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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

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Feeding Off Wheat with Sheep

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 12

Many farmers make It a rule to feed off their early wheat crops. Sheep are admirable for this, for If care is taken not to put them on a field…

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Butter and margarine. New Regulations

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 8

Amended regulations under the Pure Food Act are gazetted. Further provisions are made for securing cleanliness and freedom from contamination…

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Fertilisers for Different Crops

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 6

The recently issued Journal of the Irish Department of Agriculture contains a full report of the field experiments carried out in recent years in various parts of…

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The Dairy. Production of Cold Cream

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 6

Flavor-producing germs multiply rapidly while the milk 19 warm, It is only by cooling the milk down that, it can be saved. If no bacteria had got…

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Patents. Farming Inventions

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 13

Messrs Griffith & Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 163 King Street Sydney and 9 Queen Street, Melbourne, report that the following applications…

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Largest Dairy in N. S. W. Milking Machines Used

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 3

At Ben Lomond, Mr. T. A. Stirton the well-known pastoralist, is dairying on an extensive scale. At present 350 cows are being milked under one…

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Farm and Field. The Art of Milking

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 5

To have a talk with the good farmers in your district is worth a good deal to you. In every district there are some farmers who possess a special knowledge…

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Raymond Terrace Butter Factory. Factory Report for December, 1909

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1910 · page 4

Expert buyers of first quality, butter have been in evidence during the month. This with the Christmas sales, has kept the market very free…

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Selling Diseased Cattle. Heavy Penalties

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 7

E. Seaysbrook sued B. Latimer, in the police court, before the Hon. E. A. T. Pery, P.M., and Mr. H. Boultwood, J.P., for selling diseased…

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The Butter Market. " an Extraordinary Position."

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 7

" An extraordinary position has been created in the butter trade of this State. First grade, or choice, butter is in request by the buying…

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1,000 Dairyman's Views on Machine Milking

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 14

In every dairying district in the Commonwealth will be found successful dairymen using milking machines. There are over 1,000 " L-K-G "…

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Gloucester Butter Factory

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 3

The local factory manufactured 45646lbs of butter from November 20, to December 31. Suppliers were paid 10d for first…

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Patents. Farming and Mining Inventions

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 4

Messrs Griffith & Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 168 King Street, Sydney and 9 Queen Street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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Butter Grading

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 20 January 1910 · page 6

As the only State which tackles the butter-grading question on a practical as well as a scientific basis, attention has naturally been…

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Largest Dairy in N.s.w. Milking Machines Used

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 20 January 1910 · page 3

At Ben Lomond, Mr. T. A. Stirton, the well-known pastoralist, is dairy ing on a very extensive seale. At present 390 cows are being milked under one roof, and this…

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Will Sheep Kill Snakes?

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 10

This fs a story told by a Victorian farmer of the behaviour of a flock of sheep which he happened to witness. He noticed that the sheep had formed…

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Wheat-trimmed Hats

Macleay Argus · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 5

Hats still remain large, both in crown and brim, especially the former; and as it is now generally recognised that a brim is far more…

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Farm and Field. Have a Reliable Stable Lantern

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 5

Every fanner who is not too anxious to draw his fire insurance money should have the best lantern to be obtained, but where a wire is strung from one end…

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Cheap Farm Land, and Plenty of it

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 4

Our readers will have noticed that the Intelligence. Department has been pointing out that the statement as to scarcity of farm land available in New…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. (Copyright.) Rearing Calves Oh Their Dams. (Prof. F. S. Cooley, Experiment Station.)

Macleay Argus · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 5

When calves are allowed to suck their dams in some instances they are allowed to run with them until weaned. In other instances they are confined,…

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