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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 23 of 68

Dairying Useful About the Dairy a Handy Home-made Dipper

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 May 1931 · page 7

A handy little dipper which will be found very useful for many purposes about, the dairy may be made from a two-pound preserved fruit can. The lid…

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Twelve Million Loan for Relief of Farmers and Employment Effect on Double Dissolution Plan. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 May 1931 · page 5

The Loan Council's proposal to float a [?]oan of £12,000,000--£6,000,000 for the relief of farmers and £6,000,000 for provision of employment--has a direct effect…

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Cattle Industry Conditions During 1930 Fared Better Than Wool

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 May 1931 · page 1

In their annual report Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., comment as follows upon the cattle industry:- Cattle compared with sheep are in a…

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The Significance of Wool Week

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 May 1931 · page 4

This is Wool Week. The aim of those who have been responsible for launching it is to give an impetus to the consumption of Australian woollen goods. Special window and store displays and similar devices with which "Buy Australia Made". Week has made us familiar are being adopted with the…

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Ulmarra Junior Farmer Club Donation of Pure Bred Berkshire Boar

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 May 1931 · page 3

Mr. Trevor Brown, the well-known breeder and judge of Berkshire pigs, who at present is in charge of Navua Stud Farm, Grose Wold, Richmond. New South…

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Junior Farmer Club Maclean Advisory Committee Proposed Conference with Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 May 1931 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Maclean Junior Farmer Club was held at the Literary Institute on Friday evening. Rev. C. Rowe…

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'Chained to Plough' Cinderella of Industry Labor's Reward to Farmers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 May 1931 · page 4

"Chained to the plough, the Cinderella of Australian industry; that is the special lot reserved by the Federal Labor Government for the Australian farmer…

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Local and General Experiment Farm Advisory Committee

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 May 1931 · page 4

The Grafton Experiment Farm Advisory Committee will meet at the Farm at 10.30 o'clock this morning, when the usual inspection of the Farm and general…

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RETALIATION France And Tariff Our Producers Penalised Wheat and Butter Practically Barred. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 May 1931 · page 4

Answering Mr. Francis (Moreton) in the House of Representatives to-day the Minister for Customs said since the introduction of the…

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Grafton Experiment Farm Meeting Of The Advisory Committee Unexpected Arrival of Aberdeen Angus Stud Stock Problem Of Feeding Pigs To Produce Bacon Comparative Figures Paid for Pork at the Factories

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 May 1931 · page 3

The Grafton Experiment Farm Advisory Committee, which met at the Farm yesterday, discussed a number of important matters of interest to local producers. The subject to which most attention was devoted was that of pig feeding and it was proposed to ask the department to carry out experiments…

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Soviet Butter Dumped In England 15,000 Barrels May Not Affect Dominion Prices. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 5

Australian circles are perturbed at the arrival of Soviet butter. The first consignment of 15,000 barrels of Russian butter was landed…

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Cane Crops Good Growth Showing

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 4

Both the one year and two years old sugar cane crops on the Clarence are showing good growth. The estimated tonnage of sugar cane to be harvested at…

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Farm Hands

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 4

Some misapprehension may have resulted from the statement in the report of the meeting of the Experiment Farm Advisory Committee, which appeared in the…

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Sop for Farmers Primage Duty Remission "Election Is Drawing Near." Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 5

In the House of Representatives today Mr. Scullin stated that the Federal Government had given careful consideration to the effect of primage duty and…

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P.d.s. Column Butter Exports

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 3

As 61,226 tons of butter had been shipped from Australia to all countries this season, up to the 18th April, it seems likely that the record of…

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111 NETT Profitable Butter Price Farmers Don't Get It Eathurst Decisions Same As 1926 Conference. Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 4

The Dairy Produce Committee, at the Producers and Consumers' Conference, in its report, said it could see no reason to alter the decision…

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Sales of Farms

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 2

Mr. A. Hutchinson's farm of 1921/2 acres, one of the best properties in the district, has Changed hands, the purchaser being Mr. J. Bennett, of the…

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DAIRYING. Record Shipments This Season

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 2

Seasonal conditions throughout the whole of Australia were never more favourable at this time of the year for the dairying industry. Production…

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Beef Cattle Cross- Breeding Experiments at Grafton Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 3

Mr. G. Marks, manager of the Grafton Experiment Farm, informs us that the Department of Agriculture has approved of cross- breeding experiments with cattle…

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Looking Up the Wool Position. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 5

In the course of a broadcast address to-night Mr. K. de L. Cudmore, chairman of the New South Wales section of the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers,…

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