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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

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Wheat [?] Federal Act [?] Silos Nearly Full. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 1

Commenting on the serious position which has arisen with regard to the wheat harvest as a result of the terminal elevators being almost full Mr…

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'You'll Be Sorry Mother And Baby Murdered Battered with Axe Farmhand Found Hanged. Perth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 1

Mrs. McCaskell, 28, and her eight months-old baby were found battered to death yesterday afternoon oh her husband's farm, near Ardath…

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Wheat From Country

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 4

For the week ended December 20, the quantity of new wheat dispatched from country stations,- in New South Wales. [?] was 773,498 bags, making a total of…

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Live Stock Pest and Disease Control How Farmers Are Protected Against Dangers From Overseas

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 1

Most farmers recognise the danger represented by uncontrolled pests and diseases, and realise that the price of safety is unceasing vigilance, but, fewer are…

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Farmer's Death Bullet Wound in Head. Gymple

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 4

With both hands clasping a gun a while was lying across the chest and with horrible gunshot wound in the right side of the head, the body of James Henr[?]…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 6

These notes are issued every week, by direction of the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the department…

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Chaos Wheat Export Trade Big Loss on Season's Cp-op Likely. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 5

Chaos exists in the wheat export business. Only five or six vessels have been chartered to load the New South Wales new season's crop as compared with 20 or…

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Agricultural Virus Disease in Potatoes Increasing Demand for Seed From Uninfected Crops

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 6

The many failures in coastal potato crops as the result of virus disease must inevitably tend to greater discrimination in respect to seed supplies, observe…

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Fertilisers for Farmers Nearly £2,000,000 Owing in Victoria. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 5

Fertiliser companies in Victoria announce that they may not be able to assist farmers on the existing basis of finance. They state their outstanding…

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Last Year's Homebush Sales Sheep Increase, Falling Off in Cattle. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 5

The number of sheep sold at Homebush during the year 1930 totalled 3,754,734, an increase of 402,807 as compared with the previous year, but considerably…

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Wheat Industry Application of Rationing Trucks. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 5

Rationing is now being applied to the wheat industry. In the country, 51 out of 99 silos are overflowing, and to relieve the position, sufficient trucks are to be…

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Dairy Diploma Course Vacancies at Hawkesbury College. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 2

The Department of Agriculture advises that persons who have had at least three years experience in dairy factory processing find manufacture are eligible to…

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STARVING Farmers In Arkansas 500 March on Town Food Demanded--red Cross to Rescue. New York

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 5

A message from England (Arkansas) says the prolonged drought that ruined hundreds of central United States farms last summer had a…

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Dairy Production Costs

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 4

The main aim of the dairy farmer is profit, and considerable attention must, therefore, be paid to economy of production without corresponding profits is not…

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'EXASPERATED' N.S.W. Wheat Farmers Federal Govt. Criticised New Law Caused Muddle Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 4

"My association is usually reluctant to criticise, but we consider we cannot criticise too strongly the dilatoriness of the Commonwealth…

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Federal Cabinet Ministers Meet In Melb. the Wheat Industry Increased Exchange Rate Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 4

The first meeting of the Federal Cabinet since the adjournment of the Federal Parliament was held this afternoon, when several matters were…

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A Snake Farm

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 4

Mr. J. P. Freeman, of Perry's Knob, in the Rosewood district, has been trying to break a few records during the past year. During the season he has killed 53…

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Pastoral Grass the Most Important of All Crops

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 7

The economic significance of pasture becomes evident when the values of our agricultural and animal products are compared, hand-feeding being still a…

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Butter Production Tests

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 7

As announced in an advertisement [?] this issue, the decision has been [?] by Meggitt, Limited, to agree to [?] request of numerous suppliers and [?]…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 7

These notes are issued every week, by direction of the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the department…

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