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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

1,096 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 32 of 55

Overrun in Butter in Victoria

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 July 1927 · page 5

Complaints of excessive overrun in butter at certain factories, with a consequent loss to the producers, led to a conference between the acting…

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New Butter Factory Opened at Bellingen

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 22 July 1927 · page 2

Bellingen's new butter factory, erected at a cost of some £13,000, was opened on Tuesday last by Mrs. McDougall, wife of the Chairman of…

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Rural Wage a Great Surprise Mr. Dunlop Explains Dairy Industry Hard Hit. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 July 1927 · page 5

Mr. Dunlop, general secretary of the Primary Producers' Union, says the decision of the Industrial Commissioner to declare a rural living wage at the present…

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Baby Beef Suggested Experiments on North Coast Farms Maize and Lucerne Too Dear. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 July 1927 · page 5

The conference of managers of experiment farms under the control of the Department of Agriculture was resumed yesterday after an interval of several…

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Letter to the Editor Farmers and the Tariff

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 July 1927 · page 3

Sir,--The report appearing in a recent issue of your paper of the meeting of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, and its decision not to aid the Town and Country…

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Power Farming Demonstrations on the Clarence

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 July 1927 · page 1

By the evolution of time we are finding that in all industries, machines or mechanical devices are quickly replacing manual labor and as regards farming Henry Ford…

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Unprofitable Farming £102 FOR A. Year's Work. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 July 1927 · page 2

The Soldier Settlers' Conference, now sitting in Melbourne, was told of one returned soldier who, after working on his farm for 17 hours each day, ended the…

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Marking Time a Farmer's Views Mills May Close Down "Trouble of Racial Nature." Innisfail

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 July 1927 · page 4

Matters are quiet at South Johnstone to-day. The peaceful atmosphere is apparently due to the fact that the strikers are marking time, hoping that the meeting of…

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American Farmers Income and Expenditure Big Reduction in Net Income. Washington

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 July 1927 · page 5

The Agricultural Department has announced that the gross income of the farmers, for the crop year ending June 30, was £2,416,000,000 which is a decrease of 5 per…

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Sheep Stealing Stock Inspector Emphatic Need for Compulsory Branding Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 July 1927 · page 5

Mr. D. McPherson, stock inspector, told the Cumberland Pastures Protection Board that it was hopeless to speak and write of sheep Stealing being rampant, if…

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Power Farming Field Demonstrations

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 July 1927 · page 6

In connection with the advancement of power farming, the Ford Motor Coy, of Australia, Pty., Ltd., are co-operating with their local dealers, the City Motor…

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The Dairying Industry Some Forthcoming Important Meetings

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 July 1927 · page 10

During the last week of the current month representatives of the dairying industry from all States in the Commonwealth will assemble in Sydney. The…

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Dirty Premises Dairy Company Fined. Berry

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 July 1927 · page 4

At the Berry Police Court, the Board of Health proceeded against the Jasper Brush Dairy Company, on a charge using factory premises in connection with…

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Electric Power. Aid to Farming

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 July 1927 · page 2

A detailed examination of "Electricity Supply in Rural and Agricultural Areas" was outlined by Mr. J. A, Sumner to the North-Western Centre,…

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No Srurrender South Johnstone Farmers Will Keep Mill Going. INNlSFAIL

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 July 1927 · page 4

The farmers at south johnstone at a mass meeting to-day unanimously resolved that the directors should keep, the mill going to the utmost of their…

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Cane Train Strikers Attempt To Wreck Mill and Farmers "Black" Threat to Burn Cane Crop. Innisfail

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 July 1927 · page 5

Another cane train, when entering South Johnstone this morning, was held up owing to the action of strikers, who commenced to bombard the…

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Gold Bearing Reef at Sheep Station Creek a Promising Discovery

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1927 · page 7

Forty-five to fifty years ago Dalmorton was in the gold boom, and hundreds of thousands of pounds were won from rich bearing reef's then worked, and…

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Electrical Farms in Victoria

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1927 · page 4

One of the most interesting features of electrical development in Victoria is the electrified farm. In some instances these electrified farms are only made…

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Rural Basic Wage Dairy Employees Not Affected. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1927 · page 5

The Richmond District Council of the Primary Producers' Union has been informed by the head office that the declaration of a basic wage…

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Farmer Found Dead. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1927 · page 4

Patrick Maher, 45, farmer, of Kootingal, near Tamworth, who left his home yesterday morning, was discovered lying dead in a pool of blood a few miles from…

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