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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1955

370 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 19

Wheat Export

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1955 · page 5

OTTAWA: Canada’s wheat exports declined, while those of the United States rose in the first five months of the…

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Butter Fat Record Production

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1955 · page 3

Two world records for butter fat production have been put up by animals of the Zenda herd of British…

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Dairy Farm Advisory Councils

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1955 · page 3

District councils of the Milk Zone Dairy Farm Advisory Council will hold meetings in March at the following…

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Tractors On Farms In Kenya

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1955 · page 2

NAIROBI (Kenya): There are about 3,300 wheeled and 1.030 crawler tractors on private farms in the Kenya…

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Quality Important To Dairy Industry

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1955 · page 3

Lowering milk end cream quality could seriously affect the dairying industry, experts of the Department of Agriculture said. Already endangered by an…

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Culling On Poultry Farms

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1955 · page 3

Culling is the main routine work in poultry farms during February and March, Mr. V. H. Brann, the…

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Heavy Crop Losses in Floodings

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 February 1955 · page 3

More than 18 highly productive farms in the Phoenix Park area were flooded to-day as water backed op from the…

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Rain Postpones Cattle Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 1

Owing to the heavy rain in the Upper Hunter making it impossible to bring in the cattle, Pitt, Son and…

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Santa Gertrudis Cattle For Fiji

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 4

The first export draft of Santa Gertrudis cattle bred in Australia will be sold to the Government of Fiji…

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Jersey Cow’s High Butter Fat

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 5

An English Jersey cow has exceeded 7 per cent, butterfat in her second, third and fourth lactations…

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Angus Cattle to Stage Unique Field Display

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 10

How good can Aberdeen Angus be? What are the characteristic qualities that have won for the…

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(Advertisement) Wool Report the Farmers and Graziers' Co.-op. Grain Insurance and Agency Co. Ltd. 15th February, 1955

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 4

Our catalogue of over 7000 bales was the second one submitted on the fifth and closing day of the…

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C. L. Farmlets At Cassilis Applications Open on

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 12

Applications open on Monday, February 21, for two Crown land farmlets near Cassilis. The Minister for…

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Farmer Fails with Appeal

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 11

The State Full Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal by a farmer convicted of failing to destroy…

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Farm Refrigeration Under Consideration By NSW Milk Board

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 2

SYDNEY: The chairman of the New South Wales Milk Board (Mr. J. A. Ferguson) said that the possibilities of form refrigeration, as a first step towards tanker collection, was already being investigated by…

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Farmer Estimates : Nearly Half Million Lost in Floods in Past Six

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 February 1955 · page 1

A farmer, Mr. T. E. Lantry, estimated to do that Phoenix Park producers had lost £400,000 to £500,000 in the [?] syeam. Mr. Lantry’s Phoenix Park property yesterday…

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No Change In Cattle Market

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 February 1955 · page 3

All classes, with the exception of the fat cattle showed higher prices at the Campbell’s Hill saleyards…

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Farmer Considers: Flood Warning System Complete Failure For The lower Hunter

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 February 1955 · page 1

A Lower Hunter dairy farmer said in Maitland this morning he considered the “so called flood warning system” in the Hunter Volley was a complete failure as far the low river was concerned…

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Raymond Terrace Congratulated State’s Biggest Show By Junior Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 February 1955 · page 4

Milk sales in New South Wales for the week ended tost Thursday were a record, the producers’ representative on the Milk Board (Mr. F. J. Sedgwick) said at Raymond Terrace on Saturday…

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Dairy Council

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 February 1955 · page 2

SINGLETON: The annual regional conference of the Hunter Villey District Dairy Councils Will be held in…

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