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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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The Dairy. the Bull's Influence on Milking Breeds

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 2

This subject was referred to in an interesting manner by a German scientist, Professor Hansen, of Bonn, on the Rhine, in the course of a…

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Dairying on the Comboyne

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 8

Dairying on the Comboyne has at last got a footing, there being seven separators in use at present, while others are on their way up. Owing to…

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Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society. Half-yearly Report

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 9

THE Directors of the above submitted the following report at the semi-annual meeting held at Bega on the 8th of January:--…

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The Australian Farmer

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 8

IN view of the position he occupies as Principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, it is only natural that Mr. Potts. should be an enthusiastic advocate…

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The Farm Competitions

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 11

THE result of the North Coast Division of the S. M. Herald and Sydney Mail farm competitors was announced on Wednesday last. The prizes are: First,…

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Dairy Items

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 23 January 1907 · page 4

Daring the past month the Casino Dairy Company made 135,1201b of batter, and paid suppliers 85/8d per lb. for first-class, and 75/8d for second-class…

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The Farm and Dairy. the Cornsack Dlut

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 January 1907 · page 6

Corntscks are tumbling down and they may soon be cheap enough for farmers to buy up for next season's requirements. The daily papers boomed the harvest to such an…

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Sorghum As a Hay Crop

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 January 1907 · page 6

Sorghum is one of the most prolific as well an easily managed fodder plants that can be found. It will do more actual good for stock per acre than corn. It will grow…

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When to Cut Wheat

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 8

The proper time to cut wheat and other cereals is immediately after their gra[?] has been fully matured. When the green color of the straw, just below the…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] [?]Aryesting Potatoes

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 2

If it is intended to market potatoes at the earliest period, then they may be harvested as soon as they are ripe, otherwise, if the weather conditions continue favorable, they…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Raising Incubator Chicks

Macleay Argus · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 2

POULTRY breeders generally experience a greater loss in raising incubator hatched chicks than from those hatched and cared for by hens. A larger mortality is…

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Farm and Field. Care of Harness

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 8

Happy is the farmer who has got a careful, handy man in charge of his teams, who has an eye for seeing when a strap is coming off or a buckle needs…

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Bacteria for Farmers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 9

For the past hundred years agricultural chemists have been asking the question whether it were possible to utilise the free nitrogen of the atmosphere as the food of…

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The Prize Farm of the North

Macleay Argus · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 13

THE S. M. Herald has a very instructive and interesting article describing the farm and methods of the winner of the prize for the North-Eastern division,…

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Helping the Farmer. the State Bank

Macleay Argus · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 13

THE Government Savings Bank, or really, the State Land Bank, came into operation on the 1st of this month. The powers conferred by the Act upon…

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How Dairy Folk Should Dress

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 3

Writing in the "Agricultural Gazette" on " How Dairy People Should be Dressed," Dairy Inspector Pederson says:— "Up to the present,…

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The Farm and Dairy. the Advantage of [?]

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 31 January 1907 · page 6

The Government officer in charge of poultry export in victoria has received orders from London and South African poultry dealing firms for up to 500,000 head…

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The Butter-fat Craze

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 8

What has ever come over Oar country of late, Since our butter-fat craze Has got into oar pate?…

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Big Dairy Farm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 3

Mr. T. T. Matthews' Raleigh estate supplies 67501 be butter monthly to the Raleigh factory, chiefly the remit of dairying on the salven syatem. More than half that quantity,…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Article [All Rights Reserved.] Improving Corn

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 2

IT is of groat importance to give great attention to the selection of seed, inasmuch as the kind of corn harvested depends eo much upon the kinds…

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