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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

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Agricultural. an Old-fashioned Commodity. Neighbourliness as a Factor in Progressive Farming

The Northern Champion · Saturday 11 June 1921 · page 2

Slowly but surely, despite economic stress and prejudices that are not more rare in rural communities than elsewhere, the Agricultural Bureau…

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Telegrams. Wheat Board. Report to Mr. Dunn. "Justified Its Existence." Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 3

The Wheat Board submitted a report to Mr. Dunn yesterday, claiming that operations had more than justified its existence. The report suggested some…

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The Wheat

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 June 1921 · page 2

"Pool or no Pool?" is the question for the wheatgrowers They will have to decide pretty quickly, and the form in which the ballot shall be taken has…

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Drama in the Dairy

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1921 · page 1

The films used by the United States Department of Agriculture for educational purposes are far from dull ; some, according to…

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Prolific Winter. Crops Running Wild

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1921 · page 1

Nature has run riot in the northwest. Crops and herbage are running wild. The attempt to keep back the cultivated wheat areas is…

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The Land Dairying. How to Fail in Dairying

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1921 · page 1

Sometimes the best way to show how to do a thing is to tell how it should not be done. Here are some rules on how not to…

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Important to Dairymen

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1921 · page 2

At Alstonville, before the Select Committee, investing crop conditions and prospects, evidence was given that tuberculosis in pigs…

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Cattle Nuisance

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 June 1921 · page 2

At the Shire meeting on Monday, R. A. Napier, North Macksville, wrote complaining that drovers were using a street in North Macksville for…

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Compulsory Wheat Pool. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 June 1921 · page 5

The Victorian Minister for Lands said yesterday that the opposed the compulsory wheat pool…

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Butter Pool

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1921 · page 4

The accounts of the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Pool Committee for the seasons 1918-1919-20 have been completed. The final dividend on…

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Sheep Bot Fly

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1921 · page 2

Mr. Sam Banks, on slaughtering a sheep lately purchased from the Tamworth district, split the head in two, and discovered quite a mass or grubs in the space…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 18 June 1921 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week under the personal supervisitors of the Minister of Agriculture. and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 527…

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Farmyard Superstitions

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1921 · page 7

Farmers who get a crowing hen among the brood in the yard often look upon it as an evil omen. A superstitious farmer considers…

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The Farm. Carrots for Horses

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1921 · page 2

"The field carrot," a contributor to the "Leader" writes, "is sadly neglected as a field crop, especially in horse feeding. It is certainly a little…

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Dairy Meeting

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1921 · page 5

The regular meeting of the Directors of the Hastings District Co-op. Dairy Co. was held on Tuesday, 14th inst. Mr. A. Trotter, Chairman of…

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Dairying. How to Fail in Dairying

The Northern Champion · Saturday 18 June 1921 · page 2

Sometimes the best way to show how to do a thing is to tell how it should not be done. Here are some rules on how not to succeed with cows. Each can be…

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Land Available. Homestead Farm

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 June 1921 · page 5

Land District of Taree; setting apart one block of 234¾ acres, parish of Batchelor, county of Gloucester. The capital value is £17613, the…

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Wingham Butter Factory

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 21 June 1921 · page 4

The output for the Wingham Factory for the month of May, was 81,964 lbs butter, which realised £7,0[?] 18s 2d…

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Manning River Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd. Return's for May, 1921

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 21 June 1921 · page 2

Suppliers were paid is 4¼d for choicest butter, and is 3¾d for second class, with a gross turnover of £17,020 2s 2d…

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Manning River Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 22 June 1921 · page 2

Mr. D. J. Clune, secretary of the above, company, supplies the following returns for May 1921:—Supplies were paid 1/4¼ for the…

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