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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

1,307 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 66

Fell Through Cattle Grid

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 6

Mavis Burton, aged 14 years, whose home is at Brook street, Wooloowin, but who was spending a holiday at Coolum, (Q.), received severe injuries to her legs,…

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Is Our Wool Supremacy Endangered?

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 4

"Australia is the leading wool -growing country in the world." In that brief sentence from the Commonwealth Year Book we are brought face to face with the necessity of maintaining, the supremacy of our wool on the markets of the world, for not only are our pastoralists pre-eminent as wool…

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Deadly Anthrax 500 Sheep Died in Eight Days. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 4

Details of the outbreak of anthrax on Oaklands Station near Singleton, show that nearly 500 sheep died in eight- days. The remaining sheep have been inoculated…

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Wool Industry Africa Competitor Soon Not Worrying About Embargo. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 5

Mr. W. K. Moffat, a Sydney builder, who has just returned to Sydney after spending several weeks in Cape Colony. Transvaal and the Orange Free State…

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Farming in Russia Old and New Style

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 6

Past and present confront each other in strange contrast on Russia's farm lands, it seems, where in one section the practice of the ancient science of…

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Negative Test Death of 500 Sheep Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 4

There is still some doubt as to the cause of death of 500 sheep on W. Fielding Jones' station, at Ravensworth Mr. Max Henry, Chief Chief Veterinary Surgeon of the…

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Butter and Mutton. Cargo Prom Australia Damaged London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

Eleven hundred cases of butter were damaged through the stoppage of refrigerating machinery on the steamer Canadian Britisher, from Adelaide. Immediate…

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Fruit Crop Prospects

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 3

From a report issued in November by the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture, prospects for the coming season apple crops are that it will be about 3,250,000…

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Dairying the Food Value of Silage As Compared with Grass

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 2

Farmers frequently ask if silage is equal in feeding value to green grass, comments a departmental publication, and it must be said at once that it is not equal to an…

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Bradford Sheep Station Nothing Likely to Eventuate. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 3

In connection with the scheme mooted at Bradford to buy sheep and land in Australia, and also the suggestion from Australia that it was another Bradford…

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N.Z. Farm Tragedy Mother and Two Children Found Dead. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 2

A shocking tragedy occurred at a village in South Taranaki yesterday. A farmer named Zimmerman returned home when he found his wife and two young…

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Stock Sales in Sydney Sheep Increase, Cattle Decline. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

According to figures issued to-day there is a big increase in the number of sheep sold at the Flemington saleyards last Year, as compared with the previous year. The…

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Ophthalmia in Sheep Investigations at Glenfield Veterinary Research Station

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

Ophthalmia or "pink eye" is well-known to sheep owners and though not in itself a fatal disease leads to considerable trouble and inconvenience owing to the…

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Stewards Busy Shankara and Connections Out for Twelve Months Sequel to Warwick Farm Running. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1

The A.J.C. stewards, after concluding their inquiry to-day, into alleged improper practice in the Sefton Handicap, at Warwick Farm on…

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Riches From Farm Waste Romances of Industry "Nothing Too Small for Research."

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 7

The United States Secretary of Agriculture, Arthur M. Hyde, contributes an article on the subject of "Riches From Farm Waste," to "The National Republic…

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African Farmers Delegation to Visit Australia. Capetown

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

The South African contingent of farmers visiting Australia sailed Runic to-day. The chairman, Mr. Allan, who conducts a co-operative creamery at…

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Melon Crop Destroyed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

Who esale destruction of a big area of watermelons, valued at more than £10, the property of Mr. Nott, farmer at Nemingha, on Saturday, culminated shortly…

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Butter Bay

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 4

At a meeting of the North Coast Factories' Association, held at Lismore on Monday, the price of cream supplies for December was fixed at 13 per lb…

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Wheat Land Socialisation in Russia. Moscow

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 5

In furtherance of the campaign against well-to-do peasants, coupled with the failure of the present harvest, the Soviet has decreed that all grain land must be…

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Cattle Blight Serious Outbreak on Bellinger River Cream Production Affected. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 4

A serious outbreak of what is known locally as a cattle blight has occurred in a large number of herds on the Bellinger River. As the complaint is very…

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