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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

1,443 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 45 of 73

Cattle Fund Surplus

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 5

If payments made by stock-owners to the Cattle Compensation Fund continued to exceed claims for compensation,…

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Dairy Farm Council to Seek Loan for Tractors

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 1

The Central Hunter Dairy Farm District Council at Singleton will ask the Government Agency Department of the Rural Bank to make provision for loans for the purchase of tractors…

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Hunter Junior Farmers for Brisbane Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 4

Eleven Junior farmers from the Hunter Valley, whose ages range from 11 to 21 years, are on their way to compete…

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Trust Urges Action on Levee Banks Prosecution Threat To District Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 2

The Hunter Valley Conservation Trust will ask the Water Conservation and irrigation Commission to order the demolition of unauthorised levee banks and the lowering of others that had been raised above…

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Field Officer’s Work On Hunter Farms

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 4

Although Mr. T. R. Brown, field officer of the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company, is one of the most alive men in the Hunter Valley, a women recently asked Mrs. Brown how long it was since her…

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Exchange of Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 5

The High Commissioner for India (General K. M. Cariappa) yesterday suggested an exchange of practical farmers…

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Dairymen Want Loans to Buy Tractors

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 5

The Rural Bank will be asked to make provision for loans to farmers to enable them to buy…

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New Projects For Young Girl Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 2

The Junior Farmers’ Club Organisation has introduced two new projects that will be of interest to girl members…

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Little Trading in Store Cattle

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 5

Apart from a few inquiries for male cattle there was little paddock trading in store cattle…

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Junior Farmer Field Day At Gresford

Maitland Mercury · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 2

Gresford Junior Farmers club has made arrangements for a field day to be held at Gresford on Saturday, August…

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Dairying Prospects for Spring

Maitland Mercury · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 2

The district dairy officer (Mr. E. G. McLaren) states that food rates during the middle of July have…

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Junior Farmer field day here next month

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 4

Junior Farmers' Clubs from all parts of the Upper Hunter will take part in a competitive Junior…

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Farmers want virus for hoppers

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 8

SYDNEY:A substantial reward for the discovery of a method of eliminating grasshoppers will be urged…

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This Week in the Store Cattle Market

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1954 · page 8

Another week without an auction yarding of any importance, underlined the extraordinarily quiescence of the…

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New Projects for Young Girl Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1954 · page 4

The Junior Farmers' Club Organisation has introduced two new projects that will be of interest to girl members…

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Sheep Shearing In Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 3

Graziers in the Singleton district last week began what they think will be a record wool clip…

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Cape Tulip Kills Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 2

Sixty out of a mob of 90 head of cattle have died from Cape Tulip poisoning on the Muswellbrook stock route…

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Drop in Fat Cattle Values

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 3

There was a much bigger yarding of about 1200 fat cattle at Campbell’s Hill to-day, with plain descriptions…

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Wool sold, not bought, by Dalgety's

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 4

In reports of a taxation case before the Central Summons Court in Sydney on Thursday and Friday last, it…

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Field Day For Junior Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1954 · page 2

In a competition field day at the Singleton Showground on Thursday, September 30, junior farmers’…

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