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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

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New South Wales Butter. Mr. Holman Against Pooling. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. Holman's attention having been invited to the proposal to pool Australian butter in the United Kingdom with other imported butter, addressed a letter to the…

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The Wheat Silos. Erection Begins on Monday. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 2

A start is to be made on Monday with the erection of the twelve State wheat silos in the Riverina. The first begins at The Rock (near Wagga)…

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Dairy Products. Export Supervision. Taken Over by Commonwealth. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 2

The Commonwealth has taken over the supervision and export of all dairy products from Australia. Mr. Wigan, late of the Department of…

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Wheat From America. Washington

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 5

The United States' plan to release ninety million bushels of wheat for export for the Allies. The Food Administrator asks America to cut their own…

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Pastoral and Agricultural. (These Notes are Supplied by the Department of Agriculture.) Fruit Drying. Curing Pomaceous Fruits

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 6

For the drying of apples and pears there is no special variation of importance from the method for drying stone fruits already described. Apples…

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Queensland Sugar Crop

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 4

Mossman (Q.) Mill "cut out," with a total yield of about 72,000 tons; but there has been considerable loss owing to the frequency of cane fires and…

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New South Wales Crops. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 5

The condition of crops in New South Wales for the month of December was generally favorable…

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Argentine Wheat Crop. Purchased by Allies. Buenos Aires

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 5

An important agreement has been completed between Argentina and representatives of the Anglo-French 'Governments, regarding the Allied purchase of the…

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Telegrams. Live Stock in Place of Wheat. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 5

The Victorian ex-Minister for Agriculture states the Victorian Government has approved of the proposal for the expansion of the live stock industry in place…

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Coastal Farmers' Society Half-yearly Meeting

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 7

The thirty-'fifth half-yearly meeting of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society was held at Nowra on Tuesday last. Mr. W. D. Warden, M.L.C., chairman of…

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Wheat Pool. Payment to Farmers. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 5

On Monday next the farmers of Australia will receive from the Commonwealth Government about £15,750,000, being the first advance of three shillings a…

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World's Wheat Yield. a Striking Prophecy

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

In 1898 Sir William Crookes--the discoverer of the "Crookes tubes," the radiometer and radiant matter, startled the British Association for the…

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Stock or Wheat? The Government's Scheme. Conference to Meet. Important Proposals. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 5

The State Government has approved of the scheme submitted for the expansion of the live stock industry in place of wheat growing…

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Upper Bellinger Co-operative Dairy Co

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 4

The Upper Bellinger Co-operative Dairy Co. manufactured for the last month 97,756lbs. of butter, and declared a pay of 1/2 per lb. for choicest and 1/1¼ for…

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Our Primary Industries. Commonwealth and Dairying an Important Conference

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, Commonwealth dairy expert, had a conference last week with representatives of the N.S. Wales Butter Shippers'…

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Record Cattle Sale. Cow Passed in at £204

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 4

Messrs. Weaver and Perry, Messrs. H. W. Kirkland and Co., and Mr. H. E. Hindmarsh, acting in conjunction, conducted one of the most successful cattle sales…

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Stock or Wheat? Government Proposals. Seeking Information. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 5

Mr. Fuller stated to-day that although a number of invitations had been issued to various bodies and persons, interested in the proposal put forward by the…

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Weevil in Wheat. Scientists Report. Problem Well in Hand. No Tear for the Future. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 5

Professor H. Maxwell Lefroy, the scientific offer of the British Wheat Commission, who was sent to Australia primarily to deal with the weevil pest…

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Coff's Harbor Dairy Company

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 4

The half-yearly report of the operations of the Coff's Harbor Dairy Company, to be submitted to a meeting to be held on February 2, is of a satisfactory…

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Latest Commercial. Sydney Markets. Sussex-street Survey. Sydney, Wednesday Night. Butter Supply Ample

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

Choice N.S.W. butter is in ample supply for local use. The fulfilment proceeds apace of the contract with the Imperial Government for the…

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