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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

439 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 6 of 22

No More Butter Purchases

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 1 May 1918 · page 2

It is announced by the Customs Department that till further notice no more purchases of butter are to be made on account of the Imperial…

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Commercial Goulburn Special Cattle Sale

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 1 May 1918 · page 1

W. H. Wheatley reports a heavy yarding of cattle on Friday the 19th last., to a large attendance of buyers. Owing to the continued dry…

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Wyong Estate "Small Farms That Pay"

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 1 May 1918 · page 3

In this country of wide areas, agriculture, (especially the growing of fruit and vegetables), poultry farming, apiculture, and big raising, has…

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The Price of Butter

Macleay Argus · Thursday 2 May 1918 · page 5

The Minister in charge of price-fixing announces that the price of first grade butter in Victoria and Tasmania will be 162- wholesale. The Victorian…

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Horse and Cattle Brands. Their Uee and Misuse

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 8

If is self-evident that the strict letter of the law in regard to stock brands and their use is being infringed by many stock owners all over the…

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Dairy Produce

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 3

Judges: Messrs. Wigan, Lavis and Fields. The butter competition Was better on this occasion than ever…

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Upper Manning Co-Operative Dairy Co. (Purfleet.) Twenty-third Half-yearly Meeting

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 2

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

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Butter Pool

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1918 · page 4

The Chief Prices Commissioner notifies that all butter in cool store is the property of the Government, and will be distributed in due regard to all…

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Upper Manning Butter Factory

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1918 · page 2

The report of the Upper Manning Co-operative Dairy Co., Purfleet, for the half-year ended December 31 last, states that the output of butter from…

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The Dairyman's Position

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1918 · page 3

Not a single Supplier in Australia has had to wait for his cheque one day on account of the war. When the war cloud burst so…

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Stud Cattle Purchases

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 7 May 1918 · page 2

Mr. T. J. Abbott, of Golden Grove, Kolodong, has just returned from a trip to Tasmania. During his trip he secured some very choice stud…

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Horse and Cattle Brands Their Use and Misuse

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1918 · page 3

It is self-evident that the strict let-let of the law in regard to stock brands and their use is being infringed by many stock owners all over the…

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Stud Cattle Purchases

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1918 · page 2
Also in The Northern Champion

Mr. T. J. Abbott, of Golden Grove, Kolodong, has just returned from a trip to Tasmania. During his trip he secured some very choice stud cattle…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 11 May 1918 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. AGRICULTURAL…

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Water on the Farm. Prevention of Injury to Boilers

The Northern Champion · Saturday 11 May 1918 · page 2

Mention was made last week of the fact that there is no certain means of preventing the formation of boiler scale, oven when the composition of the…

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The Colleen's Broom. How Galway Farm Girl. Tackled Armed Raiders

The Northern Champion · Saturday 11 May 1918 · page 2

The latest story of a raid for arms in Ireland gives thrilling details of the heroism of a County Galway farmer's daughter who held up a disguised…

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Show Cattle for Macleay

Macleay Argus · Thursday 16 May 1918 · page 4

The following are particulars of cattle purchased by Mr. Wm. Notley, of Belmore River, at the Royal Show sales in Sydney last month: Young bull,…

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Farm and Held Original Articles Intensive Cultivation

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 17 May 1918 · page 6

The problem of successful farming nowadays, and particularly the problem of small holdings, must depend for its solution on intensive culture, which…

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The Butter Position

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1918 · page 4

The Minister com trolling foodstuffs, Senator Russell, states that it is not a fact that the British Government has further shipments of…

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