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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

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Labor Saving Appliances in the Dairy

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 5 September 1914 · page 5

OWNERS of large dairies have hitherto experienced considerable difficulty in obtaining the services of reliable bands for their milking sheds. The conditions inseparably connected with the milking by…

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Butter Fay

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 9 September 1914 · page 4

Macleay Co-operative Dairy Company, for butter manufactured from supplies during August, have paid 10¾d for first, and 10d for second…

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The Wool Clip

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 9 September 1914 · page 2

The paralysis in the wool market, caused by the war, is likely to have serious consequences, not only for the growers, but also for the general…

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Local Butter Factory. Hale Yearly Meeting Generous Gift to Patriotic Fund

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 9 September 1914 · page 2

The half yearly meeting of the Avon and Barrington Co-operative Butter Factory Ltd. was held at the Factory on Saturday afternoon last…

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Homestead Farms' Rents

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 9 September 1914 · page 4

The Minister for Lands has decided to amend the regulations in regard to homestead farms and Crown leases, to remove the necessity for…

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The Butter Business. [To the Editor of the Port Macquarie News.]

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1914 · page 3

SIR,—The Co-operative Dairy Companies at the recent conference supported the proposal to establish an Australian co-operative floor in London. It is questionable whether the delegates had all the…

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The Farm. Making Money Out of Cows

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1914 · page 9

There are ten rotes for making money out of cows and they all begin with "milk, good cows." To put the case in a nutshell, or…

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The Poultry Farm. Clean Eggs

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1914 · page 2

In order to have clean eggs it is necessary to have clean nests. Nests should be lined with clean straw. We have tried various kinds of nests,…

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The Farm. Manuring Mangels

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1914 · page 2

Experiments were conducted by Mr. John Porter. B.Sc., at six centres in Herefordshire on the manuring of mangels. All the dressings used gave…

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Valuable Hint to Farmers

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1914 · page 3

THE President of the Agricultural Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Mr. A. D. Hall), in addressing the conference in adelaide, laid…

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Dairying Becoming a Science

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1914 · page 6

WE notices in a recent American newspaper a statement that dairying was rapidly becoming a science, and that it was being studied more extensively than almost any other kind of farming…

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Upper Wallamba Butter Factory

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 2

The output of butter for the year just ended for the Upper Walls[?] Co-operative Dairy Co. is given [?] Last years tally was…

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The Farm and Diary. Silos Ans [?] Their Commercial Aspect

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 2

Silage is last changing the methods of feeding all classes of live stock, One of the chief advantages of silage feeding is the cheapening of the…

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Upper Manning Co-operative Dairy Co

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 23 September 1914 · page 2

The output of butter from the Upper Manning Butter Factory for the year just closed amounted to 298,483 lbs. Total amount paid to suppliers…

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What She Saw in the Crop

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 23 September 1914 · page 8

A charming city lady, whose accomplishments wore all confined to paved streets and snail tack yards or park drives, said to a country friend who…

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Australian Butter Improved

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 25 September 1914 · page 3

Weddell and Co., London, report that " Australian butter was more free from defects during the past season than usual, and it is to…

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London 1913-14 Butter Season

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 25 September 1914 · page 3

Weddell and Co.'s review of the butter trade for the year ended June 30 states that the total imports of butter into the United…

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Suggestions for Dairy Farmers

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1914 · page 6

DURING the winter season, when the supply of milk is low, the dairy farmer should overhaul his separator and insert any new duplicate parts required. The bowl should be carefully examined…

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The Dairy Cheddar Cheese Bacteriology

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1914 · page 2

"The Bacteriology of Cheddar Cheese." is the title of Bulletin 150 of U.S. Department of Agriculture. The investigations described were…

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The Farm. Western Wolths Grass. (Extracted from the Journal of Department of Agriculture)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1914 · page 2

"A great wealth of forage 15 tons to the acre, is at present being cut for stock-feed at the Ruakura Farm of Instruction. It is the Western…

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