Lower Profit in Butter
SYDNEY, Thursday: Moss Vale storekeepers are incensed at the reduced profit allowed them in the retail price of butter under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Rivers · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1948
1,011 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 51
First Continuous Butter-Making Machine on Trial
The first of the continuous butter manufacturing machines to be installed by the Australian Dairy Produce Board has been on trial at the Lismore factory of Norco Ltd. for over a week. The machine was imported…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON and Off the Farm Kyogle Dairymen Agree To Use Strain 19 On Herds
In the course of a recent address in Kyogle, Mr. W. B. Harding (Stock Inspector of the Casino P.P. Board) said that it had been estimated that brucellosis (or contagious abortion) in cattle cost…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Eagle Farm New Year's Gitt Won by Jean Buzzard
BRISBANE, Thursday: Switching her tail like a propellor in the final two furlongs, the Toowoomba…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Champions
Champions of their breeds at the British Dairy Farmers' Association dairy show at the Olympia in London. Top : Barwyke Queen 7th, supreme champion Friesian cow, owned by W. Curtis and Son. She was also first in the milking trials and won the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strain 19 Fatal to Some Farmers
SYDNEY, Sunday: Some farmers who had handled a cattle vaccine known as Strain 19 had died, the Primary Producers'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Youth Charged With Shooting Father On Farm
BRISBANE, Sunday.--A 15-years-old youth was charged at Landsborough Court to-night with having attempted to kill his father at Conondale yesterday. The father, Ernest Edward Portch…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Norco Butter Pay
Norco Co-op. Pty. Ltd., advise cream suppliers that the butter pay for last month will be 111¼.This price include subsidy, Norco…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Versatility of Wool
Wool wedding! The traditional bridal gown... McCall design ...is made of sheer off-white Colmalaine, a Cobn-Hall, Marx fabric. Silvery beads adorn the bodice. The headdress is a coronet of wool to match the dress, with bridal illusion falling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.Y. Dairy Farmers Make Extra £400,000
HERE'S, what artificial insemination of dairy cattle did for New York dairy farmers last year: Saved £162,500 in feed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Prison Farm Escapee Recaptured
GLEN INNES, Monday: William Arthur Eyles (35), escaped from the prison farm near Glen Innes, early this morning, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of Farmer After Shooting
BRISBANE, Monday. -- Shot on his property while milking on Saturday morning, Ernest Edward Portch, 32, dairy farmer, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON and Off the Farm One Hundred P.C. Grasshopper Control Claimed For New Machine
A machine which should revolutionise present methods of controlling grasshopper plagues, and other pests, has just been demonstrated and tested in the Forbes and Narromine areas, the latter tests being from December 16 to 19. The tests were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lag of 15,000 Farm Tractors
BRISBANE, Tuesday: More than 15,000 farming tractors were needed immediately in Australia, the secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →P.p.u. Protest Against Farmer Contest Judging
The efforts of the Urbenville candidate in the Rural Bank's progressive farmer competition had not been properly investigated, as no…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →J. Farmer Tours This Month
Everything points to success for the Junior Farmers' educational tours of Southern Queensland this month…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Bought for Germany Not Paid for
BRISBANE, Wednesday: Wool bought for Germany at the Brisbane wool sales last month may be re-auctioned, as no payment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Important Food Talks Open In Canberra U. K. to Seek More Butter From Aust
CANBERRA, Wednesday: A five-years contract for 3[?] million boxes of Australian eggs per year, at prices approximating the present contract price of 21 (Australian) per dozen, was offered by the British Ministry of Food today at the first of a series of vital food talks between…
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