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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

1,102 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 56

Tyndale Farmers and Settlers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 4

Mr. H. Stewart (president) occupied the chair at the meeting of this branch of the F. and S. Association on Tuesday. Correspondence was received from District…

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Butter Factory Returns

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 20 March 1916 · page 2

The North Coast Co-op. Co. paid suppliers 11 18 per lb for butter, and Queensland suppliers 11¼. Maclean Dairy Co., for February…

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Queensland Cattle Embargo

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 4

At Warwick (Q.), a deputation waited upon Mr. Kirwan, M.L.A., representing the Premier (Mr. Ryan), with a request for the lifting of the embargo on cattle crossing the…

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Grafton Experiment Farm. Departure of Mr. A. H. Haywood

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 8

The departure of Mr. A. H. Haywood, manager of the Grafton Experiment Farm, will be regretted by many, more especially by the farming community of the district…

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Soldiers' Farms

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 4

The Minister for Lands intends to make 22,000,000 acres exclusively available for soldiers. In addition to the ten men for whom, says Mr. Ashford, farms have already…

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Cattle Prices

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 March 1916 · page 4

There will always be some diversity of opinion among cattlemen as to how prices, are going tot fluctuate in the future, but these who have studied the question of…

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Wheat Payments to Farmers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 March 1916 · page 5

The Minister for Agriculture announced that in connection with the guaranteed minimum price for wheat the State Wheat Office is busily engaged making payments of the…

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Fixing Butter Prices. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 March 1916 · page 5

Mr. Hall, replying to Mr. Wade's condemnation of the Government in interfering with the question of supply and demand, explains there was no interference with butter…

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Ayrshires at Grafton Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 March 1916 · page 3

Prior to the year 1914, the policy of the Department was to test the representatives of the following breeds:--Holstein, Guernsey, Red Poll, Dexter Kerry, Shorthorn, and…

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Departure of Mr. Haywood. Presentations at Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 March 1916 · page 8

Yesterday the staff of the Grafton Experiment Farm assembled in the dining hall at the students' quarters to bid farewell to Mr A. H. Haywood, who has held the position of…

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Butter Factory Pays

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 2

Casino Dairy Co., for the four weeks in February, fixed the butter pay at 1s 1d per lb. for first-class and 1s per lb. for second class…

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The Farm. French Methods and Customs

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 7

As one who knows dairyfarming through a lifetime of close contact, and who has had the privileged for the last two and a half years of…

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The Maize Crops

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 2

The prospects of a heavy yield of late maize on the Clarence are of the brightest. When the farmers had so slender a rainfall in December that there was barely sufficient…

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Presentations at the Farm. Mr. and Mrs. Haywood Farewelled

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon, at the farm, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Haywood were farewelled by the staff of the Grafton Experiment Farm, of which…

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Dairying. Choosing a Dairy Bull. Pedigree Considerations

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 3

How is the farmer to select with confidence a bull that will beget a large number of first-class milking cows? There is no quest in which the…

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Butter V. Milk

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 3

A Smith Coast paper vouches for the following: "A well known representative dairy farmer supplied 1647 lbs. cream to the Nowra factory, which…

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Pastoral and Agricultural. Choosing a Dairy Bull. Pedigree Considerations

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 6

How is the farmer to select with confidence a bull that will beget a large number of first-class milking cows There is no quest in which…

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Dairying Industry. New Organisation

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 6

THE Minister Agriculture. Mr Grahame, on Saturday commented on the new movement among dairy farmers…

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Confidence in Dairying

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 2

The dairying industry has had many hard knocks in the past year or so, but confidence in the future is evidently unshaken, says the "Telegraph."…

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Value of Farm Lands

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 4

The value of farms on the coastal rivers of New South Wales does not show any depreciation. On the Clarence tall figures have been reached for maize, cane, or even dairy…

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