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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

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Local and General Butter Quality

Tweed Daily · Saturday 14 February 1942 · page 2

The chief of the Department of Agriculture Dairying Division (Mr. O. C. Ballhausen) reports that of the butter graded by State butter graders…

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Open Column. Butter Price (To the Editor)

Northern Star · Saturday 14 February 1942 · page 2

Sir,—The visit of Prof. Copland to the North Coast dairying centres is awaited with interest by local farmers. How much will be…

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Norco Provides for ½d. on Butter, 1d. on Pork As Deferred Pays

Tweed Daily · Saturday 14 February 1942 · page 2

The Board of Directors of Norco Co-op. Ltd. at a meeting yesterday decided to make provision for a deferred…

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Queensland Dairymen Would Co-operate Stock Evacuation Scheme

Tweed Daily · Monday 16 February 1942 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday: "Dairy farmers would co-operate in the scheme for the evacuation of cattle from the coastal belt to the inland…

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Spanish Wheat for Germans

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 17 February 1942 · page 4

MOSCOW. Monday:-- The Tass Agency quotes a message from Lisbon stating: Spain has secretly agreed to grant Germany 50,000…

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State's Maize Crop Outlook Gloomy

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY.--The maize crop in New South Wales threatens to be the worst for many years, according to the maize expert of the Department of…

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Casino Butter Pay

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 18 February 1942 · page 2

CASINO, Tuesday: During January, Casino Co-operative Dairy Society manufactured 454,851 lb. of butter. The rate of pay was 125-8d, and the…

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Butter Production Peak Shortly

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 18 February 1942 · page 2

LISMORE, Tuesday: Referring to-day to the already noticeable in crease in butter production, Mr. J. C. McKenzie, district manager of…

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Inspection of Farm Seeds and Animal Medicine

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 18 February 1942 · page 2

Mr. A. T. Jeremy, an officer of the Department of Agriculture, has conducted an inspection through the Tweed district and surrounding…

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Junior Farmers' Meeting

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 February 1942 · page 4

The secretary (Mr. R. Pilgrim) stated yesterday that the quarterly meeting of the North Coast Council' of Junior Farmers' Clubs will…

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Big Decline in Butter Production

Northern Star · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 4

Butter manufactured by Norco Co-Operative Limited during January was 944 tons, for which suppliers will be paid 12¼ per lb. for…

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Plans To Evacuate Million Head of Cattle

Northern Star · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Foundations of plans for the evacuation of stock from the coastal belt to the inland in the event of an emergency were laid at a conference to-day…

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Industry Leaders Submit "Case" For Butter Price Increase

Northern Star · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 2

Figures were presented to the Prices Commissioner (Professor Copland) by the dairying industry some months ago in support of the application for an increased price of butter. That application was rejected, but it was…

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Plans for Storage of Wool Clip

Tweed Daily · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday: Plans for the handling and storing of the wool clip in event of threatened or actual enemy action in…

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Dairymen Discuss Stock Evacuation. Murwillumbah Meeting

Tweed Daily · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 2

The proposal scheme for evacuation of livestock from the Tweed district was discussed for two hours by a meeting…

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Stock Evacuation. Farmers Should Act Quickly

Northern Star · Thursday 19 February 1942 · page 6

BALLINA, Wednesday. — Referring, at a meeting of district rangers, to the possible loss of cattle during evacuation, Mr. T…

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Outspoken Letter by Dairyman's Wife

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 20 February 1942 · page 5

A dairyman's Wife at Macksville has this striking letter in the current issue of the "P.P. News":— "... It s high time the man on…

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Cattle for Meatworks

Tweed Daily · Saturday 21 February 1942 · page 2

Approximately 150 head of cattle were dispatched from Tweed Heads to a Brisbane meatworks this week. In addition, about 40 head of fat cattle…

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Farmers' Petrol (To the Editor.)

Northern Star · Saturday 21 February 1942 · page 3

Sir,—Although we are passing through most anxious times, we have been told by our Government to keep the wheels of industry…

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Collective Farming in the Soviet Union

Northern Star · Saturday 21 February 1942 · page 8

Many Australians have heard that collective farming exists in the Soviet Union, but few have anything but the foggiest notion of what this means, states a circular issued by the N.S.W. Aid Russia Committee…

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