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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

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Shipment of Butter

Northern Star · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday—The dairy produce inspection branch of the Queensland Department of Trade and Customs advises that there was graded at Brisbane for…

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Sweep Mooted. a Queer Ticket. Pound of Butter

Tweed Daily · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 5

Dairymen on the Far South Coast, who have been experiencing great difficulty in finding a profitable city market for their butter, owing to the…

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Cattle Market Gradual Increase in Prices Queensland Outlook Brighter

Northern Star · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 3

ROGKHAMPTON, Wednesday.—Gradually but surely the cattle market is improving. After the slump in cattle values in 1920 three succeeding years saw the values…

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Scrub Land Trials of a Richmond Settler Birth of the Dairy Industry Hardships of the Farmers

Northern Star · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 4

I am the son of the late Mr. Charles Graham, who died in the Robertson district about 45 years ago. I came to the Richmond on June 30, 1880, on the old Coraki, and was…

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Butter Market Stabilisation Method Outlined Duty of the Primary Producer Views of the Minister

Northern Star · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Capt. Chaffey, Minister for Agriculture, in reply to the members for Byron, who made representations on behalf of the Murwillumbah…

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Sugar Crop Great Revenue Producer

Northern Star · Thursday 1 January 1925 · page 4

BALLINA, Wednesday.—The importance of the sugar industry to the Lower Richmond may be gauged from the fact that the wages paid, for cane putting alone…

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Alleged Cattle Thioving

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 2

Cattle thieves are still busy between Tabulam and Tenterfield, according to statements made at the last P.P. Board meeting at the Tableland centre. Mr. F…

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Butter Market. Prescott's Report

Tweed Daily · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 5

SYDNEY--The local market, is unaltered at I448d per cwt. for choicest quality plus boxes 13 each. Further rain has fallen along the coast…

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Sweep Mooted. Queer Ticket: Pound of Butter

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 8

Dairymen on the Far South Coast, who have been experiencing great difficulty in finding a profitable city market for their butter, owing to the…

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Butter Price Review. Year 1924 Lowest for Six Years

Tweed Daily · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 6

The year 1924 opened with butter at 110 per [?]b. By March 24 the price was down to 13½ [?]b. It recovered to 15½ on May 1 and to 16½ on May…

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Hot Air to Dry Crops

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 1

A woman's brain is behind the research carried out by the Oxford University's Institute of Agricultural Engineering into the problem of how to…

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A Farmer's Challenge. [?] a Plea for Farm Women

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 6

"The man on the land may make a periodical valuation of his live stock and deal to determine his financial position. He will write off a certain…

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Selecting a Dairy Cow. The Necessary Characteristics

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 6

In a commercial sense the dairy cow is a machine for the production of mille and butter fat and the reproduction of other machines of her kind and…

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Ape Farm for Science

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 5

The Pasteur Institute (says the London "Times") has set up in the island of Los, near Konarki, in French Guinea, a "farm" for the breeding and…

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Bexhill Dairymen Meet

Northern Star · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 4

At the Bexhill School of Arts recently three directors, Messrs. J. McGregor (chairman), R. Noble and W. Smith, and the manager, Mr. C. H. Eraser, of the North Coast…

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Charge Against Farmer's Wife

Northern Star · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Thursday.—At an inquest concerning the death of Leonard Cleggett, farmer, near Bordertown, his wife, Muriel Cleggett, was committed for trial on a…

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Butter Blending

Northern Star · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 4

A motion from the Ellangowan branch of the Primary Producers' Union forwarded for discussion at the next meeting of the Richmond District Council urged the central…

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Butter Market Stabilisation

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 5

Capt Chaffey, Minister for Agriculture, in reply to the members for Byron, who made representations on behalf of the Murwillumbah…

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The Butter Pool. Voting this Month

Tweed Daily · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 3

During negotiations for the creation of a Federal Board in respect to the control of the export of butter, it was agreed that Queensland should defer…

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Commercial London Butter Majmeet (Reuter.) LONDON

Northern Star · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 7

Australian butter is slow and prices are declining daily, only hand to mouth buying is experienced. Quotations are:—New Zealand choicest…

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