Loss on Potato Crops
Owing to the low price prevailing for potatoes, farmers in the Tweed district are allowing their crops to rot in the ground. It is stated that…
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Farming & the land, 1925
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Position of Dairying Industry an Intolerable One
In consequence of the large production the price of butter to the farmer fell to 11½d per lb. for December, 1924, and it is said that the price for the…
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The secretary of the Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Company, writing under date February 11 reports:—Pigs.—The general quality of the 1200…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Falklands Discovery of Farmer's Wife Details of Historic Battle Value of Secrecy in War
Ten years ago the wife of a sheep farmer, living in one of the Falkland Islands, made her contribution to the history of the world, for as result of her vigilant patriotism…
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The butter pay for January, as agreed upon by the factory managers for the Richmond and Tweed, is 10¼d per lb. for first class. The Byron Bay…
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DYEAABA, Saturday.—The new butter factory erected a few months ago by the Casino Dairy Company at Dyraaba is proving that its establishment was warranted…
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Replying to representations by Gudgen branch of the Farmers and Settlers ' Association in connection with the prohibition of straying stock on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rise and Fall Sudden Increase in Price of Butter in London is Followed by Sharp Decrease
LONDON, Saturday.-- The "Weekly Trade Summary." says that there was quite a boom in the butter market at the beginning of this week .the strong…
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At the Candelo court Dairy inspector Moflitt had 13 cases against dairyman for having dirty promises, milking with dirty hands and smoking while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Raging. Farmers Lose Heavily
PERTH, Monday.—It is estimated Dial about £100,000 damage has been done by fires that swept over 50,000 acres of country in the Katanning…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Included in 163 motions on the agenda paper of the Victorian Farmers Union conference, to commence on March 10, ore suggestions that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commercial Coastal Farmers' Report
The following report for the.week ended February 13 has been issued by the Coastal Farmers' Society:- Butter.—Production is still very heavy in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Mr. A. Knox, general manager of the Berrima Farm and District Co., Ltd., in reply to a question, stated that be had had…
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The Tweed River Co-op. Butter Co., Murwillumbah, reports that during the month of January it manufactured 402,1651bs. of butter. Suppliers were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Fat Competition
The results of the butter fat competition in connection with the Alstonville show are: —Cow showling full mouth yie[?]ding the greatest amount, of commercial butter in 273…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Exports. For Month of December
Butter shipments from Australia to the United Kingdom during December last aggregating 25,881.317 lb, valued at £1,834,145 were 10,109,445 lb. in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Shipment of Gold. £250,000 From the U.S.A. Hints on Seed Sowing. A Hint for North Coast Farmers
Gold, to the value of £250,000 consigned to the Bank of New South Wales, arrived in Sydney on Tuesday. The S.M. Herald, in its report,…
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An interesting position has arisen in connection with the fcifchciming Tumut Show. The organising of the various branches of the Agricultural Bureau has had the effect of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Graded
During the week ended January 24, the Commonwealth graders examined for export the following butter:—Sydney: Salted, 24,901 boxes; unsalted, 3465 boxes. Total, 28,…
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The North Coast Co-operative Co., Ltd., struck the pay for January, on a basis of 10¼d per lb for choicest. Production was a record,…
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