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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1945

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Butter Output Decline

Tweed Daily · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 2

The senior dairy instructor for the Tweed-Bangalow district (Mr A. L. Astbury) announced that butter production for the period…

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Tweed-bangalow Dairy Farms Badly Need Rain

Tweed Daily · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 2

The senior dairy instructor for the Tweed-Bahgalow district (Mr A. L. Astbury), in his report for December states:…

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Post-war Aid for Farmers

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 4

Problems of farmers, who are financially embarrassed, and uneconomic farms are dealt with comprehensively in the Rural…

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Water Fof Dairy Cows

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 5

Clean, fresh, running water is best for dairy cows, and next to it comes good spring or well water pumped into troughs. Wate…

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Sheep Eats Chicken

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2

A strange tale comes from Bellata, the truth of which we are assured of, says the Inverell Times. A pet sheep belonging to…

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U.S. Has Great Stocks Of Wool

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 5

WASHINGTON: Foreign wool supplies in this country may be greater than ever before at the end of this year, growers'…

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Downs Dairy Assocn. General Secretary

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 5

The Board of Directors of the Downs Co-operative Dairy Association Ltd. has appointed Mr. Reginald C. Duncan as General…

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Wheat Crop Low

Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Instead of a 50 million bushel crop of wheat planned for New South Wales this year, the yield will be only 18 million…

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Insufficient Wheat for Export Needs

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Instead of the 50million bushel crop of wheat planned for New South Wales this year, the yield will…

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Plans for Wool Research And Publicity

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday:-- Parliament is expected to announce in the coming session the Federal Government's plans…

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Visit by Farmers From U.k

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday: Queensland will figure prominently in the Australian itinerary of the United kingdom farmers'…

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Conferences on Farm Mechanisation

Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 4

District conferences to discuss problems in connection with the working of the farm mechanisation scheme will be…

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Lismore Cattle Sales

Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 3

A light yarding of 246 head of cattle comprised the offering for the opening sale of the year held in Lismcre yesterday. The market generally was…

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Kyogle Cattle Sale

Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 3

Alcorn and Marwick report a small yarding of cattle at the first sale of the year held at Kyogle. Prices were very firm, except far springers, for…

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Science Aids Army War on Cattle Problems in N.t

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 4

When the Australian Army took a large number of tick-free cattle from northwest Australia to a known "ticky" area — normally a calamitous action — it illustrated, in perhaps a small way, what resource and scientific methods can do to help put the Northern Australia cattle industry on a healthy, payable basis…

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Fruit Crops Were Larger

Tweed Daily · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday: Production returns for the main fruit crops during 1943-44 season are higher than those for the previous…

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Dairy Produce

Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The rates for dairy produce showed no change at Sussex Street to-day. Marketing Bureau quotations: Butter. 169s 4d;…

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Commercial Farm Produce

Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The market for bran and pollard was unchanged at £6 per ton…

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Farm Mechanisation Proving Worth (By a Staff Correspondent.)

Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 4

The farm mechanisation scheme inaugurated in New South Wales by the Premier (Mr. McKell), at an estimated cost of £170,000, has been an outstanding success, and has proved one of the best investments by any Government with the objective of increasing the production of dairy and other primary…

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No Milk If Price Demand Not Granted Ultimatum to Govt. By City Dairymen

Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday. —Unless the Commonwealth Government agrees to pay dairy farmers 1s 10d per gallon for milk retrospective to December, 1944, Sydney and Newcastle will be without milk…

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