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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 5 of 68

Price of Wheat For Local Consumption Four Shillings a Bushel Fund for Necessitous Farmers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 5

The Parliamentary Labor party decided to-day that action should be taken to fix the price of wheat for local consumption at 4 a bushel. The details of the scheme…

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New Zealand's Butter Industry

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

During the dairying year ended 3171930, New Zealand produced 110,000 tons of butter, of which 70,000 tons were exported to Great Britain. 20,000 tons to…

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One Hundred Per Cent. Perfect Wheat Pool New Canadian Plan. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

The one hundred per cent, pooling on wheat was favored by the United Farmers of Alberta, representing 18,000 agrarians at Calgary, when the convention by a…

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Empire Butter Increasing Sales in the Northern Counties Wonderful Field for Intensive Push. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

The Empire Marketing Board's efforts to increase the sales of Empire butter in Yorkshire and Lancashire, have been supplemented by the private endeavor of…

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Help for Farmers Labor Party's Proposal Country Party Leader's Views "Federal Government Has Done Nothing." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

Commenting on the proposal of the Labor party to ask the Loan Council for a grant of £1,000,000 for the relief of needy farmers, Mr. Buttenshaw, the…

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'Pound of Flesh' Fate Of Industries Farmers and 'Financial Combinations' Mr. Lang Proposes Another Bathurst Conference. Parkes

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

"Every industry that we have is languishing, and we are compelled to realise that when the financial interests go after their pound of flesh…

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Destitute Farmers Half a Million on Rolls Distress in United States. Washington

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

Relief calls to the Red Cross for food and clothing have been so great that the chairman (Mr. John Payne) said that nearly 1,000,000 dollars were needed to…

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Pastoral Pasture Improvement Treatment of Sown Areas

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 7

In the effort to recover as soon as possible the expenditure incurred in laying down the pasture, many of those who go in for pasture improvement do much to…

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Great Cattle Show. Best For Years

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 1

The display of dairy cattle at the show on Saturday was the best for years. The quality was excellent and there were many exhibits, with keen…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 January 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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Agricultural Government Experiment Farms Their Relation to Commercial Agriculture

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 7

Replying some years ago to the charge that its experiment farms did not "pay," the Canadian Department of Agriculture advanced some reasons why such a farm…

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Wage Tax Exemptions Fixing Price of Wheat. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 5

In the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Premier informed Mr. Shand that the Government had under consideration a Bill to exempt from the wages tax per…

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Australian Butter Average Value 104 Per Cent. Question in House of Commons London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 5

Mr. G. Gillett, in the House of commons, answering Mr. J. J. McShane, said the wholesale price of butter in Australia, in the first week in December…

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Farmers and Prohibition

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 2

Mr. Louis J. Faber, head of the Farmers' National Organisation of U.S.A., says: "The Eighteenth Amendment has been invaluable to agriculture because of the…

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Storekeepers Criticised "Embarrassing Government or Injuring Farmers." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 4

Asserting that certain country storekeepers had combined either to embarrass the Government or to try to injure the farmers the Premier, Mr. Lang, in…

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Unanswered Question Loan to Assist Farmers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 5

In the Assembly to-day Mr. Bavin asked Mr. Dunn whether he was correctly reported as having said that application had been made by his Government to the…

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Branding Stud Cattle

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

The fact has come to light that in this State Herefords and Aberd enAngus are not stud breeds according to the Stock Brands Act. This is due…

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Redwater Disease in Cattle

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

Interviewed in Lismore on Wednesday Col. C. L. O'Gorman, chairman of the Board of Tick Control, stated that new cases of redwater disease in cattle were…

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Output of Bellinger Butter Factories

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

At the Bellinger River Co-operative Butter and Bacon Society's factory at Bellingen, the output of butter for December, 1930, was 75,197 pounds, of…

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Pastoral Pasture Improvement Necessity for Subdivision of Paddocks

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 7

Systematic pasture management is necessary for maximum benefits from pasture improvement, points out the assistant agrostologist of the Department…

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