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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

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Fat Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 2

Consignments of fat cattle have been going forward from our district of late and realising good Prices. Amongst them we noticed nice quality…

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Butter Bounty — 3d a Pound

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 3

The Australian Butter Stabilisation Committee at a meeting on Thursday last, decided to revert to the export bounty of /3 a lb under the Paterson…

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Sheep and Wool Returns the New Form

The Northern Champion · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 1

The twenty-six thousand sheepowners throughout the State will be required to fill in a special return (A. and P. Form No. 18), 1927. The form…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 2

Those Notes are issued ever week, by direction of the Honerable the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. SILOS AND SILAGE. OVERHEAD SILOS…

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Butter Down Again

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 2

In accordance with the decision of the Stabilisation Committee, the price of butter was reduced ½d per lb. in Sydney yesterday…

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Victoria Butter Market

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 2

"We are at present operating in a very artificial market," said a leading butter merchant in Melbourne, when referring to the decision of New…

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Butter Down 1d

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 2

The Butter Advisory Committee has decided to reduce the wholesale price of butter by ½d to is 7d a lb. The reduction will come into effect…

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Cattle From Gloucester

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 2

Good to prime beef realised 50/- to 64/- per 100lbs on the hoof at Home bush last Thursday. Mrs. F. N. Laurie, Gloucester, obtained to £15/…

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Loss in Method of Manufacture of Butter

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 3

It is estimated that the butter manufacturers of Australia are losing at least £600,000 at year by their methods of manufacture. Incidentally…

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P.d.s. Column "Kangaroo" Butter in London

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 4

The Press has recently published several cables from London, indicating that the butter from one or two Victorian factories, bearing the…

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Bone-chewing in Cattle. Top-dress the Pastures

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 3

The Department of Agriculture again draws attention to the unsatisfactory conditions that are being produced in many dairy herds because of the…

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Gloucester Dairy Co.—record Pay

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 2

For the month of December the Gloucester Dairy Co. manufactured. 170,126lbs butter, an increase of 55,337lbs over the previous month and…

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Dairy Co's Record Output

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 2

The output of butter at the Dorrigo Co-op. Dairy Company's factory last month was 90 tons. It was a record December output and a…

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Granulated Butter

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 4

Most of the factories contributing to the consignment of granulated butter have now sent their quota, and arrangements are being made for…

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Stud Cattle. Sales of Jersey Mead Stock

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 1

The "Maitland Mercury" says:-- Following the recent visit of a party to Mr. H. H. Capper's Jersey stud at Jersey Mead, Hinton, the sale has…

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P.D.S. Column "Kangaroo" Butter in London

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 1

The press has recently published several cables from London, indicating that the butter from one or two Victorian factories, bearing the…

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P.d.s. Column. "Kangaroo" Butter in London

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 4

The Press has recently published several cables from London, indicating that the butter from one or two Victorian factories, bearing the…

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Dairying Conditions Wallamba to Nambucca

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 2

Mr. Senior Dairy instructor Wilkinson, in charge of the dairy branch listriel, Wallamba River to Nambucea River, reports for December:…

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Farmers' Raily. Picnic at Showground. Visit of Federal Ministers

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 4

Many organisations in the State have their own particular "day" set aside as a celebration of some important event and to assist in…

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Current Topics Giro Wool

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 2

Messrs Waddell and Co. have handed us particulars of the sale of Giro wool—215 bales—which has recently been sold in Sydney at good prices,…

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