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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

2,484 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 12 of 125

Farmer Killed Companion Injured Motor Lorry Overturns Dunbible Road Accident

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 2

Pathetic incidents were associated with a fatal motor accident on the Murwillumbah-Dunbible road yesterday afternoon, as a result of…

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Finance for Better Dairy Herds

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 4

A special meeting of the Murrumbigee Irrigation Area Dairy Company, empowered the directors to borrow £2000 and buy dairy cattle for…

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Kangaroo Butter. and London Trade

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 4

The butter trade remains disappointing. There is an entire absence of speculative buying, retailers being content to take only sufficient for…

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Dairying Reports for January New South Wales Districts

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 5

The for the month of January of the Dairy Instructors in charge of the various districts throughout the State have been furnished by the…

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Improper Feeding [?]hy Dairying is Unprofitable Feeding of Dairy Cows

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 15

Improper feeding of dairy cows is one of the chief causes of unprofitable dairying. It is not contended that the heavy…

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Choosing a Dairy Breed

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 6

The question of wl[?]t breed of dairy cattle is the best had been asked by a number of persons either about to enter or engaged in the dairy…

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The Dairy Heifer

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 6

The dairy heifer is a unit of the potential milking herd. The breeder who knows how to grow and handle dairy heifers will add substantially to…

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Pig Products a Dairyman's Income Should Mean 25 Per Cent

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 6

The Western Australian Department of Agriculture in the endeavour to stimulate interest in and encourage the production of a better class of pig has…

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Crop Rotation Intense Grazing New Methods Advocated

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 6

Always an advocate of new methods that will ensure better returns to the farmer, Mr. I. W. Scott, senior dairy instructor for the Riverina, is at…

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Dairy Conditions Departmental Reports January Reviewed

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 6

The following reports of conditions ruling and production prospects furnished for the month of January of the Department of Agriculture…

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Pasure Improvement. Pastoral. Autumn Suitable Sowing Time for Many Grasses

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 4

Farmers interested in the question of pasture improvement are reminded that the Host suitable time for the sowing of the majority of pasture…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land Agricultural. Buffalo Burr. Its Identification and Control

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 4

Buffao Burr (Solatium rostratum) is a much-branched annual plant of 1 to 2 feet in height, covered with yellowish, star-shaped hairs and densely set…

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Dairying. When Pasture Fails. a Reminder Regarding Winter Fodders

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 4

No artificial food can compete in cheapness with natural grass, but to rely entirely on pasture is to fail in obtaining the principal advantages…

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Tick Eradication Meeting of Control Board Recent Infestations Discussed Single Tick Crops Up Again

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 4

A deputation received by the Tick Control Board in Lismore yesterday voiced stockowners' alarm at recent discoveries of ticks in country that had been free from infestation for years. Recently the Federal Cattle Tick…

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Cattle Market. Brisk Demand

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 4

Alcorn and Smith report having held their usual fortnightly Cattle sale yesterday when about 500 head were yarded and sold. Prices for all…

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Our Butter. Complaints in London

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 1

The butter trade remains disappointing, states a recent London message. There is entire absence of speculative buying, retailers being content…

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Co-operative Wheat Trading

Northern Star · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 8

The Canadian wheat pool offers a very fine example of the success of cooperation when backed by the solid support on producers During the…

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Fruit Washed Ashore. Italian Limes at Wool!

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 4

For some days past the beach at Wooli Wooli has been strewn with hundreds of cases of limes and downs of bales of wheat and hay, which…

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Stud Sheep Prohibition of Export Reply to P. P. UNION

Tweed Daily · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 6

At the September session of Tweed District Council of the P.P.U., a mo[?] submitted by Billinudgel branch was carried, to the effect that the…

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South African Farmers P.d.s. Column

Northern Star · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 8

Reference has previously been made in this column to the visit of a group of 18 South Africans to Australia and New Zealand on an investigation tour…

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