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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

656 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 33

Farmers' Day At Experiment Farm

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 4

A SMALL group of farmers and their wives enjoyed a day's outing and talks on farm topics at the field day at the Grafton Experiment Farm yesterday. In the morning an…

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Rise in Butter Production

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 2

DORRIGO, Fri.--Total butter manufactured at the Dorrigo Dairy Co. for September was 35 tons. an increase of…

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Helicopter for Lismore Crop Dusting Tests

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 3

The R.A.A.F. Helicopter has begun a series of crop dusting tests at Laverton, Victoria, to determine its suitability for…

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Wants Petrol For Wheat Harvest

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday.--The Central Council of the Queensland division of the Australian. Country Party to-day decided to request the Federal Government to release petrol from defence stocks to ensure sufficient supplies for the forthcoming wheat…

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Linseed Crops Sprayed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 2

East-west Airlines, of Tamworth carried out spraying operations on the first linseed crops to be grown in the Forbes…

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Arrangements Made To Collect Cattle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 2

Macleay River Cattle Appeal Committee met at Grafton yesterday, to discuss wa[?]s and means of collecting and…

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Sharp Cask Rise In Cattle Appeal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 3

The appeal being conducted on the Clarence, on behalf of stricken Macleay River producers, received an…

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Japan Big Buyer At Wool Sales

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Wed. -- Japan was the biggest buyer at the second day of the Newcastle wool sales to-day when a State…

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Record Wool Price

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 1

GOULBURN, Thurs.--A Commonwealth record wool price for the current season was obtained at the Goulburn wool sales…

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Junior Farmers' Useful Excursion

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 2

LOWER BUCCA.--Nana Glen Junior Farmers have derived much useful knowledge from a visit to the farm of Mr. George…

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Dorrigo Man Second In Farm Championship

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Mr. W. E. Davies, Beaury Creek, Urbenville, with 2133 points out of a possible 2800, has won the coastal dairy farm championship for 1949. The championship was…

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Wheat for Children

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 October 1949 · page 1

PARIS, Fri. (A.A.P.).--Yugoslavia has given 1500 tons of wheat to the United Nations' International Children's…

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Junior Farmers Maize Champion

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 October 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--The winner of the Junior Farmers' 1949 State championship competition for maize growing is…

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Butter Price Problem

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 1

In his monthly letter to rural producers in this district Mr. R. Napier, secretary to the District Council PP Union, says…

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Wheat Areas May Suffer

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Damage to the wheat crops in North-West N.S.W., already amounting to more than £100,000, following…

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Devaluation Effect On Wool Prices

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 4

Following the announcement of the devaluation of sterling and of the Australian pound, Mr. Douglas T. Boyd, chairman of the…

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Shotgun Explodes; Kills Farmer

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 1

WEST WYALONG. Mon.--A man was killed when a single barrelled shot-gun with which he was clubbing a snake exploded,…

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Hail Damages Fruit Crops

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Mon.--The hailstorm which devastated the area surrounding Barmera, near the Murray River on Saturday…

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Fungus Disease in Bean Crops

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 3

THE District Agronomist (Mr. W. H. Darragh) said yesterday that weather conditions were proving favourable for the spread of a disease in beans known as anthracnose. A sample of a diseased bean…

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Statement To-day On Butter Price

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 October 1949 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wed.--A statement will be made to Parliament to-morrow on the higher prices for butter for dairy…

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