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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1922

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Heavy Timber Traffic. Damage to Shire Roads. Who Should Pay for Upkeep? Scheme to Relieve the Farmers

Northern Star · Friday 20 January 1922 · page 6

The question of taxing the right people is one that is of great importance to shire councils over whose road heavy timber traffic passes to the sawmills. Great damage is…

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Damaged Crops and Dazed Birds

Northern Star · Friday 20 January 1922 · page 4

A picnic party from Armidale in a motor bus had an unenviable experience on Sunday afternoon last. When from nine to twelve miles out, on Dangar's Creek road past…

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Cattle Sales

Northern Star · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 4

Hindmarsh and Co. wish., to. draw attention of clients to their usual yard sale to be held, at Lismore yards on Friday next, 27th inst., when all classes of cattle will…

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Butter Factory Pay

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 2

The Casino butter factory manufactured 249,709lbs. of choicest and 4127 lbs. of second-class butter last month. For choicest 9½d. was paid and 8d. for…

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A Prophet and Butter

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 6

For years past a large number of people have sworn by the virtues of the divining rod for finding water and minerals, but it is safe to…

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Tick Eradication. Dipping Methods in America. Are Dairy Cattle Treated?

Northern Star · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 6

Major C. J. Sanderson, chairman of the Tick Board of Control, writes to the Editor as fallows:—"Sir,—At several meetings held by the…

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Choicest Butter. Falling Off in Quantify

Tweed Daily · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 4

The Commonwealth dairy expert has called a conference of factory managers whose butter in graded at Newcastle. The meeting will take place at…

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Butter Factory's Troubles Loss of £2000

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 3

The "Examiner" last Wednesday briefly referred to the trouble Tenterfield factory had struck in connection with overpayments to cream…

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Butter Marketing. the Melbourne Conference. Standardization of Quality

Tweed Daily · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 2

At the Melbourne Butter Conference, the question of dealing with the stocks held by the Imperial Government naturally dominated the proceedings, but other…

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Produce Markets. Butter Unaltered. Bacon in Strong Demand

Northern Star · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Quotes for choicest butter are unaltered at 140s a cwt. Cheese is selling fairly well at late rates. The egg position was unchanged, and one…

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Inferior Butter. State Percentage Drops. Defects Becoming Common

Northern Star · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Federal authorities are entering the educational domain of the dairy branch of the State Department of Agriculture, and the Commonwealth dairy…

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Butter Falling Off. Faulty Manufacture Suspected. Two Conferences Called

Northern Star · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Commonwealth Dairy Expert has called a conference of the factory managers whose butter is graded at Newcastle. The meeting is to take place at…

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Milk and Butter Fat. Tests of Pure Bred Cows. Records Completed During December

Northern Star · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 10

The Dairy Branch, Department of Agriculture, supplies the following list of pure bred cows, whose tests of milk and butter fat yields were completed during December, also…

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Tick Eradication. Dipping in America. Dairy Stock Included. Mr. Saunders' Inquiries. (To the Editor)

Tweed Daily · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 2

Sir,--At several meetings held by the Tick Board of Control to discuss tick eradication on the Tweed during the last two or three months, it was persistently…

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Light and Power Electricity for Farmers. New Zealand's Example

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 3

"In Canterbury and elsewhere we are already proving the enormous difference-in outlook and comfort that it brings to the farmer to have at his…

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The Dairy Industry

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 4

Last week the Committee representing all the States gave [?]er consideration to the possibility of pushing on with a view to placing…

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Supply and Demand. How the Farmer Is Hit

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 21 January 1922 · page 1

The results from the potato crop in New England for the season just closing has been disappointing to growers both as regards yield and…

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Fire in Standing Crop. Share Farmers Committed for Trial

Northern Star · Monday 23 January 1922 · page 4

SYDNEY, Saturday.—The Coroner at Forbes concluded an inquiry in regard to a fire which occurred in a standing crop[?] on Ronald Peter Morgan's farm on Ooma…

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Bright Outlook Provision Trade Improves. Sales at Good Prices. Butter Stocks Almost Cleared. LONDON

Tweed Daily · Monday 23 January 1922 · page 3

The provision trade has undergone a great change for the better. The improved demand for butter has been followed by a similar improvement in cheese…

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Fish Farming Tests

Northern Star · Monday 23 January 1922 · page 3

Scientists of the sea have visions of a time when we shall dispose fish in the sea much as a farmer disposes his flocks and herds on land; where the pasturage is best,…

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