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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 47 of 68

Butter Substitutes

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 September 1931 · page 6

While Victoria has similar health laws to those of New South Wales, the same activity in attacking the sale of butter substitutes has not been shown there. The…

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P.d.s. Column Farm Butter

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 September 1931 · page 6

Every year about this time especially in the inland district's, Considerable quantities of butter are produced on the farms, Which find their way into the stores to…

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Dairying Conditions and Prospects Clarence Dellinger District

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 September 1931 · page 6

Mr. Senior Dairy Instructor. C. Rowe, in charge of the dairy branch district Clarence to Beilinger, with headquarters at Coff's Harbor Jetty, in his August…

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Storm in France Damage to Crops and Railway. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 September 1931 · page 3

Storms swept Central and Southern France and caused damage, amounting; to several million francs. The railway was cut in three places near Cluny. Bridges…

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Cattle Stealing Charges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 September 1931 · page 4

Further evidence was heard in the Casino Police Court on Thursday before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., in several cases of alleged cattle stealing. When the…

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Cane As Fodder. Cattle, Horses or Pigs

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 8 September 1931 · page 1

In last issue of the "P.P. News" appears an article from Mr. S. A. H. Gill, Upper Orara, on the value of cane as a fodder for all classes of…

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Price of Wool. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 September 1931 · page 6

The average price or wool sold in Sydney last week was only £8183 per bale, or 6.5d. per lb. At to-day's sale, the top price Was [?] per lb…

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Dairy Farmers Warned

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 September 1931 · page 4

Quirindi Co-operative Dairy Society, Ltd.'s factory last year manufactured 522,875th of butter, for which suppliers received £25,906. The chairman (Mr…

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Modern Dairyman

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 8 September 1931 · page 2

Canberra boasts of a Danish dairyman who milks a herd of 60 tested cows three times daily, at 2 a.m., 10 a.m., and 5 p.m. He gets rewarded…

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Butter Factory at Wellington

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 September 1931 · page 4

After many months of organisation, it has been definitely decided to establish a butter factory in Wellington (N.S.W.). The shares necessary have been…

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Taint in Butter Boxes

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 September 1931 · page 4

At Thursday's meeting of the P.P.U. District Council it was mentioned that experiments were in progress with the object of overcoming the tainting of…

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Local and General August Butter Pay

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 September 1931 · page 4

At a meeting of the North Coast Factories' Association, held at Lismore on Monday, the price for cream supplies to associated factories during August was…

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Nipped by Frost Early Potato Crops. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 September 1931 · page 5

The monthly crop report of the Department of Agriculture dealing with potatoes states that in the Far North Coast very early crops looked very…

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Fluke Treatment Warning to Dairymen. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 September 1931 · page 5

The monthly stock report of the [?]partment of Agriculture advises owners of dairy cattle not to treat the animals with carbon-tetrachloride for fluke,…

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Wheat Harvested for Hay

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 September 1931 · page 4

Notwithstanding the drought conditions that, have prevailed for some time past, some very fine crops of wheat have been harvested for hay. at the Grafton…

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The Dairy Herd Value of Fodder Crop's Safeguards in Drought

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 September 1931 · page 3

The drought conditions that have prevailed in this and neighbouring districts for some mouths past are causing farmers and dairymen some concern. Farming…

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Maclean Junior Farmers' Club Show

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 September 1931 · page 2

The Junior Farmers' Club is holding its first show at the Maclean District Rural School on Saturday, 19th Inst., from 10 o'clock until 2 o'clock. A liberal…

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Butter Marketing

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 11 September 1931 · page 6

Each season brings its own developments, and conditions never seem to be the same two years running in the British market The most…

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Local and General. Butter Price Cutting

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 11 September 1931 · page 2

At the quarterly meeting of Raleigh District of the P.P.U., Mr. Macaulay, Coramba, referred to the fact that the conference decided upon at the…

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"Drifting to Catastrophe" Wool Prices As Indicator. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 September 1931 · page 4

Sir Graham Waddell, chairman of the Australian Wool Growers' Council, said yesterday' that the ruling prices of wool at the opening sales should open the eyes…

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