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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 39 of 56

London's Milk Supply. Margarine Versus Butter What Australia Has to Compete With

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 7

The milk problem as it affects London, is dealt with interestingly by Private L. J. Harrigan, of B. Coy., 34th Battalion, now in campain England, and a former resident of…

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No Sugar. If Cane Farmers Strike. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 4

The threat of Queensland sugarcane farmers to cease harvesting operations, would, if Carried out, mean Australia would have practically no locally manufactured sugar this…

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Farm and Produce. Co-operation on Farms

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 7

Although the approaching wheat harvest will not be so large as the previous one, labor will be as scarce, if not scarcer. Acting on advice proffered in this column last…

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Butter Pays

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 2

The Inverell Co-op. Butter Co. during July manufactured 11,339lb. of first-grade butter and 117lb. second-grade. The price paid for the former…

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Butter. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 3

A deputation asked the Minister for Customs to lift provisionally the embargo on export of first grade butter, having obtained the promise that the price should not be…

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Butter Export. Mr. Tudor's Attitude. Melbourne

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 5

In a reply to a deputation of Melbourne butter merchants yesterday, the Minister for Customs, Mr. F. Tudor undertook to ascertain what the…

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London Butter Market. High Prices Check Trade. London, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 5

Butter trade is very dull. Buyers are holding off as much as possible owing to the high prices. Danish is rather easier, owing to a temporary…

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Dairy Regulations

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 1

In reply to personal representations and to letters presented by him from managers of various dairy companies, concerning certain regulations under…

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Dairy Industry Act. Cheating the Public

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 3

The Department of Agriculture advises that the Minister for Agriculture has had brought under his notice a large number of offences that have…

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Agricultural. When to Cut Lucerne. Effect on Next Crop

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 3

The Wisconsin experiment station, U.S.A., has shown, by actual trial, that where lucerne was cut on 2nd September, 1914, the stand on 12th May, 1915…

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Dairying. Machine Milking. The Problem of Difficult Cows

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 3

Milking machines have a wide range of adaptability to unevenly shaped udders, and to teats of different sizes, but in, most ordinary herds there are…

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Local and General. Export of Butter

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

As Australia is now producing nearly sufficient butter to satisfy the requirements of consumers the Minister for Customs thinks the time is…

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The Butter Shortage. Worst for Many Years. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 5

The butter shortage in Sydney is regarded by the wholesale merchants as the worst for many years. They generally consider there is no immediate prospect of relief…

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British Occupy Moquet Farm

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

London, Friday.—The British now occupy all the dominating heights between Mo[?] Farm and Courcelette. Thus they dominate Thiepval, from…

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Dairying., Machine Milking. The Problem of Difficult Cows

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 2

Making [?] have a wide [?] of [?] to [?]asvenly [?] to tents of diferrent [?] in meat on[?]sary…

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Wheat. Figures in Millions. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 September 1916 · page 3

Statistics issued by the Wheat Board show to August 28th that the total receipts amounted to £12,800,000, and shipments now drawn for were valued at £1,524,000. The…

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Latest Commercial. Sydney Markets. Sydney, Saturday. the Butter Shortage

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 4 September 1916 · page 2

Never has the shortage of butter Been felt so acutely in Sussex-street ; as at the present time, and there seems to be no immediate prospect of relief…

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The Wheat Pool. the Sixpence Advance Arranged For. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 September 1916 · page 3

The Prime Minister announced to-day that the Commonwealth Government had been able to make financial arrangements which would enable the Wheat Pool to advance to…

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Butter Prices. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 5

Sussex- street merchants to-day lodged an application for permission to advance the price of butter by 1d per lb. Distributers point out that if this is granted they will…

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Country High Schools. School Farms to Be Established

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 8

In declaring the Mudgee High School officially opened last Saturday, Mr. Griffith, Minister for Education, said it was the twenty- second high school now in operation…

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