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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

437 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 14 of 22

The Farmers and Settlers

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 24 July 1912 · page 5

It was the farmers and settlers, at their annual Conference, who were honored with - the first intimation of Ministerial intentions. It is hardly…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Dairying. the Herd and the Tester. Where the Owner's Picked Cows Really Were

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 18

The New Zealand Department of Agriculture has given currency to the following letter from a dairy-farmer in the Dominion:--…

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The Farm. the Composition and Use of Butter-milk

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 2

Butter-milk contains chiefly the smaller glebules of fat present in the milk which have not coalesced under the influence of the churning to form…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Dairying. the Herd and the Tester. Where the Owner's Picked Cows really were

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 5

The New Zealand Departmeat, of Agriculture, has Given currency to the Following latter from a dairy-farmer in the Dominion…

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Local and General (A Card.) J. M. Hooke, Solicitor & Conveyancer Park Road, Gloucester, (Near Royal Hotel.) More Good Prices for Dungog cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 8

At Flemington (sydney) Sales on Monday 22nd inst. Messrs. Badgery Bros. sold on account of Mrs. J. K. Mackay Cangon, Dungog, 30 bullocks…

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Farmers Condemn Day Labor

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 3

Mr. Milligan moved the resolution in place of the Comboyne delegates, who were unable to be present. He said anyone who had seen the slow progress under day labor…

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Farmers As Strike-breakers

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 3

The conference passed with enthusiasm a resolution to load or unload during strikes when farm and dairy produce is affected. Mr. Holmes moved:—"The in order to…

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Farmers in Conference

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 3

THE annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in Sydney last week, and there was a large attendance. The President (Mr. Robert Patten) was in the…

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City Dwellers the Best Farmers

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 9

Most of cur best farmers come from the city." Mr. Griffith astonished his audience at Annandale recently, by, making 'the…

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Agricultural Notes. For the Man mi the Land. (Supplied from the Agricultural Department, N.S. Wales.) PASTORAL. 2 Silage

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 2 August 1912 · page 6

In the throes of the severest season since the disastrous year 1902, farmers are perhaps disposed writes the senior Inspector of Agriculture), to…

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Beef and Dairying

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 August 1912 · page 5

On the other hand, the grazier finds it an expensive business breeding solely for beef, as it necessitates keeping a large herd of breeding cows in…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Agriculture. Rotation Crops. The System at Bathurst Farm

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 10

The rotation is such an important and integral part of the system practised at Bathurst Experiment Farm that it cannot fail to arouse the…

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Good Prices for Gloucester Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 8

Badgery Brothers report having sold amongst other lots on Monday 29th a draft of 68 cows on account of J. E. and J. R. Laurie from…

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The Farm. Our Crops and How to Manure Them. Swedes

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 2

2½ to 3cws. of manure per acre of special mixtures, put up by manure merchants. Or 1 to 1½ bone, same quantity of super, and 14lb. sulphate…

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H. D. Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., Port Macquarie. Report on Accounts, 1912

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 8

THE following is the report of the auditors, Messrs. Franckel, Spencer & Co., which was presented at the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Hastings District…

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Building Up a Dairy Herd

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 3

AS one studies the building up of a profitable dairy herd (writes Mr. H. E. Colby in "Kembell's Dairy Farmer,") he cannot fail to be impressed with the close relation…

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Hastings District Dairy Co. Half-yearly Meeting

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 4

THE seventeenth half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Hastings District Co-operative Daily Co. was held in the Temperance Hall, Wauchope, on Wednesday last. When the meeting opened…

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Historic Tubor Cabinet. Find in a Farmhouse

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 3

The most remarkable historical "find" of recent years in an oak cabinet which, belonged to Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII., and…

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Local and General (A Card.) J. M. Hooke. Solicitor & Conveyancer Park Road, Gloucester. (Near Royal Hotel.) Avon and Barrington Butter Factory

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 7 August 1912 · page 5

The half yearly meeting in connection with the above to have been held on Saturday last, was adjourned for three weeks, for the want of a…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. District Council

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 7 August 1912 · page 2

The District Council of this Association held its annual meeting on Saturday in McKune's rooms, and the following delegates were present:—…

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