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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1955

370 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 19

Sales Of Show Stud Cattle

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 April 1955 · page 5

SYDNEY: Sales of stud cattle at Sydney show included the following: Hereford bulls: A/c J. N…

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A.b.c. Chairman for Farmers' Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 7 April 1955 · page 1
Also in Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser

Mr. R. J. Boyer, Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, will preside at the farmers' meeting…

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Milk Zone Dairymen's Council

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 7 April 1955 · page 1

At the recent meeting of the Milk Zone Dairy-Council correspondence was read regarding…

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Farmers to Discuss Valley Problems

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 7 April 1955 · page 5

A public meeting of primary producers and interested citizens of the Hunter Valley is to be…

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Junior Farmer Radio Contest

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 April 1955 · page 2

SYDNEY: Kevin Priestley, 20, of Paterson, wag awarded third place in the ABC 1856 Australian Junior Farmer…

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Bolwarra Man Says: Flooded Farms Will Not Produce Again Before Next Spring

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 April 1955 · page 1

A Bolwarra former to-day refuted claims by the Minister for Conservation (Mr. A. G. En tic knap) that “most flood-damaged farms in the Hunter Valley could be brought back Into production fairly quickly.”…

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Smaller Cattle Yarding

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1955 · page 3

A smaller yarding of about 700 fat eattle at Campbell’s Hill saleyards to-day, all classes being represented,…

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Europe’s Consumption Of Wool

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1955 · page 4

LONDON: In a survey of economic condition to the European textile industry, the Textile Committee of the…

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Meeting on Means to Help Restore Battered Farms Machinery Needed To Clear Land Of Sand

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1955 · page 2

A meeting in Maitland to-morrow will attempt to formulate a plan to restore flood-battered forms in the Hunter Valley. It will be attended by the Minister for…

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U.S. Wheat Crop Reduction

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 13 April 1955 · page 5

WASHINGTON: The Agriculture Department has forecast this year’s-winter wheat crop at 662 million bushels—…

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Further Move. To Get Relief For Farmers, Small Businessmen

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 13 April 1955 · page 2

Maitland City Council, last night decided to make further representations for Hood relief grants to small business men and owner-fanners. It did Hits after receiving a reply to previous…

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Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers Report Successful Year

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Junior Farmers' Club was told that the year just passed had…

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More Farm Dams

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 3

Where practicable, farmers without dams for drought use should build dams similar to those…

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Clearing Debris From Farm Land Grant To Be Sought For Rehabilitation

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 2

A convey of tractors would leave Dungog next week for the flood-damaged Lower Hunter area, Mr. W. Geraghty said to-day. The tractors, manned by farmers unaffected by…

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Farmers May Have To Leave Land To Receive Social Services Aid

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 1

Hundreds of local formers, who are out of work and receiving no returns from their farms, are being refused unemployment benefits. The chairman of the Ma if land Pastures…

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West African Farmers Leave Land In Diamond Search

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1955 · page 4

FREETOWN (Sierra Leone, Wert Africa): The early morning train from Bo, heading to words Kenema, is crowded with Africans each carrying a pick end shovel. They ore off to dig, illicitly, for…

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Friesian Cattle Popular

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 April 1955 · page 5

LONDON: There was a greater expansion of the Friesian cattle breed in Britain last year than ever before, this being…

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Restoration Of District Farms Volunteer Labor Sought by Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 April 1955 · page 1

If was stated at a meeting held at Singleton that many farmers in the Upper Hunter could not afford to pay plant hire costs to remove debris from their farms. It was urged that…

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Future Dairy Markets

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 April 1955 · page 10

THE present period may, at some future date, be identified as the time of a local upsurge in the developing of those areas which were formerly considered to underprivileged economically. Greater numbers of [?]…

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