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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 39 of 40

T.B. In Cattle Campaign Letter to the Editor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 December 1952 · page 2

Sir.--In your otherwise excellent report of the Grazier's Association meeting in to-day's "Examiner"…

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Advance Agriculture 'Fair Concrete Fence Posts Easily Made On The Farm

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 December 1952 · page 6

Concrete fence posts are easily and quickly made. They have advantages over timber posts in being fire - resistant and proof against white ants and rot, and are, therefore, practically everlasting…

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Monument to Dairy Breed

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 December 1952 · page 6

Erection of a monument on the South Coast of New South Wales to commemorate the first…

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Junior Farmers To Lead Cattle

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 8

Several Junior Farmer stalwarts were perplexed at the lack of Junior Farmers who came forward to lead cattle in…

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Cheap Margarine Less Butter Used

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 7

Cheaper prices for margarine were causing a considerable drop in butter consumption in Australia the secretary of the…

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M. Freeman Wins Cattle Draft

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 1

Great interest centred around the ring events and some fine horsemen and horses were seen to…

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Township Threatened By Bushfire Sheep, Homesteads, And Buildings Destroyed

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday--Trangie residents were standing-by to-night to fight any fresh outbreaks of a huge bushfire which threatened to engulf the town earlier to-day. The fire has ravaged 400 square miles of rich grazing land,…

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Spring Show Splendid Exhibition Cattle & Horses Predominate Pavilion Exhibits Beyond Expectations

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 1

The 41st. Annual — Spring Show— of the Dorrigo & Guy Fawkes Agricultural Assn., held last Friday and Saturday proved to be most successful and was beyond expectations…

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Farmers Baconers Comp

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 1

There was keen competition the Farmers Baconers competition this year. B. Baggott ained first and second with a…

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District Farm Exhibit

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 8

The district farm exhibit (non-competitive) was outstanding. It is felt that not many people actually realise…

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Publications for Farmers

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 3

New or revised issues of the following publications have been added to the Department of Agriculture literature which…

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Dairy Output Declining

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 December 1952 · page 2

COFFS HARBOUR, Thurs.--In the Clarence, Dorrigo, Coffs Harbour and Bellinger areas dairy…

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Junior Farmers' Successful Show

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 December 1952 · page 6

Despite hot and dry conditions, the fourth annual show of the Nymboida Junior Farmers' Club was an outstanding success. As in previous years, the function was strongly…

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"No challenge" to wool

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 December 1952 · page 3

Mr Douglas T. Boyd, chairman of the Australian Wool Board, stated recently that wool was…

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Junior Farmers' Club Annual Prize Presentation

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 7

The Cells Harbour Junior Farmers' Club concluded the year with a very happy social in the Park Beach Hall when…

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Dairying Hit By Weather

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 2

DAIRY and milk factory executives on the Clarence said yesterday that although milk and cream supplies were falling off as a result of the dry weather, they were 50 per…

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'Guns, Butter' Programme

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Wed.--President Truman, in one of his last official acts, is expected to recommend…

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290,000 Cattle Fattened On 175 Acres

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 4

A visit to an Arizona (U.S.A.) stockyard with 35,000 hand-fed beeves fattening with a gain of 2½lb. per day on an area of 175…

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Progressive Farming at Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 6

Use of pure-bred bulls, subdivision of paddocks, fertilising and mechanisation form the basis for the…

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Electricity On The Farms

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 6

Farmers cannot afford inefficient or merely "fancy" appliances. Equipment for primary production…

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