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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

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Government Poultry Farm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 June 1917 · page 4

THE Government has purchased Die well-known Grantham Stud Poultry Farm an a going concern for £10,000. The property comprises 118 acres, and is situated close to…

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Upper Hastings Dairy Co

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 June 1917 · page 5

ON Thursday last the official opening of the Upper Hastings Daily Co.'s new factory at Wauchope took place. Councillor Downes (President of…

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Next Season's Butter. Export May Be Stopped

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 20 June 1917 · page 3

Sydney "Sun" says:—The opinion prevails among Sydney butter merchants that the export of next season's makes will be stopped, for, as…

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Pigs and Pork. Grazing Crops for Young Pigs. Do They Pay ?

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 20 June 1917 · page 1

Does the grazing method of raising pigs pay? To that question of Mr. P. Sommerlad, a member of the Leech's Gully branch…

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An Up-to-date Butter Frctory

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 22 June 1917 · page 7

The "M.R. Times" declares on the authority of experts, that the new butter factory at Croki for the Manning River Co-operative Dairy Co. will be…

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Taree Police Court. Taree, Saturday, June 16. (Before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.m.) a Cattle Case. Alfred Taylor v. A. J. LYNDON

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 22 June 1917 · page 2

This was a case for recovery of two heifers. Mr. L. O. Martin appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. D. Cowan for…

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Pests Farmers Fight. North Coast Rabbit Invasion

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 June 1917 · page 8

The following extracts are from an article in the Northern Times, Newcastle:-- "Farmers and graziers on the…

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Coastal Farmers' Society

The Northern Champion · Saturday 23 June 1917 · page 6

At the annual meeting of shareholders of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Limited, at Grafton on Tuesday, the 17th annual…

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The World wants Beef. Chance for Cattle Breed Ers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 26 June 1917 · page 2

WITH improved prices for wool and mutton, and the coming of the dry years, cattle in N.S.W. started a quarter of a century ago to " go out."…

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The Wheat Tragedy

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 27 June 1917 · page 2

The condition of the stored wheat is such as to impel the usually unemotional financial editor of the junior morning paper to style it a…

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The World Wants Beef Chance for Cattle Breeders. Go in for Good Bulls

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 27 June 1917 · page 6
Also in The Gloucester Advocate

With improved prices for wool and mutton and the coming of the dry years, cattle in New South Wales started a quarter of a century ago…

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Butter Prizes

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 29 June 1917 · page 5

At the annual conference of the Co-operative Dairy and Factory Managers' and Sees.' Asso., at Sydney this week, a box of butter taken from the…

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The World Wants Beef. Chance for Cattle Breeders. Go in for Good Bulls

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 29 June 1917 · page 4

With improved prices for wool and mutton and the coming of the dry years, cattle in New South Wales started a quarter of a century to "go…

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Dairying and the Shipping Shortage

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 29 June 1917 · page 4

THE dairying industry is threatened with the possibility that it will not be able to do any export trade next year because of the scarcity of shipping,…

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Dairy Conference. Facing the Future

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 3 July 1917 · page 3

The conference of the Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries' Association was concluded last week, Mr. L. M. Stanley presiding…

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Cattle Stealing

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 4 July 1917 · page 5

James Ebbs, charged that on 3rd February at Macksiville he did steal one steer and one heifer the property of F. Franklin, and one…

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Dairying Some Differences in Butter. What Analysis Disclosed

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 4 July 1917 · page 1

It is [?] easy for anybody to tell the difference between very good and very poor butter, but comparatively few…

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The Dairy Conference

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 4 July 1917 · page 2

The conference of co-operative dairy managers brought to light the usual conflict of opinion between those who believe in Government regulation of…

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The Farm and Dairy. Dairy Stock Should Be Dehorned

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1917 · page 1

Except in the case of cattle that are to be used for exhibition purposes, all dairy animals should be dehorned. In the wild state cattle…

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