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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

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Tuberculin Tests. In Cattle and Figs

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 2

Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., has forwarded a communication from the Department of Agriculture relative to tuberculin tests…

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BUTTER Victorian Action Threatens Stabilisation Prompt Action of N.S.W. Committee. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 4

In view of the serious seasonable shrinkage of butter production in New South Wales members of the State Stabilisation Committee, at a meeting to-day, viewed…

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A Dairyman's View

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 2

"Hard Worker," Macksville, writes in the following strain to the "Daily Telegraph":—" I wish to lodge a protest against the…

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Electric Farming on the Increase

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 1

Rural use of electric power is growing rapidly, we are told by Dr. E. A. White, director of the National Committee on the Relation of Electricity to…

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Helping the Farmer Mr. Lang's One Ambition Workers' Compensation. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 4

The Premier, Mr. Lang, opened the Slate Conference of Agricultural Bureaux at the Hawkesbury College to-day. Addressing the 300 delegates lie said: "I…

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World's Wool Australia Produced One-third in 1925

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 July 1926 · page 1

Statistics collected by the United States Department of Commerce estimate the production of wool throughout the world in 1925 at 2,892,416,000lb.--an…

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Coramba Police Court Cattle Slaughtering Heavy Fine for Failure to Notify

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 July 1926 · page 3

On July 13 at Coramba, before Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M., the following cases were heard:--Edward Balzer appeared on summons…

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Bellinger Butter Factories

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 2

The butter manufactured by the Haleigh Co-operative Dairy Society for the month of June totalled 41,055 lbs., of which 39,970 lbs came under…

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What Our Dairymen Would Welcome

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 3

Favour years ago a Herttordshira (Eng.) farmer introduced among his crops a new species of clover, which grew to a height of eight feet and, in…

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Liens on Crops Soldier Settlers Object. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 5

In a letter from South Yalgogrin sub-branch to the State Executive of the Returned Soldiers' Association, it is alleged that one Digger who refused to…

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U.S. Farmers Declining Prices Serious Depression in Farm Products. Washington

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 August 1926 · page 5

Farmers are faced with a new price depression in agricultural products, which threatens to send, many into bankruptcy. The Department of Agriculture has…

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CANEGROWERS Italians At Mackay A.W.U. Wont Handle Crop Position Serious. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 August 1926 · page 4

The strong protest which the Italian Consul-General, on behalf of his Government, forwarded to the Queensland Government in respect of the action…

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Coffs Butter Factory

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 4 August 1926 · page 3

Coffs Harbor Co-operative Dairy Co.'s new factory is to be opened about the end of the month or early in September. The building is…

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Butter Prices Lower Outlook Not Promising

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 August 1926 · page 8

Remarkable though it may seem, Australian dairy farmers are at present the victims of European financial chaos. Mainly as the result of the fall of the…

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Conceit's Coquette of Kelvinside First Jersey to Produce Over 1000Lbs. Butter in 365 Days

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 August 1926 · page 3

Kelvinside Jersey Stud has produced the first Jersey cow on the North Coast to make 1000lbs. of commercial butter in 365 days, says the "Northern Star." This…

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Poultry Farmers Protest Scarcity and High Cost of Mill Offal. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 August 1926 · page 1

The decision of the executive of the Poultry Farmers' Association to ask the Government to appoint a commission to inquire into the high cost of mill offal,…

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Starving Sheep Over 2,000,000 Shifted Queensland Railways Working Overtime. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 4

The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Davidson, in a statement to-day regarding the carriage of stock and fodder from and to the drought areas, said everything…

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Diet for Boys Milk First--Then Butter Five Years Experiment Startling Results. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 5

A dietary experiment, extending over five years, on 240 boys of school age, has had startling results. Dr. Mann, of the Medical Research…

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Dairying (Notes supplied by the Department on Agriculture.) to Build a Concrete Silo Material and Expenditure Involved

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 6

While it is quite possible to get a farm carpenter to erect a timber Silo, and to make a very satisfactory job of it, it is. doubtful if such a…

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Down on the Farm (Published by Arrangement)

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 4

"According to the Year Book of the U.S.A. Department of Agriculture." says the New York "Times" in a leading article, "bad times on the farm…

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