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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

573 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 18 of 29

British Farms

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 4

Farms in Britain are now the most highly mechanised in the world. Five times more tractors are being used than 10 years ago…

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Plan to Develop Cattle Country

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 July 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.--A £1,000,090 works programme which it is hoped Will result m doubling cattle production in the Channel country of southwestern Queensland, will be embarked upon by the…

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Junior Farmers Field Day Abandoned

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 July 1950 · page 2

The District Council of the Junior Farmers' Clubs In Grafton decided to abandon the Junior Farmers' Field Day to…

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Want Announcement On Butter, Cheese Export Prices

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 July 1950 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.-- The President of the Queensland Dairymen's Association (Mr. C. H. Jamieson) said to-day…

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Around The New England State Lower Wheat Acreage

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 3

INVERELL.--It now appears certain that Inverell's wheat acreage this year will be much below that of the 1949 season…

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Dairy Company Gains Coveted Trophy Dorrigo Butter First In London Judging

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 1

Dorrigo Co-op. Dairy Co. has had a run of outstanding successes in competitions since the war. This successful run culminated in the winning of the "Orient Line Jubilee Cup" pictured below. Two boxes of butter, one salted,…

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Sydney Markets Keen Demand for Cattle

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The inquiry for Washington navel oranges from coastal areas at the fruit market weakened as trading advanced…

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Dairy Report Has Bright Spot

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 July 1950 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Fri.-- In his report on district conditions for July, the district dairy officer, Mr. H. Harrison,…

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Judging Clarence Entry In Farm Contest

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 July 1950 · page 4

After judging the entry of Mr. H. J. Green, of Swan Creek, in the R.A.S. farm and fodder championship…

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Sydney Markets Keen Trading in Cattle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY. Mon.--There was a show inquiry for the heavy stocks of coastal Emperor mandarins on offer at the fruit market. Heavy supplies…

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To Sam Stock Farmers Use Boats to Secure Fodder

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 3

So much land is still submerged on the Lower Clarence that some farmers still have to row to fodder dumped on the roadside by lorries…

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Damages Claim In Respect To Dairy Farm

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 4

LISMORE, Wed.--An echo ef one of the best known cases affecting the Agricultural Holdings Act of 1941, as it…

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Gift Fodder Scheme For Needy Farmers

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 2

Necessitous dairy farmers in tho Grafton city-Copmanhurst shire area should apply to their local branch of the P.P.U. if they desire to participate in the gift fodder scheme…

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Norco Butter for Malaya

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 6

A small consignment of Norco butter was recently exported to Singapore, it was reported at the July meeting of Norco Co-op. Ltd.,…

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Rain Makers Winning Farmers' Confidence

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 3

Although America's Weather Bureau still looks with fishy eye on rain making techniques, farmers, power companies, and…

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Stranded Sheep Likely To Die From Cold

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 August 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. -- Gold weather, forecast to-night by the State Weather Bureau, is likely to kill most of the sheep…

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Farmers Wives Entitled To Flood Relief

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 August 1950 · page 3

Officer's closely associated with distribution of relief founds from the "Sydney Morning Herald" and Lord Mayor's…

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Better Crop Prospects at Karangi

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 1

Although wet weather has been prevalent during the past eight weeks, the month of August seems to have ushered in…

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Letters To The Editor Duck Farm

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 2

Sir.--"Reader" is a bit hard on Ald Lane and his understudy, Ald Crisp, about those army "ducks" in the flood…

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Farmers Grimly Tackle Task

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 3

Clarence River dairy farmers settled down grimly to the task of keeping their herds alive and trying to get them back into production. Little has been heard of them giving up their farms even…

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