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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

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Legal Action Sought On Wool Money

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 October 1946 · page 4

The General Council of the Graziers' Association will be urged by the Glen Innes branch to make a test case of the £7…

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Wooroowoolgen, Via Casino One-Time Vast Station Consists Of Farms

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 October 1946 · page 5

THE original Wooroowoolgen Station block, comprising 100 square miles, was taken up in 1841 by Hamilton and Denison, the latter being a brother of the then Governor of New South Wales…

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U.s. Dairy Cattle Impress Farmer From Australia

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 October 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Mr. A. K. Gardener, who won the progressive farmer competition and has just concluded a tour of American…

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Good Money In War-Time Farming In Scotland

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 October 1946 · page 5

"YOU had to be dumb from the toenails up if you didn't make a good income from farming in Scotland during the war," said Professor John Mclntyre, M.A., B.D., Hunter Bailie Professor of Systematic Theology, St. Andrew's College, University of Sydney,…

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Concern At Drift From Dairy Industry

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 October 1946 · page 3

At the annual meeting of the Tenterfield Co-operalive Butter Factory Society concern was expressed at the drift of producers from the industry…

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Aeroplanes And Crops Menaced By Bird Life

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 October 1946 · page 3

So great has become the population of bird life in and around the swamp areas near the South Grafton aerodrome, that surround residents are unanimous that it has created a menace to aeroplanes and to crops…

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Helping British Fighting Men To Farm

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 October 1946 · page 4

Six hundred applications a month are now being received in Britain from men and women, who, on leaving their various…

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Heavy Rain Wanted in Wheat Belt

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 October 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Heavy ram is still needed over the Whole New South Wales wheat belt if this season's crop is to approach…

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Flying Fox Menace to Fruit Crops

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 October 1946 · page 2

JUDGING by the thousands of flying foxes which rise off Susan Island each evening at dusk, they are going to create a serious menace to fruit crops on the Clarence this year. Returning from a launch trip up river on Sunday, Mr. George…

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Dingo Pest Causes Change From Sheep To Cattle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Many graziers were turning from sheep to cattle because of the dingo pest, said Mr. C. Humphreys,…

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Tucabia Dairy Cattle Still Weak

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 2

TUCABIA, Tues.--Dairy farmers are still lifting cattle daily in the hope of saving them. Pastures are improving after…

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Year's Butter Output Below Average

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 3

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--Butter output for the ended June 30 last was approximately 150,000 tons, which is 53,000 tons or 26 per cent. less than the average annual production in the three years ended June, 1941…

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Lismore Show Drought Not Reflected By Cattle Exhibited

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 3

LISMORE, Tuesday.--Except in numerical strength, cattle sections entries in the North Coast National A.I. Society Show to-day did not reflect the serious drought conditions which existed until a few weeks ago…

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Brighter Outlook in Dairy Industry

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 2

COMPARED with three weeks ago, the manufacture of butter art the factory was just about double as the result of recent rains, said the manager of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Co. (Mr. A. E. Harrison) yesterday…

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Dairy Officials Visit Grafton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 2

On Monday the Chief of the Division of Dairying (Mr. George McGillivray) and the Chief Dairy Instructor (Mr. Frank…

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Farm Planting On Lower River

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 4

PALMER'S CHANNEL, Mon.--Local farmers are busy preparing their land for seasonal plantings. Many have already planted their…

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Lismore Show Duke's Interest in Guernsey Cattle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 3

LISMORE, Wednesday.--Before a record attendance the Governor-General (the Duke of Gloucester) attended the North Coast National A.I. Society Show at Lismore to-day. The Duke made a full inspection of the livestock, showing…

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Student Training At Grafton Farm

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 2

The Repatriation Local Committee for the Grafton district some time ago moved to have the Grafton Experiment Farm made…

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Rural Electricity Designed for 20,000 Farms and 10,000 Others the Subsidy Scheme

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 October 1946 · page 3

In view of the very great interest at present being taken in rural electricity on the Dorrigo Plateau in light of the County Council's promise to…

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The Dairyman's Survey Raleigh District P.p.u.: Production Costs, Income Tax, Noxious Weeds, Etc. Dist. Sec's Monthly Letter

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 October 1946 · page 5

Since my last letter the whole of the area embodied by our district has received very useful falls of rain, bringing great…

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