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Farming & the land, 1955

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Junior Farmers For Brisbane

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 August 1955 · page 9

Eleven Hunter River district Junior Farmers, including six from Muswellbrook and one from Jerry's Plains,…

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Junior Farmerhigh School Carnival

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 August 1955 · page 3

A well-attended meeting of the organisers of the Muswellbrook Junior FarmersHigh School carnival was…

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Upper Hunter Junior Farmers Five Firsts at Brisbane Exhibition

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 August 1955 · page 2

Upper Hunter Junior Farmers gained five firsts and six seconds in judging competitions at the…

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Distinguished Dairy Authority Professor Boutflour at Muswellbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 August 1955 · page 1

After the opening of the "Milky Way" exhibition in Sydney, famous British authority on the dairy industry, Professor Robert Boutflour, C.B.E., M.Sc., spent Saturday and Sunday…

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Restoration of Hunter Valley Farms

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 23 August 1955 · page 4

Seventy two farmers in the Hunter Valley so far have availed themselves of the Soil…

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Farewell to Junior Farmer Supervisor

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 25 August 1955 · page 2

The Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers' Club and Advisory Committee tendered a ferewell…

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Wool Down 5 to 7½ Per cent

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 30 August 1955 · page 2

Winehcombe, Carson, Ltd. report:— We sold 10 000 bales of wool at our Sydney opening…

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Junior Farmers Amd High School Rodeo

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 30 August 1955 · page 3

A large and fully representative meeting of the committees controlling the forthcoming rodeo and sports, to be held on the old showground on Saturday, September 17, followed…

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Hunter Valley Dairy CO.'s Report Shows Loss of £47,077 After Flood Damage of £61,052

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1955 · page 6

The annual report of the Hunter Valley Dairy Co. as presented to the annual meeting on…

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Farmers Urged to Grow More Millet

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

Farmers in broom millet districts should sow bigger areas this year in anticipation of…

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Butter Return Is 5d. Lower

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 September 1955 · page 12

The return of butter, said Mr. P. A. Heuston, chairman of the Singleton Coop. Dairy Vo., said this week…

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Butter Interim Price For 1956 "Difficult and Complex Business'

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 September 1955 · page 3

There can be no doubt that a full understanding of the interim butter price structure for 1955/'56 is a difficult and complex business; but it can be more readily assimilated if it is…

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World-wide Interest This Week's Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 September 1955 · page 6

In a tense atmosphere, anticipatory of a fall in prices, and with buyers' and sellers' galleries filled to capacity, the opening sale of the Sydney wool selling season on Monday was…

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High Production Costs Hit Dairy Industry Need to Extend Sales Pressure

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 September 1955 · page 7

In his address at the annual meeting of the Hunter Valley Co.-Op. Dairy Co. Ltd., Mr. K. W. D. Humphries (chairman of directors) said it would be necessary to continue personal…

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Floods Bring Difficulties For Dairy Company Hunter Valley Company Loss: £60,000 Chairman's Address at Annual Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 September 1955 · page 1

The disastrous floods in February last caused a direct loss to the company of £60,000, Mr. K. W. D. Humphries (chairman of directors) said at the annual meeting of the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., held on Monday last…

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Public Not Getting Benefit Of Wool Research

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 6 September 1955 · page 4

The public is not getting the benefit of new research discoveries, Professor C. S. Whewefl, of Leeds' University, said at Geelong on Thursday night. Wool textile manufacturers are…

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Vets' Warning on Foofrot in Dairy Nerds

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 6 September 1955 · page 3

Messrs J. B. Bentley and Partners submitted a veterinary report to the annual meeting of shareholders of the Singleton Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. A substantial increase in the volume of work had…

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"Australian Dairying Forty Years Behind?

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 6 September 1955 · page 2

In his final speech in Sydney, Professor Robert Boutflour told a gathering of between 200 and 300 people—probably the best cross-section of the dairying industry ever assembled in…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle Friday, September 9, 1955 First Australian Wool Sales United States Imports Increase

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 September 1955 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: During the first week of the new season's sales in Sydney rates ruling for…

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(Advertisement) The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Co. Ltd. 2nd SEPTEMBER, 1955

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 September 1955 · page 2

Our catalogue of just on 6000 bales was submitted on Thursday, September 1. To a large extent, the offering…

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