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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Need to Lift Home Sales of Butter Lismore Inquiry Told

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 1

The necessity for promoting the home consumption of butter to a maximum level to offset the instability of overseas markets was emphasised by the district manager of Norco Co-operative Ltd., Mr. J. R. Hunter, in Lismore yesterday…

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Warwick Farm Start for Prince Morvi

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 12

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Dual Derby winner, Prince Morvi, will start in the Flying Handicap at Warwick Farm on Saturday, trainer E. J. Fellows announced today. Fellows made the…

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Evidence Proves Value Of Farm School Example

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 4

THE ANSWER TO some of the dairy industry problems presented to the Investigation Committee in Lismore yesterday was given a practical example by the attention of the…

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Earlier Calving To Boost Dairying Output

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 5

Records for the district indicated that instead of the greatest percentage of cows calving in September, the time should be advanced to June, said the deputy chief of the…

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Farm Returns Now Due

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 8

CASINO, Tuesday--Agricultural and Pastoral returns from landholders were now due, the…

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Butter At 10-

Northern Star · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--Devonshire farmhouse butter sold at 10- sterling a lb. at Barnstaple Market…

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N.S.W. "Imports" Butter

Northern Star · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 6

Mr. Small said that the great bulk of overseas credits came from primary production. In the past the dairying industry had contributed very appreciably to the building up of these credits. In the year ended June,…

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Jiggi Junior Farmers Meet

Northern Star · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 8

At a well attended meeting of Advisory Council and Junior Farmers held at Jiggi the following matters were dealt…

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Plan To Encourage Dams, Weirs On North Coast Farms

Northern Star · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 4

MURWILLUMBAH, Wednesday.--The N.S.W. Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission is preparing preliminary plans to encourage the construction of earth dams and…

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Pastoral Returns Now Due

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 1

Senior Constable Simpson, Officer-in-Charge of Police at Kyogle said yesterday that Agricultural and Pastoral returns for…

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Milk And Butter Output Lower

Northern Star · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 5

CANBERRA. Thursday.-- Australian whole milk production for the eight months ended February last was more than four per cent, lower than for the corresponding period…

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Wool Makes This Check Tweed

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 4

Madeleine de Rauch makes this cosy winter coat with targe patch pockets in brown and beige loosely…

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U.s. Plan for Dairy Produce

Northern Star · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thursday.--Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson has officially announced that the United States is…

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Women, Children in Dairying "Degrading"

Northern Star · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 4

It should be an offence to allow women and children to work in the dairy industry, said the president of the Dairy Produce Section of the A.P.P.U., Mr. C. Squire, at a meeting of the Rosebank branch of the union. He said that it was…

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Lucky Stride Tipped For Flying At Warwick Farm

Northern Star · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Promising sprinter, Lucky Stride, who ran an eye-catching, first-up third to Magic Touch three weeks ago, is expected to win the Flying Handicap at…

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Practical Plan To End Waste Of Farm Water

Northern Star · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 4

THE PROPOSAL BY the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission to conserve water on farms by earth dams and concrete weirs is a practical approach to a problem that…

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Paspalum Not Sufficient For Good Dairying

Northern Star · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 6

Dairying could not be carried out efficiently solely on paspalum, said the Department of Agriculture's principal agronomist, Mr. C. Vears, B.Sc., at the school of animal husbandry at…

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24 Addresses at Farming School

Northern Star · Saturday 15 May 1954 · page 4

A total of 24 addresses or demonstrations was given by specialist agricultural officers in the four days of the first animal husbandry school held at Wollongbar Experiment Farm…

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Homemade Butter Uneconomical

Northern Star · Monday 17 May 1954 · page 5

Homemade butter is not only a lost art in country centres, but an uneconomical proposition, said…

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Weekend Races Prices Warwick Farm

Northern Star · Monday 17 May 1954 · page 7

TWO-YEAR-OLD MAIDEN.—Belle Elect (4/1) and Negri (3/1), dead heat, 1: Lady Dudley (7/1) 3. Divs. Win 12/6 and 9/6;…

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