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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

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Butter. the Price of Output. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 2

The New Zealand Dairy Association president reported that Australia sold last season's output at a lower figure than the association estimated on getting. As a…

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Telegrams. Wheat. Work of Storage. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 2

Senator Russell, Minister in charge of Wheat Storage, in a report to the Cabinet, stated New South Wales was the only State in which the work of construction…

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Queensland. Result of Butter Pool. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 June 1918 · page 6

Mr. J. McFarlane, secretary of the Queensland Federal Dairy Producers' Advisory Committee, in a statement of receipts and expenditure covering the…

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Another Sale of Wheat. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 June 1918 · page 6

The Federal Government has completed arrangements for the shipmen of a considerable quantity of wheat to another Power. The total amount involved has…

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Butter. Further Advance Asked For. a Melbourne Deputation. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 June 1918 · page 6

In Melbourne, replying to a deputation to-day, Mr. Massy Greene, Minister in charge of price fixing, stated for the information of the whole trading…

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Pastoral. Rabbit Destruction. Suggestions from Practical Experience

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 24 June 1918 · page 2

An instructive article on this subject appears in the current "Agricultural Gazette", from the pen of the Rabbit Inspector at Moree, whose…

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Britain's Food Problem. Butter Prices Reduced. London, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 24 June 1918 · page 3

Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, has reduced the wholesale and retail prices of butter by twopence per lb., as from Tuesday…

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Coastal Farmers' Co-op. Society The Annual Meeting. TURNOVER £2,638,827; INCREASE £290,503. Proposal to Extend Operations. Visitors Entertained by Upper Bellingen Dairy Co

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 June 1918 · page 2

"The best and most representative meeting in the history of the society," said Mr. C. E. D. Meares, general manager of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative…

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Letter to the Editor. C.p. and A. Society and Cattle Judging

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 June 1918 · page 1

Sir,--I notice in a recent issue of your journal a report of a meeting of the C.P. and A. Society, in which exception was taken by some of the members to…

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THE P.P U. Quarterly Meeting of Executive. Commonwealth Butter Committee. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 June 1918 · page 4

The representation of producers upon the Commonwealth Butter Committee was the subject of much discussion at the quarterly meeting of the central…

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Selling the Wheat. Neutral Country Buys 15,000 Tons. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 24 June 1918 · page 2

Senator Russell states that a neutral country has purchased fifteen thousand tons of Australian wheat at 59 per bushel…

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Queensland. Amalgamation of Dairy Companies. Big Bush Fire. Maryborough

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 4

Through the initial action of the Maryborough Co-operative Dairy Company an effort is being made in the Wide Bay and Burnet district to press for the…

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Pastoral. Rabbit Destruction. Fumigation

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 4

Fumigation is a method of destruction that, if carefully attended to accounts for many rabbits. The best time of the year to fumigate is the…

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Inbreeding of Dairy Cattle. How Far it is Safe

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 4

A correspondent lately addressed the following questions to the Department: How far is inbreeding in cattle safe?…

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Butter Census. Returns Required. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 3

Partly to ascertain the exact production of butter in Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland a census is being taken throughout the States by the Prices…

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Stocks of Butter. Return Cabled For. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 2

A regulation has been issued, calling on traders to furnish particulars of the stocks of butter in excess of ten cases, other than that held on…

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Dairying. Lessons in Cow Testing. a Feature of a Fair

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 4

That the dairy farmer should know exactly what each cow in his milking herd is doing in the way of milk and butter production was illustrated in a…

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Plethora of Inspectors. the Dairymen's Complaint. Minister's Sympathetic Reply. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 June 1918 · page 4

A deputation from the Primary Producers' Union waited on the Minister for Public Health and the Minister for Agriculture with regard to tlie overlapping…

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Dairy Industry. The Officials' Conference. P.P.U. Deputation. Re Supervision Work. Mr. Ashford's Speech. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 June 1918 · page 4

At the Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries' Conference, Mr. Ashford congratulated the co-operative factories and all associated with…

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Farmers and the Income Tax. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 June 1918 · page 6

Replying to Mr. P.-McGirr,. the Premier said it was a fact the farmers were charged income tax for all wheat on hand during 1917 at the rate of 4 Per bushel…

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