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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 7 of 56

Deteriorates Butter Without Preservatives London Paper's Comment. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 5

Commenting on the prohibition of preservatives in butter, the newspaper, "Grocer," says: "The full effects will not be felt in the colonies until next…

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Practical Farming Palmer's Channel School Teacher's Work Appreciated

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 3

It is not always that a schoolmaster takes in hand the work of establishing a small farm on the unused lands of the school, but such is the ease at the Palmer's…

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Farmer Amok Lost Maintenance Case Burnt Home and Haystacks Child Drowned, Father Arrested. Christchurch

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 5

After losing a maintenance case yesterday morning, John Duncan, farmer, of Kirwee ran amok. His wife, who had left him three months…

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Palestine Crops Saved by the Wind Invading Locusts Blown Away. Jerusalem

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 5

An almost miraculous change of wind saved Palestine and Syria from a destructive visitation of locusts. For months past the Government…

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Butter Control All-australian Proposal Victorian Government Support Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 4

Consideration was given yesterday by the State Stabilisation Committee to the proposed legislation for the dairying industry in New South Wales to provide…

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Wagga Farm Accident Young Man's Shocking Injuries. Wagga

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 7

A young farmer, Pl[?]ip McDevitt, received shocking injuries while working on his father's farm in the Wagga district. He was feeding a chaffcutter when a…

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Cattle Scarce

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 4

One has only to travel through the cattle areas to realise the strong demand that has set in for both store and fat cattle (writes "Mitchell…

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Marketing of Butter

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 3

If legislation sought by the Butter Stabilisation Committee is passed in Victoria and New South Wales, steps will be taken by butter producing…

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Hints on Sheep-raising

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 7

FRIEND: "Have the flies been bad this summer?" SOUATTER: "About as usual. We have to watch all the time or they attack the sheep.'' NEWCHUM: "I was reading that if anything is hung twenty feet from the ground flies won't reach it--have you tried that?"…

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Canadian Trade Treaty Dumping Australian Butter the British Market. Ottawa

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 5

Attacking the trade treaty, Mr. George T. McNutt, Conservative member for Colchester, claimed that the dumping of Australian and New Zealand butter was…

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Dairying on Guy Fawkes

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 2

Our Ebor correspondent mentions in to-day's issue that two suppliers to the Maida Vale Cheese Factory received cheques of over £100 each for…

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Farm Economics Problems of the Land a South Australian View

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 7

At the annual conference of branches of the Agriculture Bureau, situated in the Hills districts of South Australia, a well-considered address was delivered by…

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Worth While the Farm Beautiful Improving Home Surroundings

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 7

Mr. J. M. Kerr, chief dairy supervisor in Victoria, had a word to say, in a recent "Journal of Agriculture,'' about farm homes…

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Strong Protest Farm Workers' Award Application Condemned

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 6

The Queensland State Opposition is strongly of the opinion that the application of the farm workers award to the rural industries of Queensland would react…

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Farmer Fined

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 7

James Bell, farmer, of Clifton (Queensland), was charged with contravening the Stallions Registration Act of 1923, in that, being the owner of a stallion, he failed…

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Canadian Dairymen Condemn Australian Trade Treaty. Ottawa

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 5

A Regina (Saskatchewan), message states that the Western Canadian dairymen's convention to-day unanimously, condemned the Australian treaty permitting…

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Australian Butter Dumping Duty in Canada Dairymen Continue Agitation. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 5

At Regna (Saskatchawan), a resolution urging the application of the dumping duty on Australian butter was passed unanimously by the Western Canadian…

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Butter Preservatives Effect of Prohibition Victoria May Lose Trade. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 5

In connection with the agitation for the removal of the prohibition of preservatives in butter one of the biggest blenders told the Australian Press…

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Farming at Its Best and Still It Does Not Pay Lincolnshire Problems

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 2

Lincoloshire presents a panoramic view of English agriculture, for there are few things this country produces on the land of which the country does not supply a…

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North Coast Dairying Conditions Pastures and Crops Production Prospects

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 6

Dairy instructors in charge of North Coast districts in their reports for the month of January, deal with conditions ruling in the respective districts and…

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