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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

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Farm and Garden Original Article? Marketing Farm Produce

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 7

THERE is no branch of commercial organisation so poorly developed as that which connects producing areas and consuming centres for…

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Dairying Methods

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 4

CONSIDERABLE interest attaches to the opinions of M. NICHOLAS KRUKOFF, the representative of the Russian Minister for Agriculture. M. KRAKOFF has been visiting Australia to see…

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Dairying on the Richmond River

Macleay Argus · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 9

Some four years ago when Ex-Premier Reid told the people of the Richmond to "keep cows," instead of trying to live by growing cane, little did…

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Grazing Up a Dairy Herd

Macleay Argus · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 13

WE do not want long-legged cows in a dairy. We do not want a cow that has the habit of putting fat on her back. We want a machine, and we want to…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Co-operative Society. Two New Directors

Macleay Argus · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 12

MANY agriculturists have been watching carefully the progress of the Farmers' and Settlers' Co-op. Society, Ltd, and more particularly since the…

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The Dairy Conference

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 22 April 1903 · page 3
Also in The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales

The conference of dairymen's delegates opened in Sydney on Thursday last, Mr. J. Kidd, Minister for Agriculture, presiding. Amongst the large…

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Applications for Seed Wheat

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 23 April 1903 · page 4

The total number of applicatinus received by the Department of Agriculture for seed wheat was 4,2111. The list of applications baa been closed…

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The Proposed Dairy Legislation

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 23 April 1903 · page 4

Of all the many conferences held in Sydney during show week, none will have attracted more attention than that called by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Kidd), for the…

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The Dairymen's Conference

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 23 April 1903 · page 3

ABOUT 40 or 50 delegate from various centra throughout the country attended the Dairy Conference in Sydney last week. The North Coast was represented as follows:—…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. Eye As a Pasture Crop

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 7

RYE as pasture crop, if properly treated, can be sown at almost any tine. The chief thing is to sow it when there is enough…

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The Dairying Industry. (To the Editor.)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 3

Sir,—Through the medium of your valuable journal, I would like to draw the attention of the dairymen of the Hastings district to the necessity of again making a…

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The Farm. Profitable Pig Feeding

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 2

The only way to make money in feeding pigs is to comply with the laws of animal physiology. In feeding a 150 pound pig up to a weight of 300 pounds, the average…

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Dairymen's Conference

Macleay Argus · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 13

A Conference of Dairymen's Delegates, to consider the proposed Dairy Industry Bill, submitted to Parliament last session, was opened in Sydney last week, with a…

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Maize Cultivation. Prize Essay by Mr. P. C. BASCHE (Concluded from last issue). Treatment to Growing Crop

Macleay Argus · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 11

A most injurious system obtains in some localities of topping the growing crop. American experiments show:--The removal of the tassel proved a decided injury…

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M. R. Co-operative Dairy Co. Monthly Returns

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 29 April 1903 · page 3

FOR March, suppliers to the above company were paid for 96,855 lbs. 1st grade butter at 10d, £4035 12s 6d ; 14,327 lbs, 2nd grade butter at 9d, £567 2s 2d; 308 lbs. 3rd grade butter at 9d, £11 11s…

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The Farm. Profitable Pig Feeding

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 30 April 1903 · page 2

The only way to make money in feeding pigs is comply with the laws of animal physiology. In feeding a 150-pound pig up to a weight of 300 pounds, the average…

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Cubing Scabies in Cattle

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 8

Scabies is a contagious disease of a parasite nature. The particular kind which cases most trouble lives on the surface of the skin and gives rice to great…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. Present Status of Tuber Culosis

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 8

AFTER collecting information for many years concerning bovine tuberculosis, the matter seems still undecided. No doubt the…

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Enormous Crop of Maize. 150 Bushels to the Acre

Macleay Argus · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 11

THE essay published by us was not the only one sent in to compete for the special prize at the recent Show. Mr. John Hilliar, of Frederickton, sent…

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