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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

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Banana Growers Payable Side Crops

Northern Star · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 9

On practically every banana farm there is some land which cannot profitably be planted with bananas. As a rule these small plots are treated as waste land and…

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Price of Butter Reduced Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 4

The Australian Stabilisation Committee New South Wales section has announced that the price of butter will be reduced by one penny a lb. to 168s per cwt. in this State…

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Butter Price. Reduction From To-day

Tweed Daily · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The Australian Stabilisation Committee, N.S.W. section, to-day announced that the price of butter would be…

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Duty on Butter Mr. Pratten May Visit N.Z.

Tweed Daily · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 2

"I need scarcely say how great is my desire to do my best to keep production of any kind in Australia," writes Mr. H. E. Pratten (Minister…

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Survey of Australia's Butter Export. for the First Half of the Export Season

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 4

The first six months of the Australian better export season closed on December 31 last and, these to the information courteously implied from official…

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Winter Fodder Crops Departmental Experiments

Tweed Daily · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 2

Mr. M. J. E. Squire, Agricultural Instructor, Grafton, was at Murwillumbah yesterday, making arrangements for departmental experiments with…

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Dairy Research Institute Proposal in Britain Canberra

Northern Star · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 5

The Minister for Markets announces that the 'Empire-Marketing Board is advising the British Government in connection with the expenditure of £1,000,000 annually to…

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Radio Programmes 2Fc (Farmer's), 442 Metres

Northern Star · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 7

Friday, February 3.—Marie Lawton and her harp, 9.25 p.m. Saturday, February 4.—Hospital concert at Bodington, 5.45 to 8 p.m…

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Eleven Months Cattle Drive

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 6

Mr. J. White, representing a Gulf cattle company, arrived at Chinchilla (Q.) on January 29 in connection with the passing through of 1039 head of…

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All-Australian Butter Price. Producers' Action

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 1

The movement to provide machinery with statutory powers, for the establishment of an all-Australian price for butter and cheese, and…

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The New Butter Factory. Now Operating

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 2

Manufacturing operations were transfered from the old to the new butter factory on Tuesday last, and so far results have been entirely…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. Iodine for Feathering Of. Fowls

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 2

It is the advice of Mr. T. E. Quisenberry, head of the American Poultry School, that iodine is a good remedy, for the slow feathering of marturing chicks,…

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Dairy Farmers' Society. Chairman's Address

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 1

We are asked to publish the following: At the inaugural annual meeting of members of the above held at Lismore on Tuesday, 17th…

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Canadian Production Serious Decrease in Dairying Alleged

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 3

VANCOUVER, Wednesday. --A Calgary message states that the cause of an alarming decrease in Alberta dairy products was inquired into by the…

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Inter- Imperial Trade Britain's Big Grant Dairy Research in Australia?

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thursday. --The Minister for Markets (Mr. Paterson) announces that the Empire Marketing Board is advising the British…

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A Valuable Crop. Australia's Fr[?]

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 2

Sydney, Friday.--Mr. J. M. Ward, superintendent of horticulture, Victoria, estimates the Australian fruit crop as being worth £17,500,000 this…

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Farmer Gored While Breaking in Heifer

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 3

Whilst engaged in breaking in a heifer on his farm at Fern Vale (Tweed River) last Wednesday, Mr. George Watson had the misfortune to…

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Canadian Dairymen Australian Treaty Opposed Abrogation Wanted Demand in Parliament Ottawa

Northern Star · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 5

A Calgary message states that the cause of the alarming decrease in Alberta dairy products was inquired into by the annual convention of the…

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"Fictitious" Butter Price

Tweed Daily · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 6

In a letter dated December 14 last, unusual conditions in the London butter market are commented upon by the Anglo-Continental Produce Co…

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Butter Price Reduced

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 2

The Australian Stabilisation Committee, New South Wales section, announced that the price of butter was reduced by one penny a lb. to 168- per…

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