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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

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Crop-bound Fowls

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 12

After feeding on long grass, especially if it is coarse, fowls are apt to become crop-bound. The grass gets over the passage leading to the gizzard, and stops…

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Farm and Field. a Big Ranch

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 12

Mr W. C. Stuart, in the "Country Gentleman." of Albany, U.S.A., gives a very interesting account of the ranch and farm known as "Ranch 101," 87,000…

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Macleay River Farmers' Union Meeting of Executive Corncil

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 11

A MEETING of the Executive Council of the Macleay River Farmers' Union was held in the new sample rooms at Tattersall's Hotel on Thursday afternoon. Mr…

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Kinchela Farmers' Union

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 3

THE usual monthly meeting of the Farmers' Union Branch was held in Good Templars' Hall on Friday. Mr. Dunford (President) occupied the…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. All Rights Reserved. When It Pays to Grind Grain. Grain Can Now Be Cheaply Ground. -- Very Satisfactory for Work Animals and Young Stock -- Excellent for Milch Cows -- Corn Cob Meal Has Proved Especially Satisfactory

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 5

It pays to grind grain for horses hard at work, milch cows in full flow, hogs being fattened, young stock of all kinds, and old animals whose teeth…

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Scarcity of Butter in Canada

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 12

An event occurred in Canadian butter circles last February, the "Canadian Grocer" states, which is without precedent in the history of the Canadian…

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Farm and Field. The Potato Disease in New Zealand

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 12

The potato digging season in New Zealand having commenced, the growers are now able to gauge the full extent of the damage that has been caused by…

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Butter

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1910 · page 4

Butter exhibited at the recent Show was, on the whole, satisfactory, and the general opinion was that the average was up to that of 1900. Butter made…

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Cattle

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1910 · page 3

In the Jersey class, Herbert Fitzgerald's Maitland Pride justly took first place. This bull was calved in 1905, and was bred by A. Murray, Mt…

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Butter-fat Test

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1910 · page 4

In the Royal Champion Butter-fat Test, prizes of £15, £10, and £5 were given for the cow, any breed, giving the best butter-fat results under the…

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Agriculturist & Grazier. Protecting Australian Butter

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1910 · page 4

A constant danger to which Australian butter is liable on the London market is imposition. Any old thing from anywhere…

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Goote's Champion Lincoln Ram. Sheep

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1910 · page 3

As elsewhere stated, the annual exhibitions of the Sheepbreeders' Association rob the Agricultural Show of much of its glory…

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Is Share Farming Beneficial?

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1910 · page 4

"A Man on the Land" writes from Mallan:—I consider that share farming is one of the best things that has happened to our…

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Farmer's Union

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1910 · page 3

THE quarterly meeting of the Executive Council of the Macleay Farmers' Union took place on Thursday afternoon. Mr. J. H. Betts, President of…

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Farmers' Trophies

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1910 · page 4

In this section there was a tremendous tussle between Prevost Bros., Mount Meruvia, Moss Vale, and Trevitt & Son, Peel, Bathurst. Their…

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On an Australian Farm. Chapter 1. the Biter Bit

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 9

A[?]GOLD winter morning at "Fairfield." The land was white with frost. The wood-heap, smothered in it, lay like a mass of melting salt,…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. (COPYRIGHT.) (Prof. F. S. Cooley, Experiment Station.) FERTILITY. Spreader Encourages Fertility

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 5

No soil will produce large crops unless it contains humus. Nothing produces more and lasting qualities of humus than barnyard manure if…

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Sunshine in the Dairy

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 13

SINCE the introduction of the famous "L-K-G" Milking Machines what a great amount of drudgery and tedious work has been abolished in the dairy. We have…

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Local Butter Factory

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1910 · page 4

For the four weeks ending March 26th the local factory manufactured 32164lbs of butter. Suppliers were , paid 10¼d for first, lOd for second…

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Sunshine in the Dairy

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1910 · page 2

Since the introduction of the famous "L-K-G" Milking Machines what a great amount of drudgery and tedious work has been abolished in the dairy…

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