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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 15 of 68

Junior Farmers' Club Exhibits at Dorrigo Show All Sections Well Supported

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 3

The Dorrigo Junior Farmers' Club is steadily maintaining its reputation as the biggest and best Club on the Coast. Controlled by a capable…

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Couldn't Pay Wages Farmer Who Had Record Harvest. Parkes

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 5

Though he had a record harvest, Henry George Packham, farmer, who was proceeded against in Parkes police court by six employees, for the recovery of wages,…

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Russian Plans Huge Wheat Growing Scheme

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 March 1931 · page 7

The wheat situation in Australia, the gravity of which we all realise, has come rather suddenly, is not likely to be cleared up in a short time; in fact,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 March 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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Dairying Improving the Paspalum Pasture Time Now to Plough and Topdress

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 March 1931 · page 7

With the object of ensuring feed in plenty and variety all the year round, and a ration which contains all the elements of nutrition, the methods of…

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Royal Show Dairy Produce Section Best Yet Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 March 1931 · page 5

In the dairy produce sections for the Royal Show, which opens on Monday week, there are no fewer than 499 entries in the butter section each representing…

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Down Halfpenny Butter Cheaper To-day. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 March 1931 · page 5

Butter will be ½d a Ib. cheaper on Monday, when the new wholesale rate will be equivalent to 15½ lb. Choicest quality should be obtainable over the counter at…

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Butter in London Down Shilling a Cwt. Denmark Feeling Dominion Competition. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 March 1931 · page 5

Butter importers nave been unable to maintain prices and all descriptions have fallen several shillings. The decline is greatest in Danish which undoubtedly…

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Interesting to Cattle Men Hawthorne's Annual Sale Good Prices Realised

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 4

Last week the interest of cattle men in the Clarence River district centred in the animal stock sale conducted by W. J. Hawthorne and Sons at South…

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Record for Season Wool Sales Excitement 31¼ Fence for Greasy Merino. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 5

Amid exciting scenes a new Australian record for the season of 31[?]d for greasy merino fleece was paid at the Sydney wool sales to-day by a French operator for a…

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Teams of Cows. Cart Hay to Sheds on Rhine Farms. Novel Method of Shoeing. (Some Notes From the Diary of a World-Tripper)

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 4

Oh his recent trip abroad with Mrs. Mulhearn, Cr. Thos. Mulhearn, of Eastern Dorrigo, kept a diary. Being keen and observant, with the ability…

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Root Beetles. Attack Many Crops Along Coast

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 3

A pest known as the root black beetle, which has a wide variety of tastes, has been more than ordinarily prevalent in the coastal areas of this…

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Junior Farmers' Club Maclean Advisory Committee

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 2

The Maclean Junior Farmers' Club Advisory Committee met on Friday evening, the Rev. C. Rowe (president) being in the chair…

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Cane Growing Informative Lecture by Mr. W. K. Dixon Before Farmers and Settlers' Association

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 6

Besides Members of the F. and S. Association there were a number of fanners from different parts of the district present at the Tyndale and Lower Clarence F…

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'Smashing the Farmers Movement' "Smith's Weekly's" Insidious Attack a Sudden Change in Methods

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 6

Since its inception "Smith's'' has been Sydney's chief protagonist of the disastrous tariff policy which has been primarily responsible for the wreck of the…

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Fiduciary Bill Farmers As Stalking Horse Labor's Election Sop. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 5

Debating the Fiduciary Currency Bill in the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Thompson (Country Party)made an appeal for non-party action in an effort…

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Dairying Wheat for Cows Dairymen Can Help Wheat-growers

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 3

The present position of wheatgrowers is an unenviable and, perhaps, unprecedented one. Millions of bushels of last year's bumper harvest are…

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Bellinger River Butter Factories

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 2

At the Bellinger River Co-operative Butter and Bacon Society's Bellinger, factory in February, 93,087lbs. of butter were manufactured, of which 1495…

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Butter Substitutes Keen Victorian Interest

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 4

A test case to determine the position of manufacturers of butter substitutes was begun at Fitzroy (Vic.) last week, and as the judgment may have…

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Pastoral Cheaper Production Top-dressing increases Quantity and Quality

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 3

Those who set out to solve the problem of high costs by striving for the production of more per acre should not lose sight of the fact that, as a…

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