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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

3,123 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 5 of 157

Open Verdict Fire at Farm After Storm Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 5

The district coroner of Urana (Mr. F. E. Whitehead) returned an open verdict after inquiring into a fire which occurred on Lindsay Crowe farm on December 14…

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Butter Marketing. Clarence Farmers' Decision

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 1

At the quarterly meeting of Clarence District Council P.P.U. this week, the following motions were carried:…

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Farmer's Big Boss Standing Crop and 300 Bags of Wheat Destroyed by Fire

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 3

ALBURY, Monday.--Seventy acres of standing crop and 300 bags of wheat were destroyed by fire on the farm of [?] de Mamiel, near Howlong,…

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December Butter Pay

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 2

It was resolved at the pay meeting held in Lismore last Saturday to pay suppliers 1s 4d per lb for choicest butter supplied during December. The…

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Wheat Crop Afire Sensational Blaze Near Albury Albury

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 5

Seventy acres of a standing crop of 300 bags of wheat were destroyed by fire on the farm of L. de Mamiel, near Howlong, yesterday. Fences on the holding were also…

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Northern Rivers Butter Factories' Association

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 6

It was resolved at the pay meeting held in Lismore last Saturday to pay suppliers 1s 4d per 1b. for choicest butter supplied during December. The pay for the rrespond…

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Australian Dairying Industry. at Last Pulling Together

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 4

During the last few weeks happenings in the dairying industry should give the "powers that be" food fer much thought. The fact that the irritating…

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Warwick Farm Inquiry

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--The A.J.C. stewards resumed an inquiry, to-day, into the fall of Miss Magpie and Aquilac in the first division of the…

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Tweed Cane Growers Discuss New Association Every Cane Farmer Will Be a Member

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 2

A representative meeting of Tweed River cane growers at Murwillumbah yesterday ratified the rules of the newly-formed New South Wales Cane Growers' Association. A resolution bearing on the accumulated funds of Tweed…

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Rabbit Farming

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 2

It is believed that fanners in the Inverell district find rabbit farming more productive than anything else (says an exchange). At the…

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Jersey Stud Farm Request at Murwillumbah Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 4

Hon. W. E. Dunn, Minister for Africulture, Accompanied by the Mr. R. Sproule, M.L.C., paid an unofficial [?] to urwillumbah on Saturday. Occasion was taken of the…

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Butter Production. Bonalbo Dairy Co

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 2

For December the Bonalbo Dairy Co. manufactured 22,7561b. of butter, as against 79,0801b. for the corresponding, period of 1925, a decrease of 56,3241b…

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Butter Production

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 2

With the breaking of the drought in Queensland and New South Wales, butter production in those States will naturally take a…

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Cattle Sale

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 2

Harris and Simpson, Ltd., will conduct a special cattle sale of 315 head at the Municipal saleyards, Casino, on Tuesday, January 18, comprising…

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Wheat Crop Destroyed Melbourne

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 4

With the temperature at 102 degrees a fire broke out on the property of W. McGennisken at Horsham and destroyed 500 bags of standing wheat and 100 bags of bagged…

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Bonalbo Butter Production

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 2

For December the Bonalbo Dairy Co. manufactured 22,756lb. of butter, as against 79,080lb. for the corresponding period of 1925, a decrease of 56,324lb…

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Cattle Prices Firmer

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 2
Also in The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser

Sharpe and Crcker report that on account of the heavy rains on Monday the yarding at the cattle sales yesterday was not large, as owners were…

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Kyogle's New Butter Factory

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 4

The contractors, Messrs. Thackeray and Gallagher, have made a start with the erection of the new butter-factory being built by Norco at Kyogle,…

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Butter and Margarine Instructive Comparisons

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 9

The dairy produce trade of Australia has shown by a recent pronouncement that it is alive to the mena[?] or margarine. The investigations of the Imperial Economic…

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