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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

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The Farm. Officially Recommended-manures

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 2

The Irish Department of Agriculture has Issued a memorandum recommending manures for various crops as follows…

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Up-to-date Farming Methods

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 8

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The Dairy. the Jersey Cow

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 2

The Jersey cow produces the richest milk of any variety. Her milk is seldom sold by dairymen, owing to its higher cost, but lt produces the…

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Tuberculosis in Coastal Dairy Herds

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 3

At the sitting of the Royal Commission, on Food Supply and Prices, at Parliament House, Sydney, on 'Tuesday, last week, George Valder, Acting Under-Secretary and Director of…

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Butter Market

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 4

Prescott Ltd. report, May 10: The market has been without interest this week and there have been ample supplies of first grade at 94s. Seconds are…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes Dairying. the Cow in Sickness. the Fitst Symptoms

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 19

The detection of the first symptoms of sickness in a cow is one of the qualifications of the dairyman that comes only by experience. The…

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Prize for Butter and Cheese

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 19

The Department of Agriculture is in receipt of entry forms and particulars of the prizes to be offered for colonial butter and cheese at the…

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Agricultural Notes for the Man on the Land. Dairying. Separating the Milk

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 3

The separation of cream from milk mainly depends on the amount of centrifugal force which is brought to bear on each particle of butter fat, so…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. the Cow in Sickness The First Symptoms

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 11

The, deletion of the first symptoms of sickness in a cow is one of the qualifications of the dairyman that comes only by experience. The dairy…

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The Farm. Relation Of Potash to Potatato Blight

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 2

The requirement of the potato crop for a liberal supply of available potash is well known, and is acted upon by the most successful growers. It…

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The "Alf-laval" Cream Separator An Absolute Necessity in a Dairy

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 6

The sales of the "Alfa-Laval" (Separators during the past twelve months have eclipsed, all previous records, and every year of its…

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Dairying on the North Coast Ensilage Demonstration

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 3

A public demonstration in the making of ensilage was given last week by Mr. G. Marks, Inspector of Agriture, on Mr. D. S. Baker's farm…

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Where Farm Students Git to

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 11

The Minister of Agriculture has had a return prepared showing the disposition of youths who enter the various agricultural training in…

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Selecting Dairy Machinery. Hints for the Prospective Buyer

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 3

How many farmers are in the unhappy position of having hastily acquired a faulty piece of machinery, whether separator, oil engine, or complete milking plant? They were…

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Seasonable Dairy Requisites

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 21 May 1913 · page 6

We make it our business to supply everything required in connection with the dairying industry and cheese and butter factories. Furthermore, everything we supply must…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes Lucerne As Horse Feed. What Growers Have to Say

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 8

IS lucerne as a feed for horses a sound proposition for the wheat farmer? There are hundreds of wheat…

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Practical Agriculture. Original Articles [?] All Rights Reserved the Pleasure of Good Farming

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 17

There is pleasure as well as profit to an intelligent farmer in such questioning of his soil, and only in this way can assurance be obtained that the…

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Suitable Sheep

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 6

On another page appears a report from Mr. Mathews, the Government sheep expert, on the question of suitable sheep for the coastal…

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Sheep on the North Coast

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 5

Report of the Visit of the Sheep and Wool Expert (Mr. Mathews) to North Coast districts on 30th April, l913, and following days…

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North Coast Butter Factories Association. Unhealthy Competition

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 5

The delegates to the North Coast Butter Factories' Association, which met at Lismore, recently, decided that it was necessary for the affiliated factories to agree upon a system…

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