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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1932

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Cattle Inspection Greater Efficiency

Northern Star · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 6

During 1930 the work of inspecting dairy cattle was transferred from the Board of Health to the Department of Agriculture. This occurred about the…

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Butter Prices December Pay Months Compared

Northern Star · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

The North Coast Butter Factories' Association met in Lismore yesterday and decided that the price of butter for…

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Local and General December Butter Pay

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 2

At a meeting of the North Coast 'Butter Factories' Association, held at Lismore yesterday, the pay for the December supply was fixed at 16d per…

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Bush Fires Still Raging Sheep on Stock Routes Stations Devastated

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday:-- Busk fires arc still burning fiercely today in the Cobar district. There is now a shortage of feed for the…

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Lithy Hindoo Dairyman Registration Cancelled

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

Revolting conditions were [?] at last week's police court in connection with a dairy conducted by a Hindoo at Blindmouth, and Sergt. Biddle,…

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Incendiarism Feared Farmers Almost in Panic

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wednesday:--Since December 27 ten fire have broken out within a radius of five miles of the farming district of Rhyniea, 67 miles…

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Boys' Awful Crime Made Funeral Pyre of Farm House

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 3

VANCOUVER, Tuesday:-- Another juvenile crime shocked the nation. Two lads in an industrial home at Lancaster (Ohio)…

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Farmer's Awful Vengeance Conviction for Theft Sevenfold Tragedy

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 2

LISBON, Tuesday:--A sevenfold tragedy occurred in the village of Beja following an accusation off stealing barley against the…

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Benzine Afire Dairymen's Hectic Battle

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 6

A hectic ten minutes' battle with a sheet of flame followed the ignition of a quantity of benzine at Mr. P. J. Quau's farm, Tygalgah, yesterday…

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Youths for Farms

Northern Star · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

A number of Australian youths, aged from 15 years, who have received at least three months' practical experience at the Government…

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Butter Over Production? Dairy Expert Says "No."

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

The N.S.W. Director of Dairying, Mr. L. T. MacInnes, is an optimist. He believes that Empire preference will soon be an accomplished fact, and, in the…

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Cattle Sales Market Lower

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 5

Alcorn and Smith report having held their usual fortnightly sale yesterday when about 400 head of mixed cattle were yarded and practically all…

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Butter Production Record Season Assured Progress on Central Western Slopes Reports of Dairy Instructors

Tweed Daily · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 4

A record production of butter throughout New South Wales during the present season seems to be assured, judging by the reports of the Dairy Instructors in charge of the various districts for the month of December, and their forecasts…

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Secret Commissions Recommedations by Butter Factory Delegates

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

Alterations of a far-reaching nature in connection with the Queensland Farmers' Co-operative Association were outlined in a report drawn up by the four…

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Wheat Quota British Interest Evolve Scheme

Tweed Daily · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday:--The millers, fanners and corn merchants are reported to have formulated a wheat quota scheme agreeable to the…

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Extension Proposed Bulk Handling of Wheat

Tweed Daily · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday:--The Minister for Markets has initiated a departmental inquiry regarding the extension of the bulk, handling of wheat…

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Rates Maintained Sydney Wool Sales SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

An average selection comprising 7882 bales was offered at the woolsales to-day, of which 7251 were sold at auction and an additional 1371…

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"No Fear of Severe Drop" Wool Prices Reasonable

Tweed Daily · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday:--"Wool prices to-day are reasonable. There is no fear of a severe drop as in recent years," said Mr. Henry Ayrton in his…

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"Smoke Signals From the Never Never." Cattle Thieving Up-to-date. Hatfield an Unwitting Accomplice

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 7

I ought to stick to respectable law-abiding citizens as models for my fiction heroes, for by some obscure deduction the public seems to identify…

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Of Interest to Dairymen When Super. and Soil Clash. Experiments with Fertilisers

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

The reason why super, does not prove beneficial when top-dressed on certain pasture soils may be somewhat technical (writes a scientific contributor to a…

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