Progressive Farmer Finalists To Face Judges
The state judges have narrowed their choice of regional representatives in the Rural Bank progressive farmer competition to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1947
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Butter Manufacture Neglected Overseas
Overseas dairying countries are neglecting butter manufacture. Milk consumption and milk…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain Timely For Dairy Farms
The recent ram was most timely for the dairying industry in the Clarence River district, said the manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move to Stop Child Labour on Farms
A motion seeking a prohibition against all children under the age of 15 years performing farm labour was lost at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crops Damaged By Hailstorm
A severe hail storm which passed over the Upper and Central Bucca area caused much damage to corn and tomato crops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' Relief Bill To Amend Original Act
SYDNEY, Tues.—The Farmers' Relief (Amendment) Bill was designed to amend the original Act in three major…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →P.P.U. President Explains Operations Of New Butter Price
Mr. R. C. Gibson, general president of the Primary Producers' Union, was called upon to answer many questions by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Water Needs Of Experiment Farm
Figures supplied by the Department of Agriculture for an estimate of the water requirements of the Grafton Experiment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Price Increase Profitable To Farmers
The price of 2/- per pound for butter granted by the Commonwealth Government would prove profitable for 80 per…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →U.s. Tariff on Butter Imports
BRISBANE, Thurs.—Referring to the easing of restrictions in the tariff regulations as applies to the importation of dairy produce…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dorrigo Dairy Coy— £287 Netted from Merchandise Dept. Chairman's Half Yearly Report Plant Under Repair
The net profit in the Merchandise Dept. of the Dorrigo Dairy Coy. for the half year ended May 31, 1947, amounted to £287; a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Permanent Managers To Experiment Farms
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The appointments of permanent managers to a number of Experiment Farms where experimental and research work had for some time been under temporary supervision were announced to-day by the Minister for Agriculture…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Production Increase
Dairy production on the Richmond could be increased by 20 per cent, if farmers could get plentiful supplies of certain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Norm Coastal Pastoral Position
A review of season conditions by the Department of Agriculture shows that; Grafton and District was more fortunate than other…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Production Still Declining
IN New South Wales butter production has decreased very much and is still declining, said Mr. A. E. Harrison, manager of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Company, in an address. Over the past seven years, figures, from very accurate sources…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter-Fat Contest At Nimbin Show
At the second day of the Nimbin A. and I. Society's 1947 exhibition, a 16-hours butterfat contest was won with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Sales in Britain
LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).—The demand was maintained throughout the wool sales to-day with some withdrawals of faulties…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Should Pay Cattle T.B. Tests
"The nation should pay for the T.B. testing of cattle, and not the individual." This was declared at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers Fined For Weed Menace
Delegates at the Tweed Council of the P.P.U. criticised the decision of the Richmond River County Council to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Crop Ruined By Wind And Hail
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Damage estimated at nearly £1,000,000 was done to crops in the Riverina yesterday by wind and hail[?] More than 200,000 acres of wheat were flattened and now practically the whole wheat crop in the affected area will be lost…
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