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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1919

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Tainted Wheat to Be Gristed for Export

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1919 · page 2

There is a question intimately affecting the public and the farmers, which imperatively demands an authoritative statement of the real…

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Winter School for Farmers. This Year's Arrangements

The Northern Champion · Saturday 17 May 1919 · page 2

Arrangements have been made for the annual Winter School for farmers' to be held at Hawkesbury Agricultural College from 17th June to 12th July,…

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Butter Sales

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 4

On the 1917-18 butter sold to the British Government there was a substa[?] surplus on re-sale, half of which was generously and without…

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Cattle, Hides & Skins

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 2

The Paastoral Finance Association Ltd. report for week ending May 16th: Cattle: About 3960 cattle yarded; they comprised a fair portion of plain…

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That Wheat

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 2

An "independent test" it appears, is to be made on the fitness (or otherwise) for human consumption, of the 1916-17 wheat. So much will depend…

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M.M.C.S. Association. Meeting of Dairymen

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 21 May 1919 · page 8

AT Gladstone on Saturday night a large and representative mooting of Lower Macleay dairymen held a meeting and formed themselves into a body…

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Toorooka Butter Factory

Macleay Argus · Thursday 22 May 1919 · page 4

The manager of Toorooka Dairy Co., Mr. G. Stokes, reports that the pay for last month amounted to £2600. For choicest butter 14¾ per lb. was…

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Milk and Cream Suppliers. Lower Macleay Association Meets. Butter Pool. Distribution of Profits

Macleay Argus · Thursday 22 May 1919 · page 5

The Lower Macleay Milk and Cream Suppliers' Association met at the School of Arts, Gladstone, on Saturday night, about 30 members being present,…

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News of the World. Cornish Milk Strike. Farmers Yield. London

Macleay Argus · Thursday 22 May 1919 · page 5

Owing to a strike by Cornwall dairy farmers against the official prices the local food committee issued notices demanding delivery, otherwise milk would…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 24 May 1919 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon W. G. Grahame, M. L. A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. NO. 420…

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Wheat As Feed for Swine. An Experiment

The Northern Champion · Saturday 24 May 1919 · page 2

A bulletin of the Kentucky agricultural experiment station, U. S. A., records an experiment conducted at the station to determine the value of wheat alone,…

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Dairy Meeting

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1919 · page 4

THE directors of the Hastings District Co operative Dairy Company met on Tuesday last. Mr. J. Healey, chairman of directors, presided, and there were also present,…

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Dairying Industry

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1919 · page 2

An ambitions scheme for the organisation of the Commonwealth dairying industry on a co-operative basis for the sale Australia butter…

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Pedigreed Cattle for Comboyne

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 May 1919 · page 4

THE establishment of a stud Durham herd on his property at the Comboyne has been the aim of Mr. W.H. Duffy for some years. The late Purchase of Mr. A. Templeton's…

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Butter for the Winter. Profitable Export Trade

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 May 1919 · page 8

Since the commencement of the war Australia has been stricken with a butter shortage during the winter months, and grocers from July to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 May 1919 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Grahame, M. L. A. Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 481…

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Seed Maize Shortage. Warning to Farmers

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 May 1919 · page 3

Farmers are asked by the Minister for Agriculture to note the fact that a shortage of good seed maize for next season's…

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Dairy Produce. Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 May 1919 · page 4

Details of a co-operative scheme for selling dairy produce in foreign markets will shortly be placed before the dairy producers' pool…

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Destroying the Fox a Farmer's Method

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1919 · page 2

The following advice on the above subject was given by a farmer at a congress of the Australian Bureau of South Australia, the suggestions be…

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Macleay River Co-op. Dairy Company

Macleay Argus · Thursday 5 June 1919 · page 4

The Board held its meeting to-day (June 5th) and paid for cream supply of May at the following rates, viz.: Choicest 14½, first-grade 14 and…

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