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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

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Wheat. Victorian Royal Commission. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 June 1917 · page 3

A Royal Commission has been appointed in Melbourne to inquire into the report upon the handling and storage of wheat. No outline as to the finding of…

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Wheat on Fire. 2000 Bags Damaged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 June 1917 · page 3

Two thousand bags of wheat owned by the State Wheat Board stacked in the railway, goods yards at Rozelle, were severely damaged by fire this afternoon…

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Drake Cattle Stealing Charge. Revived in Murwillumbah

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 June 1917 · page 3

Clarence Ford was apprehended at Murwillumbah on Saturday morning last on a warrant charging him with stealing 22 head of cattle from A. S. A…

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Wheat. Some Startling Figures. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 June 1917 · page 5

Mr. Hughes stated yesterday that Australia had now three million five hundred thousand tons of wheat stored and three million two hundred thousand tons which…

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Cute Butter Pilfering

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 June 1917 · page 2

Our Sydney correspondent was in one of the big butter merchants' stores in Sussex-street last week, when an indignant grocer walked in, bearing in his hands a…

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Dairying, Some Differences in Butter, What Analysis Diseloses

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 27 June 1917 · page 2

It is eomewhat casy for anybody to tell the difference between very good and very poor butter, but comparatively few people realise the…

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Butter. Factory Managers' Conference. Plain Speaking by President. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 June 1917 · page 3

Owing to slight illness, the Minister for Agriculture was unable to open the Dairy Factories Managers' Conference today…

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Butter Conference. Clarence District Scores Awards. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 June 1917 · page 3

The Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries Conference continued to-day. The points in the president's address were discussed…

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Beach Thomas's Story. Germans Like a Flock of Sheep. British at Their Heels. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 June 1917 · page 3

Beach Thomas says interesting events are proceeding at Lens, where the Germans are retreating on a wide area and devastating and blowing up everything…

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Bread and Butter

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 June 1917 · page 2

Mr. Ball, in supporting the toast of "Town and District" at the Coff 's Harbor citizens banquet on Wednesday night, said he represented a constituency…

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Stacking Wheat. Electric Elevator Installed Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1917 · page 3

An electric elevator has been installed at Goulburn for stacking wheat, Which is arriving in good condition. Very few mice have been seen…

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America's Part. Wheat for the Allies. Speeding Up Transport. Vancouver

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1917 · page 3

The "New York Times" Washington correspondent says: At a meeting of the U.S. Exports Council it was decided to firstly control the exports of…

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Pastoral and Agricultural. Some Difference in Butter. What Analysis Discloses

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1917 · page 3

It is somewhat easy for anybody to tell the difference between very good and very poor butter, but comparatively few people realise the…

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Exportation of Butter

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1917 · page 2

In this issue "Supplier" makes a suggestion which, owing to the outlook in connection with the export—of butter, should receive earnest…

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The Butter Outlook

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1917 · page 2

Sir,—Seeing that, according to present indications, the export of butter in any quantity will be impossible during the coming summer, and as,…

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Sheep Show. the Question of Shipping. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1917 · page 4

Mr. Fuller, Acting-Premier, in proposing the toast of the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders' Association at the opening lunchcon to-day, said it was the greatest national…

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Butter. Difficulty of Export. Shortage of Shipping. Important Meeting in Sydney. Action Taken. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1917 · page 5

At the present moment the difficulty of securing shipping space in consequence of the war has upset the butter industry; therefore a conference was held…

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Dorrigo Dairy Co

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1917 · page 2

Sir,—Mr. Beaumont is one of those contented individuals that makes the average person envious. He is a perfect Mark Tapley and fulfils that…

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HYDRO-ELECTRICITY. Canadian Schemes Described. Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission. Its Assistance to Farmers. II

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1917 · page 4

The article last week dealt with the appointment, constitution, and powers of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, and concluded with a brief description…

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Dairying. Pasteurisation in Denmark. Why the Method was Introduced

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 July 1917 · page 4

The immediate cause for the introduction of pasteurisation in Denmark is the subject of an article in "Hoard's Dairyman," and the interest that has…

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