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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

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Farmer Fined Cream Stolen From Station an Abusive Defendant

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 2

Albert Jones, farmer, of Stoker's Siding, yesterday appeared before Mr. E. T Oram, P.M., in Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions, charged with having…

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Decapitated Farmer Killed by 'Plane Sensational Crash at Cornwallis

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 4

Further particulars reveal the shocking nature of the accident by which a farmer, Alfred C. Smith, was decapitated when a Moth 'Plane, in which…

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Farmer Fined Cream Stolen From Station an Abusive Defendant

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 2

Albert Jones, farmer, of Stoker's Siding, yesterday appeared before Mr. E. T Oram, P.M., in Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions, charged with having…

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Early Dairying on the Tweed River Difficulty in Establishing Herds Outlook in 1903 Opening Tyalgum Forest Rain Measured in Feet

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

The following, article written by the special commissioner of the "Sydney Morning Herald and published in that journal on September 4, 1903, will interest all Tweedites. The dairying industry then was about 10 years old, and the…

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Farmer Fined Cream Stolen t Stoker's Siding Incident Abusive Defendant

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 2

Albert Jones, farmer, of Stoker's Siding, yesterday appeared before Mr. E. T. Oram, P.M., in Murwillumbah Court of petty Sessions,…

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The Dairy Bull How to Get Best Results the Best Procedure

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 6

The number of cows to be allotted to a bull naturally varies a great deal, depending on his age and abilities. It often happens that a young sire…

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Self-feeders Economical Device Interest to Pig Farmers

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 6

It is the aim of every business man to reduce costs, otherwise the time [?]00n arrives when he is "up against it." In every industry progressive…

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Butter Production

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 6

The splendid rains in the Northern Rivers districts are bound to have early, though not immediate, effect on the production of butter. About…

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The Butter Markets Prescott's Report

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 4

Messrs. Prescott's Ltd. report under date 19129:-- In New South Wales production in most areas shows an improvement,…

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Butter Factory Merger the Hunter Valley Scheme

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 3

The movement for the amalgamation of the butter factories of the Hunter River district progressed, another step when the committee met to…

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COMMERCIAL Butter Demand Falls Off BANANAS 5- TO 14-

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday:--Owing to good rainfall on the North Coast, there was a falling off in the demand for butter in Sussex Street to-day, buyers…

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Norco Notes (Issued January 18.) London Butter Market Quiet

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 9

Receipts of butter at Sydney by boat for the week ended January 12 show a considerable increase on the totals received there during the preceding…

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Dairy Farmers' Society Marketing Act. Attitude of P.P.U. Executive Condemned

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 6

A meeting of the above Society was held at Lismore On the 15th inst. Following upon the ordinary routine, the attitude taken up by the…

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Blazing the Trail Early Days on Richmond When Lismore was Cattle Station

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 5

In the year 1850, or soon after, a young man and woman signed on at an employment bureau in England to go to Australia and serve with the late Mr. W. Wilson, who then owned the cattle station of Lismore. They were married on the…

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Sudden Death Farmers' Frightful End Albury

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 5

James Victor Nicoll (34), a farmer, of Whoronly (Victoria), met with a frightful death while attending to an oil engine on a tobacco plantation on…

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Farmers' Requisites

Northern Star · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 6

Recently the Primary Producers' Union asked the Railway Commissioners. to reduce freight charges on farmers' requisites. The Commissioners…

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Butter Factory Manager

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 4

Mr. Denning, the new manager of Kyogle butter factory, has assumed duties. Prior to his Kyogle appointment Mr. Denning was manager of…

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Butter Bounty. Review in Melbourne

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 7

Dealing with the increased bounty under the Paterson scheme, the Melbourne "Argus" one of the strongest opponents of the scheme, has the…

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Butter Factory Merger. The Hunter Valley Scheme

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 8

The movement for the amalgamation of. the butter factories of the Hunter River district progressed another step when the committee met…

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Epic of the Sea. Wheat as Fuel

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 2

A stirring story of a fight against the relentless fury of an Atlantic gale, of the rudder being repaired in the face of mountainous seas, is…

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