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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

759 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 38

Butter Output Lowest for Four Years Effect of Drought. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 March 1941 · page 5

Butter production in Australia for the first half of 1940-41 was the lowest for four years. The output of 1,833,420 cwts. was almost 400,000cwts. less than…

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Relief to Dairy Farmers Govt Adopts Uniform Rates Statement by State Treasurer

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 March 1941 · page 2

In a letter to Mr. C. G. Wingfield, M.L.A., the State Treasurer, Mr. Athol Richardson, writes on February 26:-- "The Government has given further…

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Dairying Conditions. Clarence to Nambucca

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1941 · page 4

Mr. J. D. L. McGibbon. senior dairy instructor, in charge of the dairy branch district, Clarence to Nambuca., with head quarters. Coffs Harbour…

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Difficult Dairying Position

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1941 · page 4

The future of the dairying industry was fraught with many difficult problems, declared the general secretary of the Primary Producers…

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Aid for Young Farmers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 4

At a meeting of the Casino branch of the Primary Producers' Union support was given to a proposal to aid tenant farmers and farmers' sons to purchase…

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Sugar Crop Q'sland Conference 1940 Exportable Surplus ONLY 45,000 Tons Not Shipped Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 5

The Premier, Mr. Forgan Smith, opening the Queensland Cane Growers' Association's annual conference, said only 45,000 tons of the…

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Cattle Sale Hawthorne's 50th Annual Satisfactory Opening Day 3000 Head Offered To-day

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 4

Buyers from all over the North Coast, from the N.S.W. border down to Maitland and from Sydney to Cootamundra and other places, attended the 50th…

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Miners' Shirt Cloth For Smart Women Britain's Wool Fashions This Spring

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 3

Portugal is buying three times as many woollen goods from Great Britain as before the war. Woollen tops used to come from France and Belgium. Now all of them, and…

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Farmer Sues Farmer

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 4

Fifty pounds damages was claimed by Ida Rose Vidler, a widow, of Bishop's Creek, from Reginald Wylie, a neighboring dairy farmer, alleging that…

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Butter, Cheese Higher Price Wanted P.P.U. Executive Move Man Rower for Farmers Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 4

One of the most important resolutions carried at the meeting of the Central Executive of the Primary Producers' Union to-day was that the…

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Cattle Ticks Discovered Near Broadwater. Tullymorgan

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 4

The discovery of cattle ticks a few days ago in a herd near Broadwater indicates that, in spite of the vigilance of the local tick inspector, the tick…

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Annual Cattle Sale Big Yarding Disposed Of Another Yarding To-day

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 4

A big gathering of buyers from all over the North Coast attended on the second day of Hawthorne's 50th annual cattle sale yesterday, and practically…

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Butter Storage Provision at Coffs

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 2

It seems likely that rooms for the cool storage of about 10,000 boxes of butter will be erected at Coffs [?] tory at an early date, as one of the…

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Butter Prices Wartime Supplies to Britain

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 2

Sir Earie Page, Minister for Commerce, replying through Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., to Newee Creek P.P.U. regarding butter prices and…

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Dorrigo farmer Grew Good Crop of Jap. Millet

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 1

Miss M. Grubb, of Coramba Road, has grown a good crop of Japanese millet. Sown in October, the millet has grown to an average height of 6…

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Junior Farmers' Club Show Judge's Remarks

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 5

The judge of J.F. exhibits (Mr. W. H. Darragh) has submitted the following points in connection with the juniors display at the recent show:—…

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Rocky Creek Plans Discussion at Grafton Council Meeting Ample Supply Must Be Left for Farmers Concerned

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 4

At the monthly meeting of the Cla[?]ece River County Council, the Department of Works and Local Government asked whether the recent…

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Good Boosting Winter Fodder Crops

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 3

Many coastal farmers have come to realise the great benefits arising from the use of a properly balanced fertiliser to boost the growth of…

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DAIRYING Bacterial Spoilage Of Milk And Cream How Deterioration Occurs

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 3

Milk and cream are readily perishable foodstuffs, and it is only as the result of careful treatment on the farm that they reach receiving depots in…

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Farmers Told to Grow More Food. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 5

"Unless we all work for all we are worth we may next winter hear our child say, 'I am hungry.' That is not a figure of speech; it is a stark…

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