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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

799 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 27 of 40

1000lb. Butter Cow

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 7

"Marks' Villa Queen 10th" 45248, a pure-bred Australian Illawarra Shorthorn cow owned by…

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Margarine And Home Market For Butter

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed.--The profitable home market for butter would diminish, and the dairying industry would…

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Less Wheat Than Last Year

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--The area of wheat to be harvested for grain in N.S.W. during the 1952-53 season will…

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Advance Agriculture Fair Small Cattle Breeders Competition

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 7

In these days when beef production is a preeminent essential to safeguard Australia's meat requirements any effort towards that objective must command…

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Butter Price Below Cost

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 4

The new butter price of 310 per lb. to the producer was 3d. under the estimated cost of production of 41.29 pence per lb., commented Mr. A. W. Davis (Seelands) after the…

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Cattle Compensation Act to Operate From Sept. 1

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., has announced that the Cattle Compensation Act would come into operation on September 1, 1952. KENNETH NEATE, ex-N.S.W. policeman, has returned to Australia as an established grand opera star in London…

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Cyclones and Floods Take Terrific Toll Coastal and Inland Farmers Face Ruin

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 1

Once again the curse of cyclone and flood has fallen on the State and thousands of farmers, inland and. coastal, face ruin. From Maitland to the Clarence River Countless acres of valuable farmlands are under water, stock has been lost, and homes…

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Farm Mechanisation School at Grafton

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 8

A special school in farm machinery operation and maintenance will be held at Grafton from Monday, September…

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Farmers Fined For Unclean Premises

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 2

LISMORE, Thursday. -- Two farmers were fined in Broad water Court for offences in connection with unclean dairy…

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Big Crop Losses Caused By Rain

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 August 1952 · page 3

Lower Clarence farmers said last night that losses of potatoes and other other vegetables as a result of the torrential rains of this week, would run into many thousands of…

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Wool Growers Must Strive To Increase Production

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Australian wool growers must strive to increase production and help will a…

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Bracken Fern Kills Cattle In Beffingen District

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 3

"Recently,five bead of cattle from a line of thirty dry cows died in the Bellingen District with symptoms suggesting bracken fern poisoning " send Mr. R. M. Watts. Principal Veterinary Officer of the Department of…

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U.s. Uses More Dominion Wool

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Mon.-- Although the United States wool imports were down in the early months of this…

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Farmers' Self Help

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 3

With their roads deteriorating and Tweed Shire Council without funds to make repairs, Pumpen-bil and Bray's Creek district…

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Young Farmer To Stand Trial

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 3

MANILLA.--In Manilla Coroner's Court Peter Gerard Byrnes (20), farmer, of Manilla, was committed for trial at Tamworth…

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Farmer's Letter On Mammitis Led To Fracas

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 5

MACKSVILLE.—The court sequel to a roadside fracas between neighbouring farmers at Spickett's…

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Treatt Attacks Soldier--farmers' Cuts

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tues.—The N.S.W. Labour Government's 50 per cent, cut in funds for soldier settlement…

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Cutworm Control In Pastures And Crops

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 6

Outbreaks of cutworms arc occurring at present in different parts of the State. These caterpillars can occur in enormous numbers and attack, pastures and field crops causing heavy damage…

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Advance Agriculture Fair Strip Farming To Control Erosion

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 6

Efforts to establish pasture improvement on steep, hilly country are often greatly reduced in value due to erosion of the prepared land following heavy rainfalls, said G. T. Dawson, Field Supervise of the Dairy…

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Fish on Farms

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 6

Few farmers. in New South Wales have investigated the possibilities of stocking their dams with…

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