Dairy Calf Killing Deplored
"Country Life & Stock and Station Journal" hits out in this direction: The ceaseless slaughter of poddy calves in hundreds of cases of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1940
744 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 38
Monthly Test Jersey Herd New England Experiment Farm
The report of the monthly test of the Jersey herd at the New England Experiment Farm, Glen Innes, shows that 18 cows were submitted for test. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.S.W. Needs Rain Dairying Conditions Board's Weekly Review. Melbourne
The Dairy Board's weekly review states that Queensland experienced heavy thunderstorms last, week-end over a wide area of the dairying…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Officers Dismissed Laxity At Farm Home Sequel to Home Burglary. Sydney
Grave laxity in certain sections of the administration of the Mittagong Farm Home for Boys has been found by the Public Service Board, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local and General Cattle Drop Dead From Heat
At the Tenterfield saleyards on Friday 58 head of cattle dropped dead during a sale from the excessive heat. Sixteen others were also down, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →High Prices Affect Dairy Produce Bacon Stocks Pile Up in London. London
An increase in the bacon ration followed the serious piling up of stocks. The price had been fixed so high that many people declined to avail…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Home in the Sheep Country
Crofter's Cottage, Shetland. Sheep farming, one of the principal industries of the islands, is carried on chiefly by Crofters, and the women, who are nearly all knitters, transform the fine wool into the beautifully soft garments that are so well known. The photograph shows the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Saleyards Incident 119 Degrees at Tabulam
Grafton residents who attended the cattle sale at Tabulam on Friday last state that he heat was terrific, one registration showing 119 degrees in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Firebug Fails to Burn Wool Store. Launceston
The police are investigating an attempt to commit arson. On an inspection at the head wharf yesterday morning inside the main door of a store…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowned in Waterhole Eureka Farmhand's Fate. Lismore
Charles Hunter, aged about 35 years, employed as a farmhand by Mr. Samuel Bradley, of Eureka, was drowned in a 12 feet deep waterhole near Eureka…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Tick Campaign
The Woodenbong branch of the P.F.U. have decided to write to the Federal Tick Commission pointing out the absurdity of having cattle treated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junior Farmers on Tour
A party of 34 junior farmers from the Lismore district have just completed a tour of part of Queensland arranged by the North Coast District…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ferryman Found Dead By Ashby Farmer Attributed to Heart Failure
A resident of Ashby Island (Mr. J.. M. Paine), upon investigating reasons for the delay of the Ashby- Maclean ferry, after hearing persons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Ban Shipment In Hampers Deteriorates in Tropics. Sydney
Butter cannot be sent in gift hampers to England from Australia during the war. This decision, which was announced to-day, followed the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers Protest Carelessness Denied Bush Fire Problem. Sydney
Responsible representatives of farmers and graziers' organisations to-day denied the assertion made that farmers, through carelessness, were responsible…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Post-war Plans Farming Conference Wide Field of Subjects. Sydney
At a meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council, to be held next month, it is proposed to consider generally the question of post-war planning in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer's Suicide Mystery Near Windsor Coroner Excludes Public. Sydney
After an inquiry in a closed court at Windsor to-day into the death of Allan Ford Dunstan, 43, the Hawkesbury District Coroner, Mr. Johnston,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bone Chewing by Cattle
Mr. A. J. Nisbet, Stock Inspector for the Port Maacquarie P.P. Board, reported to last meeting of the Board that there had been several cases of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coastal Dairy Farms Competition
At a meeting of the organising committee it was decided that entries for the Coastal Daily Farm Competitions, conducted by "Farmer and Settler"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Buy It Back Our Butter Trade in Britain Use of Margarine
Will Australia have to "buy back" its butter trade in Britain after the war? That is a question on which some sections of the industry have…
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