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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

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Dairy Production Good Rains In Parts Of N.S.W. Board's Weekly Report. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1940 · page 7

Dairy production in Victoria was reported by the Australian Dairy Produce Board to-day to be declining. Light rain in southern districts…

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Farm Mechanics Course Recommended By Instructor Request for Special Bus Services Technical Education Advisory Committee

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 1

A meeting of the Grafton District Technical Education Advisory Committee was held in the Town Hall. Grafton, last night. There were in…

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Butter Gradings. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 February 1940 · page 7

During the week ended on February 9. 99.9 per cent. of the boxes of butter examined by the State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture…

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LAWRENCE Fine Neighborliness Filled Injured Farmer's Silo

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 1

A typical example of Australian neighborliness and social service was exemplified at Lower Southgate last week, following On the severe injury to…

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Strong Talk on Substitutes Butter Price Query

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 3

There was no place in Australia for any politican who could find merit in butter substitutes said the president of Richmond district P.P.U. council…

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Dairying Maintenance of Quality in Cream Menace of Dirty Utensils

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 4

Inefficient, washing of utensils is by far the most common cause of cream being shaded as other than choicest Contamination may result from:—…

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Record Tqmato Crop On Central Coast 212,000 Half-cases Shipped

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 2

During the season just ended 212,000 half-cases of tomatoes were marketed through the C.N.C. Tomato Society on the Central…

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212,000 Half-cases Record Tomato Crop

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 4

In a report of the Central North Coast Tomato, Fruit and Vegetable Co-op. Society, which appeared in yesterday's "Daily Examiner," it was stated that…

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Dairy Report Butter Production Interstate Weather Conditions. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6

Reporting to-day on the weather conditions and production prospects throughout Australia, the Dairy Produce Board stated that no rain fell…

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Cattle Sale at Nymboida

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6

Harrie Badgery and Sons Pty., Ltd., stock salesmen, South Grafton, report that at their special cattle sale at Nymboida on Wednesday, last there…

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Butter for U.K. Britain Takes War Risks Contract Satisfactory Dairy Board Statement. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6

Mr. James Purcell, Chairman of the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Board Equalisation Committee, Limited, stated to-day that there had…

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Dairy Herds For Aboriginal Stations Report on Kempsey Complaint Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6

The Chiefs Secretary to-day referred to a paragraph which appeared in the "Daily News" on February 7, regarding statements which had been made…

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Graf Spee Battle Langsdorff Would Have Fought New Zealand Farmer's Story. London, January 20

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 7

Archard D. Dixon, 21-years-old sheep farmer, who was working his way from New Zealand to join the R.A.F. his ship the Tairoa, was sunk by the…

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1½D Per Lb. Deferred Payment Grafton Co-op. Dairy Co. Operations at Abattoirs

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 4

The quantity of butter manufactured for the year 1382½ tons, being an increase of 63 tons 2¼cwt. when compared with the…

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Record Butter Output

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 4

The Casino Co-operative Dairy Society Ltd. manufactured 1329 tons 15cwt. of butter during the last half of 1939, this being a record output for…

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Wheat Shipments

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 1

The Australian Wheat Board announced on February 12 that 3,800,000 bushels had been shipped up to that date. The following appropriations…

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Farmers and Settlers L.C. And Tyndale Branch Meeting at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 7

The monthly meeting of the Lower Clarence and Tyndale branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in the Maclean Literary Institute…

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"Stud Farm Outlook." Hobart

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 5

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, Dr. J. D. Simmonds, is vigorously opposed to sterilising defectives…

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752 Tons of Butter C.R. Pioneer Dairy Co. Half-yearly Report Butter 1½d Bonus and Bacon 1d Deferred Payment

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 4

The half-yearly report of the directors of the Clarence River Pioneer Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. shows that the company…

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Sydney Markets Dairy Produce Firm Fair Inquiry for Fish. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 4

In the farm produce section of Sussex street to-day 21 tons of brown and 70 tons of white onions were available. Slow demand ruled at £5 per ton for…

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