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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

1,443 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 59 of 73

Factory Chairman Answered Dairymen's Outlook Blue

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 3

Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald, MLA, Chairman of Directors of Dungog Butter Factory, has received the following letter…

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Glenbawn Dam Could Be Fantastic Waste of Money Cost Of Irrigating Too High For Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 2

Delegates to a meeting at Scone last night said Glenbawn dam could prove a fantastic waste of money. That would happen unless a feasible and…

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Junior Farmer Field Day

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 7

SINGLETON: Mr. P. A. Houston, chairman of Singleton Co-operative Dairy Company, stated that the first…

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Junior Farmers set record for show entries

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 1

A record number of entries have been received in the Junior Farmer section of this year's…

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In Star Junior Farmer final

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 1

Sidney Reynolds. Secretary of paterson Junior Farmers' Club, has won the Lower Hunter section of the Rural…

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Cattle Firm At Homebush

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 October 1954 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson’s report: There were 46,077 sheep penned with prime lambs 8/, sheep 5/ lower,…

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Milk Zone Dairymen's Council

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1954 · page 5

At the meeting of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council held on 29th September, the…

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Pastoral Outlook Deteriorates

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 7

With no rain of any consequence during September, pastoral and crop outlook has deteriorated over the entire…

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Wool Has Weathered Challenge

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY: Speaking at the annual meeting of Winchcombe Carson Ltd,, the chairman of directors…

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Livestock Review Brisk Sale of Cattle on Border

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 12

Cattlemen were provided with a good selection of store cattle at the recent special sale at Wodonga on the…

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Wool Report Country Producers' Selling Company Ltd

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 2

After attending a series of auctions in the Newcastle centre, buyers his week transferred to Sydney, where…

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Glenbawn Dam Could Be Fantastic Waste of Money Cost of Irrigating Too High For Farmers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 1

Delegates to a meeting at Scone last Tuesday night said Glenbawn Dam could prove a fantastic waste of money…

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Turanville Flats May Be Resumed 45-Acre Farms For Irrigation

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 12

At Tuesday night's meeting of the Hunter Valley Trust, it was stated by Mr. R. A. Young…

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State Crops Menaced Grasshoppers, Drought

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY--GRASSHOPPERS AND DROUGHT ARE THREATENING THE STATE'S WHEAT FARMERS AND GRAZIERS WIH LOSSES THAT COULD RUN INTO…

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History of Dairying in Hunter

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 5

When the pioneers came to the Hunter Valley more than 100 years ago they built their homes of bark…

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Board warns farmers on failure to report grasshoppers

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 1

Landholders who fail to notify the Pastures Protection Boar dof grasshoppers on their properties are liable to a fine of £50. The secretary of the Denman-Singleton…

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Cattle £2 a Head Dearer

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 3

A medium yarding of about 800 fat cattle at the Maitland saleyards to-day, consisting of all…

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Fear Of Big Wheat Loss

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: The drought would destroy more then 50 per cent of the states wheat sowings this year, a…

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Sale of Dairy Farm

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 3

A Nelson’s Plains dairy farm sold at Maitland saleyards, Campbell’s Hill this afternoon, brought £26/5/ per…

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Dairy Farmers Co. record year

Singleton Argus · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 3

Approximately forty- nine and one half million gallons of milk were handled last year by the Dairy Farmers' Co-op. Milk Co. Ltd., exceeding the previous year's total by nearly three…

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