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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 49 of 68

Book-keeping for Farmers Five Reasons for the Practice

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 3

Book-keeping is not a practice that is taken to very kindly by most farmers, but some permanent record of purchases and sales, profits and…

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P.d.s. Column Loss to Dairying Industry

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 6

By the death of Brigadier General G. M. Macarthur Onslow, C.M.G., D.S.O., V. D., producers in the dairying industry have lost a staunch…

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Casino Butter Pay

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 4

For the month of August the Casino Co-operative Dairy Society manufactured 291,029lb. of commercial butter, and on the basis of 1 a lb. distributed £14,521…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 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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Bellinger River 832 Tons of Butter in Year Bellinger

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 3

The total butter production on the Bellinger River for the year just closed was 832 tons, or a weekly average of 16 tons for the whole period. Suppliers of…

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Relief of Farmers Advance of £3,000,000 Question of Distribution." Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 5

The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullia,), the Miniter for Markets (Mr. Parker Moloney), and the Assistant Minister (Mr. Cunningham), to-day conferred…

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Dairying Herd Recording Scheme to Be Continued

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 3

The Executive Committe of the Commonwealth Bank Board was decided to make a grant of £3000 available from the Rural Credits Development Fund…

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Bookkeeping for Farmers Five Reasons for the Practice

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 3

Book-keeping is not a practice that is taken to very kindly by most farmers but some permanent record of purchases and sales, profits and expenses and other…

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P.d.s. Column Loss to Dairying Industry

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 3

By the death of Brigadier-General G. M. Macarthur Onslow, C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D., producers in the dairying industry have lost a staunch friend. He was…

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Must Be Marked Blended Butter in Britain Future Looks "Fairly Sound." London

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 September 1931 · page 5

A draft Order in Council has been issued ordering that blended, butter to be marked accordance with the. committee's recommendations announced on June 10…

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Easy Excuse Blame the Banks Minister to Wheat Growers. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 5

Declaring the plight of the wheat growers was so desperate that unless substantial financial assittance was provided they would be unable to give the nation its…

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The Value of Fodder Crops

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 4

At the best of times primary production is more or less precarious, because success or failure largely depends upon circumstances' beyond the control of the producer. With the agriculturist it is not always a case of reaping what he sows for, after sowing, his work is subject to many conditions…

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Chinese Dairy Australian Visitor's Praise Cows Housed and Fed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 5

According to Mr. J. P. Denaby, who returned from China to-day, he was impressed by the methods adopted by the Culty Dairy, Shanghai, where there are…

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Junior Farmers Maclean Club First Show Held

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 September 1931 · page 1

The first show of the Maclean Junior Farmers' Club was held at the Rural District School, Maclean, on Saturday, and was very successful. The…

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Breed Horses Appeal to Farmers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 September 1931 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Dunn, to-day made an urgent appeal to farmers and graziers to give their earnest attention to the breeding of horses,…

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"All Cry and No Wool"

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 September 1931 · page 4

The present session of the State Parliament is to conclude next week, according to the announcement made in the Legislative Assembly yesterday by the Premier, and we may say in the words of one of Shakespeare's characters': "For this relief much thanks." Whilst Parliament is in recess, the capacity…

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£3,000,000 More If Wool Prices Hold. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 September 1931 · page 5

There was a further advance of five per cent. in the price of wool at the wool sales to-day, following very strong competition shared in by practically all sections…

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Coastal Potato Crops Review As at 12931

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 September 1931 · page 3

The following review, of the conditions of coastal potato crops on the Clarence, Macleay and Lower Hunter Rivers, issued by the Marketing Bureau, is…

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P.P.U. Central Executive Meeting Herd Testing Statement by Director of Dairying. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 September 1931 · page 5

Addressing the quarterly meeting of the Central Executive of the Council of the Primary Producers' Union, which commenced to-day, the Director of…

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Wool Rising Pastoral Shares Improve Sydney Stock Exchange. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 5

Prices at the wool sales showed a further advance of five per cent, to-day, making a total of 15 per cent in the past three days, and greasy merino fleece realised the…

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