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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

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Dairy Supervision in the Argentine

Nambucca News · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 7

The growth of the demand for Argentina butter in Europe, chiefly for Great Britain, has induced the Government of the Republic to enact stringent…

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Farm and Field. Electricity in Agriculture

Nambucca News · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 7

Recent experiments have demonstrated that electricity will promote the germination of seed. At the Massachusetts Agricultural College, U.S.A., in a…

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The Marketing of Butter

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 9

REPRESENTATIVES of the co-operative dairy produce distributing companies of Australia met in Sydney last week with the object of arriving at a uniform…

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Correspondence. Butter Pays. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 6

SIR, -- Replying to your correspondent " Dairyman " in the issue of the 24th inst., relative to Factory pays, the only explanation I can give of the uniformity…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved.) Fanning Mills in Farming

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 5

The time has come when it is imperative for farmers to sow clean seed, and the best way to insure that is for every farmer to clean his own seed,…

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The Farmer Organised

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 13

THAT the man on the land is awakening to the power that he is capable of wielding on his own behalf was to be seen on Monday in…

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The Cattle Industry

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 August 1909 · page 7

It is rather remarkable that there are more cattle bred in New' South Wales to-day than 15 years ago, since the march of…

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The Butter Trade. Co-operative Marketing Condemned

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 August 1909 · page 7

MR. S. TURNER, representative of J. and J. Lonsdale and Co., Ltd., specialists in butter and cheese, who has visited practically the…

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Forming a Farmers' Union

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 August 1909 · page 4

THERE was an attendance of about 20 at the meeting on Saturday afternoon called for the purpose of forming a Farmers' Union. Mr. J. H, Betts…

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Shelter for Cattle

Nambucca News · Friday 6 August 1909 · page 2

In a useful paper on "Artificial Shelter for Cattle," read by Mr Wade, County Instructor, before the North Kildare Farming. Society, Ireland, a trial…

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Farm and Field. Pasture and Rye Grass

Nambucca News · Friday 6 August 1909 · page 2

A leaflet issued by the Irish Department of Agriculture on the laying, down of land to permanent pasture does not give any encouragement to the…

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Great Wheat Corner

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 14

The most successful wheat deal in the annals of the Chicago Board of Trade closed recently, and Mr. James Patten emerges with a personal profit…

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A & B Butter Factory Co

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 10

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders was held to discuss a proposed amendment in the Rules re lating to the election of Directors., on…

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A. and B. Butter Factory Co. Half-yearly Meeting

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 13

The seventh half-yearly meeting of the Avon and Barrington Butter Factory, Ltd., was held on Saturday last, Mr. Perram, Chairman of the Board of Directors, presided. The Secretary, Mr. C. Lavis, read the minutes of the…

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Milking Machines at the W.A Govt. State Farm

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 14

The West Australian Government, after delegating a special officer to make exhaustive inquiries throughout Victoria as to which was the best…

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Care of Dairy Utensils

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 12

This is the subject of Bulletin No. 131 issued by the Kansas Experiment Station, U.S.A. The authors are Professors O. Erf and C. W. Melick. In view…

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Care of Farm Teams

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 12

When horses are taken in to work from the grass after a long rest they do not need much grain at first, but the quantity should be increased,…

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Farm and Field. Green Feed for Pigs

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 12

If pigs are kept continually penned up green feed in some form should be provided to them. Green feed is necessary. It keeps them in health,…

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The Value of the Farmer

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 10

OF recent years the primary producers in this State have risen to the sense of their own importance. At one time the cognomen "cockie"…

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Proposed Farmers' Union for the Macleay. Meeting at Kempsey

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 8

A MEETING, convened by Mr. P. O'Halloran, was held at McQuade's Tattersall's Hotel, on Saturday last for the purpose of forming a Far…

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