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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture and are based largely as the experiences of the Department. LIVE STOCK…

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Wheat As Pig Food. Better Than Corn

The Northern Champion · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 8

As a result of experiments at the Missouri (U.S.A. College of Agriculture, Professor A. L. Weaver states that pigs fed upon…

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M.r. Co-operative Dairy Company. Returns for March 1924

The Northern Champion · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 3

Suppliers were paid 1/0½ for choicest butter and 11½d for second class, after making provision for a half-penny levy to be held to meet…

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Dairying. for Cleaning Milking Machines. Heat the Best Sterilising Agent

The Northern Champion · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 2

Experiments carried out by the United States Department of Agriculture have shown heat to be the safest and simplest means of sterilising…

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Dairy Industry. Board of Control Desired

The Northern Champion · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 8

A deputation representative of dairy farmers waited upon Mr. Bruce (Prime Minister) in Sydney and requested that a board to…

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Sheep at Cooplacurripa

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 2

Recently Mr. Elliott, from the Department of Agriculture, recommended Rawdon Vale as country suitable for sheep, and Mr. Bignell has made a…

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Local Pine for Butter Boxes

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 2

A Lismore message says that locally grown pine has been found to be equal, if not superior, to New Zealand pine for butter boxes, and a large trade…

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Jerseys for Profitable Milk and Butter Fat Production (Continued.) Value of Milk for Cheese

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 8

There is one important feature about the Jersey that is not generally recognised and that is the value of Jersey milk for cheese production…

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Sale of Wheat. Compensation by Italian Government

The Northern Champion · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 3

A case in which Hie Kalian (Government Is suing the New South Wales Government, claiming £50,000 compensation in connection with the…

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Dairying Industry

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 6 May 1924 · page 1

Proposals of considerable importance to consumers of butter and cheese as a result of the deputation which recently waited upon the Prime…

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North Coast Butter Traffic

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 4

The chief goods superintendent of the Railways Department (Mr. C. I. Goode) met delegates from North Coast butter factories on Friday at…

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POLITICAL Dairying Industry

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 3

Proposals or considerable importance to consumers of butter and cheese as a result of the deputation which recently walled upon the Prime for local consumption and to regulate interstate and overseas marketing of butter and cheese. It is proposed that the industry should be empowered to…

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Dairying. Safeguarding the Milkers

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 3

S[?]age is a great standby and insurance, not only against d[?]tion of the products of dairy cows in lean periods, but against the loss of…

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Protection for the Farmer

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 6

Australians as a whole are staunch supporters of a Protectionist policy but the average farmer usually inclines to Free Trade, or is at least…

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Rise in Butter

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 4

BUTTER rose ld per lb on Monday last, bringing the price to 1s 6½d lb wholesale, and ls 9½lb retail. A rise of 2d occurred on Thursday of last…

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Pastoral. De-tailing of Lambs. The Correct Methods

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 2

There are two methods of detailing. (1) by the of the knife and (2) by the searing iron. The principal claim for the later method is that searing seals…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based largely on the experiences of the Department. LIVE STOCK…

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Boys for Farms Boy Migrants at Apprentices for Farm Work

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 8

It has been generally recognised that the most satisfactory form of immigration for increasing rural production in Australia is the…

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Dairying. Concrete Dairies. Advantages of the Slab Type

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 2

Almost ninety-nine out of every hundred of the dairies in this State are built of wood with a galvanised-iron roof, the floors being, of course, in all…

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Agricultural. the Farm Garden. How to Make a Hotbed

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 2

The first requisite for the making of a hotbed is a quantity of stable manure. Shake this out loosely—rejecting about are apt to create an unmanageable heat…

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