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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

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Raymond Terrace Butter Factory April Report

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1912 · page 4

First quality butter has been sold at highest rates throughout the month closing rates being 120s 'per cwt. The quality of cream now coming…

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Butter Business Too Much Second Class

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1912 · page 4

Mr. G. S. Hill, chairman of directors of the Wingham factory, has been making inquiries and investigations into the butter industry arid its future…

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Farmers of Antiquity

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 29 May 1912 · page 7

Varro, who came about three score and ten years before the dawn of the Christian era, was an outsider captured by the illustrious Caesar on one…

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Egg-laying Competition at the Grafton Experiment Farm

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 29 May 1912 · page 10

The Minister of Agriculture has decided to hold another egg-laying competition in addition to that annually conducted at the…

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A Bacon and Butter Rival

The Gloucester Examiner and Lower Hunter Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 4

It has frequently of late been asserted that the Australian exports of butter and bacon to European centres, and particularly to the…

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Winter School for Farmers

Macleay Argus · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 19

In connection with the forthcoming Winter School for farmers, to be held at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College from the 17th June…

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Farmers' & Settlers' Association. Willawarrin Branch

Macleay Argus · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 15

THE monthly meeting was held at Carey's Hall on 25th inst., with a very good attendance of members. The minutes of the previous…

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Agricultural. the Farm Apprentices

Macleay Argus · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 19

As mentioned in these notes a week or two ago, there is still room for a few apprentices at several of the Government Farms. At Cowra…

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Egg-laying Competition at the Grafton Experiment Farm

Macleay Argus · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 13

THE Minister of Agriculture has decided to hold another Egg-laying Competition in addition to that annually conducted at the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 14

Articles under this heading are kindly supplied by the State Agricultural Department:— PASTORAL…

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The Butter Exhibition

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 7

In regard to the butter show under the auspicies of the Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers' Association, to be held in Sydney this month, the…

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Indian Cane as a Fodder for Dairy Cattle. Reprinted from "Agricultural Gazette" of October, 1908

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 6

THIS cane was probably first introduced to the Clarence by the Sugar Refining Company. Owing to its peculiar characteristics it has not been grown for sugar production…

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Egg-laying Competition at the Grafton Experiment Farm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 8

THE Minister for Agriculture has decided to hold another Egg-laying Competition in addition to that annually conducted at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College. It is to…

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Agricultural. the Farm Apprentices Those at Cowra—for Example

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 14

As mentioned in these notes a week or two ago, there is still room for a few apprentices at several of the Government Farms. At Cowra…

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The Farmers and Settlers

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 8

Undoubtedly, Labor, where it is in power, owed its position, to some extent, to the rural vote. The annual report of the Farmers and Settlers…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Co

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 5 June 1912 · page 5

The eighteenth half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd. was held at Raymond Terrace on…

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The Government and the Farmer

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 June 1912 · page 6

The annual report of the Executive of, the F. & S. A. was published in the Sydney daily press on May 25th, and it contained some strong strictures on the…

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The Farmers and the Ministry

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 June 1912 · page 2

In the matter of simple veracity, Mr. T. I. Campbell, general (secretary of the Farmers and Settlors' Association, has scored heavily against…

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The Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy and Produce Co., Limited. Factory Report for May, 1912

The Gloucester Examiner and Lower Hunter Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 3

The butter market closed firm at 120/ per cwt. The quantity of butter made for the mouth was 78 tons 11 cwt., for which cream suppliers were paid 12 7/8d…

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Farmer's Poor Return. Sixpence Per Pig

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 4

Results are coming to hand of the sad havoc being played amongst the pigs through this bar blocking. As stated in last issue those from…

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