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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

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Commercial. the Cattle Trade

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 2

During the past week the local [?]ents have been busy, having sold [?] the various yards, no less than [?] head of cattle. The majorily of…

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Past Comboyne Butter Factory Directorship

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 5

To the Shareholders of the Oomboyne Dairy and Produce Co. Ltd.—Sirs,—The following letter has been forwarded to me by request, to help dear up a report which has bees in…

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Dried Potatoes as Cattle Food

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 2

Germany is evolving an over-in-creasing number of potato products and thus rapidly solving the problem of disposing of the once…

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Modern Dairying

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 5

THE drudgery which at coe time was ass[?]ated with dairying is rapidly becoming a thing of the pest. Just as machinery in many other instances has come to man's [?] at critical periods and…

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Farm and Field. Original Article. Applying Fertilisers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 5

With regard to nitrate of soda, there is no uncertainty; it should be applied as a top-dressing when the young plants appear above the ground. On heavy…

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Butter Pay

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 4

Macleay River Co-operative Dairy Company paid yesterday for March butter 9 3/4d first, and 9d second. This price is encouraging in view of the…

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Past Comboyne Butter Factory Directorship

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 2

To the shareholders of the Comboyne Dairy and Produce CO., Ltd.—Sire,—The following letter has been, forwarded to me by request, to help clear up…

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The Settler. Child Labor on Farms

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 6

The work of children on dairy farms formed the basis of a question put in the Legislative Assembly Wednesday afternoon to the Minister for…

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Goal of the Farmer

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 6

The big thing to the farmer who tills his own farm is not the farm nor its improvements nor the live stock, but the family; and the…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 2

Articles under this heading are kindly supplied by the State Agricultural Department:— DAIRYING…

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How Wool is Sold

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 2

OF all those thousands of producers whose clips pass through the Sydney market, there are, perhaps, not more than 5 per cent, who know what…

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Sheep on the North Coast Limited Possibilities

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 2

Opportunity was taken by the Sheep and wool Expert at a recent meeting of the Nimbin branch or the Agricultural Bureau to counsel North Coast…

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Farm and Field. Original Abtiol[?]. Domesticating Bacteria

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 5

Arable soil is capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen by means of bacterial activity, but exactly how this take place and how such action can…

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Farmers and Fertilisers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 5

A farmer should first take care that all the farmyard manure produced on his farm should be properly utilised and should see that this valuable…

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If Meat, Why not Butter ?

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 3

The Sydney wharf labourers proposed not to handle meat for export over seas until local prices of meat come down to a normal level. Quite…

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Cattle Sales

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 2

Clift and Trenbath report: Having sold privately, last week, 1106 heads of mixed cattle on account of the following owners:— R. Power,…

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Local and General. Cattle on the Railway Line

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 2

Last week a beast was killed by a railway train at the Paterson, and a cow being on the line at Wolla Wolla when the Commissioners train was…

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Stud Cattle Sale. Some Good Figures Realised. Record Priced Devon Bull

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 6

Competition at the stud cattle sales at Sydney Show-ground was more brisk than has been the case at sales of this nature for several years past…

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Care of Farm Implements

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 9

Of course, a welt constructed tool-house is the best place in which to store and care for farm implements, but the majority of farms do not…

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The Dairy Do Milk Vhins Indicate Dairy Capacity

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 9

Dr. King of Maine, writes very interstingly on "Do Milk Value Indicate Dairy Capacity?" He quotes from a station bulletin:—"The [?]…

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