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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

744 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 25 of 38

Rural Electricity Needed For Farms Kyogle Chamber of Commerce Action

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1940 · page 2

After Mr. O. C. Walters had referred to the loss of labor on district farms through enlistments for war service, Kyogle Chamber of Commerce decided…

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Better Bull Scheme N. C. S. N. Co.'s Offer Grafton Dairy Co. Invites Applications

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1940 · page 4

The Grafton Co-op. Dairy Co., in an advertisement in this issue, invites applications for pure -bred bulls under the better bull scheme launched by the…

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New Dips for Cattle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 July 1940 · page 4

The Minster for Agriculture Mr. Reid, has announced that tenders will be called shortly for 136 new dips for cattle. They will be distributed through…

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Jersey Herd Butter-Fat Test New England Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1940 · page 7

Twenty cows were submitted to the monthly test of the Jersey herd of the New England Experiment Farm. Clen[?] The average milk per cow per…

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SULTANAS Fed to English Cattle

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 August 1940 · page 3

Cattle and pigs are being fed experimentally in Britain on sound eultanas and figs, supplied by the Ministry of Food. These are part of a big…

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Dairying Conditions Instructors' Reports

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 August 1940 · page 3

Senior Dairy Instructors in the districts named reported as follows on conditions in July and seasonal prospects:—…

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Sixpence a Ton Cane Price Increase EXTRA £145,000 for Farmers, Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1940 · page 6

An increase of sixpence a ton in we pirn of cane for 1940 has been grantee by a majority judgment of the genital gene Prices Board…

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Potato Crops Prospects Are Poor Imports From New Zealand

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 August 1940 · page 6

A Melbourne message states-- The potato crop this year is likely [?] poor, as the Victorian districts suffered from [?] and New…

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Weekly Cattle Sale

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1940 · page 4

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., report a bigger yarding of cattle, over 500, at their weekly sale, made up principally of fat cattle. In the fat bullock section beautiful…

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Pastoral a New Outlook Made Possible by Pasture Improvement

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1940 · page 3

Without grassland improvement holdings would have to become progressively larger instead of smaller, and the rural population would…

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Steel Wool Finer Than Human Halk Is Being Cut In Britain for the World's Housewives

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1940 · page 8

Steel wool, the [?] of which are sometimes finer than human hair, is being manufactured in Britain [?] and the day to satisfy the double demand of…

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Monthly Reports Dairy Instructors Seasonal Prospects

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1940 · page 3

Mr. L. W. Scott, Senior dairy instructor, who is at present in charge of both the Clarence to Nambucca and Middle Rivers districts, in the absence…

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Dairy Production Decline Continues In N. S. W. Board's Weekly Report. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1940 · page 3

In its weekly report on prospects of butter production the Australian Dairy Produce Board said to- day that production continued to decline in…

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Local and General Norco Butter Pay for July

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 August 1940 · page 4

Suppliers of Norco Co-operative., Ltd., will receive 13½d per lb, for butter for July. This is the same as that paid in June. The price for July…

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Casino Dairy Factory

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 August 1940 · page 4

Showing an increase of 27½ tons over the production for the corresponding half-year in 1989, the Casino Dairy Society manufactured a record, amount…

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Opinions of Our Rerders Australian Dairy Produce Board

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1940 · page 3

Mr. S. T. Keru, publicity officer to the Australian Dairy produce Board, Writes:--Recurring to the report of the…

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Increase Requested Grant to Wheat Farmers. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 August 1940 · page 1

A request that the Federal Government should increase the recently announced grant of 4d to wheat farmers to 1, was made by Mr. Scully (Lab.,…

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Food for U. K. Dairy Products Needed Pigs And Eggs Sugar and Tobacco Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 August 1940 · page 5

Britain hoped to be able to import food from the Dominions during 1940-41, on a scale not materially different from that of 1939-40,…

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Sydney Markets Fair Demand For Fish Late Rates for Dairy Produce. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 August 1940 · page 4

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