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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

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Imperial Butter Supply

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1918 · page 4

IT is expected (says the "Daily Telegraph) that there will be a substantial profit on the sale of last season's butter to the Imperial Government, as…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 June 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. No. 369…

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Prize Dairying Papers

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1918 · page 4

THE prize papers, open class, in connection with the Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries' Conference, on June 25, 26, and 27, have been judged and are…

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Elephant Grass. Yields Heavy Crops of Palatable Fodder

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 June 1918 · page 2

Introduced into Now South Wales some three or four years ago, Elephant or Napier's Fodder grass has already given such promising yields of edible…

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Dairying. Inferior Cream. And Some More Reasons For It

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 June 1918 · page 2

How to prevent cream from being graded-as inferior, was the subject of a paper read before the Kyogle branch of the Agricultural Bureau by Mr…

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New Butter Factory

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 11 June 1918 · page 2

The U.M. Dairy Company, whose operations have for years been conducted at Purfleet, and will continue to be until the new factory at…

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Dairy Pay

Macleay Argus · Thursday 13 June 1918 · page 4

For the month of May the suppliers of the Macleay River Co-operative Dairying Co. were paid 12 for choicest butter, 11½ for first-class, and 11 for…

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Purfleet Butter Factory

The Northern Champion · Saturday 15 June 1918 · page 8

The Upper Manning Dairy Company, whose operations have for years been conducted at Purfleet, and will continue to be until the new…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 15 June 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. No. 370…

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Dairying. the Age Fob Freshening. a Timely Question

The Northern Champion · Saturday 15 June 1918 · page 2

An American dairy-farmer lately put to "Hoard's Dairyman" the timely question: "Under the present world's shortage of food, and especially of diary…

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New Farming Company

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1918 · page 2

A movement is on foot to turn the Lennoxton Farm, on the Paterson River, into a company with a capital of £100,000. The farm comprises an area of…

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Demand for Dairying Lands

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1918 · page 2

Mr. H. R. McWilliam reports that there is a good demand for well improved dairy farms and he has made numerous sales up to £3000 in value…

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Town Topic's. Eungai Butter Factory

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 19 June 1918 · page 4

Representative farmers from Yarrahuppini, Upper Eungai and Allgomera who have figured that the prospective saving in cream cartage will cover all…

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New Dairy Stock

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 19 June 1918 · page 4

To further improve the dairy stock of the river, there arrived by rail from Kiama on the 6th instant six fine young bulls from Mr. George Gray's…

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Eungai Butter Factory

Macleay Argus · Thursday 20 June 1918 · page 4

The Committee of the Eungai Butter Factory are inviting tenders for a suitable site for the factory. Full particulars have to be in the hands of the…

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New Dairy Stock

Macleay Argus · Thursday 20 June 1918 · page 4

To further improve the dairy stock of the river there arrived by rail from Kiama, on the 6th inst., six fine young bulls from Mr. Geo. Grey's noted…

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Queensland Sugar Crop. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Thursday 20 June 1918 · page 5

The Queensland Government has accepted the offer of the Commonwealth Government of £21 per ton for the sugar crop…

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On a Tuncurry Pig Farm

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 21 June 1918 · page 3

"Are you bringing your own soil ?" This was the rather discouraging question asked of Mass Wyse, graduate of the Pitt Town State training farm,…

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Pasteurised Butter

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1918 · page 4

MUCH has been said and written as to the respective keeping qualities of pasteurised butter and that not so treated. The local batter factory has had a pasteuriser…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land. Agricultural Water on the Farm. What is Suitable for Human Consumption

The Northern Champion · Saturday 22 June 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 issued mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 371. There is some conflict of opinion as to the danger run in drinking water that is charged with vegetable matter, as in peaty water. Epidemics of diarrhoea…

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