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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 39 of 68

Dairying a Four-legged Factory Maintaining the Output of the Dairy Cow

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 4

"To grasp fully the secret of maintaining high milk production we must realise that in a cow we have a most wonderfully equipped little factory…

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Price of Milk Sydney Will Pay More or Go Without Dairymen Demand Increase Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 5

If the milk distributing companies refuse to pay the increased price for milk, agreed upon by the Grand Council of the Country Milk…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 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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BUTTER Local Consumption 'Not Affected by Depression' Export Also Increased. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1931 · page 5

In a report to the Minister tor Agriculture on New South Wales butter trading for the nine months period, between July 1, 3930, and March 31, 1931, the…

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A Four-legged Factory Maintaining the Output of the Dairy Cow

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1931 · page 7

''To grasp fully the secret of maintaining high milk production wo must realise that in a cow we have a most wonderfully equipped little factory for the…

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The Farm Home Trees on the Farm Homestead Shelter Belts

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1931 · page 7

Shelter belts about the homestead serve a dual purpose. They increase the comfort of the dwelling, making it a much more pleasant place to live in, and also…

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Green Manure Crops a Reminder Regarding Ploughing-in

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1931 · page 7

Where green manure crops have been grown, ploughing-in should not pe delayed beyond the middle of August, even though the maximum of growth has not…

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Tamworth Pigs at Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1931 · page 4

The Department of Agriculture, writing to the secretary of the Grafton Experiment Farm Advisory Board (Mr. L. G. Lawson) relative to stud pigs at the…

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Russian Butter in Boxes Now--packed Like Australian. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1931 · page 3

Perhaps as a sequel to the diminution m the demand for Russian butter through the "Buy Empire Campaign," coupled with the tick recently found in Soviet butter…

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Casino's Woman Farmer

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 August 1931 · page 2

Six country women students attended the winter school held at Hawkesbury Agriculture College during the last few weeks. Prominent among them was Mrs…

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Eat More Butter Appetite of N.S.W. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 August 1931 · page 5

Statistics show that the population of New South Wales eats more butter than any other part of the world, the Average per capita being 34.35lb. for the…

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Butter Exhibits Fob British Show

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 August 1931 · page 2

The Minister for Markets, Mr. Parker Moloney, urges butter manufacturers throughout the Commomwealth to again take part in the British Dairy…

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Australian Butter Gratifying London Reports Statement by Minister for Markets. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 August 1931 · page 2

In referring to the present position of the dairying industry in Australia the Minister for Markets, Mr. Parker Moloney, stated, yesterday that very…

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Russian Butter Largest Exporter in July. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 August 1931 · page 5

The Empire Marketing Board reports for the week ended July 25 that Russia topped the list of 19 countries exporting butter to Britain, with 55,108 cwt.,…

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R.A.S. Competitions Dairy Farms' Grassland Management. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 August 1931 · page 4

A meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society decided to inaugurate dairy farms' grassland management competitions in the South Coast, Central Coast, and North…

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Wool Production Seven Per Cent. Less Than Last Year. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 August 1931 · page 5

The total wool production in 1930-31, including skin wools was 427,220,0001b., being 32,750,0001b. or 7 per cent, less than that for the previous season. The value of…

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At End Patience Of Farmers Low Prices--high Costs Farmers and Settlers' Conference. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 August 1931 · page 5

Opening the annual conference of the Farmers and Settlors' Association, the president, Mr. H. K. Nock, referring to the fanners' difficulties,…

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Butter Industry Sales! at Dairy Farms Protest Against Restrictions. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 5

Addressing the Fanners and Settlers Conference to-day, Mr. D. Kelly said the illicit sale of butter was being carried on by numerous people in country districts…

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Treat 'Em Young. Dehorning Dairy Cattle

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 1

Horns of dairy cattle serve no useful purpose and are a source of much danger and annoyance. Only in the case of high-class animals that are…

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Wheat Pool. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 7

The Farmers and Settlers Conference enthusiastically supported a motion favoring a Commonwealth wide compulsory wheat pool with majority farmer control…

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