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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

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Upper Manning (Purfleet) Co-Op. Dairy Company. Half-yearly Meeting. Amalgamation Foreshadowed

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 15 March 1916 · page 3

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Upper Manning (Purfleet) Co-operative Dairy Company was held at the Belmore Hall, Taree, on…

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Butter Factory Car

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 2

At the Ballina butter factory meeting the other day Mr. C. Skennar came along thirsting for information. How was it, he wanted to know, that…

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Butter v. Milk

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 2

A South Coast paper vouches for the following: "A well known representative dairy farmer supplied 1647 lbs. cream to the Nowra factory…

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Confidence in Dairying

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 2

The dairying industry has had many hard knocks in the past year or so, but confidence in the future is evidently unshaken, says the…

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New Dairy Bill

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 3

The Dairy Bill is now law. The Minister for Agriculture desires to draw attention of butter factory managers to the fact that clauses dealing…

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Woman as Farmer

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 2

The following extract from a letter published in the "Argus," was received in Kempsey from a Queensland woman, whose husband…

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Dairying Industry Act

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Grahame) notifies that the provisions of the Daily Industry Act, which was agreed to by Parliament last session…

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The Dairying Industry

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 4

Nambucca Dairy Company, Macksville, in their balance sheet for 1915, show that suppliers were paid for cream received during the year…

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The Butter Industry

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 2

AT West Maitland, last week, Mr M. A. O'Callaghan, Government Dairy Expert, explained the working of the new Dairies Industries Act to a number of district butter…

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Amalgamation of Butter Factories

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 2

A conference of the Directors of the Manning River Co-operative Dairy Company (Jones Island) and the Upper Manning Co-operative Dairy Company…

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Butter Industry. the New Act

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 7

Mr. M. J. O'Callaghan, Government Dairy Export explained the working of the New Dairies Industries Act to a number of district butter factory…

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Choice Town Allotments Farm & Dairy Hero

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 2

Sixty-four choice Town and Residential Blocks will be offered for sale by auction at Gloucester on Wednesday next 22nd March, by Messrs Carl on…

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Farm & Field Original Articles. Feeding the Cows

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 3

Every cow has her maximum yield of milk and may be she is capable of producing six gallons of milk a day, or it may be two gallons. This figure…

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Cattle Shortage

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1916 · page 2

Mr. Kidman, the cattle king, says good rains have fallen in parts of Queensland and South Australia, but the mortality amongst stock has been…

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Choice Dairy Herd

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1916 · page 2

Mr E. M. Higgin's choice dairy held of Jersey and Jersey Cross Cows, Heifers etc, also horses, dairying and farming utensils will be offered at auction…

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Town Lots and Farm

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1916 · page 2

An opportunity to acquire choice town allotments and building sites will be offered to-day (Wednesday), when Messrs Carlton and Trenbath will…

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Giving Up Dairying

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1916 · page 2

Up north there is considerable unrest and dig[?]st amonst many dairymen owing to the interference of the Government in the fixing of the price…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. the Cream Boat

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 22 March 1916 · page 2

An outstanding feature of the Manning district is that its chief 'roadway is a river. It is that in virtue of its being not so much a liver as…

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Manning River Co-op. Dairy Co

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 2

THE Manning River Co-operative Dairy Co.'s (Jones' Island) returns for February, just issued, show that suppliers were paid 1s 0½d for first-class butter, and 1s for…

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Farm Laborers High Wages

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 1

At a number of "Feeing" markets held throughout Scotland the wages offered to farm labourers rose to an— unprecented height. Before the [?]…

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