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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

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Stroud Butter Factory

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 2

The Gloucester District Butter Factory, Stroud, manufactured for the two weeks ending May 10th 188 boxes of butter. Suppliers were paid 13d…

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Purfleet Butter Pay

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 2

The Up[?] Manning (Purfleet) Co—operative Dairy Company's pay for the month of April including the overrun, was equivalent to 12½d per lb…

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Butter Fat Record

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 2

The world's butter fat record is reported broken again by a Holstein cow, Holigen Faque. with a production during 3665 consecutive days of…

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The Wool Sales

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 6

The dispute between the wool-selling brokers has been happily settled, and sales will be resumed next week. In the following week,…

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Mr. Co.op. Dairy Co

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 2

The Manning River Co-operative. Dairy Co's. returns for April were as follows :—Suppliers were paid 12¼d for first-class commercial butter and…

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South Coast Farmers

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 2

It is stated that the majority of the South Coast farmers are disinclined to cavil at the price of butter being fixed. They realise that they must…

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Dairy Expert Explains

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 4

LAST Thursday forenoon in the Theatre Royal, Ald. O'Meara in the chair, an audience of twenty, of whom not more than half were…

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Butter Shortage

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 3

Not that further confirmation was wanted, yet it is just as well to have on record the statements placed there by Messrs. Meares and Throsby when…

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The Dairy Bill. Explained by Mr. O'callaghan

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 8

Mr. O'Callaghan, Government Dairy Expert was in this district last week and visited both Macksville and Bowraville. Meetings of…

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The Dairy Bill. Provisions Explained by Mr. O'callaghan

Macleay Argus · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 9

The address delivered on Thursday of last week in the Theatre Royal, Kempsey, by Mr. O'Callaghan, Government Dairy Expert, on the New…

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Butter Production

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 29 May 1915 · page 2

As showing how the serious shrinkage in butter production really is in the Richmond-Tweed area, the following figures are taken from a…

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Developing a Dairy Herd

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 29 May 1915 · page 4

If we would produce good milkers we must have good stock to breed from, as well as the proper barns and conveniences for caring for them. It…

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Science and Farming

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 29 May 1915 · page 4

Science is continually contributing something for the benefit of the farmer. If the farmer would meet the scientist half way, the condition of each would…

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Farm and Field Original Articles. Rain and Soil Fertility

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 29 May 1915 · page 4

The fer[?]ising constituents, nitrogen, phosphate of lime, and potash, behave differently under the influence of an excess of rain. Phosphate of lime is…

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Farmers and Settlers' Assn

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 29 May 1915 · page 5

THE Wingham branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association appears to "have the death rattles in its throat," Launched in the first place under…

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A Lesson for the Farmers

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 June 1915 · page 2

The Denham Government went to the country at the General Elections in Queensland with a party of 48 and they have returned with only…

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The Dairy Bill. To the Editor of the Macleay Chronicle

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 June 1915 · page 4

SIR,—Reforms to the published reports of Mr. O'Callaghan's recent addresses along this coast on the merits of the Dairy Bill, it is pleasing to see that the dairy…

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Price of Butter. Penny per Pound Increase

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 June 1915 · page 19

The price of butter has been increased by 1d per lb, and the cash price over the counter will be 1s 4½d per lb. If booked, another halfpenny will be…

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News by Wire. Butter Not Withheld. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 June 1915 · page 11

The Attorney-General (Mr. Hall) says the idea that butter is being withheld from consumption is not borne out by the facts…

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Dairying Profits. Farmers' Balance Sheets

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 5 June 1915 · page 9

Those who. have any practical experience of dairying know that there is. a good deal of drudgery ' in the seven-days-a-week work which it…

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