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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

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Reduced Butter Prices. the Amended Scale

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1915 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The price of butter is fixed as follows:--Wholesale, in lots of 141b and over, at Sydney, when new boxes are Used, first grade 158s 8d per cwt; second…

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Lowering Butter Prices. Sydney Retailers Indignant. More Government Blundering

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1915 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The announcement made by the Attorney-General on Monday to the effect that butter would be reduced threepence per lb from Tuesday morning fell like…

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America's Cotton Crop

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1915 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The, United States' Secretary to the Treasury announced his willingness to deposit £6,000,000 if necessary with the Southern Banks to help to finance…

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Belgian Crops Respected

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1915 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The National Revictualling Committee learned from the Spanish and United States Ministers at Brussels that Germans will leave this year's crops for…

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Live Stock Commodities. Bacon Included. Cattle and Sheep Eliminated

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Mr. Hall moved in the Assembly to-day that sheep cattle and pigs be declared necessary commodities. He explained that he did not…

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Cheaper Butter

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 4

From Tuesday morning the price of butter was reduced by 3d a lb. Consequently the maximum retail price of imported or local butter will now be…

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Price of Butter

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Butter merchants deny the allegation by the Attorney-General that there was a scheme on foot in Sussex-street to drop butter quotations by 3d per…

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Shortage of Cattle

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 3

The proposals which have been made regarding restriction on the slaughter of female cattle are creating great interest throughout the North Coast The…

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The Butter and Bacon Factories

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 28 August 1915 · page 2

Sir.—Having been away from home for the past month I was unable to reply to many enquiries in reference to the above. The main complaint…

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Meat-canning Industry. Shortage of Cattle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 August 1915 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.--Representatives of meateanners informed the State Attorney-General that the meat industry is languishing owing to insufficient supplies through the drought…

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Children on Dairy Farms

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 August 1915 · page 4

The Minister for Education, dealing with a number of questions with reference to the employment of children on dairy farms, slated that he was not yet in a position to…

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Dairying. Lucerne Hay for Milk Production. Some Experiments

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 28 August 1915 · page 3

Experiments have been proceeding in connection with the Ohio experiment station. U.S.A., for the purpose of ascertaining with some degree of…

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Women Farmers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 August 1915 · page 6

It has been announced by the Minister for Labour and Industry that the Pitt Town Labour Farm, will be used for the purpose of training women to go upon the land. This…

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Enthusiastic Farmers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 August 1915 · page 7

Mr. T. B. Simpson states that a patriotic movement is in operation in the districts round Tamworth which should spread far and wide throughout Australia. On one, and…

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Homebush Cattle Sales

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 August 1915 · page 2

At Homebush on Thursday, there was a large attendance of buyers, including exporters, Inter-state visitors, butchers from inland towns, metropolitan, suburban, mountain, and…

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Sydney Produce Markets. Bacon Scarce, Eggs Cheaper. Butter Plentiful Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 30 August 1915 · page 2

There was a further slump in eggs yesterday; new laid are now 1s, while merchants found it impossible to sell those from the Northern Rivers, South…

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Improved Harvest Prospects Big Fall in Wheat Prices. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 30 August 1915 · page 3

Harvest prospects in Britain have much improved during the past fortnight. The rain has ceased and the shortage of labor has been minimised…

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Russian Wheat Crop

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 August 1915 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- The "Daily Mail" states that the Petrograd Minister of Agriculture estimates the wheat crop at 571,000,000 bushels…

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The Butter Market

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 September 1915 · page 2

As was expected there is disturbance in the butter market. The Atto[?]ney-General acted all through the transactions with best intentions. But he learned that he dabbled…

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Mr. Hall's Butter Bungle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 September 1915 · page 4

Strained relations exist among merchants who handle butter and the Attorney-General. That is to say, they are talking at each other in the newspapers, while…

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