Opinions of Our Readers Grafton Dairy Co
Sir,--In your issue dated February 28, 1940, in the report of the annual meeting of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Co., the chairman, Mr. G. Maxwell, is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1940
744 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 38
Foul Odours Round Dairy Defendant Fined £1101
Henry Irwin McLennan, a farmer, of Nymboida, was fined 30 and 8 costs, in default seven days' hard labor, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sugar Crop Shipping Difficulties Q'sland Premier's Statement. Brisbane
Mr. Forgan Smith told the annual conference of the Queensland Cane Growers' Council to-day that the Ministry of Shipping had not so far been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tweed-richmond Butter Pay
It was announced by the Norco Cooperative, Ltd., on Monday, that the price of butter supplies for February was 12⅜d. per 1b. This is [?]d. per 1b…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Choicest Grade Butter. Sydney
During the week ended on March 1. 91.1 per cent, of the boxes of butter examined by the State butter grading staff was found to be of choicest grade…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rising Prices Hawthorne's Cattle Sale 49th Annual Fixture
Hawthorne's 49th annual cattle sale, which commenced at the South Grafton municipal saleyards yesterday, attracted operators from many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Growers Seek Price Adjustment Clause to Meet Increased Costs. Sydney
A resolution asking that in the event of wool producing costs increasing there should be inserted in the terms of the sale to Britain a clause making…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Censure Motion McKELL Attacks Govt. Unemployment Measures Wheat, Housing Health Sydney
Charging that the State Government, because of its failure to adequately provide work for the unemployed, its inefficient handling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farm Machinery International Harvester Co. at Royal Show
Country visitors and city folk, too, will find much of interest in the spectacular International Harvester Company display of modern tractors trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →3000 Store Cattle Hawthorne's Cattle Sale High Values Maintained
High values were maintained at Hawthorne's 49th annual cattle sale, at the South Grafton municipal yards yesterday. The attendance of buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OVER 6000 HEAD Hawthorne's Annual Cattle Sale Prices Consistently High
Hawthorne's annual cattle sale was concluded at the South Grafton municipal saleyards yesterday, and during the three days over which the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying Conditions. Clarence to Nambucca
[?]Mr. J. D. L. McGibbon, senior dairy instructor, in charge of the dairy branch district, Clarence to Nambucca, with headquarters, Coffs Harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dorrigo Co-op Dairy Co. Ltd 66th Half-yearly Meeting
The sixty-sixth half-yearly meeting of the Dorrigo Co-operative Dairy Co took place on Saturday last. The advertised time of meeting was 10.30…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local and General Farmer's Death
Referring to the death on February 7 of Mr. George James Johns, aged 46 years and 11 months, Bowraville "Guardian" says be went to work as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Glasses on Cows Swan Creek Farmer's Shrewdness
At Swan Creek, Mr. Macmanamus experimented with a most original idea before the rains oame. His Jersey herd was rather poor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Supplies Tailor Turns Farmer Ploughs Up Neglected Estate. London, February 3
Sir Henry Price, head of the well-known multiple firm of "Fifty Shilling Tailors," has taken to the plough and, a wartime task, is reclaiming 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Boys Y.M.C.A. Training Plan to Cost British Government [?] Per Head. London, February 3
An English Boys for English Farms training scheme is being run by the English Y.M.CA. Many M.P.'s and agricultural organisations are urging…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle Diseases Federal Research Grant Losses in Dairy Herds. Canberra
Conditional upon a similar grant by the States, the Economic Cabinet to-day decided to grant £1500 a year towards research work on mastitis and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Price Fair Graziers' President's View. Sydney
Addressing the annual conference of the New South Wales Graziers' Association to-day the president, Mr. E. L. Killen, declared that graziers must…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Romance in Hats Australians Revolutionise an Industry New Market for Wool and Rabbit-fun No. 2
How a young man's curiosity to see how things were made led ultimately to the establishment of the Empire's biggest hat…
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