Show…

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Australian Wheat Price On London Grain Market Reduced

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 3

LONDON: Britons were to-day warned not to be gleeful that a “hell for leather” wheat price war would mean cheaper bread for them, and were bluntly told that Australian and Canadian wheatgrowers would…

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Dairy Farm District Committees

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 2

Maitland would not be represented at the next milk price enquiry, conducted by the Milk Board, general…

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Better Production Is Goal of Cattle Owners Lessons From Recent Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 5

Encouraged by the Koyal Agricultural Society, beef carcase competitions were growing at a tremendous rate throughout New…

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Electricity Aids Dairy Hygiene

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 4

Electricity offers the dairy farmer an effective means to improve dairy hygiene through cleaner production, labor…

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Exhibition of Dairy Products

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 2

The Milk Board and organisations interested in the milk industry would co-operate to stage a dairy and milk…

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Farmer Pushed Blazing Tractor From Shed

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 3

A young farm hand collapsed in his wife’s arms few minutes after a blazing tractor exploded near [?]ngleton yesterday. The man, Donald Frank, 29, suffered severe…

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Farmhand saves implement shed when blazing tractor explodes

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 1

The "herculean and courageous effort" of a farmworker who pushed a blazing heavy tractor out of an implement shed and then set about trying to save the building before he collapsed from exhaustion, slight burns and shock yesterday morning, was highly praised by his…

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