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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

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Factories Fix Own Butter Pay

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 2

North Coast butter factories in future will fix their own payments for suppliers instead of representatives…

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Beef Cattle Section at Kyogle Show

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 3

At the instance of Mr. R. Boyd, a meeting yesterday of the committee of Kyogle Show Society decided to include a section for beef cattle in…

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Ban on Butter in Parcels Safeguarding Reputation Of Product

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Minister for Customs (Mr Lawson), said that the Government's decision to prohibit the export of butter in…

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A'ville P.P.U. Opposed To Increased Butter Price ALSTONVILLE

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 2

An instruction that its delegates to the quarterly meeting of the Richmond District Council should oppose the Eltham resolution…

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Pulling Wool Over Censors' Eyes From a Special Correpondent). LONDON, (By Air Mail)

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 10

The Nazis exercise a strict censorship on letters sent out of Germany, but important items of news still trickle through to the…

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The Farmer's Column Expansion of Pig Industry Frozen Bacon for England

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 4

"There is a growing feeling that, of all the primary industries of Australia, there do not appear to be, in any direction, so…

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Tenterfield Cattle Sale

Northern Star · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 5

Mr. Harold Curry held a cattle sale at the Tenterfield yards and a complete clearance was effected. Quotations: Fat bullocks £8 13s 6d to £10; fat cows £6…

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Butter Gradings SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 6

During the week ending February [?], 91.2 per cent, of the boxes of butter examined by the State butter grading staff was found to be of the…

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Beef Cattle New Classes at Kyogle Show Kyogle

Northern Star · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 12

A SECTION for beef cattle will be included in the schedule for the 1940 Kyogle show, to be held on Wednesday and Thursday,…

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Junior Farmers' Show Fixtures

Northern Star · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 10

The following clubs have arranged dates for junior farmers' shows during 1939: Federal, March 2. 1940…

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Butter Quality

Tweed Daily · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 3

The Director of Dairying (Mr. O. C. Ballhausen), reporting on butter quality on the local market states that during the week ended February. 2…

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Junior Farmers' Show Fixtures

Northern Star · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 11

The following clubs have arranged dates for junior farmers' shows during 193[?]: Federal, March 2, 1940…

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Junior Farmer's Purchase

Northern Star · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 11

An enthusiastic junior farmer member of the Australian Jersey Society, Mr. M. G. Sutton, of Lea Holm, Tuckurimba, N.S.W., recently secured…

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Junior Farmers Touring Party Reunion

Northern Star · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 6

A new form of competition will be inaugurated at the junior farmers' reunion in the Lismore District School to-morrow night. The party, which…

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Firm Market At Kyogle Cattle Sale

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 4

Alcorn and Marwick report that 230 head of cattle were yarded on Wednesday, when the market was firm for all classes at late rates,…

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Open Column Butter Pay (To the Editor)

Northern Star · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 11

Sir,—Following my previous letter on the above subject, I now wish to point out that the increase in the butter pay for January does not…

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Sale of 17,000 Head Cattle and Some Allingham Memories

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 6

A record Queensland sale of cattle was completed last week when the Allingham Trust sold 17,000 head of cattle off Hillgrove Station, Charters Towers, to the…

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Seek Higher Price for Butter Agenda for P.p.u. Council

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 3

"That it be a recommendation to the Central Executive that the price fixing committee be approached and asked for a rise…

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Big Crops of Potatoes Assured by Fertilising

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 7

Yields of over 12 tons to the acre in a potato growing trial at North Dorrigo show that the best results were obtained by a combination of…

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Fightable Dairymen a Lively Meeting

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 7

Shareholders of Nambucca butter factory became almost as hot as the weather at the peak of the heat wave at a meeting at Macksville at which…

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