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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

594 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 23 of 30

"Examiner" Service Section Market Reports Metropolitan Cattle Prices Rise

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 September 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon.--Supplies yarded in the cattle section were considerably smaller, only 1898 head of generally fair…

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Farmer's Body Found In House

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 September 1954 · page 2

MACLEAN, Mon.--The body of Samuel Gordon Cameron, farmer, aged about 50, of Palmer's…

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Junior Farmer Lismore Camp

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 September 1954 · page 6

THE North Coast District Council of Junior Farmer Clubs has invited three male members of the…

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Letters to the Editor Infected Cattle

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 3

Sir.—Kindly grant me a little apace in your valuable journal to make a few observations on the recent controversy on T.B…

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Small Crops But Good Prospects

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 3

Potato growers in the Lower Clarence area are not perturbed at the present glutted condition of the market in Sydney, according to the president of the Potato…

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News in Brief Surplus Butter

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 September 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday.-- Sales of Government-owned surplus butter for use as a cocoa extender had passed…

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Cattle Losses

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 3

DARWIN, Mon.--About £100,000 worth of cattle have been killed this year through Gidyia poisoning…

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Home And Farm Gardeners Busy

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 2

Home and farm gardeners in the Clarence region are busy making ground ready and putting in their spring…

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New Farm Improvement Scheme

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 12

Insteads of Chossing one property here and there and making it a comples demonstration farm the Department of…

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Dairy Officer Appointed

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Mr. C. W. Barnett, had been appointed dairy officer, Macksville, within the Far North…

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Farmer Cleared Of Ill-Treating Dog

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 6

A charge against a Brushgrove market gardener, William Henry Skinner, of having cruelly ill-treated a dog was dismissed by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at…

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Mechanical Farming Boost

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 5

In an effort to popularise mechanical farming on the Far North Coast, where fewer tractors are…

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Dairy Company Dividends

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 4

Dividends of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. were declared at yesterday's meeting of shareholders…

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Substitute for Butter

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.—Fortified table margarine was a nutritionally adequate substitute for butter in the…

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Upper Clarence Junior Farmer For Competition

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 5

NEIL Sommerlad, of Legume Junior Farmers' Club, has been chosen as representative for the Upper…

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Heiress Now Farmgirl

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 6

LONDON, Wed. -- An heiress, who "ran away" on horseback from her mother's…

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World Price Suggested for Dairy Produce

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thurs.--President Eisenhower has been urged to explore the possibility of obtaining…

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Trend From Dairying Towards Beef Cattle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 September 1954 · page 10

A market trend away from dairying towards beef cattle in the Clarence Region is disclosed by the secretary of the Clarence Regional Development Committee, Mr. Wilfrid C. Sheather, in an analysis of livestock and crop figures…

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Record Number Of Cattle Go Through Abattoirs

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 September 1954 · page 4

Despite drought arid flood, a record number of 33,252 cattle passed through the Clarence River Co-Operafive Meat Society Ltd. abattoirs at South Grafton…

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Unsalted Butter

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 September 1954 · page 6

Unsalted butter is being used daily in Sydney in increasing quantities and is being commercially…

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