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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

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Wheat Crop Fire Aged Woman for Trial Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 5

Many Ann Preston, 63, was committed for trial at Bathurst on a charge of haying maliciously set fire to a standing crop belonging to Arthur Hartley, at…

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Butter Market Trade in London Active Higher Prices Expected. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

The following are extracts from the London trade summary: -- "We may look to the new year with quiet confidence" is a sentence in the…

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Fifty Farms Submerged the Maitland Flood. West Maitland

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

The river is now falling as a result of the cessation of rain and the flood [?]have ceased running over the em[?]ment at Pitnacree into Howe's [?]…

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FARMER'S £130 in Locked Hidden Chest But Burglars Found It. Orange

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

Before C. W. Ostelreliffe, a dairyman, who lives ten miles from Orange went with his family into town on Friday night he took the precaution to see that…

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Turning Merchants Farm Produce Agents Is There Hole in Act? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

In view of the provision in the Farm produce. Agents Act, which comes into force to-day, for the lodging of a surety for £500 with the Registrar by each part…

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Tuesday, January 4, 1927. the Farmer and His Produce

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 4

A small but useful measure passed by Parliament early last year was the Farm Produce Agents Act, which provides for the registration and regulation of farm produce agents and also has for its object the regulation and disposal of farm produce. The Bill was introduced by the Minister for…

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Farm Waggon Used As Hearse

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 4

The remains of Mr. R. S. Archer, son of a well-known pioneering family in Queensland and New South Wales, were laid to rest in the private interment…

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Wool Stuffed Tyres

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 6

In a census of motor cars published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, it was mentioned that the Faro[?] Islands possessed one out of the world's…

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Local and General Cheaper Butter

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 4

Sydney "Labor Daily," having heard that rain has fallen on the North Coast, demands a decrease of 2d. per pound in the price of butter. There is no…

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Younger Beef Ages' of Show Cattle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 3

The New South Wales and Victorian Royal Agricultural Societies have decided, as a result of representations made by Mr. J. B. Cramsie, to restrict by one year the…

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Export Butter Mr. Bruce Corrects Wrong Impression. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

Mr. Bruce has emphatically corrected the erroneous impression that the Australian Government aid to butter produces had been instituted under the…

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Farm-wife

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 1

She never climbed a mountain, She never heard the sea, But always watched a winding road. That wandered aimlessly…

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The Horse on Riverina Farms

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 3

A few years back it seemed Probable in Riverina that the tractor would completely oust the draught horse for farm purposes, writes an Albury correspondent,…

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'Pampered Pets' Bishop on Politicians Burdens for Farmers Lang's Electoral Madness. Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 5

BISHOP LONG, IN AN ONSLAUGHT ON POLITICIANS DECLARED MEN ON THE LAND ARE HARASSED IN COUNTLESS…

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The Dairy Industry Primary Producers' Marketing Problems Proposed Board of Control Confidence in Old Advisory Board Condon Scheme Opposed

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 4

The Council of the Clarence River District P. P. Union, at a special meeting held at Ulmarra yesterday, carried a resolution expressing satisfaction with the present marketing methods and their confidence in the Advisory Board as at present elected…

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Butter Price Reduction "Labor Daily" Plea

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 5

Butter production is rapidly increasing, and this week should see the State selfsupporting. In such an event happening, it is…

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The Dairying Industry Pulling Together

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 1

During the last few weeks happenings in the dairying industry should given the "powers that be" food for much thought. The fact that the irritating…

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Jersey Stud Farm Advocated

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 4

Mr. Dunn, Minister for Agriculture, will on Saturday receive deputations at Mullumbimby and Murwillumbah, who will urge the establishment of a Jersey…

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2400 Years Old Peas in Mummy's Coffin Produce Good Crop

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 3

I have just been offered a peck of peas, which are the direct progeny of a handful of peas removed from the coffin of an Egyptian mummy, in 1910, (writes the…

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Song of the Lazy Farmer

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 3

My neighbor says that threshin' is a pleasure on his place. They say that he is up- to- date, and don't let smu[?] propagate to fill his oat shocks full of…

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