The Experiment Farm and the Farmer
Daily Examiner · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 4
The meeting at which the Grafton Experiment Farm Advisory Committee began its career on Wednesday was full of promise as to the usefulness of this new body and those who have participated in its organisation are gratified that it has been launched under such happy auspices. The idea…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Plight British Agriculture Unemployed Rising Farm Workers Join Army. London
Daily Examiner · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 5
In the House of Lords, the Earl or Liverpool asked the Government to establish a committee representing all parties to deal with the serious plight of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →United Empire Party Will Life Be Short? Protection for Farmers? London
Daily Examiner · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 5
Lord Beaverbrook has announced that the United Empire party is now proceeding to organise local branches and raise a fighting fund of £100,000, to which public…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Pasture Improvements Methods of Sowing Grasses and Clovers
Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 7
The method usually adopted for sowing seed of grasses and clovers, writes the Assistant Agrostologist of the Department of Agriculture in an article already…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairy Council Personnel Reduced FROM 25 TO 12 Members State Committees to Continue. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 5
All States were represented at a meeting of the Australian Dairy Council held in Sydney yesterday, when it was announced that the Minister for Markets…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Down a Penny To-day. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 2
The wholesale price of butter will be reduced a penny per lb. on Monday. Choicest will be quoted at 17910 cwt., and first grade 1752. There are large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Butter Market Tendency Still Downward. London
Daily Examiner · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 3
The tendency of the butter market is still downward, and there are prospects of a further decline as the imports are much in excess of trade requirements and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial Cattle Sale Postponed
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 4
The sale of mixed cattle, advertised for Wednesday next, February 26, at Maclean saleyards, by Mr. S. A. J. Small, auctioneer, has been postponed to a later…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Council Reduction In Personnel Butter Moisture Content Is Churning Capacity to Blame? Sydney
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5
At a meeting in Sydney of the Australian Dairy Council it was decided to accept the recommendation of the Executive Committee to reduce the personnel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Auctioneer Fined £20 Sold Cattle Without License. Dubbo
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5
Thomas Wooton, a local auctioneer, was fined £20 to-day for having sold cattle and sheep at Dubbo saleyards without a license…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bellinger River January Butter Output Reaches 93 Tons. Bellingen
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 7
The output of the two Bellinger River butter factories for the month of January exceeds 98 tons. Of this quantity Raleigh butter factory manufactured 115,224lb…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Experiment Farm Activities Ayrshires for Royal Show Team of 19 Being Prepared
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 4
A team of Ayrshire cattle, comprising 19 head, and made up of seven males and 12 females, is being prepared at the Grafton Experiment Farm for the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →National Statistics Wheat, Wool and Debt. Melbourne
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 5
According to figures supplied by the Commonwealth Statistician to-day the production of wool during the 1928-29 season is estimated at 950,000,000lb., which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Macleay Cattle Sale
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 8
At a two days' clearing sale at "Smoky," Macleay River, on account of the estate of the late Dr. Verge, cows sold to £24 per head, 150 averaging £9…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep Struck by Lightning. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 4
During a heavy storm near Warren 170 sheep out of a travelling mob of 2000 were killed by lightning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer's Face Smashed Charged by Mad Bullock. Wagga
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 5
Charged by a mad bullock which he was trying to pen, Charles Sander had his face bone badly smashed, from the top of the nose to his mouth. His nose…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Butter London Publicity Campaign. London
Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 February 1930 · page 5
As part of its publicity campaign the Australian and New Zealand Dairy Produce Board has invited a number of women representatives of newspapers to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Use More Wool Exhibition at D. Jones'. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 February 1930 · page 3
A Use More Wool exhibition will be held at David Jones' from April 7 to April 17. The exhibition will embrace various phases in production and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters to the Editor Grafton Dairy Company
Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 February 1930 · page 3
Sir,--The 37th annual report of the Grafton Co-op. Dairy Company discloses evidences of economical management and keen interest in the developments of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FERTILISERS Inquiry Into Prices Farmers Partly to Blame Tariff Board Report. Canberra
Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 February 1930 · page 5
"Some farmers will accept spoon feeding with avidity. Agents are expected to generally wait on them in a way that must become expensive,"…
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