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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

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Sugar Cane Crops Queensland Areas and Prospects

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 4

The director of sugar experimental stations in Queensland in a recent report to the Minister for Agriculture for that State, says that splendid rains have fallen…

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Butter for Canada and United States

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

In a previous issue comment was made on the volume of consignmentts being made to Canada by the co-operative, movement here and from New Zealand…

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The United States and Australian Butter

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 4

The action of the United States of America in imposing an increased duty on Australian butter imported into that country has set some of the dairymen in this State thinking and impelled them to express themselves in strong terms. That chagrin should be felt by our primary producers is not…

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Big Wool Shed Burnt £50,000 Fire Near Trangie. Trangie

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 7

The Wambiamma shearing shed and sheep yards were totally destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon. It is believed the fire was caused by a spark from…

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Plane Crash Farmer Almost Decapitated Son Was Eyewitness Two Aviators Injured Shocking Accident Near Windsor. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 5

When the engine of a Moth aeroplane, piloted by Robert Somerville and Mechanic Les Milgate, failed to function near Windsor this morning,…

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Guernsey Cattle Society

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 4

The annual meeting of the North Coast branch of the Guernsey Cattle Society of Australasia was held at Lismore recently. The president (Mr. E. E. Cooke)…

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Short Reign Rebel Leader Killed? Crop of Rumors Topsy Turvy Afghanistan. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

Ex-King Inayatullah and members of his family left Peshawar for Chaman and Kandahar. It is reported that Baccha Sakao, the…

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'Reso' Tour Victorian Dairy Farmers to Visit North Coast

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 4

The New South Wales Railway Department has decided to inaugurate the running of "Reso" tours throughout the State, and the first "Reso" train is to…

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Crushed in Flywheel Farmer's Terrible Death. Albury

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 4

James Victor Nicoll 34, farmer, of Whoronly, Victoria met with a frightful death, while attending an oil engine on a tobacco plantation on his farm…

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Dorrigo Dairy Company. Monthly Report Butter Department

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

During the month of December, 1928, the quantity of butter manufactured was 652 tons, being a decrease of 24 tons as compared with…

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Inverell Farmer's End

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

INVERELL, Friday.—William Charter, aged 50, a farmer of Rob Roy, went to a neighbor's and asked for some strychnine to poison rats…

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C,r, Pioneer Dairy Co. Monthly Report

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 January 1929 · page 3

The Clarence River Pioneer Dairy Co., Ltd., reports having manufactured for the month of December, 113½ tons of butter, for which suppliers were paid…

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Trespassing on Grafton Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 January 1929 · page 4

Attention is drawn to a notification by the manager of Grafton Experiment Farm, published in our columns, warning any persons who are found trespassing on the…

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Suicide? Inverell Farmer's Death. Inverell

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 January 1929 · page 5

William Charter, 50, a farmer of Robroy, went to a neighbor's place and asked for some strychnine to poison cats. Later he was found under a tree…

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World 'S Wheat Crop Estimated at 3730 Million Bushels. Washington

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 5

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a survey of the world wheat conditions, estimating the 1928-1929 wheat year crop, exclusive of Russia and…

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Improving the Beef Industry Aberdeen Angus Cattle

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 1

Mr. Grant, herdmaster of the Agriculture Department, has recently returned from Canada, where ha has selected and purchased for the State Government 21…

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Amalgamation Hunter Butter Factories Make Move Greater Control Is Aim

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 1

A meeting from which will probably emerge an amalgamation of northern and Hunter River butter factories was held at Singleton last week. The meeting,…

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POLITICIANS Labor's 'Country' Conference Organising the Farmers Compulsory Herd Testing. Orange

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 5

The Labor Provincial Conference was notable for its paucity of representatives of Labor leagues and branches…

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Why Should the Farmers Trust Labor?

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 4

It is not often that we find ourselves in hearty agreement with the members of a Labor conference, but such is the case with regard to one portion of a motion passed at the Labor Provincial Conference at Orange, which stated that it was the farmers' vote that was at present defeating Labor. This…

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Pastoral Conference. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 4

Members of the Pastoralists Association of Central and North Australia have arrived in Canberra for the meeting which the Minister for Home Affairs,…

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