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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

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Dorrigo Dairy Company Monthly Report

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 21 June 1940 · page 2

The following is the monthly report for May, 1940: During the month of May, 1940, the quantity of butter manufactured…

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Dairying "Let the Industry Know Where It Stands

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 21 June 1940 · page 4

The Premier (Mr. Mair) stated last week that it would be a distinct advantage if some indication could be given the dairying industry as to…

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Primary-secondary Producer the Hughes Technique Story Of Unshrinkable Wool

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 June 1940 · page 6

Throughout this series of articles the emphasis has always been upon the inter-relation between producer and manufacturer in Australia. I have sought to show that the man who grows and the man who makes have a common interest for this country, which cannot hope to build…

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Junior Farmers' Field Day

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 June 1940 · page 4

The North Coast Council of junior Farmers' Clubs held its annual field day at the Wollongbar Experiment Farm on Thursday. Although each…

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DECLINING Production In All States Dairy Produce Board Report. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 June 1940 · page 6

Production in all States is declining, particularly in New South Wales, where it is considerably below that of the corresponding period of last year…

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Jack Frost Visits The Clarence No Damage to Crops

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 June 1940 · page 4

The icy hand of Jack Frost touched Grafton and district on Saturday night, when the first heavy frost for this season occurred. Early…

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BUTTER Nation-Wide Survey Manufacture-production Influence of Varying Conditions. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 June 1940 · page 1

The supply to the public of Butter of uniformly good quality is an efficient means of combating substitutes, The essential precautions to be observed in…

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Q'sland Butter Objective Is Highest Quality Year's Income £5,500,000. BRISBANE

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 June 1940 · page 2

At the annual conference of the Queensland Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries Association to-day. It was stated by the president Mr. R…

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Butter Gradings. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 June 1940 · page 4

During the week ended June 21, 925 per cent. of boxes of butter examined by the State butter grading staff were found to be of choicest grade…

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After the War Lower Dairying Incomes Margarine Production. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 June 1940 · page 1

A warning that, dairying incomes throughout the Commonwealth would be lowered at the end of the war was given by the Minister for Agriculture,…

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Dairy Farm Competition Glendyn Park Wins Clarence Nambucca Section

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 5

Mr. W. R. Winkley, Glendyn Park, North Dorrigo will again represent the Clarence-Nambucca division in the coastal dairy farm championship…

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Inexpensive, but Extremely Valuable Farmyard Manure Material That Is Essential in Maintaining Soil Fertility

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 3

The most valuable fertility conserving asset on the dairy farm is unquestionably animal manure, yet the average farmer appeals to have…

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Message for Farmers

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 1

"Improve your farms work them in every possible way and produce more of every variety of product," said Sir Frederick Tout. M.L.C.,…

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Attacked by Pig Gloucester Farmer's Escape

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 June 1940 · page 4

Attacked by a boar pig recently at his farm just outside the Gloucester boundary, near the railway, Mr. Thomas B. Yates had a most…

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Weekly Cattle Sale

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 June 1940 · page 4

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., report a medium number of cattle yarded this week, just over 500. Included in the yarding was a fair proportion of very nice quality fat cattle…

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£60 Millioin Australia's Wool C[?] Melbourne, [?]

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 June 1940 · page 5

Mr. K. M. Naill, chairman [?], Mort and Co., Ltd annual meeting wool [?]…

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All States Weather And Production Dairy Board Review. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 June 1940 · page 2

In a review of weather conditions and production prospects for all States, the Dairy Produce Board said to- day that in Victoria there had been light to…

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"Hen[?]olme" Utility Stud Poultry Farm

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 July 1940 · page 1

Mr. H. Holmes, proprietor of the "Henholme" Utility [?]tud Poultry Farm, Wallsend, [?] forwarded us a copy of his catalogue and price list. In a…

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Channel Isles Complete Evaluation People, Stock, Crops, London

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 July 1940 · page 5

The death roll in the Guernsey air raids totals 20 killed, of whom four were women, while on Jessey nine were killed. The number of injured is not…

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Butter Prices Committee Oppose Increase

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1940 · page 2

The Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee has decided against increases in the home consumption price of butter, because it…

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