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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

1,103 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 56

Sequel to Casino Farm Sensation

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 4

Harry Baker, who was arrested in connection with the shooting incident at Barling's farm, North Casino, on Thursday morning, was brought before the…

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"Greatest Single Boon." Radio for Farmers

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 6

In the opinion of Mr. D. H. Drummond the advent of radio is the greatest boon of modern times so far as the man on the land is concerned. And this is his…

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Locally Fattened Sheep

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 4

Hitherto the Clarence district was practically an unknown quantity, as far as the growing and fattening of sheep were concerned. Messrs. Roger and Co…

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Dairy Cattle Sales Royal Show Committee Will Conduct Them

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 2

As no firm of auctioneers will hold auction sales of dairy cattle at the Sydney Royal next month, a committee comprised of men representative of the Breed…

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Bellingen Show. Winners in the Cattle Section

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 4

There were a fine lot of dairy cattle at Bellingen Show on Thursday and Friday last. Mr. S. J. Hosier (Raleigh) won outright the…

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Police Court Traffic Breaches Coldstream Farmer Fined

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 2

A traffic ease of some interest was heard before M. E. A. Mahony, P.M., yesterday at the Grafton Court, when William W. Fuller pleaded not guilty to…

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Letter to the Editor Roads and Dairying

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 8

Sir,--How unjust we are to the memory of Ethelred, called the Unready. Why, had he lived to-day he would have been a demon hustler. He only halved the…

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Cane Crops Estimate of Flood Damage Discussed by F. and S.a. Council

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 4

At the meeting of the District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, at Maclean, oh Saturday last, Mr. D. A. Cameron said he had been approached to…

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Brick Company Sale of Shares Stroud Farmer's £1400. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 5

At Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, Albert Thompson was charged with having obtained £1400 from Andrew Weismantel, farmer, of Stroud, by false prentences…

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Grafton Co-operative Dairy Company Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting Dividend of 5 Per Cent. Declared Four Directors Re-elected. Money From the Paterson Scheme

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1928 · page 2

The postponed annual general meeting (35th) of the shareholder's of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Coy., Ltd., was held at the registered office of the company,…

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Mullumbimby Farmer Found Dead

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 March 1928 · page 4

On Sunday afternoon a well-known farmer named T. A. Steinhardt, of Main Arm, Mullumbimby, was found dead a few yards from his house. He left, as usual,…

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Trade Treaty Termination Demanded Further Protest in Canada "Worst Blow to Dairying Industry." Ottawa

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 March 1928 · page 5

The immediate termination of the Australian treaty, was demanded by a delegation from the National Dairy Council to-day, in an interview with…

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Family Endowment Act Farmers Want It Repealed. Albury

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 March 1928 · page 5

At a meeting of the district branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association a motion was carried asking the Government to repeal the Family Endowment…

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Dairy Cattle Sales

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 4

As no firm of auctioneers will hold auction sales of dairy cattle at the Sydney Royal Show next month, a committee comprised of men…

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Butter Quality

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 6
Also in The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate

The recent quality trouble with Australian "butter in London, which was definitely localised to Victorian manufacture, was used by some interests to raise the…

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Empire Butter Competition

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 6
Also in Daily Examiner

A proposal has been made to have a special empire class for butter at the next Dairy Show in London, and it was suggested that the exhibits…

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Cattle Duffers' Camp

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 4

It is perhaps not generally known that in Coonabarabran district there is a cattle duffers' camp that must have been established well over 70…

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Successful Wool Growing on the Upper Clarence Sale of Gordon Brook Clip

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 6

At Gordon Brook estate on the Upper Clarence, Merino sheep have been successfully carried for several years past, and the following are some particulars of…

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