Wheat Sales Big Purchases by Italy. Sydney
Due to big purchases of wheat by the United Kingdom and Italy, the local wheat market was very buoyant to-day. Values showed an advance of 3d per…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1936
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Winter Pastures Dairy Council Tests with Imported Grasses Co-operation of Farmers Sought
Local butter factories have been circularised by the New South Wales Committee of Australian Dairy Council stating that, with the object of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dry Spell Worst On Record Effect on Butter Production £2500 Per Week for Stock Fodder
The present drought on the Clarence River is in the opinion of the old identities the worst on record. Residents bf Grafton of over 70 years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter From Grafton District Melbourne
In the Assembly to-day, Mr. Cotter (Lab.), said butter manufactured near Grafton was being sold in West Australia at a lower price than the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Wheat Cheque Italy Still Buying. Sydney
The local wheat market showed a further advance to-day. The continued buying of Italy probably will result in further strengthening of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Facing Ruin" Farmers On Macleay Conditions Bad Down Coast. Sydney
Mr. J. L. D. McGibbon, Senior Dairy Instructor in charge of the dairy branch district from the Clarence to the Nambucca, with headquarters at Coff's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unseen Bull Fight Trespassing Dairy Sire Case in District Court Verdict for Plaintiff by Consent
In the District Court at Grafton yesterday before his Honor Judge Clancy and a jury, Dugald Cameron McPherson farmer, of Glenreagh, sued Sidney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London Wool Prices. London
The sixth and last series of London wool sales for 1936 concluded today. The total sales of Australian wool were 46,500 bales, and New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →52½ Bushel Wheat at Top Price. Sydney
Silo and bagged wheat was quoted at 52½ a bushel to-day. thus equalling the top price recorded earlier, in the year…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shifting Cattle To Macleay River 950 Head From Gordon Brook
Yesterday 950 Gordon Brook bullocks and steers were started on their way to South Grafton, where they will be loaded into 58 trucks next…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sticks and Stones In Bales Of Fodder Starving Cattle Turn Up Noses
Allegations that sticks, stones, water lilies and other rubbish were placed in some of the bales of fodder and that starving cattle and horses…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairying. Defects in Dairy Utensils Value of Knowledge of Soldering
No farmer has to use tinware of various descriptions to the same extends as the dairyman, and an elementary knowledge of the use of the soldering…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer Injured
Mr. G. H. Ross, of Old Coast Road, was engaged breaking a young cow in to the habit of entering the bails when the animal jumped from one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ravenous Bush Fires District Menaced Crops Burnt, Houses Saved
Bush fires in different parts of the district yesterday, aided by strong winds, caused one of the most adventurous days the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flying Spark Ignites Sawdust . Fire at Mr. Alf Davey's Farm
A pile of sawdust lying, in a paddock on Mr. Alf Davey's property on the Junction road, Grafton, ignited about 11 o'clock yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Primary Producers Discuss The Referendum Campaign Committee to Organise "Yes" Vote "Give Farmers Good Living In Decent Times"
The Clarence District Council of the Primary Producers' Union which held its quarterly meeting in the Town Hall, Grafton yesterday, appointed a general committee, consisting of all the delegates to the District Council, to undertake an organising campaign to ensure a favorable vote, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers' Worry Flocks Of Starlings Destroy Apple Orchards. London, November 14
Huge Hocks of starlings are the English farmer's latest worry. In Devonshire, especially, the birds are so numerous, that the local farmers have…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sugar Crop Yield May Be Record. Brisbane
According to the annual report of the director of the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, it is expected that the sugar yield of the 1936 cron will be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BUTTER The London Market Dairy Board's Statement. Melbourne
Spasmodic buying during the week left the market for Australian butter in London quiet to-day, according to an official cable received, by the Dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Increase in Butter Pay
The North Coast Butter Factories Association met in Lismore on Thursday and fixed the pay for supplies received during November at 11d a lb. for…
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