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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

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Farmers in Politics

Tweed Daily · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 4

The Victorian Nationalist party has appointed Mr. G. S. M'Lean to take charge of its electoral machinery, and in an editorial on the subject the…

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Anthrax Amongst Sheep

Northern Star · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 4

SYDNEY, Saturday.—It is reported that of a flock of 400 sheep near Cootamundra, 60 have died from anthrax…

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Dairy Industry Record Butter Output Expected Review of Past Year's Work Marketing the Chief Problem

Northern Star · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 5

SYDNEY, Saturday.—A brief review of the past year's work in the dairying industry in New South Wales was made yesterday by the State…

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Butter in London. Heavy Forward Supplies Depress the Market. Big Improvement in Quality of Australian Product

Tweed Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--A downward movement in the butter market ? in directly business was resumed after the holidays, and seems likely to continue…

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Motor Fatality. Farmer Killed and Three Others Injured Near Rylestone

Tweed Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2

SYDNEY, Saturday.---In a motoring accident on the Glen Alice road, near Rylestone, yesterday Mr: Frederick Willis, a farmer at Mount Mirden, was…

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Tweed Heads Butter Factory

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

Compared with the same period of last year, the figures of the output of Tweed Heads butter factory show a big increase. During the Chirstmas…

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1,000,000 Less Sheep Sold

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday.--There was a decrease of more than 1,000,000 in the number of sheep, and 8000 in that of cattle sold at the Homebush saleyards…

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Price of Butter First Grade Values are Fixed

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 6

The Butter Advisory Committee of the Primary Producers' Union has decided that, from to-day, the price of first-grade butter will be fixed at ½d. a…

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Bexhill Tragedy. Farmer Found Shot. Gun on the Floor. Said to Have Had Financial Worries

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 3

LISMORE, Monday.--Isaac Gilmore Richardson Vidler (52), a retired farmer living at Bexhill, was discovered dead from a shot gun…

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Coastal Farmers' Report

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday.—The following report has been issued by the Coastal Farmers' Society for the week ended January 2- Butter.—The holidays have disorganised…

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Many Trades Tribulations of Herd Testers Experiences of "Farm Oracle"

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 6

I have been a cow tester (J. C. Wallace rather regretfully admits in an American farm paper). How matter of fact, and simple that sounds! And so I thought the…

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Fatal Wound Bexhill Farmer Shot Dead Wife's Fearful Discovery

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 4

Isaac Gilmore Richardson Vidler, aged 52 years, a retired farmer, was discovered dead from the effects of a shotgun wound in the head at the washhouse attached to his…

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Dyraaba Disposal of Vacant Farms

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. George Nesbitt, M.L.A., has been informed by the Department of Lands that with respect to the vacant farms on the Dyraaba Estate,…

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Dairy Cattle. Spraying or Dipping?

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2

With regard to a communication addressed to Messrs. Nesbitt and Missinghum, by Mr. J.Passey, Secretary of the Doubtful Creek branch of the P.P.U.,…

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Sheep on Coast Prospect in Richmond District Profits of Wool Growing

Northern Star · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 7

The phenomenal prices that are being paid for wool, and with every indication of a continuance (writes "Westerner"), should cause the farmers in this district to…

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On Butter Pays

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2

Mr. A. J. Waters, Eungella, writes: Your consistent and outspoken advocacy of conditions to materially benefit the primary producer, in the…

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Tweed Heads Butter Factory

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2

Compared with the same period last year, the figures of the output of Tweed Heads butter factory show a big increase, During the Christmas rush of…

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Butter Production at Alstonville

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2
Also in Northern Star

During the month ended on December 31, 1924, the quantity of butter manufactured at the Alstonville factory was 109 tons [?] as against 87…

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Local Interest. Record Butter Production

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2

The quantity of butter manufactured by the Casino Cooperative Dairy Coy. last month was easily a record in the history of the Company, the output…

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