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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

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Farmers' Union

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 2

A decisive step towards the forma, lion of a great union of those interested in the dairying industry was taken at Alstonville last week, when a…

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Farm and Field Original Articles. Potash in the Soil

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 5

A portion of potash in the soil may be made available for crops (1) by applying dressings of sodium salts, such' as agricultural salt or sulphate…

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Local and General a State Cattle Station

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1916 · page 2

Following the leading of New South Wales Government the recently elected Queensland Labor Government are going in for all sorts of new…

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Dairy Meeting

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 29 March 1916 · page 2

A meeting of the joint Boaras of the Manning River Co-op. Dairy Company, and the Upper Maiming Co-op. Dairy Co., was held at Croki on…

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The Settler. Organisation of Dairymen

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 29 March 1916 · page 6

Recently, as previously mentioned in our columns, dairy f[?] at the half-yearly meeting of the A[?]ville Co-op. Coy. in[?]gurated a mo[?]ter…

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Smithtown Dairy Produce Company. Annual Meeting

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 29 March 1916 · page 8

Saturday last at Smithtown the above company held its annual meeting with over fifty shareholders present, and Mr. C. P. Gralton, J.P., chairman of…

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Dairy Farmers' Union

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1916 · page 2

THERE was an immense gathering of 500 delegates at Lismore last week in connection with the movement to organise a Dairy Farmers' Union. Practically every part of the North Coast was…

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Transit of Dairy Produce

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1916 · page 2

THE attention of the Minister for Agriculture has been drawn to the fact that a number of public carriers of cream in country districts have not vehicles which properly protect the cream from the…

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Farm & Field. Original Articles. Milk and Feed

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 1 April 1916 · page 3

Profits in the dairy business depend a groat deal upon the character of feed given to cows. Of course, if excuse is not figured it is not difficult to get…

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Cattle Values

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1916 · page 2

Cattle of all descriptions (says a message from Grafton) are selling at high rates in the district, and these are likely to be maintained. The…

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Exodus From Dairying

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1916 · page 2

An exodus from the dairying industry, on a scale hitherto unknown, is apparent on the Richmond and Tweed Rivers. Auction sales of daily…

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Farmers' Union

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 5 April 1916 · page 2

At a great meeting of farmers at Lismore on Friday last it was decided to form a big union of al primary producers, called the "Primary…

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Macleay Co-operative Dairy Company

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 April 1916 · page 2

The shareholders general meeting to receive directors' report and balance sheet for half-year ending 31st December, 1915, was held on Friday morning…

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Cattle Food from Paper

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 7 April 1916 · page 8

Perhaps the most curious food substitute yet suggested by the German scientist is a cattle-fodder to be made from waste paper. The professor who…

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Sheep as Pest Fighters

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 7 April 1916 · page 6

Mr. James Treacy, of Grahamstown, reports that the codlin moth has been very destructive in that district this year. "A neighbour,…

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Margarine Preferred to Colonial Butter

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 7 April 1916 · page 8

Mr. J. Sutherland Thompson, London, representative C.F.S., writes to the "Dairy Bulletin" : There is a keen demand in England at present for the…

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Mixed Cattle Sales

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1916 · page 2

Reference was made to the way in which sales are now conduced in Gloucester. Buyers now having to chase about from one yard to another…

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Blacks, Cattle Differs, and Tyson

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1916 · page 4

MR. W. N. HUTCHINSON, in a recent Sunday issue of the "Sun" gives some of his Queensland experience with the blacks. He was in charge of the native police in various…

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Blacks, Cattle Duffers, and Tyson

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 8 April 1916 · page 7

William Nepean Hutchinson, a pushing agent whom Graton residents knew well in years gone by, springs some good stories on a "Sun"…

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Choice Dairy Hero

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1916 · page 2

On Wednesday next Mr J. W. Corbett's choise dairy he d will be submitted to auction by Messrs Carlton and Trenbath, at the Parrington. The…

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