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Central Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

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Brief Mention. IF You Want Milk that is Milk, try Johnston's Gosford Dairy

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 10

No man is quite so good as his son-in-law should be. If we only knew how hard some girls work to make their complexions…

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Scientific Farming

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 2

Here is an interesting illustration of intense cultivation, for which Mr John Neil, of Glenorie (one of the Judges at recent Gosford Show), is responsible…

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Brief Mention. IF You Want Milk that is Milk, try Johnston's Gosford Dairy

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 7

The organisers of the proposed district hospital at Ryde have close on £5000 in hand. It is officially announced that the…

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Citrus Association. Heavy Crops Predicted

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 26 February 1925 · page 14

A meeting of the Committee of Management of the New South Wales Citrus Association was held on Friday at the Central Office, Sydney. Delegates…

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Ourimbah Creek Cattle Case. Cross Summons Cases. Two Litigants Equally Tined

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1925 · page 5

There has again been trouble about cattle up Ourimbah Creek way, and the details were submitted to Gosford Court, consisting of Mr. H. H…

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Payable Crop for Poor Soil

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 11

Mr. H. Rawes Whittell, Manager of Steel Preservatives, Ltd., last Saturday addressed the meeting of shareholders of the Gosford By-Products Co…

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"Crescent" Poultry Farm

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1925 · page 14

Mr. W. Hardy, proprietor of "Crescent" Poultry Farm, is putting Gosford on the map, so far as poultry men are concerned, for he is sending his…

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Farmers' Exhibition of Watercolors

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1925 · page 8

In an exhibition of watercolors, representative of Commonwealth artists, and limited to 110 pictures, which was opened on Monday last, will be seen…

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"Wonga" Poultry Farm

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 14 May 1925 · page 11

There is now on the market a soundly-established poultry farm, which the owner, for good reasons, is willing to dispose of as a going concern. This is…

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News Items. IF You Want Milk that is Milk, try Johnston's Gospord Dairy

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 11 June 1925 · page 6

Nurse Fenton, Gosford, has been appointed Sister at the Bathurst District Hospital. To-night (Thursday), competitions,…

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"Crescent" Poultry Farm

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 18 June 1925 · page 2

Mr. W. Hardy has been scoring again with birds from his "Crescent" Poultry Farm, Brady's Gully, Gosford. At the Singleton Poultry Club's annual…

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The 1925 Citrus Crop. Problems of Distribution

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 18 June 1925 · page 4

Problems confronting citrus growers in Australia were frankly dealt with in a thoughtful article contributed to the Melbourne "Argus" by Mr. Stanley…

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DAIRYING. Yields as Affected by Times of Milking

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 25 June 1925 · page 3

Much discussion always arises when the subject of the advantages of frequent milking is mentioned to dairy-farniers, writes E. T. Hainan, in the…

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Farm & Garden. in Favor of Maize. With a Seasonable Reminder to the Grower

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 25 June 1925 · page 17

Australia usually produces 1,000,000 bushels short of her annual requirements of maize, although possessing (particularly in New South Wales)…

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For Green Manuring. Crops to Plant

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1925 · page 10

Among the most effective means of adding humus to the soil is the ploughing under of a green crop. The district and the conditions will largely…

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Cattle and Tuberculosis

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 July 1925 · page 12

Mr. M. P. Dunlop, General Secretary of the Primary Producers' Union, writes:— At the last session of my Executive,…

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Seed for Farmers. To the Editor

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 July 1925 · page 8

Sir,—During planting seasons the State Government assures farmers that' every effort is made to provide pure seed for the farmer, but result is not as…

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The Dairying Industry. Losses From Underfeeding

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 23 July 1925 · page 2

The significance of feed in relation to dairying receives periodical mention in these notes. The appended remarks on the subject, extracted from a recent…

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Lost to the Farm. the Problem of the Rural Exodus

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 23 July 1925 · page 14

The increasing city-ward drift of our rural population is a subject of such seriousness as to have been very anxiously discussed in recent years, and…

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Useful on the Farm. Some Formulae for Whitewash

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 23 July 1925 · page 16

Lime or whiting (which is carbonate of lime) is the basis of the more common mixtures for whitewashing walls and ceilings of farm buildings,…

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