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Illawarra · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

103 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 5 of 6

To the Farmer on the Farmers' Problem

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 20 October 1926 · page 2

Opinions are divided as to any good likely to accrue from the recent Conference held at Bathurst in solving the farmers problems of the disparity in…

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Green Butter

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 October 1926 · page 15

Mr. H. Randall, assistant biologist, and Mr. A. M. Brown, senior dairy instructor of the Department of Agriculture, for some time has been…

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Correspondence. to the Farmer on the Farmer's Problem. To the Editor

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 October 1926 · page 5

Sir,—Opinions are divided as to any good likely to accrue from the recent Conference held at Bathurst in solving the farmers' problems of the disparity…

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To the Farmer on the Farmer's Problem (To the Editor.)

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 22 October 1926 · page 13

Opinions are divided as to any good likely to accrue from the recent conference held at Bathurst in solving the farmers' problems of the…

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Rural Topics. Dairying Industry. Growth in South Africa

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 22 October 1926 · page 26

Without so many natural advantages as the North Coast of New South Wales the dairying industry in South Africa is expanding…

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Rural Topics. Dairy Notes

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 29 October 1926 · page 5

The dairy cow must be fed regularly at the same hour every day. Give her as much well-balanced food as she will eat readily. The cow is a…

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Concrete on the Farm

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 29 October 1926 · page 18

Any farmer who has had experience with pigs realizes how difficult it is to get a feeding trough that will stand the usage—unless he…

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Farmers and Efficiency. To the Editor

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 November 1926 · page 4

Sir,—At a time when organisation is almost universal, when commercial and industrial specialisation is worldwide, efficiency amongst any class or…

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Dairying. Accountancy of Dairying. The Advantages of Herd Testing

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 November 1926 · page 9

A review of dairying history makes it very evident that, compared with the advances in manufacturing processes, the advances in methods of…

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Paterson Scheme. the Farmer's Salvation

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 November 1926 · page 9

The Paterson Scheme has come to stay and as the weeks slip by the feeling among the rank and file of the dairying industry is becoming not…

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Paterson Scheme—the Farmer's Salvation

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 November 1926 · page 3

The Paterson Scheme has come to stay and as the weeks slip by, the of the dairying industry is feeling among the rank and file…

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Farming. Better Marketing Methods

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 November 1926 · page 6

The "Dorrigo Gazette" states:—At Wednesday's meeting of the Dorrigo branch of the Primary Producers' Union a very healthy debate on the…

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Rural Topics. Hint to Dairymen

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 12 November 1926 · page 3

How much better it would be for farmers who sell ordinary commercial stock if they would take a lesson from their pedigree stock…

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Sporting. Cricket. Crop of Big Scores

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 17 November 1926 · page 2

Competition cricket on Saturday brought out three big scores. Jim Fleming (Jamberoo) surely earned the title to "demon batsman"…

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Insurance against Falling Butter and Cheese Markets

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 November 1926 · page 23

The news that the Cheese Factories in Queensland and New South Wales have determined to throw in their lot with the Butter men and…

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The Dairying Industry

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 November 1926 · page 2

"One of Them" writes as follows, and we commend his remarks to the careful consideration of dairy farmers:—While staying on the South Coast; in your excellent paper I read with interest two letters—one sighed "Pro Bono…

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Australia's Dairying

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 1 December 1926 · page 3

In 1788 Captain Phillip, Australia's first Governor, brought to Sydney one bull, 4 cows, and a calf. To-day Australia possesses 13½ million cattle. Fifty…

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To Assist the Dairymen Australian Dairy Council to Consider Means

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 3 December 1926 · page 22

The next meeting of the Australian Dairy Council, which is to be held in Melbourne next week, should be productive of deliberations…

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Butter Stabilisation. Renewal Agreements

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 13

Dairy farmers throughout Australia having decided, practically unanimously, that the Paterson Stabilisation Scheme shall be continued for at least…

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Waiting for Next Boil. Job on the Land. Sorrows of Modern Farmer

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 13

Mr. W. E. Wearne, ex-Minister for Lands, who is nearly as funny in quite another way as his immediate successor, Mr. Loughlin, has received the…

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