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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

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Household Notes. Chocolate Butter Icing

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 2

Take 3oz. fresh butter, 6oz. icing sugar, some essence of vanilla, 2oz. grated chocolate, or chocolate powder Cream the butter and sugar,…

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Maitland Stock Sales. Fat Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 3

About 1200 yarded, a fair supply Consignments consisted of all qualities ranging from small calves to prime heavy bullocks. With a good…

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Dairying. Care of Cream. Some Necessary Precautions

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 7

Do not blame the factory manager or the grader if your cream is put out of "choicest" class--look for the cause and remedy…

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Dairy Thermometers

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 3

The dairy expert of the Department of Agriculture has circularised all dairy factories in the State in regard to the thermometers used in connection with…

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Farmers' Conference

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 4

The grand conference of producers and consumers which was a plank of Labor's platform at last elections will be held at an early date. Cabinet…

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Upper Macleay Dairy Co

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 5

The monthly circular forwarded to suppliers of the Upper Macleay Cooperative Dairying Co., Ltd., for the month of December last was as follows:…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. AGRICULTURAL…

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Butter-fat Record. Jersey Heifer's Feat. a World's Champion

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 5

A THREE-YEAR-OLD Jersey heifer, Killingly Torono Lass, has established a new world's record for an animal of her age by producing 8171b. of butter…

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Dairying. Work on the Dairy Farm. The Importance of Cleanliness

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 2

It is perhaps a truism to say that cleanliness is of first importances in dairying. There are still many dairymen, however, who fail to realise its…

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The Orchard. Treatment of the Summer Lemon Crop

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 2

As [?] growers are awa[?] there is a great deal of waste through the [?] owing [?] and perhaps. lack of [?]…

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Snail Farming

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 7

Snail farming forms a peculiar branch of agricultural industry in France and other countries, according to "Nature," and the consumption of them in France is very…

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Maitland Stock Sales Fat Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 3

About 1200 yarded, being a fair supply. Consignments consisted of all descriptions, ranging from small calves to prime and weighty, bullocks…

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The New Wool. Story of "Sniafil"

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 20 January 1926 · page 4

The special correspondent of the Yorkshire Post who was despatched to Turin chiefly, to investigate artificial wool; sketches a remarkably…

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Wool Made From Wool

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 1

Close inspection in England of samples of cloth woven from "Sniafil," the new textile manufactured in Italy, show that it is…

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Branding Full-woolled Sheep

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 2

Narrabri Pasture Protection Board is asking kindred bodies throughout the State to co-operate in a movement to persaude the Minister to…

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Butter Prices. Stabilisation Scheme. Melbourne

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 2

Haying lasted for more than two days, a meeting of the Australian stabilisation committee established under the Paterson plan for the…

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Great Clearance Sale of Cattle Armidale Friday 29th January at 1.30 p.m. 1500 Head Well Bred New England Cattle. A. H. McARTHUR & CO. in conjunction with A. G. FINLAYSON

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 2

Will offer as above 1500 Head New England Bred Cattle, including several lines good conditioned Bullocks and Steers and 200 Station Bred Durham Cows, as under:—80 Bullocks, Durham & Herefords, well grown : 80 Steers, 18 months,…

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Rabbit Skins. Farmers & Graziers' report

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 2

Supplies totalled 25½tons and were eagerly competed for by a very large attendance of buyers. At the opening sales prices were 1d to 2d per lb…

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Butter Dearer

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 4

THE wholesale price of butter was increased [?]d lb on Monday to 172s 8d cwt. This represents an increased of 2[?]d 1b. since 1st January, when the…

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Over £8,260,000 for Butter

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 4

THE Kyogle Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., which has gone into voluntary liquidation for the purpose of amalgamating with the Norco Co., was established in 1905. Since then…

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