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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

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Butter Price Increase Justified Producers' Request Board Should Declare Price P.P.U. Quarterly Meeting

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 4

The need for a rise in the price of butter was stressed by speakers at the quarterly meeting of the Clarence District…

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Farmers' Debts

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 1

Nearly £66,000 has already been written off farmers' debts to Crown by the Rural Reconstruction Board The Minister for Lands, Mr. Tully…

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Farmyard Manure To Save Superphosphate

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 3

"Dairy farmers would be well advised lo make the best use of farmyard manure now that restrictions have been placed on the use of…

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Most Dairy Cows

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 1

Half the dairy cattle and more than a third of the pigs in New South Wales are owned by farmers on the North Coast. Statistics taken…

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NEARLY £900 Weekly Increase Higher Butter Price

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1942 · page 2

Based on the present rate of production at the three butter factories in the Clarence district, the 1d rise in the retail…

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No Criticism Grafton Dairy Co. at Annual Meeting No Change in Cream Deliveries Sought

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1942 · page 4

By an absence of criticism, shareholders attending the 49th annual general meeting of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., in the Grafton…

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Rooseve[?]t to Speak to Farmers

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 March 1942 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Sat.—President Roosevelt and Vice-President Wallace, will address by radio on Monday American…

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Severe Wound Farmer Caught in Lucerne Cutter

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 March 1942 · page 3

CASINO, Sat.—Mr. P. G. Sommerville, 47, a farmer at Mallanganee, was mowing lucerne when his horses' harness…

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"OVERDUE" Butter Rise Mr. Anthony's Comment

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 4

Commenting on the rise in the retail butter price of 1d per pound, announced by the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner…

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Butter Output Lowest For Years Figures for Commonwealth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 March 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.—The output of butter for the six months ended December. 1941, was 75,945 ewt. or 4.1 per…

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50 Farmers Meet Tick Officials At Locked Gates Refusal to Dip Stock Sensational Development

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 March 1942 · page 2

Following the dynamiting of cattle dips on the Clarence last week-end dairy farmers' resistance to the tick eradication…

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Cattle Evacuation

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1942 · page 3

Sir.—In yours of 5th inst., a couple of letters re evacuation of cattle point out it is practically an impossible thing to evacuate the coastal cattle. Mr. P…

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More Criticism Dipping of Cattle C.R. Cane Growers Postponement Urged

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1942 · page 1

Strong criticism was directed against the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Dunn, and Mr. Max Henry for continuing the…

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Home Garden Vegetable Growing Maturity of Crops

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1942 · page 2

Not only do vegetable seeds vary greatly in the time taken to germinate, but the plants vary in the time they occupy in maturing…

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Farmyard Manure to Save Superphosphate

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 March 1942 · page 4

"Dairy farmers would be well advised to make the best use of farmyard manure now that restrictions have been placed on the use of…

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Share Farming An Interesting Case the Share Farmer's Rights

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 March 1942 · page 4

A case of considerable importance to share farmers, mainly affecting those [?] banana plantations, was decided in the District Court at…

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Tick Eradication More Locked Gates Manned by Farmers Appeal Result Awaited

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 1942 · page 4

The campaign against dipping was continued on two properties in the Grafton-Maclean tick eradication area yesterday. Tick…

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Butter Price Order for Increase Issued

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 4

CANBERRA, Fri.—An order was issued by the Commonwealth Press Commissioner. Prof. Copland, to-day increasing the…

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Million Cattle Should Be Driven South

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 March 1942 · page 2

BRISBANE, Mon.—There no reason why Japan would no try an invasion from the Gulf of Carpentaria, where more than…

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Prices Advance Annual Cattle Sale

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 2

[?]oldsbrdugh, Mort and Co., Ltd., report that Hawthorne's 51st annual cattle sale opened at the Municipal Saleyards. South Grafton, yesterday, when 1050…

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