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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 19 of 29

Succeeds With Year-Round Tomato Crop

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 August 1950 · page 3

A Gosford grower has succeeded in a year-round programme of tomato growing, thanks to a systematic…

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Walgett Danger Past: Farmers Aid Police

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 August 1950 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Thurs.--Many graziers in the Walgett district now had outboard motor boats. They were relieving police of…

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Wheat Crop

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 August 1950 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Fri. (AAP).-- The United States wheat crop this year is expected to be 996,400,000 bushells but it still…

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Hay From Cootamundra For Needy Farmers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 August 1950 · page 2

Included in fodder received by the Grafton city-Copmanhurst shire flood relief committee for distribution to…

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Reduced Wool Clip

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 August 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Floods will not cause any postponement of the sales of the new season's wool clip in New South Wales,…

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Spray for Year-round Tomato Crops

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1950 · page 3

A Gosford grower has succeeded in a year-round programme of tomato growing, thanks to a systematic…

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Refuse Resolution On Farm Potential

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 August 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--The Soldier Settlers' Conference, which precedes the State Congress of the Returned…

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Aftermath Of Flood Some Dairy Farms Affected For Months Yet

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 3

Although flood water throughout the Clarence district is draining off steadily, months will elapse before some dairy farms are again in normal production…

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Supply to Grafton Dairy Company

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 2

SUPPLY to Grafton Co-operative Dairy Company for July was only four tons less than for the same month last…

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Milk Annex at Dairy Company

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 3

Excellent progress was being made on the construction of the milk annex at the factory, said the chairman of directors of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Co. (Mr. W. M. L. Hughes) yesterday…

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Big Wheat Crop

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 August 1950 · page 1

OTTAWA Wed. (AAP) -- Canada's '950 wheat crop would total 544 million bushels, the third largest in the nations…

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No Wool Clip Talks

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thurs.--Reports that the United States was negotiating with Australia to buy part or all of the 1950 wool…

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Dairy Farm Competition Local Farmers' Successes

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 3

Although recent heavy rain and floodings have delayed the judging schedule for the 1950 Dairy Farm Competitions conducted by the…

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Flood Serious Blow To Dairy Industry

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 3

Never before had the dairying industry suffered such a serious blow as it had during the recent disastrous floods on the Clarence River and throughout the North…

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Doyen Of Wollongbar State Farm

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 August 1950 · page 2

The death on August 3 of Mr. A. H. Haywood removes a very worthy man who did more for Wollongbar State Farm than any other manager. A native of Pambula, he came…

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'Is Princess Engaged?' Crop Of Rumours On Birthday

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 August 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.),--Princess Margaret celebrated her 20th birthday at Balmoral Castle in her native Scotland to-day--amid a new crop of rumours of her engagement…

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Farmer In Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 August 1950 · page 4

A Carr's Creek farmer, Bernard Graydon Trotter, 28, appeared at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Farmers Are Easy Victims

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 August 1950 · page 5

DISTRICT primary producers have requested the "Daily Examiner" to publish the following articles which have appeared in journals devoted entirely to rural matters. One of the items contains the hardest hitting criticism probably ever…

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Seek Wider Scope For Dairy Grant

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 August 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--The Australian Agricultural Council will recommend to the Federal Government that the scope of the dairy grant be widened. THE Council wants the grant…

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Markets For Wheat And Flour

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 August 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wed. -- A swing away from Britain and Europe as markets for Australian wheat and flour was for Australian wheat prices or markets, he said: World population, especially in the East, was growing much…

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