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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1955

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This Week in the Store Cattle Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 February 1955 · page 4

The demand for store cattle continues to widen as recent rains dispel apprehensions regarding…

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Junior Farmers' News

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 February 1955 · page 4

On Tuesday, February 15, the Junior Farmers held their annual meeting at the High School. Office-bearers…

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Gloucester Has Lead in Cattle Numbers

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 February 1955 · page 4

The Gloucester Pasture Protection Board, which Includes the Manning, has s much bigger cattle copulation than any…

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Little Change In Price Of Wool

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 February 1955 · page 4

CANBERRA: Wool prices during the current season will only slightly below returns for the past two seasons,…

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Science Helps Poultry Farmer

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 February 1955 · page 4

Scientific studies of poultry feed requirements have radically altered old trial-and-error methods of working…

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Forest Ridge Clay Flat Give Extra Butter

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 24 February 1955 · page 3

A forest ridge and a clay flat gave a north coast farmer an extra 751b, of commercial butter per…

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R.a.f. Planes As Sheep Feeders

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1955 · page 3

LONDON: Royal Air Force planes, engaged. In an airlift of fodder to blizzard-bound stock, yesterday dropped more…

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Big Drop In Australia’s Wool Cheque

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1955 · page 7

CANBERRA: Australia’s wool cheque is down £64,958,000 so far this financial year, compared with 1958-64, the…

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Minister Opposed to Restriction of Poultry Farmers Backyard

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 24 February 1955 · page 2

Mr. E. H. Graham, M. L. A. told a deputation of Members of the Associated Poultry Farmers'…

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The Demand for Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 February 1955 · page 7

Winchombe, Carson Ltd., report: Advices from overseas indciate that the general anticipation, particularly…

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New Dairy Industry Grant Demonstrations

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 February 1955 · page 5

More than 100 new pasture demonstrations have been approved under the Dairy Industry Extension Grant, the Chief of the Dairying Division of the Department of Agriculture, Mr. y. McGillivray, said…

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Flood News From Aberden Dairy Farmers Severely Hit

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 1 March 1955 · page 5

Dairy Tarmers in Tne [?]more, Dartbrook and Segenhoe areas have been severely hit by flood waters which continually swept over their properties all through the crisis. Fences and all…

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Junior Farmers' News

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 1 March 1955 · page 2

The recent disastrous floods in this area will have a great effect on Junior Farmers. Many members,…

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Milk Zone Dairymen's Council Reports on Individual Quotas

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 3 March 1955 · page 6

The recent meeting of the Milk Zone Dairyman's Council heard a report from the…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort and Company, Limited reported; that a catalogue of 5956 bales, submitted a…

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Top Secret in Wheat Revealed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 March 1955 · page 2

Details of a top secret in wheat were revealed by an officer of the Department of Agriculture recently. By a secret process the American Governmen was once induced to use our wheat, the official…

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Dramatic Rescues In Darkness DEEDS Of Heroism on Dairy Farms Flood Victims Menaced by Snafees and Debris

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 March 1955 · page 5

Since the flood wafers have gone down, allowing many people to begm the heartbreaking task of starting life anew, many stories of heroism are being toold. In these rescues the…

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Junior Farmers' News

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 March 1955 · page 6

This week starts a series of articles on the projects available to Junior Farmers. One which would interest…

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To-day’s Leader [?]oving The City A Few Farmers May Walk off Bolwarra

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 March 1955 · page 1

Bolwarra formers face months of grinding work before their rich lands are back in production. In many cases it is reared that years may pass before rehabilitation is complete…

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Butter Price May Rise

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 March 1955 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Butter may be dearer from July 1, representatives of the dairying Industry hinted last night…

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