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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

1,347 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 13 of 68

Empire Butter Campaign Amongst Shops. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 5

The Empire Marketing Board reports that prior to its canvass of Wigan, on of 272 grocers only 75 stocked Empire butter. Now 146 stocked it and more…

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Dorrigo Show 21 st Annual Display Record Cattle Exhibits Keen District Exhibit Competition

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 4

The Dorrigo and Guy Fawkes Agricultural Association were favored with splendid weather for the first day of their 21st annual show at Dorrigo…

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Local and General Cane Growers and Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 4

A Visit of sugar cane growers to the Grafton Experiment Farm is being arranged for Wednesday, March 18, and growers and their wives who are destroys…

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Private Loan Latham's Scheme Approved Assistance For. Farmers. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 5

Referring to Mr. Latham's scheme for raising private loans to assist the farmers, the chairman of the Associated Banks, Mr. Tranter, said to-day the proposal was…

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Cattle

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 2

It was a pleasure to be among the cattlemen this year for in the cattle pens were animals testifying to the progressiveness of local dairymen…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 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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Pastoral an Important Difference How to Distinguish Toowoomba and Annual Canary Grass

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 6

With the sowing period for grasses approaching, it is seasonable to remind pastoralists that, although the seeds of Toowoomba Canary grass (Pharis…

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The Farm Vegetable Sweet Potatoes Selection of Roots for Next Year's Crop

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 6

Next year's sweet potato crop will be a much more profitable one if it is produced from plants raised from roots selected now with certain, desirable…

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The Dorrigo Show Twenty-first Annual Exhibition a Great Success Pavilion Filled From End to End—wonderful Display Cattle Section a Great Credit to District

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 2

Although the Dorrigo and Guy Fawkes Agricultural Society may not reveal an appreciable surplus from its 21st annual show which took place on Wednesday and Thursday, it has the satisfaction of knowing that the exhibition ranks among the best on record. The…

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Potato Moth Precautions When Harvesting the Crop

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 3
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Tableland potato growers who are harvesting their crops may be reminded of the necessity of precautions against potato moth attack. Control is,…

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Unemployment Relief Tax P.P.U Gets Solicitor's Opinion Case of Share Farmers

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 6

Mr. G. S. Johnson, Hon. Sec. of the Dorrigo branch of the P.P.U., has received the following letter from headquarters regarding the unemployment…

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Dairying Conditions Instructors' Reports Tweed River

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 4

Mr. Senior Dairy Instructor C. S Kentwell, in charge of the Dairy Branch District, Tweed River, with headquarters Byron Bay, in his…

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Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 4

Ae previously mentioned, the cane growers of the Clarence River will be visiting the Grafton Experiment Farm next Wednesday, and Mr. G. Marks, manager,…

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Loan for Farmers Meeting of Financiers. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 5

A committee of financial men met this afternoon to give consideration to details of the proposed £1,000,000 private loan, which will be raised to assist the…

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Advance in Wool Prices. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 March 1931 · page 2

The market was animated when the wool sales were resumed to-day and prices showed a further advance of about 5 per cent: on the prices realised yesterday, the…

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News of the World Canadian Butter Supplies. Ottawa

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 March 1931 · page 5

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows 1,800,000 pounds of butter less in Canada on March 1 than a year ago…

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Wool Industry Signs of Recovery. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 March 1931 · page 5

Addressing the annual meeting of the Southern Riverina Graziers' Association. Mr. J. H. Patterson said that, provided there was no Government interference, the…

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FRUSTRATED Tick Officials Baulked Tweed River Sensation Farmer and Tick Board

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 March 1931 · page 4

When tick officials visited a farm at Goonengerry (Tweed district), to dip cattle, on Friday and Wednesday last, the stock, it is alleged, were dispersed…

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Price of Butter Reduction of Halfpenny Lb. To-day

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 March 1931 · page 4

From to-day, the price of butter will he 12d a lb. lower. The Butter Stabilisation Committee has decided to reduce the wholesale…

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