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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 25 of 30

Junior Farmer From America for Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 October 1954 · page 3

ULMARRA, Mon.—Miss L. Bredlow, an American Junior Farmer, will spend six weeks on the North…

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Korera Bureau Movies to Have Cattle T.B. Tested

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 1

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Demonstrations Watched By 200 Farmers

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 4

In a typically rural setting of subdivided paddocks, ploughed land, cars and lorries scattered over…

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Wheat Council

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Sun.--The International Wheat Council will begin its regular half-yearly meeting in London…

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Farmer Unity On Charges

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 2

Sir.--All the protests written and verbal, to the N.R.C.C. will not alter the fact that the farmers have…

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Plan To Train Dairy Factory Operatives

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Mon.—Technical training of dairy factory operatives will be encouraged by the Australian…

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P.p.u. Views on Butter Price Problems

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 3

Mr. W. H. Blythe, Secretary of the Central Rivers P.P.U. District Council, when in Kempsey on Friday, made available to the "Macleay Argus" an informative statement on butter price problems, and also…

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Spray Irrigation, On Dairy Farms

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 6

Most of the 8000 acres under irrigation in Tasmania are watered with sprinkler irrigation, systems…

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Area Supervisor Lectures Dorrigo Junior Farmers

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 7

On Wednesday, September 22, the Dorrigo Junior Farmers Club received a visit from the area supervisor, Mr. Purgue…

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Dairy Output

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. -- Dairy production in August showed an increase on that of July because of more suitable…

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Dairyfarmer's Output Up By 169 Per Cent

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 6

In four years a Glen Innes dairy farmer has lifted his butter production by 169 per cent.--711b. per cow in 1951 to 197lb. this year…

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Cattle Values Near Record

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 3

Values at this week's cattle sales were described yesterday by managers of two Grafton district stock firms as at near record level…

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Asparagus Crop in Danger

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--A strike of 100 cutters at Cowra threatens the biggest asparagus crop in the…

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Short-term Farm Course to Be Held

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 October 1954 · page 4

The Department of Agriculture would attempt to stage another short-term school at the Grafton…

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Wheat Stabilisation

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--N.S.W. wheatgrowers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the proposed new five-year…

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Demand For Wool In Far East

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Sun.--The growing popularity of wool fabrics in the Far East would become an important…

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Rain Caused Heavy Sheep Losses Tamworth Storm

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. -- Heavy rain in north and northwestern New South Wales over the week-end has killed thousands of newly shorn sheep and new-born lambs. Streams are reaching flood levels and the New England…

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Claims Butter Being Mixed

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Certain distributors were mixing choice and first grade butter and selling it as choice butter, Mr. C. N. Squire said to-day…

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Costing Formula For Butter

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- The costing formula for butter was unjust and unfair, N.S.W. State President of the Australian Primary Producers Union, Mr…

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The Man on the Land: Treatment Of Mastitis In Cattle

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 6

Without doubt mastitis is one of the commonest diseases of dairy cattle and the use of the antibiotics such as penicillin…

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