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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

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Good Prospects Maize Crop Conditions Department's Review SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 24 January 1936 · page 3

In a review of the maize crop conditions as at January 15, the Department of Agriculture states that in some districts adverse weather during…

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Casino Cattle Sale CASINO

Northern Star · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 14

Alexander and McDougall and Samuel Rutherford report a good yarding of all classes at their cattle sale to-day. The market was firm for all lines except…

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London Market Butter Steady LONDON

Northern Star · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 6

The butter market is steady. Danish is quoted at 116s, choicest salted New Zealand 91s to 92s, Australian 90s to 91s; unsalted Australian 98s, New…

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Tweed Maize Crops Good Germination Other Centres Suffer Through Dry Weather

Tweed Daily · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday:--In a review of the maize crop conditions as at January 15 the Department of Agriculture states that in some districts adverse…

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"Become Unwieldy" Dairy Produce Board Opinion on Reorganisation Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 7

"I am not pleased with the reorganisation of the Dairy Produce Board as finally decided by Parliament and I am afraid that in extending the Board as they have done, the way has been opened for it…

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Farmers and Relief Work (To the Editor.)

Northern Star · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 13

Sir,—In your issue of January 21 appears a letter signed "Dairy Farmer," which takes me to task, and expresses some dubiety regarding my statements…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

Tweed Daily · Monday 27 January 1936 · page 4

BRISBANE, Sunday:- The wool sales open in Brisbane to-morrow, when it is expected prices will be five to ten per cent, better than the…

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Dairy Produce Board Become Unwieldly? Reconstruction Criticised by P.D.S. Chief

Tweed Daily · Monday 27 January 1936 · page 7

SYDNEY, Saturday.-- "I am not pleased with the reorganisation of the Dairy Produce Board as finally decided by Parliament and…

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Exports of Butter Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 3

The Department of Commerce has issued a statement showing that between July 1 and January 18, Australia exported 53,565 tons of…

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Prices Improve. London Butter Market

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday:--Prices of butter in London have hardened by 1 to 2 per cwt. A cable message received by the Australian…

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Solidity of Dairymen One Australian Butter Price P.P.U. Secretary's Review of 1935

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 7

"Due to the Equalisation Plan, this is the first occasion that you have evidenced a complete year with the one wholesale price prevailing for butter consumed in Australia. This is a gratifying achievement for these engaged in the industry and…

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Values Higher. Brisbane Wool Sales

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday:--The fourth series of. wool sales opened to-day, when 14,062 bales were offered. The selection was an average one, but…

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The History of the Separator How Sweden Has Assisted the Australian Dairying Industry (G. M. LINDERGREN, Secretary, Swedish Chamber of Commerce, Sydney)

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 6

When Captain Cook, accompanied by Joseph Banks and Carl Daniel Solander, the Swedish scientist and botanist, landed in Botany Bay on 29th…

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Dairying Overseas Technologist's Study

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 3

Mr. Loftus Hills, dairy technologist of the Victorian Department of Agriculture, has written an interesting review of the dairying industries in…

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The Farmer's Column News and Notes for the Man on the Land Control Of Weeds

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 6

Weeds, particularly annuals, frequently infest the land so completely that entire destruction is impossible, except when the land can be placed…

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Weather and Maize Crops Review by Director of Marketing Coastal Prospects Good

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 11

In some districts adverse weather during the early stages of growth seriously affected many maize plantings, more especially on the North Western Slope, where an insufficiency of moisture, associated with dry weather and…

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Found Hanging Young Farmer GRAFTON

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 6

Oscar Raymond Cooper (26), son of Mr. and Mrs. Austral Cooper, of Federicktown, was found hanging in a shed on the dairying premises of…

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Commercial Business Light Dairy Produce SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 7

The volume of business in diary produce was not large to-day owing to the fact that snops last were purchased heavily, believing to-day to be a holiday…

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Tregeagle Junior Farmers

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 14

The annual meeting of the Tregeagle Junior Farmers' Club closed the club's second successful year. The meeting was well attended and was…

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Japan's Wool Imports

Tweed Daily · Thursday 30 January 1936 · page 5

TOKIO, Wednesday:--A report from Osaka says that Japan's imports of Australian wool during' December totalled 107,000 bales, a record for any…

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