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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 32 of 56

Locust Plague Like Thunder Clouds Destruction of Rice Crops. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 July 1928 · page 5

Millions of locusts are threatening disaster to the cereal crops in the Farming districts surrounding Shanghai, Paoshan, Woosung and Pootung…

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N.Z. Butter Trade Arrangement with Japan. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 July 1928 · page 4

Commenting on the reciprocal arrangement the New Zealand Minister for Customs, Mr. Stewart, said the principal object was to benefit the butter industry,…

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Flood Losses Dairymen Suffer What Income Returns Will Show. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 July 1928 · page 4

Income tax returns from this district show a considerable falling off of revenue for the 12 months' ending June 30, particular in dairying. The losses…

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Excision of Farm Lands

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 July 1928 · page 4

A notification appears in the Government "Gazette" of July 13, setting out the proposal to excise certain farm lands from the Casino municipality and include…

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Grammas for Dairy Cattle

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 4

The gramma occupies a definite place in the system of feeding his dairy herd practised by Mr. E. H. K. Downes, of Camden, winner of the…

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Local and General. Cattle for Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 2

Six trucks of cattle were taken from Dorrigo this morning on cousignment to Sydney. The bulk of the stock came from the Guy Fawkes, the…

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New Award Butter Factories Hours and Rates of Pay Absolute Preference Provided. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 5

Absolute preference of employment to members of the Australian Meat Employees' Union is provided in the award delivered by the Butter Factories (State)…

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Three Tons More Potatoes Fertilising Value of Farmyard Manure

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 4

In a trial carried out recently on a farmer's experiment plot on the lower north coast a dressing of farmyard manure at the rate of 5 tons per acre…

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Dairying Notes Conditions on North Coast Instructors' Reports

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 4

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

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United Kingdom Butter Market

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 3

Cables from Overseas Farmers' Federation and the London Agency of the Export Control Board indicate that, owing to the hot, dry weather in the United…

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Butter Industry Export Trade Problems Boric Acid Prohibition. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 4

The Federal Minister for Markets, Mr. Paterson, was interviewed to-day by a deputation representing the Commonwealth Dairy Export Control Board, the…

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Damage by Shooters Farmer Loses a Heifer. Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 7

A number of Ulmarra farmers have been annoyed during the past few months by persons hunting and shooting on their properties and several of them have…

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Farming Problems Surveyed

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1928 · page 4

The condition of the farmer has been, exercising the minds of the politicians in most countries during the last few years and the number of suggestions and proposals that have been put forward with the object of assisting the rural producer is legion. In the United States recently a commission…

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Export Butter Examination in Transit. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 July 1928 · page 5

The Minister for Markets, Mr. Paterson, told a deputation representing the butter interests that the Commonwealth Dairy Expert, Mr. Carroll, would leave…

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Coffs Butteb Factory. Butter Wanted in Brisbane

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 3

Coffs Harbour Batter Factory has received an inquiry for butter direct from Brisbane. "Some of your butter has found its way to this market and…

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BUTTER The Overseas Market Complaints From London Deterioration in Transit. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 5

At the annual meeting of the Australian Dairy Produce Export Board it was reported that negotiations were still proceeding for a further reduction in…

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Farmer Fined

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 2

A farmer la the Wyong district was fined £3 and £2/12/ costs yesterday for cruelty to a dumb animal. Police evidence was given that a…

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Stole Butter Wharf Laborers Sent to Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 August 1928 · page 5

William Allen Mitchell and Herbert Carpenter, wharf laborers, pleaded guilty at Darlinghurst sessions to having stolon six boxes of butter and other goods, the…

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Church Out of Wheat Profits

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 August 1928 · page 4

Several farmers at Diranseer, near Junee, have given seed and superphosphate towards the sowing of a crop on the land loaned by Mr. George Main, of…

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Pastoralist Sent to Gaol Northern Territory Cattle Stealing. Darwin

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 August 1928 · page 7

The trial of William Stanley Brown pastoralist, of Dernsvale, and Frederick Martin and Davis May on a charge of cattle stealing has been con[?]luded…

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