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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

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The Dairy Farmers' Picnic

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 4

Arrangements are well in hand for the monster basket picnic to be held at Byron Bay on Wednesday next under the auspices of the Primary Producers' Union. Great…

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P.p.u. Picnic Invitation to Dairy Farmers

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 9

The secretary of the Tweed and District Council of the P.P.U. (Mr. R. C. Gibson) has issued on behalf of the council the following circular to the dairy farmers of the…

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U.S.A Wants Butter Sydney and N.Z. Make Sales

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 6

The United States wants butter and is buying from New Zealand and Australia. A development of pecuniary…

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U.S.A. Wants Butter. Sydney and New Zealand Make Sales

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 3

A development of pecuniary interest to dairy farmers is the appearance of America in the market as a customer for butter. And, what is more, is…

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Tragic Picnic Party. Farm Hand Loses his Life

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 2

PERTH, Tuesday. -- James M'Connell (24), a farm hand, employed at Weda, near Brookton, on the Great Southern Railway, was drowned in Dewarlking…

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Farmer President of A.l.p

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 6

The newly elected President of the Executive of the A.L.P. in this State is Mr. W. Webster. He is a sheep farmer in the central west, and a…

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Farming By Correspondence. Is It Practicable ?

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 1

Yes! or at least that is the contention of the New South Wales Chamber of Agriculture, and some of the reasons advanced are worth…

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Support for Better Pastures Scheme. Dairymen's Leader's Show the Way

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 4

"I am carrying it out on my own farm on the Nambucca, and find a general improvement in the pactures, especially in the clover on the flats,"…

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Reducing Costs. Farmers Co-operate

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 3

With the object of reducing the costs of production, a group of farmers engaged principally in sugar cane growing, whose holdings are…

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Mammitis in Dairy Cows Preventive Measures Some Practical Suggestions

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 9

Mammitis is a disease of the udder of dairy, cows, and is so common and widespread that it can be found in almost every herd. It undoubtedly causes tremendous…

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Salt for Dairy Cows

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 9

Salt is a profitable addition the daily ration of the dairy cow, according to G. Heebank, dairy specialist of the South Dakota State College extension service…

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Farmers Burnt Out Melbourne

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 5

Many farmers have teen burnt out as the result of bush fires in Victoria. Damage is estimated at £150,000…

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Bounty on Export Butter

Northern Star · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

In anticipation that arrangements would be made with the New Zealand Government which would permit of the increased duty on butter operating from January T. the…

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Cattle in a Cemetery

Northern Star · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

For some time past cattle have been turned into tho Church of England portion of the Coraki cemetery, and! a few days back some eight or nine head of cattle were…

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Butter Freights. No Further Reduction

Tweed Daily · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

An effort on the part of the Dairy Produce Control Board to secure further concessions in freights on butter to the United Kingdom has been…

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Butter Production N.S.W. Increase

Tweed Daily · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 6

Production of butter in New South Wales, " states the weekly report of Prescott, Ltd., continues to increase although arrivals for the past week…

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Faulty Butter. Loss of £600,000 a Year

Tweed Daily · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 6

It is estimated that the butter manufacturers of Australia are losing at least £600,000 a year by their methods of manufacture…

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P.d.s. Column "Kangaroo" Butter in London

Northern Star · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 6

The press has recently published several cables from London, indicating that the butter from one or two Victorian ractories, bealing the national "Kangaroo" brand,…

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Aboriginal Farmers

Tweed Daily · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Bruntnenil, stated recently that he had received a report from the Aborigines Protection Board, which showed that farming…

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Illawarras for Grafton Farm. Ayrshires to be Displaced

Tweed Daily · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

The long-sustained agitation on the North Coast for the removal of the Ayrshire herd from the Grafton Experimental Farm has prev[?]d…

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