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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

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Boric and in Butter Suggestion for Prohibition

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1924 · page 2

According to information which has been supplied by the Department of Agriculture, manufacturers of butter in New South Wales are quite…

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Gored by Bull Farmer's Narrow Escape

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 9 April 1924 · page 2

A Brisbane message states that Bert Argus, a Toogoolawah dairy farmer of Cressbrook Estate, was seriously injured through being…

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Dairying Industry. Stabilisation Scheme. Delegates Appointed to Federal Conference

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 9 April 1924 · page 2

The committee elected by various districts of New South. Wales to discuss the stabilisation of the dairying industry met at…

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A Crop of Evils. (Published by Arrangement.)

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 4

A scathing denouncement of Prohibition has been made in the New York "Times" by Dr. S. Dane Hubbard, Director of Public Health Education, of…

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Price of Butter. Suggested Pool

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 4

DR. GOLDSMID, presiding at a meeting of the Murwillunbah branch of the P.P.U., said that it was no use farmers working hard year after year,…

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Pastoral. Lamb Marking. Precautions that are Necessary

The Northern Champion · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 2

Lamb-marking embraces ear-marking ind tailing, together with the castration of the male lambs. The three operations are usually carried out at…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 2

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

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Wheat as a Pig Food. Better Than Corn

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 6

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

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H.D. Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd. Electric Lighting Scheme. Debentures to Be Issued

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 4

AN extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the above Company was held at the factory office on Tuesday, Mr. R. Davidson, Chairman of Directors, presiding,…

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Queensland Farmer Cored by Bull

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 4

A DAIRY farmer on the Cressbrook Estate at Toogoolawah Queensland, named Bert Argus, was seriously injured through being gored by a Holstein bull. His injuries…

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Water in the Farm House. An Important Rural Problem

The Northern Champion · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 2

A motor truck with a specially constructed extension platform top, loaded with an exhibit of pumps, plumbing equipment, tools, and demonstrating…

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The Jersey Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 2

A pleasing feature of the show was the splendid exhibition of Jersey stock, which breed, each annual show demonstrates, has been gaining in…

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Record Price for Sheep

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 2

At the fat stock sales at Homebush on 16th instant the Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. sold merino wethers, ac Fleming Bros., "Ulah," Walgett, to…

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Jerseys for Profitable Milk and Butter Fat Production

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 1

The following interesting and instructive article on Jerseys is from the pen of Mr. W. H. Warhurst, who judged the breed at the Gloucester…

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Tillimby Estate 24 Valuable Farms to Be Offered

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 2

Much interest has been created in the subdivision of the Tillimby Estate on the Paterson River. Not often is such a well watered…

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Tillimby Estate. 24 Farms to Be Offered

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 3

Much interest has been created in the subdivision of the Tillimby Estate on the Paterson River. Not often is such a well watered rich land ready…

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Record Price for Sheep

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 16 April 1924 · page 1

At the fat stock sales at Homebush on April 16 the Farmers and Graziers Co-op. Coy., sold merino wethers on acct. Fleming Bros…

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Dairying Outlook. Entering a New Era

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 16 April 1924 · page 1

"It is imperatively and essentially necessary that the dairymen of this district should realise that they ore entering a new eva as far as dairy…

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Life Risked for Sheep

The Gloucester Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1924 · page 3

To rescue a sheep which had been imprisoned for a week in a disused quarry, a workman named Robert Lewis made a dramatic climb at…

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

The Gloucester Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1924 · page 2

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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