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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Cloud Burst " Causes £250,000 Loss to Farms

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 7

Floods caused by a cloudburst deluged 150 farms at Werribee South this week. Losses are estimated at…

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Pokolbin Farmer Remanded

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 11

A Pakolbin fanner, alleged to have burnt a man with, a firestick arid hit him on the Head with an iron bar, was…

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Aerial Spraying Grasshoppers Victoriain Entomologists Save Crops

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 11

Aerial spraying of grasshoppers in Deniliquin-Jerilderie district by Victorian entomologists prevented them from crossing into the Southern State…

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Farmers Hoodwinked Over Cost of Destroying 'Hoppers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 11

BATHURST: Primary producers in New South Wales had been hoodwinked into paying the cost of attacking grasshopper plagues in the State, a conference of 80 landholders was told…

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The Week in the Store Cattle Market

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 1

For the third successive week no representative auction offering of store cattle has taken place anywhere in…

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Bank Help for Junior Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 1

The Bank of New South Wales has announced its programme of financial support for the Junior Farmer…

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N.Z.L. wool sales

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. brought forward a catalogue of 5080 bales for sale on the…

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Bank help for Junior Farmers

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 2

The Bank of New South Wales has announced its programme of financial support for the Junior…

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Cattle Sale And Sale In Territory

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 4

The second annual Northern Territory stud beef Shorthorn show and sale has been set down for May 27 at Cloncurry…

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First Stud Cattle Draft Now at Sea

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 1

From Port of London last week Dalgety's shipped on the "Herefordshire" the first consignment of this season's stud…

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Butter Freed From Rationing

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 2

LONDON: Butter, margarine, cooking fats and cheese, will be freed from rationing in Britain on May 8, the Deputy…

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Value of Butter Diet

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 8

With the menace of margarine looming to the dairying industry — a threat likely to be intensified when the United…

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Junior Farmers' Meeting

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 6

At the Junior Farmers' and Advisory Council meeting a copy of the Central Agricultural…

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Prospects Bright for Grape Crop

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 1

Present inflations are that this year’s grape crop in the Hunter Valley will be a bumpey…

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The Week in Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 5

A record post-war year of raw wool imports into Britain in 1953 amounting to 827.7 million lb., equivalent to a little more than 70 per cent. of Australia's 1953 all-time record wool clip, is…

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Prepare Own Wool Clip

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 2

Sir,—In connection with graziers who prepare their own wool for marketing and who at times have misgivings…

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Walcha Wool Tops Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 3

Wool from the well-known Mirani clip topped the Newcastle wool sales this week. The top clip brought 210d a…

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Sweden: Land of Lakes, Small Farms

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 3

Sweden has more than 500,000 farms of less than 25 acres, worked by 1,500,000 people, Mr. S. W. Cooper told…

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Store Cattle Market in Hunter Valley

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 6

The first representative auction test of store cattle values since the New Year was made in the Hunter Valley at…

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Outlook For Wool Confident

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 February 1954 · page 4

NEW YORK: The Wool Bureau, reviewing the world wool trade outlook, said it was in a firm stra[?]tical position…

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