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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 February 1912 · page 15

THE usual monthly meeting of the Sherwood Branch was held on the 5th Feb., Mr. Davis (president) in the chair. Minutes of previous…

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Dairying in Australia. Making Butter for London

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 2

Some months ago I walked over a dairy farm in New South Wales, some fourteen thousand miles away from London. This week I have…

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Dairy Meeting

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 February 1912 · page 6

A SPECIAL meeting of Directors of the H. D. Cooperative Dairy Co. was held in the factory office on Tuesday. In the absence of the Chairman, Mr…

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Dairy Farm Water Supply

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 21 February 1912 · page 4

The good example set by Mr. Charles Sutherland in laying on water to his grazing and fattening paddocks has been followed by Mrs. L. B. Rudder…

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Farm and Station Labourers

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 21 February 1912 · page 5

We are advised by the Director of the Immigration Bureau that 150 selected agricultural labourers from the rural districts of Great Britain…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Scour in Calves

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 19

Dairymen throughout the State have suffered much loss through calves contracting diarrhoea, or scour. The Bureau of Microbiology has…

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Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy and Produce Co., Ltd. Factory Report for January 1912

The Gloucester Examiner and Lower Hunter Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 3

The month closed with a firm market at 126s. for best qualities, seconds are more difficult to dispose of. The amount of butter manufactured…

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Motive Power on a Farm

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 6

Machinery is the order of the day; there is no sense in doing by hand that which can be done better and quicker by the aid of machinery…

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Farmers' & Settlers' Association. Sports Meeting Arranged For

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 6

AT Gladstone on Saturday last delegates from the Smithtown, Kinchela, Gladstone and Belmore River branches of the Farmers' and…

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Advantage of Fodder Crops

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 February 1912 · page 4

The pastures, however, can be assisted a great deal by sowing a succession of forage crops, many of which can be sown from now right on until…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 11

Articles under this heading are kindly supplied by the State Agricultural Department:—SCOUR IN CALVES…

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Motive Power on the Farm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 8

MACHINERY is the order of the day; there is no sense in doing by hand that which can be done better and quicker by the aid of machinery. The "Alfa-Laval" Separator has long reigned supreme…

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Savaged by a Boar Farmer's Terrible Experience

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1912 · page 10

Mr. Henry Bourn, a farmer at Rahmabuck, on the Avon River, Victoria, was charged and seve[?] injured by a boar, which had…

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Dry Farming

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 28 February 1912 · page 4

Revelations respecting the real condition of " dry farming " in the somiarid western States of the American union, have given an unpleasant shock…

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Butter Factory Report

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 10

Mr. A. Bennett., manager and secretary of the Bowraville Dairy Company reports:--Manufactured for month of January 34,578 lbs. of…

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Butter Factories Wages Board. Sittings at Frederickton, Kempsey and Smithtown

Macleay Argus · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 15

THE Cold Storage and Ice Workers' Wages Board got ahead of their scheduled time and arrived on the Macleay on Monday evening last…

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Avon & Barrington Butter. Factory Limited

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 6 March 1912 · page 4

The twelfth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the above was held at the factory on Saturday last 2nd March…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 6 March 1912 · page 5

A meeting of the Gloucester branch of this association was held in the Council Chambers on Monday night last, 4th March…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes (From the Department of Agriculture). Progressive Dairying

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 19

While the improving of the milk and butter yielding capacity of dairy cattle has been a foremost question in other dairying countries for some…

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Suitable Crops

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 8

Oats--Algerian.--For the State [?] crally, and in Western districts [?] ally. Carters Royal Cluster.--Fo[?]…

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