Crops in Asia Minor. a Scanty Harvest
MYTELINE Tuesday. -- Unseasonable rains and locusts have damaged the crops in Asia Minor. The acreage sown was 60 per cent. of the average. Scarcity of labour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1915
1,000 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 36 of 50
Sheep Breeding on the Upper Clarence
Mr. T. B. Bassetti, of Carmena, has a flock of sheep running in his pastures, a cross between the Shropshire and Romney Marsh, and they do well on Upper Clarence country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milk and Butter Prices. Latter Reduced 2d Per Pound
SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The Necessary Commodities Commission fixed the retail price to the consumer of country milk at 5d per quart; suburban milk 6d per quart…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Workers on Dairy Farms. Legislation Not Yet Decided On. Queensland's Intentions. Sydney
The question of whether the Government should introduce legislation to deal with the employment of child workers on dairy farms has not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flour Prices. Big Drop in Brisbane. Imported Wheat Exempted. Brisbane
A proclamation has been issued, reducing by £2 2s 6d per ton the maximum price at which flour, other than that from wheat imported by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Factory
SIR.—At the shareholders' meeting on the 28th August, the Chairman said that the present factory would only be able to treat the cream for…
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Dear Sir.—Just a line re the managing of the Dorrigo creamery. Though a new comer to the district I am not new at the dairying industry and its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Acquisition Bill
SYDNEY, Friday.--In the Assembly the second reading of the Wheat Acquisition Continuation Act was agreed to Resumption of the debate was made an order of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Re-shipping Imported Butter. Alleged to Be Inferior
SYDNEY, Friday.--The Attorney-General has completed arrangements to ship 4000 boxes of butter which he recently imported from America to London, where the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Child Labour on Dairy Farms. Proposed Legislation
SYDNEY, Friday.--The question as Ho whether the Government should introduce legislation to deal with the employment of child workers on dairy farms has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dorrigo Co-operative Dairy Company. Seventeenth Half-yearly Meeting
The half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in the Dorrigo Co-operative Dairy Company was held in the School of Arts on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Embargo on Wheat and Gold
BUCHAREST, Saturday.--The prohibition of wheat to the frontier is now made absolute, the Government advancing growers 60 per cent of its value. It also has forbidden…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairyville
The August meeting of the Farmers arid Settlers' Association was held on Saturday evening, the president, Mr. E. M. Parker, in the chair. Correspondence.--Appointment of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Experiment Farm. Main Corn Barn Destroyed
The main corn barn at the Experiment Farm was totally destroyed by fire before 9 o'clock last night. The fire was discovered at 7.45 by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Crops in Six Months
A remarkable instance of the same area yielding a crop of fish and cultivated green fodder within a space of about six months is recorded in an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Corn Barn Burnt. at Grafton Experiment Farm
The main corn barn (insured, for £350) at the Experiment Farm was completely destroyed by fire just before 9 last night, together with practically…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairying Industry
Donald E. Fraser ("Jimmie Pannikin") writes: I remember the start of the dairying industry on the North Coast quite as well as does your interesting contributor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Butter Bungle
Assuredly the Government has sadly blundered in tinkering with butter prices, and in their investments in the American product purchased to bridge over the shortage created…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, Tuesday.--At the London wool sales good Merinos sold at full rates; greasy cross-bred, very firm at unchanged prices. Cross-breds and lambs declined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Farming Protest. Pig and Pork Prices
SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A meeting of Singleton farmers, dairymen, pig breeders and others interested, passed a resolution entering the most emphatic protest against the…
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