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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 28 of 61

Record Butter Cheque for Queensland. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 May 1939 · page 5

The value of Queensland's butter production this year will, for the first time on record, exceed the value of the State's wool clip owing to the…

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Butter Market Firm And Active Reports From London. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 May 1939 · page 6

The London market for butter continues firm, active and tending 1 dearer, states the weekly report received by the Australian Dairy Board…

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Red Water Fever? Cattle Sickness at Mummulgum. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 4

A suspected case of red water has been reported on a property at Mummulgum. The farm adjoins the holding on which an outbreak of illness among…

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Visit to Australia "Peace Boom'' on London Market £300 Million Increase Unexpected Butter Advance London

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 5

The stock market revival which the popular press labels somewhat exuberantly as "the start of a peace boom" has already added over…

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Wool Season Best For Many Years £5,000,000 Increase Likely. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 5

The wool cheque for the 1939-40 season is likely to yield an additional £5,000,000 to Australia. Assuming last season's average rate…

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Hold Dairying Industry--buy British Goods? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 4

The dairy industry of Australia would collapse among other industries if Great Britain ceased to prosper, said the Federal…

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Wheat As Pig Ration

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 7

At a meeting of the Tamworth District Council of the Primary Producers' Union a letter was received from the Richmond branch stating that…

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Flies in Dairy At Blaxland's Creek Farmer Fined £3

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 7

A plea of guilty was entered by Zade William Henry Bellamy, of Blaxland's Creek, in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, to a charge…

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Food Values of Butter Substitutes Official Analysis FOLLOWS P.P.U. Deputation Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 5

Governments of the different States are to be asked by the Minister for Commerce, Senator McLeay, to cooperate with him in carrying out a…

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Still Rising N.S.W. Butter Quality Speech By Minister Factory Managers' Conference Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 5

The average percentage of choicest butter produced in New South Wales has reached the high figure of 91. That, in my opinion, is a very…

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Bacon Awards Grafton Scoops Pool Factories' Competition Cheese Title to Macleay Dorrigo Second in Butter Aggregate. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 5

Grafton Dairy Company won every individual award and the grand aggregate for bacon at the N.S.W. Dairy Factory Managers competition,…

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Butter Output 41 Per Cent. Increase in Q'sland Decline In N.S.W.-Vic. Figures for Nine Months Canberra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 5

Although butter production for the whole of Australia in the nine months ended March, 1939, showed a slight increase, the output for New South…

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Field Day Arranged by Rotary Club at Grafton Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 4

The Grafton Rotary Club have arranged a field day at the Grafton Experiment Farm on Friday next, June 2. Seventy senior students have been…

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Butter Gradings 93 Per Cent. Choicest. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 5

The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examiner at Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended on May 26, 14,204 boxes,…

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Australian Cattle Research Assoc. (Federal Council.) Contagious, Abortion Control Beef Cattle Management in U.S.A Agglutination Testing

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 7

(No. 2, By R. O. C. KING, H. V.Sc,, R.M. Kinross Research Officer.) (Continuing the series of articles on his studies into contagious abortion in Canada and the United States, Mr. King now compares some important aspects of beef cattle management in America with methods…

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Wood Taint Austn. Butter Problems Scientific Investigation at Victorian Research School Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 5

With the object of investigating problems associated with the dairying industry the Commonwealth Government has made arrangements with…

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Margarine Menace to Dairying Excise Duty On Oils? Factory Managers Confer Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 5

A motion urging the imposition of an excise duty of sixpence a pound on all vegetable and marine oils imported and used In the manufacture…

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Bee Farmers Market Problem Eased Destruction of Timber. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 May 1939 · page 5

Criticism of ringbarking of trees, which had resulted in the depletion of the States timber resources arid reduced the productivity of the soil, was…

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EQUALISATION Butter And Cheese New Agreement To-day. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 5

The new equalisation agreement between the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee and the manufacturers of butter and cheese be paid on returns for each shipment, instead of for the average of all shipments within the month…

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Margarine "Competition Small" Minister Quotes Figures Effect on Butter Industry Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 5

One pound, of magarine in a wrapper was exhibited in the House of Representatives by Mr. Anthony (C.P., N.S.W.) when he again sought…

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