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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

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Butter Up ½d

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 2

Butter will be a halfpenny per lb. dearer as from yesterday morning. Lack of rain in the main producing centres has resulted in a falling off…

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News of the Day Cattle by Dutch Auction

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 2

Gloucester has been without any auctioneers since 1st January. All licenses terminate on the 31st December, when applications must be…

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Commercial. Fortnightly Cattle Sale

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

Douglas Waddell and Co. report: Chiefly dairy cattle of indifferent quality yarded on Tuesday. We sold a/c H. Tonks, cow and calf £6,…

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Cattle by Dutch Auction

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

Gloucester has been without any auctioneers since 1st January. All licenses terminate on the 31st December, when applications must…

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Wheat as Stock Feed. Advantages of Diversified Farming

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

Many arguments can be advanced in favor of stock in the wheat-growing programme, and not the least is that they tend to greater…

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Port Macquarie Butter Factory. Ominous Rumblings

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

The question of the continuance of the butter factory at Port Macquarie has been prominently before the dairymen for the past couple…

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"The Toscin." An Open Letter to the Farmer!

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

The Wheat Man, The Sheep Man, The Cow Man, The Pig Man, also the Goat Man. (There appear to be many goats connected with…

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Space Farming

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 4

Far too often of late do country business houses come along to newspaper offices and ask for some special publicity work on behalf of a…

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Grass. the Most Important of All Crops

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

The economic significance of pasture becomes evident when the values of our agricultural and animal products are compared, hand-feeding…

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The Farmer and the Tariff

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

Under some such title the Sydney Chamber of Commerce has made one of its natural attacks on the Australian tariff and Australian…

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The Tocsin. an Open Letter to the Farmer

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 4

The wheat man, the sheep man, the cow man, the pig man, also the goat man (there appear to he many goats connected with our primary…

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"The Tocsin." an Open Letter to the Farmer

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

The wheat man, the sheep man, the cow man the pig man, also the goat man. (There appear to be many goats connected with our primary industries.)…

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New Zealand's Dairy Secret. an Ideal Climate and Scientific Dairying

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 7

Professor O. F. Hunziker, an American dairy scientist, who recently visited New Zealand, writes in the English "Dairy" an article in appreciation, of…

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"The Man on the Land." Increased Dairying Production. Practices That Help

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 7

As a means of increasing the margin of profit, greater production per acre should be the aim of every dairy farmer. The following recommendations…

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Butter Production Reduced North Coast Output

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 6

Comparatively dry. weather on the North Coast during December reduced the cream supplies to the butter factories, according to the local dairy…

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Maize Crop Conditions

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 3

The State Director of Marketing has issued a survey of maize crop conditions in New South Wales as at 15th December, 1930. The statement has been…

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Butter Price Increases

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

The price of butter was increased by a half-penny per lb as from yesterday morning, making the third advance within a week. The latest…

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Auctioneers' Report. Fortnightly Cattle Sale

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 1

Douglas Waddell and Co. report : Chiefly dairy cattle of indifferent quality yarded on Tuesday last. We sold a/c H. Tonks, cow and calf £6,…

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Maitland Stock Sales Fat Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

About 1040 head yarded, comprising useful to prime medium weight cows and bullocks. Veal was in smaller supply, but there was a…

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News of the Day Gloucester Dairy Co

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

For the month of December the Gloucester Dairy Company manufactured 139,485lbs of butter, for which suppliers were paid 10¼d per…

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