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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

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The Butter Market

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 4

Prescott Ltd report:- Sydney:- The Federal Butter Pool Committee is at present sitting at Melbourne and will decide what arrangements will be…

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Land and Cattle Sale

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 4

Attention is directed to an advertisement in this issue of a big land and cattle sale at Gloucester on 3rd March On that day the whole of the estate…

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Wheat Advances. Melbourne

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 5

Senator Russell announced that arrangement have been concluded for the payment on March 1st of the further advances on wheat recently decided…

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Farmers' Parliament. Primary Producers Union

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 4

A meeting representing the Central Rivers of the District Council of the above was held at Wauchope on Thursday. Mr. H Seeomb (President). presiding…

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Indignant Dairymen

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 7

At a meeting of dairymen at Jamboroo (South coast), on Tuesday night the following resolution was carried: "That, as wages and prices of…

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Farmers and Politics

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 4

The meeting of farmers at Wanchope yesterday afternoon, called to take steps to secure candidates for the Oxley electorate in the interests of the…

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Dairying Tests

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 4

The dairy branch of the Department of Agriculture reports that in a 273 days' test, completed during last month, E. P. Perry's Guernsey cow Betsy III…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 456…

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Local and General [?]Ad Season [?] WOOL

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 6

Mr. J. M. Relf (Nowendoc) who was in town recently states that Walcha side, which he visited had a long way from sufficient rain yet,…

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Miscellaneous Shelter Trees for Farms. a Canadian Scheme

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 2

The "Agricultural Gazette of Canada" for October gives an outline of the system under which the settlers of the prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan,…

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Record Cattle Prices

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 2

Extremely high prices are being paid for stud cattle in Great Britain. At the sales of Aberdeen-Angus cattle at Perth last week, the world's records…

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Letters to the Editor. [The views expressed in this column must not be regarded as necessarily expressing the views of the "Argus."J Farmers and Dairymen Note

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 3

Sir,--I would like to urge upon all dairymen and farmers the importance of attending the meeting to be held at Gladstone on Thursday night to…

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Farmers' Parliament. Primary Producers Union

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 2

A meeting representing the Central Rivers of the District Council of the above was held at Wanechope on Thursday. Mr P…

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Feeding Dairy Calves

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 2

Experiments have been conducted by the Agricultural Experiment Station, Iowa State College of Agriculture, U.S.A., to determine, among…

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Fat Cattle

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 4

A splendid mob of 100 fat bullocks was trucked at Kempsey on Thursday morning for the Sydney market…

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Butter. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 5

The Butter Pool Committee say that the reasons the increase in the local price of butter is so much below London parity, is owing to paucity of the…

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Sale of the 1920-21 Wool Clip

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 3

The disposal of our next season's wool clip is probably the biggest economic question confronting Australia at the present moment. The "wool…

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The Dangers of Proportional Representation. How the Farmers May Help to Return the Labor Party

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 8

The forthcoming State elections will be conducted under the newly-adopted system of proportional representation, which means that under normal…

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Australian Dairying. the Marketing Position

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 6

The economic position of the dairying industry is at the present seriously out of focus. This is due to such factors as the limited production in…

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Dr. Page at Gladstone. Federal Member Meets Farmers

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 5

There was an attendance of about 70 farmers at the School of Arts, Gladstone, last night, despite the showery weather, to meet the Federal member…

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