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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1922

1,161 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 59

Industrial Engineers or Farm Workers? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 February 1922 · page 5

A union secretary alleges that many of the immigrants that are being brought to Australia as farm workers are engineers. He added that preference of…

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Foot and Mouth Disease. Heavy Loss in Cattle. London, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1922 · page 3

The value of the cattle slaughtered to date owing to the foot and mouth disease is £420,000…

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Million Farms Proposal. Endorsed by Agricultural Societies. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 February 1922 · page 2

It is stated that the Royal Agricultural Societies of all the States, and the majority of the country societies, have endorsed the Million Farms proposal…

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Auctioning Butter Factory Site

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 18 February 1922 · page 2

The Directors of the Dorrigo butter factory have been advised by the Minister that the land (2½ acres) upon which the factory is built will be…

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Price of Butter. Another Drop Forecasted. to One SHlLLING Per Pound. Circular to Butter Factories.sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 February 1922 · page 5

Outwardly Sussex street has been living in comparative peace for a few days, but it looks as it trouble is brewing over the butter question. The…

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Cablegrams. Wheat Ship Aground. London, Thursday Night

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 18 February 1922 · page 2

The four-masted barque, Elginshire from Melbourne, with a cargo of wheat is aground in Queenstown Harbor…

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Price of Butter Another Reduction Imminent. Proprietary Firms Undercutting. Co-operative Factories and Distributors Lose Heavily. Sydney, Friday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1922 · page 5

The "Sun" says : "Sussex-street is at it again, quarrelling with itself. It seems probable that the wholesale price of butter will have to be reduced on…

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Dairying Utensils

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 18 February 1922 · page 4

The supplying of dairying utensils is a most important branch of our business. Our turnover in this line reaching very big figures. Our…

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Kempsey Show Farm Exhibit

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 18 February 1922 · page 2

At the last meeting of the committee of the Kempsey show, the prizes for collection of farm produce were altered to £20, £10 and £2. The…

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Brave Buchanan. Karangi Flood Hero. D.ves Into the Torrent. Fight for a Fellow- Farmer's Life

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 February 1922 · page 5

The story of a gallant though fruitless effort to save a fellow-farmer's life centred on the name of Gavin Buchanan at the Magisterial inquiry at coramba…

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Falling Butter Prices. Tweed Doctor's Suggestion

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 20 February 1922 · page 3

At the quarterly meeting of the Tweed District Council of the P.P.U. at Murwillumbah on Wednesday, motion proposed by Mr. Condon was…

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Butter Prices Advisory Committee Defended. Tweed Criticism Resented. Sydney, Saturday Evening

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 20 February 1922 · page 3

Commenting on a message from Murwillumbah, which castigates the Butter Advisory Committee over the reduction in the price of butter, Mr. C…

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The Wrong Cart Mob of Sheep Poisoned. Fed on Rabbit Bait. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 20 February 1922 · page 3

A message from Bathurst says: A mob of 300 sheep followed a poison cart and feasted on the newly-laid phosphorised pollard. They died in a…

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A Long Trek Cattle From Northern Territory. Eleven Months on the Road. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 20 February 1922 · page 3

A Hay message says: One of the largest mobs of store bullocks that ever passed here crossed the river today, bound for Deniliquin…

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Price of Butter. Work of Advisory Committee. Mr. McRAE Replies to Criticism. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 February 1922 · page 5

A report from Murwillumbah in a Sydney paper which, castigates the Butter Advisory Committee is commented on by Mr. McRae, president of the Primary…

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Telegrams. Million Farms Scheme. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 February 1922 · page 2

Sir Joseph Carruthers, in opening tin Penrith agricultural show, said no other land in all the universe had such an enormous area of undeveloped territory that…

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QUEENSLAND Mt. Morgan Retaining Dairy Farmers' Deputation. the Sugar Interests. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 February 1922 · page 3

(Mr. Stopford, M. L .A., for Mount Morgan, to-day expressed the view that operations would be in full swing at the mine in about three weeks' time. It was…

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Dorrigo Dairy Company. Monthly Report. Butter Department

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 2

Butter manufactured in January was 86 tons 18 cwts., being 15 tons more than January of last year and 11 tons more than in December. The…

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Butter 1/1 in Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 2

Our wires to-day announce a further reduction in the price of butter to 121/4 per cwt.—1/1 per 1b. This fall was forecasted on Saturday when…

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World Wheat Pool Gigantic Scheme Contemplated. to Include Canada. America and Australia. Eliminating Speculators. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 3

Plans have been prepared for the formation of What it is hoped will eventually grew into a gigantic world-wide wheat pool, which will control the…

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