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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

1,219 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 61

Australia's Butter Trade

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 May 1939 · page 4

Some of the problems in connection with Australia's' butter trade in the United Kingdom which remain unsolved were referred to by Mr. R. H. Youdale commercial manager of the Overseas Farmers' Co-operative Federations, Ltd. in his address to the annual convention of the Australian…

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Q'sland Butter Production Still High. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 May 1939 · page 5

Queensland butter production is considerably above normal .for this time of the year. It is expected to reach 200,000 boxes for May compared with…

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"Facial Eczema" in Sheep and Cattle Preventive Methods of Management

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 10

During recent years the disease condition known as facial eczema in sheep and cattle has been somewhat prevalent in New Zealand. The name given to…

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Butter Quality

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 3

The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended 12/5/39, 13,309 boxes of…

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Seelands Cattle Dips

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 7

Three out of the four cattle dips have been completed in this district. GRUB PLAGUE. The grub plague is causing some…

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12 for Pound of Butter

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 9

A price of 12 per lb. for butter seems exorbitant, but George Scott, a prospector on the Palmer goldfield, paid it recently. Before recent floods…

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No Concessions Storage Of Butter Equalisation Agreement. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 4

Commenting on statements made at the conference of the Institute of Dairy Factory Managers, Mr. Angus McKenzie, chairman of the factories…

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Dorrigo Dairy Company Monthly Report

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 2

The following is the monthly report for April, 1939:— During the month, the quantity of butter manufactured was 83 tons 5…

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Dairying Discomforts of Winter Dairying Value of Concrete in Their Prevention

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 3

The w[?] boggy conditions occasioned farms by the continuous heavy rains of recent weeks have given a foretaste of the discomforts that may…

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N.Z. Young Farmers to Visit Grafton in June. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 4

The Junior Farmers' Club Council of New South Wales has arranged, a programme for a party of about 35 members of the New Zealand Young…

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Norco Pioneer John Macgregor Dead Link with Dairying Industry. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 4

John Macgregor, of Myocum, 86, one of the pioneers of the dairying industry on the Far North Coast, died in a private hospital at Mullumbimby…

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Official Denial Farmers' Relief Act Not Under Control of Rural Bank. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 4

A categorical denial that the Farmers' Relief Act was now under the administration of the Rural Bank was given by the Treasurer, Mr. Mair, to…

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Palmer's Channel Cattle Dips

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 7

Several gangs of men have bee busy for the last few weeks constructing dips in which to treat cattle in connection with the tick eradication…

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Commercial Weekly Cattle Sale

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 6

Goldsbrough Mort arid Co., Ltd, report another heavy yarding of all classes of cattle at their weekly sale Lower values had to be accepted for…

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Butter and Cheese London Quotations. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 5

Following are the market, quotations Butter (active at lower values), Danish 122 choicest, salted, New Zealand 105, Australian 104;.unsalted, New…

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Butter Market Active in London Production in Australia. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 6

Although prices for butter on the London market on May 18 were unchanged to slightly lower, and active inquiry has developed, states the weekly…

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BRIGHTER London Stock Markets Butter Still Depressed. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 May 1939 · page 5

The Stock Exchange concluded the most encouraging week since the markets cracked on the invasion of Albania. The volume bf business still…

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14-Year-old Farmer Youngest In England? Will Do His Own Ploughing. London, May 6

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 May 1939 · page 7

Harry Anderson's farm at Houghton, Huntingdonshire, consists of only 50 acres, but Harry Anderson is probably England's youngest farmer. He is 14…

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Australian Cattle Research Assn.-federal Council Contagious Abortion Control Observations in U.S.A. and Canada Farming Methods Compared (No. 1.)

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 7

This is the first of a series of articles by Mr. R. O. C. King, the R.M. Kinross Research Officer, dealing with his observations into the control of Brucella infection (contagious abortion) of cattle in the United States of America and Canada. The articles have been secured…

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Butter Supplies Partial Local Shortage Interstate Purchases. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 5

As from Thursday last a partial local shortage of butter was declared in the Blayney, Orange and Tamworth centres of New South Wales the Dairy…

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