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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

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Wheat and Fruit

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 3

Producers of wheat and fruit are among the most valuable factors of the community. Just now very many of them are suffering severely. An…

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Kinchela Farmers

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 4

The farmers of Kinchola and district rolled up in forces on the 21st ult. at the public hall for the dual purpose of hearing Mr. C. Cogldam, general…

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Wheat Growing

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 3

Very many farmers are getting restive under the treatment which has been meted out to them by the Government. The system of compelling…

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Profitable to Farmers

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 4

A Sydney firm, who announce, per medium of a nice letter addressed to the Nambucca Shire Clerk, that they have "something interesting and…

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Misconception About Dairying

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 8

In an article on milk the "Daily Telegraph" has the following:--There is a good deal of misconception in the minds of the city folk in regard to…

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Wheat Growing

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 4

Very many farmers are getting restive under the treatment which has been meted out [?]o chem by the Government. The system of…

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Dairy Farming

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 4

The dairying industry has increased in leaps and bounds of late years. This can be plainly seen in a perusal of the annual export returns. The popularity of…

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Value of the Dairying Industry to Australia

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 1

Mr. A. S. McKenzie, General Secretary of the Primary Products' Union, put the following interesting statement before the…

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Farm and Field Original Articles. (Copyright). Breeding Bronze Turkeys

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 4

Bronze Turkeys usually give best results, and are raised extensively. They generally grow the largest size in the shortest time, mature early, and are…

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Destroying Crops with Bombs

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 4

Rather fictitious sound the reports emanating from Germany to the effect that allied airmen are dropping fire bombs to destroy Teuton crops. In the…

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Wheat Growing

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 3

Tamworth farmers have very properly repudiated any intention of diminishing the area which they propose to put under wheat in the…

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Our Sydney Letter. Wool

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 3

The purchase of the wool of the State by the Imperial Government does not remove the staple from its pride of place in economic…

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Farm & Field. Original Articles Advantages of Liming

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 3

The advantages, to be derived from the practice—nowadays too often neglected—of periodical applications of lime, have been described by no less…

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The Wheat Crop

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 3

There is a pretty general consensus of opinion that if the Commonwealth is to justify the hopes which are being built on the next wheat…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. POLICE v. B. J. BROWN

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 2

At the Gloucester Police Court on Friday 19th January before Mr. H. H. Chippendall. Police Magistrate, and P. Landers and R. J…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. POLICE v B. J. BROWN

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 2

Gloucester Police Court, 19th January, 1917, before Mr. Chippendale, Esq., Relieving Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Fairbairn & Landers, J's.P…

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Current Events Reviewed. The Wheat Crop

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 2

There is a pretty general consensus of opinion that if the Commonwealth is to jusify the hopes which are being built on the next…

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Farm and Held Original Articles. (Copyright). Mangold Sowing

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 3

Trials have been made with the object of showing whether a variation in the distance of the plants apart would make any alteration in the yield or…

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Fertility and Dairying

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 3

A Queensland farmer says:—"Dairying is the system of farming that will maintain the fertility of the farm without the use of high-priced…

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Dairy Returns. (To the Editor.)

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—I see by Saturday's CHRONICLE a dairyman's returns for December, and your invitation to others to send theirs along. Well,…

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