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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

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Farm and Dairy. Nourish the Pastures. Improvement of their Quality by Top-dressing

Macleay Argus · Friday 30 March 1928 · page 10

By providing grasses and other pasture plants with food in the shape of fertilisers, the quality of the herbage is greatly improved. The use of…

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Manning River Dairy Company Seventy-first Half-yearly Meeting

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 30 March 1928 · page 3

There are few dairy companies on the North Coast that can boast holding the 71st half-yearly meeting of shareholders. That was the privilege…

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Departmental Experiments Potato Crops

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 30 March 1928 · page 4

Not since about the year 1921 have yields from the potato plots been as heavy as the present series. In fact, the potato crops on the Lower North…

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Pastoral. Sheep Classing. An Important Operation with even the Smallest Flocks

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 2

Sheep classing—the operation of grading the breeding flock and selecting the sires for use in mating, with the object of gradually raising the standard of the…

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Bellingen Butter

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 8

The two factories on the Bellinger River manufactured more than 112 tons of butter during February, and the pay to farmers amounted to…

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Dearer Butter

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 4

THE wholesale price of butter was increased on Monday by ½d, to 1s 7d per lb…

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Wheat

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 7

Figures available for this season give the estimated wheat production of Australia as 108,350,000 bushels, and for N.S. Wales 27,111,000 bushels…

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Rust in Wheat

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 7

Rust in the New South Wales wheat crops is reported. The Government wheat expert, in a report to the Minister for Agriculture, says that he is receiving…

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Worms in Sheep. Another Reminder About Drenching

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 2

Some farmers only use drenches when they sec evidences of worm infestation, but experience has shown that if drenching is done at certain periods of the…

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N. S. W. Butter Quality Department's Scientific Work

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 3

A triumph has been achieved by all concerned in raising the standard of Now South Wales butter quality generally to choicest great after the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience oft the Department THE ORCHARD. CONTROL OF WOOLLY APHIS…

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Agricultural. Sowing of Lucerne. Use of the Wheat Drill

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 2

Farmers generally prefer to broadeast lucerne need where the area is small, but sowing through the grass need attachment of the wheat drill is a useful method…

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Dairying. for Clean Milk. Machines must be Bacteriologically Clean

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 2

Many dairy-farmers are convinced that only by careful hand-milking can the cleanest milk be obtained, and that the use of a machine results in a much increased…

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P.d.s. Column. Farmers' Tour

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 7

A party of farmers left Melbourne this month with the object of studying Agricultural conditions and problems, and will visit Great Britain…

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Maitland Stock Sales. Fat Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1928 · page 2

About 1400 yarded, the bulk good quality cows. Good quality bullocks were scarce Competition was brisk for good quality lots, and values were…

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Macleay Dairy Co. Annual Meeting. Excellent Financial Position

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 April 1928 · page 3

The annual meeting of shareholders of the Macleay River Dairying Company, Ltd., was held at the Theatre Royal on Thursday morning, when…

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Manning River Dairy C[?]

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 April 1928 · page 2

At the 71st half-yearly meeting the Manning [?] River Dairy Co. the [?] port stated that the output of b[?] was 1,186,525lb. of choicest butter [?]…

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Departmental Experiments. Potato Crops

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 4 April 1928 · page 2

Not since about the year l921 have yields from the potato plots been as heavy as the present series. In fact, the potato crops on the Lower North…

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Camden Haven Dairy Co. Annual Meeting

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 4 April 1928 · page 1

The l9th annual meeting of the above was held at the factory on Saturday week. Mr. A. E. Rose presided, and there were about 20 others…

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Departmental Experiments. Protato Crops

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 4 April 1928 · page 5

Not since about the year 1921 have yields from the potato plots been as heavy as the present series. In fact, the potato crops on the Lower North…

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