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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 30 of 56

Critics Answered Butter Export Dairy Produce Control Board Defended by Minister for Markets

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 July 1928 · page 3

Referring to the reported criticism of the Dairy Produce Control Board at the recent Premiers' Conference in Perth, Mr. Paterson, Minister for Markets, said…

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Amazing Invention by Dairy Farmer

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 July 1928 · page 1

An invention which it is believed will make impossible the deciphering of code mesages by anybody except the person to whom they are addressed has captured…

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Burying a Horse--farmer Slips in Too!

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 July 1928 · page 4

Mr. H. Cockfield, a farmer, of Cora[?]k East (Victoria), was the victim of a peculiar accident. He had sunk a hole on his farm in which to bury an old…

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Butter Quality

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 July 1928 · page 6
Also in Daily Examiner

The proper salting of butter is an important factor in ultimate quality, and at the recent Factory Managers' Conference, Mr. Laffan, Senior…

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MARGARINE v. BUTTER

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 July 1928 · page 2

From time to time we hear that the qualities of Australian butter are being widely advertised in the Old Country, but, according to Dr. H. H…

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Thefts from Butter Factory Fines Imposed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 July 1928 · page 4

At the police court on Wednesday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., Stanley William Little was fined £2 and costs for stealing a motor tyre pump…

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Shorthorn Cattle. "Illawarra" Must Be Retained

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 July 1928 · page 3

Amalgamation with the Australian Milking Shorthorn Cattle Association, and the result of the R.A.S.'s ballot on the title issue, was discussed at…

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Wool Season Foreign Ships Get Freight. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 July 1928 · page 2

During the Australian wool season just ended foreign shipping firms have collected almost £2,000,000 in freights for the carriage of wool to other ports of the…

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Overseas Farmers' Federation

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 July 1928 · page 6
Also in Daily Examiner

The tour of various States of Australia made by Mr. A. E. Gough, General Manager of the Overseas Farmers' Co-operative Federations Ltd…

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Marketing Act the Butter Proclamation. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1928 · page 7

It has been announced that the proclamation of butter as a commodity for the purposes of the Marketing Act will not be gazetted until Friday…

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Wool Market Is Consumption Declining? Australian Prices Maintained. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1928 · page 5

The president of the Graziers' Association, Mr. T. H. Tout, stated to-day that he knew of no foundation for the suggestion made by the president of the…

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Alleged Neglect in Spraying Cattle

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 July 1928 · page 4

A case of interest under the tick regulations was called on before Judge Mocatta and a jury at the Lismore District Court, when David Spencer Greber…

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"Cannot Hang On" Dairyman Found Dead Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 3

While William Miller, dairyman, of Eltham, was driving to the Greensborough station, he saw the body of a man on the main road, which was identified as…

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Bonalbo's New Butter Factory

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 July 1928 · page 4

The new butter factory at Bonalbo was opened officially last week. The building is all of concrete and is fitted with modern appliances for butter making, its…

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Child Endowment Federal Commission Evidence Cost of Butter and Sugar Bounties. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 July 1928 · page 5

Giving evidence before the Federal Child Endowment Commission to-day Mr. P. Pringle, representing the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures, declared that…

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Dairying Conditions on North Coast Instructors' Reports

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 July 1928 · page 1

Mr. Senior Dairy Instructor G. Rowe, in charge of the dairy branch district, Clarence to Bollinger Rivers, with headquarters at Coff's Harbor, in his June report…

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Dorrigo Dairy Company. Monthly Report Butter Department

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 July 1928 · page 2

During the month of June, 1928, the quantity of butter manufactured was 41 1/4 tons, being an increase of 1 3/4 tons as compared with the previous…

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Margarine and Butter

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 July 1928 · page 2

In last issue we published an extract from a letter from Dr. H. H. Skeoch (who is now in London) relative to the butter question in the Old…

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