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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

1,311 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 16 of 66

Upper Clarence Pastures Stock From Yulgilbar Home of Good Horses and Cattle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 March 1936 · page 2

Yulgilbar Station, which has figured prominently in the history of the development of the resources of the Upper Clarence, was well represented in sales…

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Clarence River Historical Society the Bawden Lectures Cedar-getters And Matrimony When Cattle Were Cheap (No. 104.)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 March 1936 · page 8

Mr. Bawden continued:-- "Many of the cedar-getters and their belongings in the early days were not bound very strictly by moral lines. Sir…

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Trade Balance Favors Australia £16,054,000 To The Good Wool Exports Increase Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 March 1936 · page 4

Due mainly to further large increases in the exports of wool the Australian favorable overseas trade balance increased by £5,434,000…

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Irregular London Butter Market. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1936 · page 5

Butter continues irregular owing to heavy New Zealand arrivals offsetting lighter Australian shipments. There is definite lack of speculative activity,…

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Attacked by Bees Farmer and Horses. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1936 · page 5

Mr. J. D. Learmonth, farmer, of Pittsworth, was attacked by bees, while returning home from work on his farm, driving a springcart and horse, and…

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Field Day at "Caramana" Clarence River Junior Farmers Sixty Boys Have Happy Instructive Day Judging Competitions Excite Keen Interest

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 March 1936 · page 7

A most successful Field Day was held on Saturday last by the Clarence River Junior Farmers at "Caramana." the property of Messrs. H. Badgery and…

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Freight Rebates Wheat And Wheat Products Mr. Bruxner and Flour Millers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 March 1936 · page 5

A deputation from the N.S.W. Flour Mill Owners' Association, comprising representatives from, all over the country, as well as the…

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Mighty Epic Conquering A Continent Idriess Captures Its Thrill "Herald" on "The Cattle King."

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 March 1936 · page 7

Under the caption."Conquering a Continent," the following leading article appeared in last Saturday's "S.M. Herald":--…

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Junior Farmers Gain Experience

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 March 1936 · page 4

The sixty members of Junior Farmers' Clubs on the Clarence River who attended the Field Day at "Caramana" on Saturday last would carry away, with them impressions that will last for many a day, for not only did they have a most enjoyable time but they learned many things that will be…

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Coff's Harbor Butter Factory Broken Into. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 April 1936 · page 7

On Sunday night or early Monday morning the door of the shod in which lorries belonging to the Coff'" Harbor…

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Season's Prospects Crops And Pastures Cold Winter May Mean Shortage of Feed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 April 1936 · page 4

Mr. E. O. Dalgleish, Senior Dairy Instructor in charge of the Dairy Branch districts, from the Clarence to the Nambucca, with headquarters at…

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700 Yarded Hawthorne's Cattle Sale

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 April 1936 · page 4

About 700 head of cattle were yarded at the weekly sale conducted by W. J. Hawthorne and Sons at the South Grafton municipal saleyards. There…

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Wool Wants World Boost

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 April 1936 · page 4

There was a time when Australian wool and the materials manufactured therefrom had no serious competition to meet in any part of the world. It is different to-day. The change came gradually, after the war, when national economic and industrial reconstruction began in many lands. Other…

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Milk and Wheat Bills Forced Through U.A.P. Member Objects. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 April 1936 · page 5

Despite vigorous opposition by one of its supporters; Mr. Lee (U.A.P., Druminoyne), the Government forced through a motion in the Legislative…

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Farming Property Not Sold

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 April 1936 · page 4

The grazing and dairy farm at Southgate, the property of Messrs. Sydney, Robert, Charles and Edward Payne, about nine miles from Grafton, was…

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Pastoral White Curl Grubs a Pest of Pasture and Lawns

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 3 April 1936 · page 3

The larvae of many Species of scarab beetles occur as pests and these are commonly referred to as white curl grubs. A number of…

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Agricultural Rotation of Crops Benefits the Farm and the Farmer

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 3 April 1936 · page 3

Plants are composed of a great many compounds or substances, but of the eighty or more elements known to the chemist, only fourteen are commonly found in plant…

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Vegetable Famine Dry Summer In England Housewives Use Sheep Fodder. London, March 14

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 April 1936 · page 9

England is facing a famine of green vegetables. Supplies are dwindling to vanishing point, and some housewives,without…

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Dairying Conditions Instructors' Reports the Tweed

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 3 April 1936 · page 6

Mr. I. W. Scott. Senior Dairy Instructor, in charge of the Dairy Branch District, Tweed to Bangaloes, with headquarters Byron Bay, in his…

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Dairying the Pit Silo Cheapest Method of Ensiling Fodder

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 3 April 1936 · page 3

There is no cheaper or quicker method of ensiling fodder than by "pitting" it, observes a departmental pamphlet, in excavating a pit of the…

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