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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

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Butter Fat Competition Abandoned. MACKSVILLE A. & H. ASSOCIATION

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 6

Mr. J. Egan, secretary of the Macksville Agricultural and Horticultural Association, intimates that the Society was compelled to abandon the butter fat…

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Painless Cattle-killing

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 8

Tests have been made at Islington cattle market on a new airgun for the painless slaughtering of cattle. A prize of £100 has been offered by…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Dairying Lucerne on the Richmond. Profitable in Several Ways

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 5

As was remarked in a previous article in these notes, the farmers on the Richmond River find that paspalum has not the feeding value…

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Instruction in Dairying Wollonghar Experiment Farm

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 5

For the young man who wishes to make dairying his vocation, there is no question that the Wollonbar experimet farm isn the place to…

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The Farm. Pur[?]ed Poultry on the Farm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 2

I presume that all progressive farmers look forward to the time when all the farm stock shall be purebred, or practically so. Perhaps…

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Sydney Butter Market

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 8

The butter market is the only one in Sussex-street at time of writing which can be reported as steady. Principal agents say that prices are…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Rotation. Its Place on the Clarence

Macleay Argus · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 2

There if perhaps no part of the State to which the subject of rotation is more important than the Clarence river district. The…

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Agricultural Notes. for the Man on the Land. Dairying. Lucerne on the Richmond

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 8

As was remarked in a previous article in these notes, the farmers on the Richmond River find that paspalum has not the feeding value where…

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"Educate the Country Boys." a Governor on Science in Farming

Macleay Argus · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 18

LORD CHELMSFORD, Governor of N.S.W., in addressing the students at the Scots College last week, said: -- "I regard with pleasure the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 10

Article's under this heading are kindly supplied by the Stale Agricultural Department. AGRICULTURE…

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Cheese and Butter

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 10

Referring to the respective profit[?] in butter and cheese making Mr. M[?] Wallace, the New South Wales but[?]ter and cheese expert, recently dealt[?]…

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Plan of Sheep Dip

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 2

A. M., Hawke's Bay, writes:—As the dipping season will soon be coming round, for the benefit of those who still adhere to the laborious…

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Purfleet Butter Factory. Improved Machinery

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 7

Recently our representative paid a visit to the Upper Manning (Purfleet) Butter Company's factory and saw some of the new machinery the company has recently installed,…

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The Farm. a Valuable But Neglected Crop

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 2

In Germany and Russia the common sunflower is regarded as a valuable crop, and in other Continentale councils much attention has…

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The Farm. the Indispensable Potato. the World's First Vegetable-- Its Origin, Development and Cultivation. the Tuber's Variability

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 10

To the extreme variability of toe potato is due not only its muiti[?] tudinous varieties, but also its capacity for improvement. It is because…

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The Settler. Farmer and the Auto

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 January 1913 · page 6

A novel idea was recently promoted in Texas, when 26 farmers and ranchmen entered their cars in an endurance contest from…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes Dairying. North Coast Fodder Crops. Queensland Cattle Cane

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 19

"A great cow feed," said the manager of Wollongbar experiment farm, when referring to his experience with Queensland cattle cane. Several…

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Depression in Dairy Cattle

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 6

The is a remarkable depression in dairy cattle just now. It is rather hard to understand why cows that are milking are not…

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Butter Down Again

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 7

The butter market rather sick. The reduction of 4s brings the price lower than it has been for a long while. Local supplies are heavy,…

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Freight on Butter

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 7

Some time ago the secretary of the Wingham butter factory wrote to the Goods Manager in Sydney to ascertain the cost of forwarding butter by…

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