North East Corner English Farmer Wants Job—Then Farm
A former Suffolk (Eng.) farmer has the right idea of finding out things for himself before investing his capital in a strange land: He…
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Farming & the land, 1947
1,594 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 80
Girl Junior Farmers Begin Tour
A party of 30 girl junior farmers left Lismore yesterday by special motor bus on the first stage of an educational tour. They are under…
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Thirty junior farmer girls from clubs in the North Coast District Council area left Lismore yesterday morning on the first stage of an educational tour which takes in [?], Tamworth, Maitland, Newcastle, and Sydney. The party is in charge of Mrs. C. Haxton, of Coraki, who is on the extreme right of the picture…
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CORAKI, Tuesday.—The flood water, which covered hundreds of [?] in the Coraki district, is slowly draining off. The Richmond…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday: Australian wool exports for the first six months of the present financial year were worth £60,246,000,…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: Damage to farm property, roads and bridges in the main areas affected…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For the Man on the Land Fodder Crops For The Upper North Coast, As Pasture Supplements
Profitable dairying is only possible when maximum returns are received from both acre and cow. So writes Mr. G. Giles, H.D.A., H.D.D., Senior Agricultural Instructor stationed at Lismore, and he deals with the very important problem of overcoming the winter fall in production by the use of supplementary crops and…
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While Britain's Minister for Food (Mr. John Strachey) has warned the world that the food situation is still of the utmost…
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Heavy demands by farm services which draw water from the Ballina mains miles before it ever reaches the town area, were claimed in Lismore and Ballina yesterday as being a major contributing factor…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The drought in the butter area has been so severe over the past six months that production is down…
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MONTREAL, Thursday: Between four and five million pounds of New Zealand butter, diverted from Britain, is expected to arrive…
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An industry depending on subsidies is not an economic industry and an industry cannot, without a subsidy, continue to market a product which is in price beyond the inclination of the purchaser to buy. Substitutes will replace the expensive product and the uneconomic industry must reorganise itself or die…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — The drought in the butter area has been so severe over the past six months that production is down…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: In a review of inland potato crop conditions today, the Chief of the Division of Marketing and Agricultural…
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A tribute to the value of grain sorghum was paid this week by Mr. S. K. Silburn, Goomerie (Q.), who stated that when his corn crop failed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON and Off The. Farm Careful Selection Of Breeders Pays Well
Well-fed and well-managed stock of good quality was the foundation of the successful piggery, which could only be achieved by careful selection of initial breeding animals, said the piggery advisor of the Queensland Department of Agriculture (Mr. E. F…
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BRISBANE, Thursday—Drought stricken primary producers could go out of production, go bankrupt, or just walk off their properties…
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In yesterday's issue Mr. Giles wrote of the importance to the dairy industry of supplementing natural pasture with appropriate fodder crops and dealt with legumes. In to-day's instalment Mr. Giles writes of the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—In a review of inland potota crop conditions today, the Chief of the Division of Marketing and Agriculture…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For the Man on the Land "Butter Has No Future" Plan For Dairying Industry From Butter To Dried Milk
"Butter has no figure," wrote Mr. C. M. Mullins in the first instalment of an article which appeared in the "Star" yesterday, and in which he argued that a return to the farmer of 2s a lb. for butter would not put the…
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