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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 18 of 68

Outside Buyers for Clarence River Farms

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 4

Maurice and Johnson and J. B. McDougall, auctioneers in conjunction, report having disposed of five farming properties to outside buyers during the…

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Rural Reliefs, Ltd. New Company Registered Aid for Necessitous Farmers No Profits for Investors. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 5

Many well known public men are included in the list of subscribers of the new company, Rural Reliefs, Ltd., which was registered to-day with a…

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Pastoral Shelter for Stock Another Argument for Trees on the Farm

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 3

Trees provide a very necessary shelter for stock of all descriptions. To see a mob of cows or sheep huddled beneath a tree during the bitter winds or winter…

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Vic, Wheat Farmers Favor Flour Sales Tax. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 4

Recommendations adopted at a conference of wheat farmers in Melbourne included a Federal sales tax on flour. Among other proposals adopted were…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 3

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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Farmer Injured Gored by Prize Bull. Camden

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 5

Harold Gartrell, 35, farmer, of Camden was gored in the stomach by a bull to-day and is now in hospital in a serious condition. It is stated that the bull…

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Farm Vegetable Garden Importance of Good Drainage

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 3

The question of drainage should be considered in relation to a[?]l c[?]asses of soil, but especially in relation to those that are at [?] heavy. Neglect to make…

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Canadian Butter Increasing Production. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 5

"Canada is getting near the point, where it will have butter for export again, but whether it will be this year, or next is the question," said the…

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Wheat World Conference Organised by Canada. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 5

Mr. F. L. McDougall, Australian representative at the Rome Wheat Conference, has returned to London. He says that the conference of wheat exporting…

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Wool Industry Graziers' Conference References Remedy to Avert Ruin. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 April 1931 · page 5

Addressing the annual conference of the Graziers' Association, the president. (Mr. Tout) said unless Australia could rapidly return to a condition of affairs where the…

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DAIRYVILLE. Send-off to Mr. and Mrs. Duffy

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 14 April 1931 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. Duffy and family, who have removed to a farm at Boambi after residence at Dairyville of about eight years, were given a send-off at…

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DAIRYING. Reports of Instructors

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 14 April 1931 · page 3

Judging from the reports of the dairy instructors located in various parts of the coastal and central divisions, March proved a satisfactory…

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Wheat Farmers No Feathers To Fly With Victorian Member's Outburst Debate in Federal House. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 4

Debating the second reading of the Wheat Advances Bill in the House of Representatives to-night, Mtr. Stewart (Wimemra) said the Government had…

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Butter Bounty Third Reduction This Season. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 5

The Australian Stabilisation Committee announced yesterday that the export bounty on Australian butter manufactured after April [?] would be reduced from…

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Interstate Butter Queensland and New South Wales Conference at Coraki

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 6

A conference convened by the Australian. Dairy Produce Interstate Committee was held at Coraki oh Friday. Two sections of the committee, Queensland…

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Rural Wealth Wheat and Stock Statistics for Last Year. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 5

A return issued by the State Statistician to-day shows that the total area under crops for the year ended June 30, 1930 was 5,500,946 acres. The wheat…

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No Pool Wool Growers in Conference Minimum Price Suggested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 5

The Graziers' Conference, by an overwhelming majority, opposed any wool stabilisation scheme having as its object the fixation of prices of wool…

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"Chopping Blocks" Position of Dairymen. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 5

A conference of dairymen convened by the Metropolitan and Suburban Dairymen's Association met to-day to try to find a means of ending the price-cutting…

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CROWS Alleged Damage To Crops Threatened Action Against Maclean Municipal Council

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 6

Mr. William Wallwork, jun., of the South Arm, who owns a property adjoining the site where the Maclean Municipal. Council buries its garbage, has written to…

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Boys on Strike at Grafton Experiment Farm Alleged Cruelty

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 4

The action of 22 Canberra boys, in going on strike for one morning at the Grafton Experiment. Farm, was upheld recently, by a departmental inquiry by…

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