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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 19 of 66

Dairying Where Paspalum Fails Methods Necessary for Consistent Dairying Production

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 4

It is with respect to consistency of production that most dairy-farmers fail. Most of our coastal districts have become overrun with paspalum…

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Dairyville Personal

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 3

Congratulations to Miss Winnie Hunter, who attained her majority on Wednesday, 8th inst. It is stated that her brother, the popular Jim…

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Farm Problems Australian's Mission Visit to America. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 6

The State Cabinet, some time ago on the recommendation of the Minister for Mines and Forests (Mr. Vincent) decided, in view of the seriousness of…

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Junior Farmers Club For Grafton Meeting Next

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 4

Mr. F. C. Wootten, headmaster of the Grafton High School, has called a meeting, to be held at the High School on Thursday, April 23, at 7.45 p.m., to…

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Dairymen Should Enrol Dairy Produce Control Board Election

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 4

The time for enrolment in connection with the election of producers' representatives to the Dairy Produce Control Board closes on…

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Narrow Majority Dairy Board Election. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 5

Mr. Jonathan Proud, manager of the Camperdown Dairy Co., Victoria, is the first member elected to the newly constituted Australian Dairy Produce…

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Farm Research Dr. Page Meets Experts Rothamstead Institute London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 April 1936 · page 5

Dr. Earle Page to-day visited the Rothamstead Institute, where he met research workers investigating' diseases in Australian wheat and tobacco and…

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Farm Horror Girl Shot Dead Assailant Suicides Mother Pleads for Boy Roma

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 April 1936 · page 5

Two persons are dead and a third is in hospital in a serious condition as a result of a murder and suicide this morning, at the farm of…

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Silver Ring A.J.C. Plate Win Hadrian's Cropper Plate Salamander Wins on Protest Plutus Shows Staying Form. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 April 1936 · page 6

At Randwick to-day, the A.J.C. autumn meeting was concluded. Silver Ring repeated his performance in the Cumberland Plate by leading…

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Ergot Poisoning Cowper Main's Cattle Research Director's Views

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 3

"From the information given by the inspector of stock (Mr. C. W. Sabine) it appears quite possible that the cows were affected with ergot poisoning;"…

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Butter Exports Fall in July-april Figures. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 1

A statement issued by the Department of Commerce shows that from July 1. 1935, to April 11, this year, a total of 82,992 tons of butter was exported,…

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Bees and Cattle "Don't Get On Together" Apiary in Stock Reserve Attitude of the P.P. BOARD

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 1

"A travelling stock reserve |s no place for an apiary. Bees and cattle don't get on together," stated Dir. Cheyalley, at a meeting of the…

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Help the Land Scientific Farming Col. Bruxner's Warning. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 5

At the Public Service Association's Conference, referring to a remark by the president that adequate, scientific research was necessary in the interest…

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Free Agricultural Training at Government Experiment Farms

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 10

The Minister for Agriculture (Hon. Hugh Main, M.L.A.) states that there are several vacancies at the Government Experiment Farms at Cowra and…

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From Farm to Flying How Keith Virtue Became a Pilot

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 10

How Mr. Keith Virtue (now chief pilot for Airlines of Australia and a breaker of record flying times in the new Stinson machine) became an…

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Claim for Wages Lad's Work on Farm

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 2

John Gilligan (by his next friend, Agnes Ellen Gilligan) obtained a verdict for £2, with 8 costs, against James Watkins, of Rappville, at Lismore Police…

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Honest Mistake Theft Charge Fails Dairymen Acquitted a Neighbor's Heifers. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 4

Frederick Smith and Gerald Smith (brothers), of Wiangarie, were charged at the Lismore Quarter Sessions with stealing four heifers, the…

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From Farm to Aerodrome

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 4

The farm belonging to the estate of the late Thomas Exton, comprising 139¾ acres of excellent river frontage and basaltic hill country, adjoining…

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Squirrel Menace Slaughter In Britain Farmers Eradicate Pest. London, March 28

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 8

British farmers are making more determined efforts than ever to keep down the grey squirrels which threaten to become as big a menace to English…

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Synthetic Wool "Menace To Australia" Fighting Fund Wanted. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 April 1936 · page 5

When the Senate meets to-morrow, Senator Guthrie (U.A.P., Victoria) will move the adjournment to direct attention to the menace to the Australian…

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