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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

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News by Wire. Space for Butter. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 11

Shippers of butter yesterday asked the Minister for Customs to provide butter space for shipment to London, Mr. Tudor undertook to send the…

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The Dairy

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 8

The financial returns of lucerne may be greatly increased--in some instances doubled-by having, say., two hives of bees for each acre. The…

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Dairy Industry Bill

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 19

The State Assembly will consider the expediency of bringing in a Bill to regulate the manufacture, sale, storage, transit and export of dairy…

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Farm and Field Original Articles. What Cultivation Does

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 17

What does tillage or cultivation of the soil do? It improves the physical condition of the soil; it stirs the so to a proper depth, thereby facilitating…

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Common Sense in Farming

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 17

The land is like a bank. If you do not put money into it, you cannot draw any out, except as an overdraft, and an overdraft has eventually to be met…

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North Coast Dairying

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 15

Since the North Coast Co-operative Dairy Company started it has distributed £5,716,520 among suppliers for butter, and £730,657 for…

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Requirements of the Dairying Industry

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 4

WE pride ourselves on being able to supply machinery of every description for the complete equipment of cheese and cutter factories, also utensils of all kinds such as are required by our great…

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Farm and Field Original Articles. Nitrification

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 5

In discussing the advantages of liming, reference was made to its decomposing effect on the organic matter of the soil. The ultimate result of…

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Cheap Butter

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 4

For Macleay River dairymen in particular, and those of the North Coast in general, a very interesting letter appears in last Monday's issue…

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The Cattle Question

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 2

At the Shire meeting on Thursday last the cattle question came to life again in the form of a motion by Councilor J. E. Laurie The Councilor…

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Macleay River Co-operative Dairying Company Ltd

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 4

This company at its last beard meeting paid for January butter 11d first class, and 10[?] second. Suppliers, Mr. W. J. Caldwell informs…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Practical Questions. About Maize Growing

Macleay Argus · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 2

Several issues that touch the subject of maize-growing from the purely practical point of view were opened by members of the Leech's…

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Farm and Field. Original Articles. Dairy Herds

Macleay Argus · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 17

The only way to become possessed of a really high-class dairy herd is to breed it. It takes years of close attention and careful weeding out, while at the…

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Cattle Profits. To the Editor

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 6

Dear Sir,--In last Saturday's issue of your paper I noticed a paragraph in which you stated that Mr. Summerville and myself made a profit of…

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Proposed Butter Factory at Wauchope. Meeting to Discuss the Question

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting was held in the Temperance Hall, Wauchope, on Saturday last in connection with the proposal to establish a butter factory at that centre. Mr. W. j. Andrews presided, and…

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The Dairying Industry

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 2

THE Minister for Agriculture appears to be dissatisfied with the success of the dairying industry in this State, and has introduced a Bill to regulate the manufacture, sale…

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The Dairy Industry Bill. Mr. Price's Speech

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 7

Speaking in the House last week on the above Bill, the member for Gloucester said:-- The Minister says that for the last…

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Farm and Field. Original Articles. Silo Difficulties

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 5

The effort to silo such milled fodder have however often been unsuccessful because of insufficient pressure in the silo. The wilted fodder will not pack…

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Sheep on the Richmond

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 17 February 1915 · page 8

During the last few years some dairy farmers on the Richmond have been keeping a few sheep as an adjenct to dairying, and the experiment has been…

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The Price of Butter

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 February 1915 · page 11

A leading Sussex Street agent says that the present price of butter was without doubt unduly inflated, and the public was being forced to pay a high…

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