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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1934

1,445 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 66 of 73

Farmers' Dogs

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 November 1934 · page 3

Recently the Central Executive of the P.P.U. urged upon the Chief Secreaary that farmers be allowed to keep one or more dogs free of…

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Scare Grasshoppers Farmers Beat Kerosene Tins Clouds of Pest Attack Crops Extensive Damage in West. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 November 1934 · page 5

Reports from western districts indicate that considerable damage has been caused by grasshoppers. The news from the Condo[?] district…

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Germany and Wool Local Industry to Be Encouraged. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 November 1934 · page 5

In order to encourage the breeding of sheep for wool, the railways are reducing freight charges for wool shorn from German sheep, by 25 per cent…

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Cattle Stealing Unheeded Lesson P,m,'s Advice to Defendant Coramba Police Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 November 1934 · page 6

Clyde Hayes, aged 24, teamster, of Lowanna, was charged before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., on the 13th inst., at Coramba Police Court, that he did, between April…

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Wheat Industry New South Wales Plan Federal Committee to Consider. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 November 1934 · page 5

Three members of the Federal Cabinet Sub-Committee—Dr. Page and Messrs. Thorby and Casey—will confer with members of the New South Wales…

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An Abomination Restriction Of Exports Premier on Butter Industry. Existence Defends on Quality. Port Macquarie

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 November 1934 · page 5

Officially opening the new butter factory here to-day, the Premier Mr. Stevens, referred to the restriction of exports…

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45 Cattle Dips Clarence River District £10,400 to Be Spent £6000 Available Immediately. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 November 1934 · page 5

Following a recommendation by the Cattle Tick Commission for the allocation of £10,400 for the erection of 45 cattle dips in the Clarence River…

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Nymboida Power Butter Factories Asked to Link Up. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 November 1934 · page 4

Nymboida hydro-electric plant now provides electricity, for Terania [?] though there are not as many consumers in the eastern portion of the shire as was…

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4000 Tons Increase in Butter Exports Official Statement. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 November 1934 · page 4

An increase this year of 4000 tons on last year's butter exports was disclosed by the Commerce Department in a statement which furnishes details of butter exports…

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Cattle Tick U.S.A. Is Progressive P.P.U. Weekly Notes the Fertiliser Subsidy. Sydney, November 13, 1934

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 November 1934 · page 6

Concerning the fertiliser subsidy the Primary Producers' Union Central Executive Council has received a reply from the secretary of the Department of Commerce,…

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Tarred and Feathered Comunist in Canada Farmers' Strike Proceeding

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 November 1934 · page 5

VEGREVILLE (Alberta), Saturday. George Palmer, a Communist who recently returned from Russia, was abducted by three men and tarred and…

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Farmer Found Shot. Taree

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 November 1934 · page 5

At 6 o'clock last night the police were informed that a farmer, John Joseph Payne, 58, had been found dead at Harold Donkin's farm, Tipperary, on which…

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Assistance for Wheat Growers Wheat Price Maintenance Board Formed. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 November 1934 · page 7

The establishment of a Wheat Price Maintenance Board with authority to raise portion of the £4,000,000 required by the Federal Government to assist the…

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Junior Farmers to Visit Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 November 1934 · page 4

Arrangements have been made by Mr. F. Henderson, hon. secretary of the Clarence River District Council of the Junior Farmers, with the manager of the…

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Big Butter Fat Competition

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 November 1934 · page 4

The Mullumbimby Agricultural Society's £120 butter fat competition was won by Brown Bros., Tweed Heads, whose team of five cows, registered a…

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Getting Worse World Wheat Position. Budapest

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 November 1934 · page 5

The World Wheat Committee spent the day discussing higher European yields which are expected to reduce Continental demands for imports from overseas…

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Slight Decline London Wool Sales. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 November 1934 · page 5

Wool sales opened to-day and prices, compared with closing rates of last series, were from par to a decline of 5 to 10 per cent…

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Dehorning of Dairy Cattle. Treatment of the Calf

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 23 November 1934 · page 4

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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Small Yarding Weekly Cattle Sale

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 November 1934 · page 4

The yarding was small and the market easier for some lines at the weekly cattle sale at the South Grafton municipal saleyards, conducted by W. J…

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Butter Substitutes Sales In Clarence District Problem for Dairymen Discussed by P.P. UNION

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 November 1934 · page 9

Included in a lengthy programme of business at the quarterly meeting of the Clarence District Council of the Primary Producers' Union…

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