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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

988 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 38 of 50

The Markets Potatoes £21 Ton Quiet Business in Dairy Section Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 4

A slightly better demand prevailed for Tasmanian potatoes to-day. Between 11,000 and 12,000 bags are expected from Tasmania for next week's Sydney…

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Mallee Farmers Financially Embarrassed. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 7

Urging that a large area of land to the north of Ouyen-Murrayville railway in Mallee be prepared by distressed farmers for settlement, a deputation of Mallee…

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Melbourne Show Opening Speeches Country Farm Competitions. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 5

At the official opening of the Royal Agricultural Show to-day the Premier, Sir W. McPherson, said the Government hoped to build up a big export trade,…

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Lower Wool Values

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 6

At the wool sales in Sydney last week, values opened 33 per cent lower than last season. At first sight it may not be thought that this could have any effect upon the…

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P.d.s. Column Butter in Pats

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 6

When, through the assistance of the Government, co-operative manufacture replaced the proprietary firms in the butter industry in the Irish Free States,…

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Fire at Railway Station 120 Bales of Wool Burnt. Bourke

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 4

A fire, which broke out at the railway station, destroyed 120 bales of wool valued at £3000 last night…

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Fire at Tuckombil Farmer's House Destroyed. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 4

The residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Elliott, at Tuckombil, was destroyed by five last night. Mrs. Elliott discovered the outbreak at 11.45, and neighbors and…

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Clarence River Pioneer Dairy Co. Cream Supplies Increasing

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 7

The Clarence River Pioneer Co-operative Dairy Company report having manufactured for the month of August 31 tons of butter, for which the suppliers were…

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Wool Slump Prices Down 33 Per Cent. Melbourne Sales. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 5

Prices at the Victorian wool sales, which opened to-day, were 33 per cent. to 40 per cent, lower than those at the opening sales in Melbourne last year…

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Dairy Council Reply to Minister Controversy Over Abolition. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 2

Mr. John Rankin, chairman of the Australian Dairy Council has replied to statements made by the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Thorby, in relation to the…

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Wool Ablaze Fire on Goods Train. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 September 1929 · page 8

When three truckloads of wool on a goods train travelling from Muswellbrook to Sydney burst into flames last night the Brisbane mail, the Brisbane…

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P.P. UNION Central Executive Moisture Content Margin Address by Dairy Expert. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 September 1929 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the Central Executive Council of the Primary Producers' Union commenced to-day. The meeting carried a motion protesting…

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Sugar Cane Grafton Farm Experiments Hundreds of Seedlings

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 September 1929 · page 6

Since the completion of the glass house at the Experiment Farm, Mr. G. Marks, the manager, states that good results have been obtained with the greater number of…

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Crop Diseases Empire Losing Millions of Pounds. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 September 1929 · page 5

Dr. Butler, Director of the Bureau of Mycology, told the Imperial Mycological Conference that millions of pounds were lost yearly to the Empire in parasitic…

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Dairy Company Burgled. Nowra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 September 1929 · page 4

For the second time in eighteen months the premises of the Nowra Dairy Company were broken into last night and the safe was taken away by the thieves. The safe…

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Divorce Story 'Walk In Walk Out' Wife, Farm and Stock Husband's Offer to Co-re. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 September 1929 · page 5

An extraordinary story was told in the Divorce Court to-day when John Percival Smith asked for a decree against his wife, Beatrice Smith, on…

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Misstatements Thorby to Rankin Dairy Council Abolition. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 September 1929 · page 5

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Thorby, stated to-day that his attention had been drawn lo comments made by the chairman of the Australian Dairy Council,…

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Junior Farmers' Club

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 September 1929 · page 2

A visit from Mr. Blacklock, Supervisor of School Agriculture, has served to considerably further the Farmers' Club movement in Dorrigo…

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Dairying Supplementing the Paspalum Trials with Lucerne on the North Coast

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 September 1929 · page 1

Trials with lucerne as a fodder crop at Wollongbar Experiment Farm indicate that, despite the encroachments of paspalum and the reputed unsuitability of…

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Twelve Months for Sheep Stealing

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 September 1929 · page 4

Robert Jones, laborer of Tamworth, was charged at Tamworth court on Monday, before Mr. W. C. Geikie, P.M. with sealing 62 sheep, the property of George…

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