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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

346 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 9 of 18

Whole Wheat and White Flour. a Convincing Experiment

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

A desire to know the effect of whole wheat and white Hour as foods led Dr. Harold Swanberg to experiment on mice, and the results…

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The Dairy. What Dairy Farming Does

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1914 · page 9

What does dairy farming do for the man and the farm? It places in the hands of the man who follows dairying for his…

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Impost on Dairying Industry. Effect of New Taxation

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1914 · page 3

THE new taxation imposed by the Govern-ment hits the dairying industry harder, probably, than any other. It reaches not only the suppliers to the butter factories, but…

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Farm and Field. Original Article Bacteria and Cultivation

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 2 May 1914 · page 5

Since cultivation promotes the activities of the micro-organisms, and since it is a well-recognised fact that the fertility of a soil depends very…

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Sheep Rearing on the Clarence

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 8 May 1914 · page 6

In an address at Maclean Mr Marks, of the Agricultural Department, emphasised the mistaken practice of putting all their…

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Speying Cattle

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 9

Some difference of opinion appears to have existed in the past in some quarters as to the legality of speying stock. Mr. T. A. Irvine forward…

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The Butter Industry. to the Editor of the Port Macquarie News

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 3

(SIR,—Knowing you are a fairly large ratepayer of Hasting Shire, and take an interest in the man on the land, I would like you or any of your readers to try and help to solve the problem to whether…

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The Farm. Inoculation of Luc[?]

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

Crops all require nitrogen for their growth. An advantage possessed by [?] and other Inguminous crops is that they are not dependent on the…

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Farm and Field. Original Articles. All Right Reserved. CULTIVATION

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 5

The benefit derived from the cultivation of land in the autumn cannot be too highly estimated. It is profitable practice on all classes of land. The…

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Butter & Other Fats

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 13 May 1914 · page 2

From England we have had very elaborate reports of the investigation to show that the nutritive value of margarine is quite equal to that of…

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Kempsey Petty Sessions. Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 May 1914 · page 4

ON Monday morning at Kempsey Court, before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M., Louts John Dunford and Herbert Skimmings were charged…

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The Dairy. Girls for the Dairy Farm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 9

That life on the farm can be made on ideal one we do not doubt; But on the labour question is at present. we think—on some farms at least…

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

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 9

Lord Chelmsford, "ex-Governor of N.S.W., in addressing the students of the Scots College said:— "I regard with pleasure the…

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Hints for Dairymen

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 2

Milk and its products being chiefly food for human consumption, require treating in all stages with scrupulous cleanliness. Cleanliness ranks first in dairy routine…

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Farm and Field. Original Article Ventilating the Soil

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 5

Drainage improves the ventilation of the soil, so that when the ground water is lowered, as is done by under- draining, the roots of plants penetrate…

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The Farmers' Friends

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 2

The farmers of the State have just been advised to "stand four deep" in defense of their industry, which is threatened by dark and ugly clouds…

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Stalls For Cattle

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 5

The other evening a countryman brought his sweetheart into the city to hear a performance by a well-known opers company…

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Cement in the Dairy

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 9

In our visits among the dairy farms, the creameries and the cheese factories it is gratifying to note the increasing tendency to use cement…

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Dairy Meeting

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 5

THE regular meeting of Direction of the Hastings District Co-operative Dairy Company was held at the factory office on Monday last. Mr. Healey Managing Director…

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The Farm. Why Girls Leaves the Farm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 9

So much has been said about why boys leaves the farm, but how about the girls? What right has a girl on the farm…

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