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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

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Dairy Farmers [?] District Tennis Competition [?] Week Competitions

The Picton Post · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 4

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Junior Farmers Club

Camden News · Thursday 16 May 1940 · page 3

Seventeen members of the local Junior Farmers' Club, accompanied by the assistant supervisor, Mr. R. Cowley, visited Carlingford on the…

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Our Industries. Primary-secondary Producer. the Hughes Technique. Story of Unshrinkable Wool

Camden News · Thursday 23 May 1940 · page 6

Throughout this series of artici[?]s the emphasis has always been upon the inter-relation between producer and manufacturer in Australia…

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Dairying. Good Farm Management Will Raise the Butter-fat Content

Camden News · Thursday 30 May 1940 · page 8

In an article recently published in one of our milk zone newspapers, the suggestion was put forward by a section of producers that the Reductase…

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Assistance to Dairy Farmers. Within the Milk Zone

Camden News · Thursday 30 May 1940 · page 1

In connection with the scheme for rendering: assistance to necessitous dairy farmers within the Milk Zone. the Camden Park Estate Pty. Ltd…

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Milk Tests How to Increase Butter Fat Content

The Picton Post · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 4

In an Article recently published in one of our milk zone newspapers, the suggestion was put forward by a section of producers…

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Suicide of Poultry Farmer

The Picton Post · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 2

Gustav Adolph Mikka, a native of Russia, who had carried on poultry farming at Thirlmere for about three years, died at his…

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Carpets for Australia Our National Industry, No. 5. New Outlet for Coarse Wool

The Picton Post · Wednesday 12 June 1940 · page 4

One of the most significant of Australia's new industries is that of carpet-making. This country normally imports about 4,000,000 yards of carpets of various sorts and sizes catch year, worth over a million-and-a-quarter…

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Our Industries. Carpets for Australia. We Start to Make Them Ourselves. New Outlook for Coarse Wool

Camden News · Thursday 13 June 1940 · page 7

One of the most significant of Australia's new industries is that of carpet-awaking. This country normally imports…

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Junior Farmers. Poultry Raising Section

Camden News · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 3

Having made his first inspection of the different club members who have taken up poultry [?]reeding as their project, Mr. R. H. Boardman issues…

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Soil Erosion. Handbook for Farmers

The Campbelltown News · Friday 21 June 1940 · page 2

There are few farmers who have not been aroused to the dangers of soil erosion, but many are still in doubt as to the causes of erosion and…

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Wollondilly Shire and the Baby Farmer To the Editor of "The Picton Pel"

The Picton Post · Wednesday 31 July 1940 · page 2

Sir,—Mr. J. McInnes says in his letter in The Picton Post of July 17, all parties in the Shire should now work for the common good. Very well;…

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Farmers Land for Air Force

The Picton Post · Wednesday 31 July 1940 · page 3

One hundred and thirty Banks town people face destruction, unless the Federal Government makes im­mediate compensation to them…

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Camden Junior Farmers District Council Annual Meeting

Camden News · Thursday 1 August 1940 · page 2

The annual meeting of the District Council of the Junior Fanners' Club, held at the Camden Public School on the 19th July, was…

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Silent Partner I Electricity on a Poultry Farm

The Picton Post · Wednesday 7 August 1940 · page 4

Electricity has gone to work on a Pennysylvania poultry farm as a silent partner in putting hens on a factory production basis to lay 1000…

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Critical Condition Dairying on the South Coast

The Picton Post · Wednesday 28 August 1940 · page 1

Referring to the position of the industry on the South Coast, the "Mercury" (Wollongong) says:— The views expressed by several…

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Dairy Farmers Milk Co

Camden News · Thursday 5 September 1940 · page 8

The annual report and balance, sheet of the Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Company, published last week, showed that the sales of milk…

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Farm Management

Camden News · Thursday 5 September 1940 · page 5

Mr. Mark Lamond, of "Coomungie " Moss Vale, has won the championship for farmers in the milk zone in the recent dairy farm competition…

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Wheat Guarantee

The Campbelltown News · Friday 6 September 1940 · page 3

An unqualified assurance that the Government will not allow the wheat industry to be destroyed by war time difficulties in marketing…

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Human Digestion and Butter-fat

The Picton Post · Wednesday 11 September 1940 · page 1

A new argument aganist the high milk test demanded by the Milk Board, and which is causing a stir amongst a section of dairymen at…

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