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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1923

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Cattle Sales

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 4

Messrs P. Smith and Sons report: There was a fair yarding of heifers at the usual weekly yard sales held at Murwillumbah yesterday. Forward…

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London Butter Market

Northern Star · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.—The London butter market is firm and there is a good consumptive demand. New Zealand choicest is quoted at 196s, exceptional quality being 198s,…

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Cattle From America

Northern Star · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday.—The steamer Canadian Planter, which arrived to-day from Montreal and ports, carried some forward Friesian cattle, comprising four bulls, nine…

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Another Increase in Butter

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday. -- It is predicted that the price of butter will be advanced ½d lb. next Monday…

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A Labor View. "The Butter Banditti."

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 6

V. Molesworth, Labour M.L.A., is allowed by "Smith's Weekly" to pour out the vials of his wrath on what he cabs the "Cow Cockies" and "Butter…

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Dairying Industry. a Bad Year. Police Report Discloses 84,643 Cattle on Dairy Premises and 1499 Dairymen in Murwillumbah Police District

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 4

Some interesting particulars concerning the dairying industry in the police district of Murwillumbah are contained in the report furnished by the police in…

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On the Land Butter for Health. Dr. Goldsmid's Recommendations

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 1

At a meeting of the P.P.U. at Murwillumbah, Dr. Goldsmid contended that the Union's publicity officers should take steps to popularise the use of…

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Winter Fodder Crops for the Year. Casino District Results

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 2

Do the farmers remember the lessons of last winter? Hundreds of cattle died then from starvation! And, now do the farmers intend to profit by that…

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Hospital Farm

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 2

Casino Hospital farm is proving a successful venture. Mr. Pidcock told a meeting of the Hospital committee on Monday night that this month's return…

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"Every Farm for Sale."

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 8

Said a veteran Lismore auctioneer: "Practically every farm on the Richmond was for sale in 1896. I sold some of the best of them at…

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Feeding of Stock. the Scientific Method. Expert Address Dairymen

Northern Star · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 3

On behalf of Messrs. Meggitts, Ltd., Mr. L.MacLean Wilson, an American dairyman, lectured to a large number of dairymen in Lismore yesterday on the subject of "Foods…

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Wollongbar Experiment Farm. Visit of Inspection. Interest in the Guernsey Sattle

Northern Star · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 7

On Wednesday last members of the Nimbin A. and I. Society paid their promised visit to the Government Experiment Farm at Wollongbar, with the object of making an…

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Popularising Butter. Propaganda Suggested

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 3

sAt a meeting of the Murwillumbah branch of the Primary Producers' Union, Dr. Goldsmid moved, and it was carried, that the union's publicity…

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Commercial. Prescott's Butter Report

Northern Star · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 4

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Prescott's, Ltd., report as follows:— The Sydney market remained at 172s 8d per cwt. this week, but from Monday next,…

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World's Champion Cow. Record in Butter Production

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 2

A New South Wales cow has eclipsed the world's record in butter production. The Australian Milking Shorthern cow Melba 15 of Dyraaba, which has been…

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Tick Eradication. Meeting of Farmers at Alstonville. New and More Drastic Regulations

Northern Star · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 5

A convention of farmers was held in the Agricultural Hall at Alstonville on Thursday last to discuss with Major Sanderson, chairman of the Tick Board of Control, the…

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The Butter Market

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—The rise of 4s 3d per ewt in the wholesale price of butter mooted on Friday last took effect as from to-day. Choicest grades brought 186s 8d. The…

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Butter Prices Increased

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.--the wholesale price of butter was advanced ½d lb, to-day…

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Cattle Dipping in Queensland

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 2

An ex-Tweedite writes from Queensland: "The privately-owned dips in Queensland are supposed to contain a mixture of at least a certain strength,…

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Imported Cattle High Class Animals

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--The steamer Canadian planter has arrived in Sydney from Montreal with 18 head of Friesian cattle aboard comprising four bulls,…

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