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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

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'Not Enough'' Proposed £6,000,000 Loan Aid for Wheat Growers Views of Farmers' Leaders. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 4

Views were expressed in Sydney today that the loan of £6,000,000 proposed to be raised to provide a bounty of sixpence per bushel on…

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Surplus Wheat About 56,000,000 Bushels Statistician's Estimate Crop May Reach 68,000,000 Bushels. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 5

The Government Statistician, Mr. Waites, has made an estimate of the wheat harvest of the current season, based on the returns received from [?] the…

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Pasture Improvement. Australian Dairy Council 4 Scheme

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 1

The scheme inaugurated by the Australian Dairy Council for the improvement of pastures in the dairying districts of New South Wales has so…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association Tyndale and Lower Clarence Branch

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 1

The monthly meeting of the Tyndale and Lower Clarence brunch of the F. and S. Association was held, at Maclean on Saturday morning, there being present:…

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Chinaman's Dog Pekin Farm Incident Unlicensed Pistol and Cruelty to Animal

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

Following upon a visit to Pekin Farm, on the Copmanhprst road, yesterday morning, Gew Wing, 56, a Chinese gardener, appeared at the Grafton Police…

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Beaten with Chain Farmer Seriously Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 4

Detectives are investigating an attack on Ernest Leslie Harton, farmer, at Yarram Gippsland, who this afternoon was found with 16 wounds, apparently…

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Experiment Farm Advisory Committee

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 4

A meeting of the Grafton Experiment Farm Advisory Committee will be held on Tuesday next at 10.30 a.m. The business will include the election of officers…

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Wheat Industry Suggestion by Dr. Page. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 5

The Leader of the Federal Country party, Dr. Page, who wrote to the Prime Minister last week suggesting that Parliament should be called together…

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Separator Company Conduct Own Farm 200 Head of Swedish Ayrshire Cattle

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 3

Established in 1894 as an experimental farm where Alpha-Laval products, particularly Alpha-Laval Separators, were tested, model farm at Hamra,…

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Pastoral Pasture Improvement the Value of Harrowing

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4

The importance of harrowing as a means of pasture improvement is not fully realised by landowners in this State, writes the Assistant…

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Pastoral Pasture Improvements the Value of Harrowing

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 6

The importance of harrowing as a means of pasture improvement is not yet fully realised by landowners in this State, writes the Assistant Agrostologist,…

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Australian Butter Exports Increasing Victorian Quality Improves

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 6

In a statement embodying figures for the export of butter for the current season, the Minister for Markets (Mr. Parker Moloney) said on Monday that it was…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 6

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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Russia's Wheat Federal Govt. to Inquire. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5

At the A.L.P. Executive Conference today the question of the competition of Russia's wheat with the Australian product was raised, and it was announced…

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Pasture Improvement Australian Dairy Council Scheme Representatives Visit Dorrigo

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5

The scheme inaugurated by the Australian Dairy Council for the improvement of pastures in the dairying districts of New South Wales,…

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"The Tocsin" a Second Open Letter to the Farmer

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5

Farming Friends and Fellow Countrymen,— Since I last wrote you, conditions nave rapidly become worse, even…

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Dairying Losses of Calves. Ias a Result of Insanitary Calf-pens

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4

It is usual to provide some small shelter for calves when feeding, and to have a small yard attached thereto, but the condition of such places often…

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Dairying Conditions Instructors' Reports

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 3

Mr. Senior Dairy Instructor G. S. Kentwell, in charge of the Dairy Branch District, Tweed River, with headquarters at Byron Bay, in his…

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Dairying Losses of Calves As a Result of Insanitary Calfpens

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 6

It is usual to provide some small shelter for calves, when feeding, and to have a small yard attached, thereto, but the condition of such places often leaves…

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Fruit Fly Protection of Late-ripening Crops

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 6

Application of foliage poison spray for control of fruit fly should commence about five weeks before the fruit is harvested, but growers of late varieties of…

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