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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

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Guernsey Society Annual Meeting At Wollongbar Farm

Northern Star · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 10

The annual meeting of the North Coast branch of the Guernsey Cattle. Society of Australia was held at Wollongbar Experiment Farm on Tuesday…

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Butter Production. North Coast Leads

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 1

Production figures for New South Wales for the year commencing June 1, 1928 and ending June 30, 1929, have just been made available, and…

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Important Cattle Enterprise. Big Move in Queensland

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 7

The two companies which recently purchased a number of Queensland State cattle stations have commenced work in earnest. Already contracts,…

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Farm and Dairy. Wholesale Farming

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 3

A writer says he saw in Mexico "the biggest cotton farm in the world, one hundred and ten thousand acres in one piece." He says such acreage in our…

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What a Farmer Is

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 3

A capitalist that labors. A man that works eight hours a day twice a day. A man who has every element of…

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Cautious Farmer Treats Journalist With Suspicion

Tweed Daily · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 5

Some time ago a Queensland journalist engaged upon the compilation of an article on a prosperous agricultural district called upon a farmer whose…

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Succumbed to Thirst. a Farmer's Fate

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 4

Sydney Friday.--The body of Jas. Waddick, a farm laborer, has been found in thick scrub country in the Lake Cargelligo district. He had…

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Butter Box Timber

Tweed Daily · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 2

For the purpose of supplying butter box timber, the Government should reserve one or more of the kauri pine forests of North Queensland, declared…

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Butter Factory Amalgamation

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 4

A message from Bellingen reads:-- "Following up the proposed amalgamation of butter society interests in this and adjacent districts, the boards…

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The Dairy Cattle on the North Coast

Northern Star · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 3

It does not matter whether it is manufacturing, primary producing or speculating, we all desire to get the most out of whichever line we are…

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Canned Food. Canadian Farmers' Request

Tweed Daily · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 3

OTTAWA, Thursday. -- The conference of the United Farmers of Alberta have adopted a resolution asking the Dominion Government to require that…

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Thirst and Exposure Farm Manager's Shocking Death Scratched for Water

Tweed Daily · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday. -- Five days ago, James Waddick, farm manager at Naradhan, was lost in The Mallee country, in the Lake Cargellico district…

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Dominions Tour British Farmers on Way

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 4

A London message says:--Sixty-one members of the British National Union of Farmers, 15 of whom are accompanied by their wives, left Waterloo to…

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Bush Tragedy Farm Manager Dies of Thirst

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--The body of James Waddick, farm manager, has been found in the thick country in the Lake Cargellico district. He has been…

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Jersey Cattle at Bangalow

Northern Star · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 11

At Bangalow Show there were heavy entries in the Jersey and Australian Illawarra Shorthorn sections, due, no doubt, to the coming fair and…

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Bangalow Show Wet for First Day Jerseys Strongest in Cattle. Section

Tweed Daily · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 2

Continual rain on Saturday last reduced the attendance on the first day of the Bangalow show, kept hundreds of exhibits away, and generally…

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Judging at Bangalow Show in the Rain Leaden Skies Dampen Enthusiasm Exhibitors Keep Cheerful Under Difficulties Jersey and A.M.S. Cattle Chief Sources of Interest

Northern Star · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 5

Bangalow Agricultural and Industrial Society's thirty-eighth show opened on Saturday last in drizzling rain, which continued intermittently throughout the day. Oilskins, umbrellas, and Wellington boots were the most popular garments among the men and show frocks were left at home and something serviceable worn under mackintoshes by the comparatively few ladies present. Naturally the…

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A Magnificent Crop

Tweed Daily · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 3

A crop of Yandilla King which gained the Albury and Border Agricultural Society 's award in this season's crop competition for Mr. C. W. Moll, of…

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Dairy Produce and Manufacture (Judge: Mr. C. J. McDermott[?] Steward, S. Cook.)

Northern Star · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 5

Table Butter, S. G. Beer. Honey candied, 3 bots. or jars, A. J. Bunted 1 and 2. Honey, not candied, 3 bots, or jars, A. J. Bunter 1; C. Baker 2…

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Farm Produce (Judge: Mr. W. Smith. Chief Pavilion Steward, P. Reading. Stewards, E. Smith and J. Ellis.)

Northern Star · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 5

Maize, threshold, most suitable for market, ½ bushel, L. Selmes. Maize, large, one dozen cobs, A. E. Davidson. Maize, one dozen cobs, A. E…

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