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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1949

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Dairying Are Your Cows Contented?

The Picton Post · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 2

"Are your cows happy and contented? If they aren't, you are losing a proportion—and perhaps a considerable…

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Milk Zone Dairymens’ Council

The Campbelltown News · Tuesday 6 September 1949 · page 8

It is the intention of the Milk Zone Dairymens’ Council to launch an appeal peal to 3,000 members’ asking them to donate suitable dairy stock to…

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Severe Stock Losses Devestation In Kempsey District Visit by Representatives of Milk Zone Dairymen's Council

The Picton Post · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 8

On Wednesday the 7th September, Mr. L. C. Turton, Secretary Milk Zone Dairymen's Council, accompanied Mr. J. Flannagan, Organiser for the Macleay Dairy Co-operative Society, on a tour of the Lower Manning, to view the flood…

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The Kempsey Disaster. Report on Visit to Kempsey District. (From Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council.)

The Campbelltown News · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 4

On Wednesday the 7th September, 1 accompanied Mr. J. Flanagan, Organiesr for the Maclean Dairy Cooperative Society, on a tour of the…

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Dairy Farmers’ Co-Op. Society

The Campbelltown News · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 4

Reporting to the annual meeting of this Society on the, 9th inst. the Chairman, Mr. A. N. Binks, M.L.C., stated in moving the adoption of the…

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Milk Zone Dairymen’ Council

The Campbelltown News · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 6

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Milk Zone Dairymens’ Council was held in Sydney on the 28th September…

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Milk Zone Dairymens’ Council. Cattle For Kempsey

The Campbelltown News · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 5

On the 5th October, 112 head of dairy stock were despatched from the South Coast to Kempsey, 78 of this number were loaded at Nowra,…

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Electric Wool Clippers Can Kill

The Picton Post · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 7

A boy of seventeen was cleaning the blades of an electric sheep-shearing uiaching. He chanced to touch an iron fence…

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Dairying Spell Those Calf Paddocks And Avoid Worm Infestation

The Picton Post · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 2

Permanent calf paddocks provide the quickest way to worm infestation in young calves, warns H. Matthews, dairy…

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Australian Farmers Are Getting a Raw Deal

The Picton Post · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 6

Recent contracts made by Britain with a number of supplying countries for the purchase of butter, eggs, and meat…

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Farm Machinery Check Those Harvester Spares As Soon As Harvesting Ends

The Picton Post · Thursday 27 October 1949 · page 5

With the season for bay making almost at hand, the Farm Mechanisation section of the Department of Agriculture…

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Wives of Delegates Entertained at Farmer's

The Picton Post · Thursday 27 October 1949 · page 5

During the Tuesday afternoon session of Conference Week, a party of about forty wives of Country Press delegates met…

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Milk Zone Dairymens Council

The Campbelltown News · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 6

Mr. J. B. Carlton, General President, Mr. D. R. Mackay, Vice-President, and Mr. L. C. Turton, paid a brief visit to Kempsey on the 19th…

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Cycling First and Fastest to F. FARMER Picton Boys Outstanding

The Picton Post · Thursday 3 November 1949 · page 6

A greatly enlarged field raced in Saturday's events and some surprising performances resulted…

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Insects Threaten Tomato Crops Growers Urged to Start Regular Control Measures

The Picton Post · Thursday 10 November 1949 · page 8

As insects are expected to cause considerable damage in tomato crops this season, all growers are urged by the…

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Kempsey Flood Relief Scheme Department of Agriculture Donating Stud Dairy Cattle

The Picton Post · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 5

In response to the K[?]psey Stock Losses Appeal the Department of Agriculture will donate four stud dairy animals to…

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Early Potato Crops on North Coast Variable Yields Expected

The Picton Post · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 6

Officers of the Department of Agriculture who recently inspected the early potato crops in the Bellingen and Clarence…

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Milk Zone Dairymen's Council

The Picton Post · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 1

At the Management Committee meeting of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council held in Sydney on the 16th November…

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Butter Coupon 43 Double Value From "Coloumn 8" S.M.H.

The Picton Post · Thursday 15 December 1949 · page 1

"Coupon 43, which becomes current next Monday, is worth an extra half-pound of butter. But such a lot of people…

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Guaranteed Price for Butter Still a Myth

The Picton Post · Monday 19 December 1949 · page 3

It has been stated that the Dairying Industry Assistance Act give all the authority necessary to the Government…

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