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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

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MARGARINE Not Mixed With Butter for Supply to Military Camps Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 5

There is no foundation whatever for the suggestion that margarine and butter were being mixed for supply to soldiers in military camps, and…

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Sydney Markets N.Z. Onions To £30 Firm Market for Cattle. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 4

A fresh shipment of 1400 bags of New Zealand onions met a ready inquiry in the farm produce section at Sussex street to-day, and £30 ton was realised. Further supplies of…

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Dairying What Constitutes a Good Dairy Sire? the Essential Qualities

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 3

The main requirements which a dairy sire should possess may be enumerated as follows:— 1—He should have a strong…

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Dorrigonian in Palestine GNR. A. E. Price Tells of One of the Most Unique Farming Experiments in the World Salty Soil Made to Bear Fruit

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 2

Gunner Arnold Price, who will be well remembered as assistant teacher to Mr. R.G. Laws at the Dorrigo Public School, prior to his transfer, and…

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Tenant and Share Farming

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 4

The system of tenant and share farming has been allowed by previous Governments to become one of our gravest rural problems in this State…

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Farmers Buy Wine Direct From Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 1

To make certain that they get the finest quality as well as the exact type of Port or Sherry, etc., that they prefer, many farmers now buy their wine at…

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Slight Decline Butter Production N.S.W. Needs Rain. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1941 · page 2

Rains are urgently needed in the dairying districts of New South Wales and Queensland, but production in other States is rising…

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Butter Price. Norco Seeks Increase

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 September 1941 · page 3

Alter considering at some length the price of butter, at a meeting on Thursday, the board of directors of Norco Co-op Ltd. resolved that the time was…

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Maize Crop Storage On Farm Should Be Encouraged Irrigation Committee

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 3

Interesting facts about the storage of maize were given by Mr. W. H. Darragh, senior agricultural instructor, Department of Agriculture, at the…

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Sydney Markets Cattle Prices Firm Brownells Potatoes 20 Dearer. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 4

Agents in the farm produce section of [?] sex street to-day advanced the price of Tasmanian Brownells potatoes by 20 to £10 ton. Snowflakes were unchanged at £6 ton and a…

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Reserve List Farmhands and War New Classifications Announcement by Minister Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 4

The Federal Minister for Labor, Mr. Holt, announced to-day that action had been taken to reserve additional classifications of rural…

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Wheat Growers' Licenses

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 4

The issuing of wheat growers' licenses is proving a heavy undertaking and apprehension was expressed at the meeting of members of the Wheat…

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Cattle Tick a Burden on the Whole Community

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 2

"The cattle tick, and its dread associated condition tick fever (red water) have acted, and still continue to act as a millstone around the neck of the dairying and beef industries…

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Price of Butter Producers Want Increase Rise of 2D Per Lb. Asked For. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 5

Butter producers' organisations intend to ask the Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee to raise the pride of butter in Australia by 2d per lb. to…

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Bitter Complaint Dipping Of Swan Creek Dairy Herd Owner's Criticism of Treatment

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 September 1941 · page 3

With Mr. W. T. Robinson, of Grafton, and a photographer yesterday I inspected the dairy herd of Mr. A. J. McPhee, of Swan Creek and heard…

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Casino Butter Output

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1941 · page 4

The Casino Co-op. Dairy Society manufactured 240,755lbs. of butter during August. The pay for choicest grade was fixed at 11 3-8d. The number of…

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Serious Cattle Disease Vaccination Is Prohibited

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1941 · page 1

Some efforts have been made in New South Wales to induce dairy farmers to have their herds vaccinated against contagious abortion, although…

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Sudden Death Whiteman Creek Dairy Farmer

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1941 · page 4

Mr. Archibald Mungo Park, aged 60 years, was found dead in bed at his home near the Whiteman Creek bridge, about 16 miles from Grafton, at 11.30…

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Farm Labor Shortage Is Serious Report To Parliament Women's Land Army Recommended Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1941 · page 4

Shortage of farm labor is so serious because of war conditions that it might be impossible to harvest some crops…

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Sydney Markets Prime Potatoes Firm Dairy Produce Prices Unchanged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1941 · page 4

When the second shipment of Tasmanian potatoes was made available in Sussex street to-day, all prime quality lots were quickly sold. Other grades also met a good demand and late…

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