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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

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Hastings District Dairy Co. Again Successful. at the Royal Show

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 4

FOR the fifth consecutive year the Hastings Distinct Cooperative Dairy Co., Ltd., has been among the placed factories in the continuous butter…

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The Wheat Buying Monopoly

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 18 April 1917 · page 3

The monopoly of wheat-buying, which was established, first, after the great crop failure, and next after, the outbreak of war was…

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Butter Pool

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 April 1917 · page 3

The Federal Government has in[?]iated a Federal butter pool in order to ensure an adequate supply of butter being availabld for Commonwealth…

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Dairy Factories. Collection of P.P.U. FEES

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 April 1917 · page 3

A conference of representatives of dairy factories, convened by the Primary Producers' Union, was held in Sydney last week to consider…

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Winter Butter Pool

The Northern Champion · Saturday 21 April 1917 · page 8

The following statement regarding the formation of a Butter Pool by the Commonwealth Government has been issued by the Prime Minister (Mr…

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Wauchope Butter Factory

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1917 · page 4

WORK is still in progress at the Upper Hastings Dairy Company's factory. Though the necessary buildings are completed, the whole of the machinery is not yet installed,…

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The Markets. Maitland Fat Stock Sales. Fat Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1917 · page 1

The supply was not heavy, and was well within the requirements of a good attendance of buyers. Consignments consisted of a good…

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The P.M. Butter Factory. to the Editor Port Macquarie News

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1917 · page 5

SIR,—Before writing on the above, I would congratulate you on being able again to issue the "Port Macquarie News," which has been badly missed since your great…

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Selecting Heifers for the. Dairy

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1917 · page 8

To keep the herd of dairy cows in good working order there must be regular additions, for it is astonishing how rapidly the will deteriorate…

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The Farm. Life and Nitrification in the Soil

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1917 · page 7

There are two great processes giving on continually in the soil which are known to be due to the activeness of bacteria : (a) The conversion…

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H.D. Dairy Company. Monthly Meeting. New Secretary Appointed

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1917 · page 4

THE monthly meeting of Directors, of the Hastings District Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., was held at the factory office on Tuesday last. Mr…

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Upper Manning Co-operative Dairy Co

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 24 April 1917 · page 4

The twenty-first half-yearly meeting of the Upper Manning Co-operative Dairy Company Limited (Purfleet) was held in the Belmore Hall, Taree…

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Wheat

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 25 April 1917 · page 2

The position as regards wheat growing is becoming clearer, but not a bit more encouraging. Mr. Ashford, the State Minister for…

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Current Events Reviewed The Wheat Buying Monopoly

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1917 · page 1

The monopoly of wheat-buying which was established, first, after the great crop failure, and next after the outbreak of war was…

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Dairying. Points in Breeding. How to Get a High-class Bull

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1917 · page 4

A cow does not usually put up an extremely large milk yield until she has at least two or three calves, and if she is a big…

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Kudzu—The Great Forage & Fertilising Crop. To the Editor

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 27 April 1917 · page 7

Sir,—This plant is a perennial vins, and a native of Japan, from which fibre and starch ore made, and the dried roots are largely used in the…

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The Farmers and the P.L.L.

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 27 April 1917 · page 6

The farmers who are being especially appealed to by the Labor Senators on the bogus conscription issue, would to well to consider the…

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Pedigree Cattle

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1917 · page 4

SOME well bred young cattle have been purchased by fanners on the river of late. Among others Mr. Arthur Trotter recently bought a young .Jersey bull, Maderia's…

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Farm Sold

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1917 · page 4

ACTING under instructions from the trustees in the late .J. W. Elford's estate, Mr. John Bransdon sold a farm of 150 acres, situate at Glen Kwan, for the sum of £2023, Mr…

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Upper Manning Dairy Co

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1917 · page 4

THE half yearly meeting of the Upper Maiming (Purfleet) Dairy Cc, Ltd., was held at Tarce. Mr. A. M. MoM. Singleton, Chairman of Directions, presided. The…

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