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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

1,285 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 55 of 65

Butter Gradings. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 5

The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined in Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended October 28. 14.312 boxes of…

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Where the Butter Is Made

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 46

Coff's Harbour Butter Factory is built on the most modem lines as will be seen in this picture…

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Butter Pay Richmond-tweed Factories. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 5

The North Coast Butter Factories' Association, at a meeting at Lismore today, fixed the butter pay for October at 1, which is three farthings less than…

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Varying Products of a Century Ship Building At Brushgrove Blacks Who Hunted the Squatters' Sheep Fat Cattle Boiled Down To Make Candles

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 10

The earliest export from the Clarence River was cedar. The first cedar getters, John Small, Francis Girard, Kellick Sorrel and their men, are…

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Lawrence History Days Of Wool Teams Founding of Brushgrove Maize Growing Industry

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 30

Lawrence is one of the oldest established towns on the Clarence, and was brought into existence through trade connection with Tenterfield on the…

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Beef Cattle on the Clarence Historic Industry's Steady Progress Hen Fat Bullocks Were Boiled for Tallow How Ramornie Meatworks Were Commenced

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 39

From its earliest history the Clarence River district has been indebted largely to the beef cattle industry for a large portion of its wealth, and many fortunes have been made by the cattlemen, out of the pastures…

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The Rise and Progress of Woolgoolga Cattle, Timber and Bananas Have In Turn Flourished In Its Soil a District That Re-afforested Itself Some Of Our Coastal Scenery

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 23

When W. T. Pullen first went out to Woolgoolga it was with a firm, determination to do something to advance the district. The…

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Coff's Harbour's Progress Since 1850 Memories of Old Shipping Port Home of the First White Settler Dairying, Fishing, Bananas and Timber Vivid, Virile Story of Hard-won Success

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 44

Coff's Harbor was discovered by Captain John Korff in the year 1850. A well-known, figure in shipping circles in the Port of Sydney until his…

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Cane Farmers and the Ferries From Hand-power to Science Sugar Production On the Clarence the Story of the Men Who Grew Cane How the First Mills Were Erected

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 52

Since the first schooner sailed thro ugh Clarence Heads seeking cedar logs Cut by the hardy adventurers who were the pioneers of the Big River's first industry tremendous strides have been made in the development of agricultural production and not the least of these is the sugar industry…

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Coramba Township On The Orara River Prosperous Dairying Memories of the Gold Mines

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 48

Coramba is a township situated in the heart of the Orara Valley, the Orara River passing right, through its centre and dividing it into two…

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Ulmarra, an Important Municipality Great Days of the Regattas Proud Record Of Civic Progress Story of the Formation of a Township Dairying Ousts Corn And Sugar Cane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 28

With perhaps the finest sculling course in the world for its frontage--a straight stretch of water, almost free from current cr eddies, half a…

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Electricity Revolutionises Farming the Magic Touch of Power County Council, Pioneers of 1925 Transforming Rural Industries Electricity Lines From Richmond to Nambucca

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 26

One of the romances in industry on the North Coast of New South . Wales is the swift development of the hydro-electricity scheme of the Clarence River County Council, which from its power source at Nymboida and later from additional plant at Lie more, has spread its transmission lines…

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Poultry Farming Successful On Clarence Huge Quantities of Eggs Fine Breeds of Fowls

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 39

The poultry industry in the Clarence district is in no way as small as some would imagine. It is often spoken of as being only a sideline for…

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Dairy Maids

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 19

In the early days the milk was carried in large pails called piggins, made of silky oak. it was a difficult matter to keep them clean, especially round…

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They Made of It a Fruitful Garden Farmers Who Show The Way To Success Tremendous Growth in Production Review Of The Rural Industries

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 21

A glance over statistics is not as a rule inspiring, but when it is done in connection with the area in which one has lived and worked and suffered over a lifetime, where one's children have been born, reared, schooled, started in life, married, perilaps gone to their last rest, and where…

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Butter Gradings. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 November 1938 · page 7

During the week ended October 23. Commonwealth graders examined for export 7713 boxes of salted and 793 boxes of unsalted butter at Sydney, and…

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Wheat Crops Failure in Some Districts. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 November 1938 · page 1

Replying to Mr. Dunn (Lab.), in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Reid, said Cabinet had to-day decided on an…

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Year's Statistics Butter And Bananas Egg Export Figures. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 November 1938 · page 5

The annual report of the Department of Agriculture, tabled in the Legislative Assembly to-day shows that exports, of egg's by the Egg Board during the year…

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'Resented Remarks' Damaged Farmer's Corn Defendant Fined £3. ULMARRA

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 November 1938 · page 8

At the Ulmarra Court of Petty Sessions, before Messrs. F. Hall and A. Hart, j.'sP. this afternoon, Wallace Norman Casson, 20, farm laborer, was…

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Butter Quality

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 4 November 1938 · page 4

The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended 28/10/38, 14,312 boxes of…

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