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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 5 of 29

High Quality Cattle Sent To Macleay

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1950 · page 2

A TRIBUTE to the quality of the beasts forwarded to the Macleay River to replace those destroyed in the recent flood, was contained in a letter from the secretary of the Macleay Cattle Replacement Committee (Mr. G. S. Cook)…

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Proposed Bill To Amend Dairy Act

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--State Cabinet to-day approved a Bill to amend the Dairy Industry Act. THE Premier (Mr. McGirr) said to-night that the aim…

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Wheat for Spain

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.--Arrangements have been completed for the sale of 60,000 tons of Australian wheat to Spain. The wheat…

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Wool Price Complacency 'Dangerous'

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 6

Sir Charles McCann, chairman of the International…

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Dairy Production Aided By Weather

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Wed.-- In his monthly report on district conditions in number two district from the Clarence to…

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Dairy Husbandry Institute Wanted For Coast

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 2

The vital need for revision of technical education in every branch of the dairy industry was emphasised by Dr. G. F. Finlay, noted animal geneticist, in an interview in Grafton yesterday…

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Disastrous Effect On Potato Crop

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 4

Prominent men in the potato growing industry said yesterday that from half to two-thirds of the present crop would be lost because of the heavy rain. THE Grafton Master Agent…

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High Quality Cattle

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 1

The entries in the cattle section were not numerous and the judges expressed disappointment that there were not more…

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Clarence Butter Output 'Negligible'

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 2

A claim that the Clarence River butter output was "negligible" was made at a meeting of the…

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High-Priced Jersey Cattle

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 4

Jersey stud breeders from Victoria, Wagga, Tamworth. Scone, Sydney and Kempsey attended the Jersey Grove, Dungog,…

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3000 Fewer Queensland Dairymen

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 8

Drill from the Shying industry in Queensland has resulted in a decline of 3000 farmers from the level of…

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No Dairying Request For Migrant Labour

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thurs.--No official request for Government sponsored migrants for work in the dairying industry had…

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Around The New England State Cattle Dog Trials

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 3

BONALBO. -- The first cattle dog trials to be held in Australia will be conducted at the Bonalbo Show Society's "Silver…

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Stud Farm Purchase

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.-- Jockeys Edgar Britt and Harold Jones today paid 3100gns. for a young Dhoti mare with a chestnut foal…

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Death Of Prominent Wheat Grower

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 3

PERTH, Sun. -- Mr. F. W. G. Liebe, the only person in Australia and reputedly in the world to have grown 100,000 bags of…

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Experiment Farm For Central West

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY: Following representations by Mr. Charles Cutler, M. L. A. (C. P. Orange), the Minister for Agriculture stated that…

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Loose Administration In Junior farmer Movement

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 3

LISMORE.--The District Supervisor of Junior Farmers' Clubs (Mr. Norman Simous) was the fourth local…

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Wheat Agreement

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).--Wheat experts believe that the reported agreement between America and Canada may form a…

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Outstanding First Day At Cattle Sales

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 3

EXCELLENT general quality of stock on offer, plus heavy demands by Sydney operators to fulfil orders for metropolitan consumers owing to the meat strike, had the effect of making prices soar at Hawthorne's 59th annual sale, which opened at the…

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Dairying Industry Opposes Buffer

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Any system that would create a buffer between the industry and the Government would not…

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