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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1923

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Big Losses. Failure of Wheat

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 5 January 1923 · page 5

Those in touch with the wheat business do not expect that more than three steamers will be fixed to load this season's wheat at Sydney for the…

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Murrumbidgee Farms. 355 Granted Last Year. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 January 1923 · page 5

Farms numbering 355 were granted in the Murrumbidgee irrigation area last year, 223 of which were granted to ex-soldiers…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture and based largely on the experience of the Department. No. 609…

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Manning River Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd. Returns for November 1922

The Northern Champion · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 4

Suppliers were paid 1/3 for cholcest butter and 1/2 for second glass net, after retaining ' halfpenny per lb. for export reserve…

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Turkey Farming in a Desert

The Northern Champion · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 2

On a ranch near Barstow, California in the heart of the Mojave Desert, is an immense flock of wild turkeys that promises to make its…

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Maize Crop Threatened

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 9 January 1923 · page 2

While prominent Clarence River agriculturists refer to the present droughty conditions as merely a "pinch," they state the maize crop has been…

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Butter Market

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 2

Butter advanced this week to 182s a cwt. Despite the advance, the demand is good. For the week ending January 6, the Commonwealth graders examined…

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The Handling of Beef Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 1

In one day recently upwards of £1,000 worth of fat cattle died in the Homebush (N.S.W.) yards through being exposed to excessive heat with…

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The Dairy Farmer As a Profiteer

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 1

An article in a Sydney weekly paper, which professes to fight the good fight for democracy against the bloated capitalist and all his wicked ways,…

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M.r. Co-op. Dairy Co

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 6

Mr. L. M. Stanley, Manager of the M.R. Co-op. Dairy Company, has received from the Company's agents, the points gained in the Islington Butter…

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Pastoral. Sheep Blow-fly. Importance of the Destruction of Breeding Grounds

The Northern Champion · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 2

In the problem of the eradication of any pest, writes the Government Entomologist in a bulletin dealing with the different methods of fighting the sheep…

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Rise in Butter

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 4

THE wholesale price of butter was advanced 1d a pound on Thursday, with every prospect of a further rise early next week…

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Spectacles for Cattle

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 7

A good deal of surprise was created when a long list of goods required by Russia was found to contain an order for spectacles for cows…

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Repute of N. S. W. Butter

The Northern Champion · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 8

Information has been received by the Department of Agriculture from the United States and Canada showing the high repute in which N.S…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week every week ender the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture and are based largely on the experience of the Department. No. 6x0…

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Farmer's Hard Lot. Need for Effective Organisation

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 3

speaking at the opening of an exhibition by the Agricultural Bureau at Chatswood, Sydney, Dr. Earle Page, Leader of the Federal Country Party,…

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Queensland Cotton Crops

The Northern Champion · Saturday 13 January 1923 · page 8

On a recent visit to Sydney Mr. W. J. Hammond, of Bellingon, was able to obtain some figures giving the actual results of some of the…

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Millions in Butter

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 2

The North Coast Co-op. Butter Co., Ltd., has manufactured 263,417,5581bs. of butter of a value to suppliers of £13,887,280 since it was established 27…

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Telegrams. the Wheat Harvest. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 3

An official estimate of the wheat harvest this season is 29,090,000 bushels, being an average yield of 10.4 bushels per acre. This is considerably…

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Commercial Homebush Sales Monday's Market Cattle Again Lower

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 2

The cattle yards presented a well filled appearance, but the quality was very much on the plain side. In the opening sales the market was…

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