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Farming & the land, 1954

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Junior Farmers Inspect Factory

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 4

Nambucca District Council of Junior Farmers has arranged for Junior Farmers from Bowraville…

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Cattle Market

Macleay Argus · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Jan. 28. -- A total of 2787 head of cattle were yarded at today's Homebush sales & whilst there was…

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The Week in the Store Cattle Market

Macleay Argus · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 7

The first representative auction test of store cattle values since the New Year was made in the Hunter Valley at Scone this week, where a keen inquiry for fresh conditioned bullocks was in…

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Soviet Prominent at Wool Sales

Macleay Argus · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 4

BRISBANE, Jan. 28.--Russian buyers have bought more than a quarter of the quality wool marketed at this…

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Financial Aid to Farmers

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 2
Also in The Northern Champion

Any farmer who is in financial difficulties and unable to meet his commitments or make arrangements to obtain, through ordinary…

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Our Gardener Says --- Sow Tomato Seed Now for Late Crops

Macleay Argus · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 7

Late January or early February is a very suitable time to sow tomato seed for a late crop. Tomatoes should be harvested about the middle of May from the plants raised…

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Rural Reconstruction Board Helps Farmers

Macleay Argus · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 6

Any farmer in financial difficulties, and unable to meet his commitments or make arrangements to obtain, through commercial channels, the finance necessary to restore his property to full…

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Butter Price in New Zealand

Macleay Argus · Monday 1 February 1954 · page 2

Following a wage award of 10 per cent. in New Zealand, the Dairy Produce Marketing Commission has…

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Threat To Dairying By Substitutes

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Monday 1 February 1954 · page 3

The introduction, under a variety of trade names, of some frozen desserts which closely resemble ice cream, is a further threat to the interests of the dairy industry and, must have…

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Mr. Butler Is Also a Dairyman

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 1

Chancellor of the British Exchequer, Mr. Butler, who recently visited Australia, has the second biggest herd of kerry…

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Financial Aid to Farmers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 4

Any farmer who is in financial difficulties and unable to meet his commitments or make arrangements to obtain,…

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Farmer Not Guilty Of Fire Charge

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 2

A charge of not taking all reasonable Steps to extinguish a fire, against Reginald Oswald Cross, dairy farmer, of Marlee, was dimissed by Mr. A. D. Tyler, S.M., at the Wingham…

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Farmers' Duty On Fire Provisions Mr. A. D. Tyler, S.M., said at the Wingham Court of Petty Sessions yesterday that it was the duty of farmers to make themselves conversant with the provisions of the Bush Fires

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 1

He told one defendant charged with not extinguishing a fire: "There are so many obligations blowing from the…

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Dairying Welfare Is P.d.s. Concern

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 7

"The Producers Co-operative Distributing Society Ltd. is essentially concerned with the welfare of the dairying…

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Farmers Cart Water For Dairy Cattle

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 1

On the Lower Manning the New Year rains relleved the water supplies, but quite a number of farmers on Jones' Island have had to recommence cartage of water for stock…

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Butter Price in New Zealand

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 7

Following a wage award of 10% in New Zealand, the Dairy Produce Marketing Commission has increased its…

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Cowpeas Prove Valuable Grazing Crop

The Northern Champion · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 4

Crops of cowpeas responded well to early January rains and provided heavy grazing for stock later in the month…

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Black Beetle Damaging Crops and Pastures

The Northern Champion · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 5

The black beetle pest is making its presence felt in pastures and maize crops on the Lower Mid-North Coast…

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Black Beetles Have Ruined Maize Crops

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 4

Mr. J. B. Noonan, District Agronomist, reports black beetle extremely active, destroying many December-January maize plantings in the Manning, Hastings and Macleay areas, with the result that…

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