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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

2,761 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 11 of 139

Cattle Prices

Northern Star · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

At Alcorn and Smith's cattle sales there was a yarding of about 200 head. Prices were on the low side compared with those ruling when…

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Canada's Butter Imports

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 5

According to Dr. J. A. Ruddick, a Dominion dairy commissioner, Canada will be producing all the butter she requires within two years. The…

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Marking of Butter Case For Opposition Opened

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday,-- At the butter marking inquiry, Mr. K[?]lbury, K.C., opened the case for the opposition to the application of the…

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Empire Butter Sales Campaign English Counties London

Northern Star · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 5

The Empire Marketing Board's efforts to increase the sales of Empire butter in Yorkshire and Lancashire has been supplemented…

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Butter Sales North of England Scope for Empire Goods

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.-- The Empire Marketing Board's efforts to increase the sales of Empire butter in Yorkshire and Lancashire have been…

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Herd Improvement Cull the Unprofitable Cow! Need for Regular Testing Dairy farming as a Business

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 5

A strong advocate of herd-testing is Mr. C. S. Kentwell, Senior Dairy Instructor, Byron Bay, who describes it as "the book-keeping of the dairyfarm," and an essential to successful, dairying. Every business man realises the importance and necessity of…

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Wool Bargain Concessions Proposed Queensland Scheme to Aid Industry

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

Conditional upon trading banks and wool firms reducing the interest charges on graziers' overdrafts to 6 per cent for not less than three years,…

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Profitable Farming

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

To the thinking farmer, Mr. C. S. Kentwell's article on ''Herd Improvement" on our primary producers' page will give food for…

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Favourable Trade Dairy Produce Exports Improved Figures

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 5

Figures issued last week by the Acting Minister of Markets show that increased shipments of dairy produce during the first half of the current…

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Fine Dairylands Central Burnett Queensland Performances

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 5

The Central Burnett has become one of the foremost butter producing countries in the world, says the "Queenslander. There, is not another district…

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Canadian Farmers Against Secession VANCOUVER

Northern Star · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 5

At Calgary the United Farmers of Alberta overwhelmingly defeated a proposal for economic secession of the prairies from the Dominion, and…

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Butter Consumption

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 2

The consumption of butter in New South Wales is so close to the total annual production that, with production falling on the North Coast…

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Alarm Clocks Wake Hens Chicks Sleep in Feather Beds! Up-to-date University Farm

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 4

The poultry farm at the University of Hawaii is a veritable place of wonders, says the "Advertiser." Sonic of the chickens are served paw-paw and…

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Wealthy Innisfail. Big Sugar Crop

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 2

The Innisfail district sugar production for 1930, exceeding in value £2,000,000, broke all records. It is stated that this establishes this centre…

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Butter Exports Australian Increase

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 3

The total butter exports to date this financial year represent 36,991 tons, as compared with 26,851 tons for the same period of last year, set out a…

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Pure Bred Cows Dairy Branch Tests for November Milk and Butter Fat Yields

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 7

The dairy branch of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture has made available the following particulars of the cows that completed their tests during November under the herd production improvement scheme…

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Big Increase. Half-year's Export. Butter Production

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 4

The total butter exports to date this financial year represent 36,991 tons, as compared with 26,851 tons for the same period of last year, set out a…

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Co-operation and Marketing. Dairymen Weather Trade Difficulties

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 4

Farmers from Casino to the Far South Coast attended the annual meeting of the Producers' Distributing Society, held at Bega on Wednesday last…

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Local Statistics. Casino Police District. Stock and Crops

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 2

The following figures from the Casino police patrol district for 1929 show that in the Casino district during the year ending 30th December, 1929, there…

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Here's Faith in Farming

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 4

Despite the depressed state of our primary industries, and in spite of the spirit of gloom that pervades the whole countryside, if I had half a dozen sons…

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