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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

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Remarkable Success Wheat Grower's Harvest

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 2

Mr. F. W. Von Pein, of Pitts-worth (Q.), has had remarkable success at wheat-growing during the last three years, each crop from his…

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Dairying Dirty Water

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

Although it is most desirable from many points of view that cows should have a plentiful supply of good, clean drinking water,…

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Prominent Dairymen Give Practical Support to Veterinary Laboratories

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 6

Recognising the valuable services rendered to the dairying industry by the Hamilton Veterinary Laboratories in combating the contagious…

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Maitland Stock Sales Fat Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 2

About 950 fat cattle were yarded. Prime weighty bullocks were scarce, with a moderate representation of good cows, the bulk of the remainder…

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Wool Sales. Sydney, Tuesday

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 3

Wool sold in Sydney between July 1st and December 31st, realised £11,015,171-an increase of £4,758,946 compared with the corresponding…

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Fat Sheep. Can Wingham Beat It?

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 2

"Cessnock Eagle": Various districts boast about their fat sheep from time to time, but to Abernethy must be given credit for having…

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Winter in Bed. Wife Does Farm Work "Hibernating" Man

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 4

Mr. Arthur E. ("Turkey") Gehrke, the "hibernating human" of Watertown, Wisconsin (U.S.A.), has a model wife—and she's a working…

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Gloucester Dairy Company

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 2

In the School of Arts on Saturday morning last an extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the above was held to ratify the business…

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Promised Bonus. New Zealand Farmers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 4

A promise that New Zealand dairy farmers would receive a bonus or a subsidy on the current season's sales of produce was made at Wellington (N.Z.)…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 3

Norman Henry Byrnes was charged with having, on 21st May, 1934, at Comboyne, stolen one yellow Jersey steer, the property of George Mumford…

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Dehorning of Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 1

Amid all the arguments about the cruelty or otherwise of dehorning cattle, some suggestions, by men who ought to know, for the breeding out…

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The FARMER & His Markets Dairying Conditions According to Instructors' Reports

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 6

In the December report to the Director of Dairying, Mr. G. Rowe, Senior Dairy Instructor, in charge of the dairy branch district Clarence…

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Gloucester Dairy Company

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 2

The Gloucester Dairy Company manufactured 191,891lbs. of butter for December, which is 117,793 lbs. below December of last year. The…

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Agricultural Training at Experiment Farm

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 1

A recent departmental announcement draws attention to the fact that there are still a few vacancies at Bathurst Experiment Farm for…

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Leguminous Crops As Silage

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 1

Though good silage can be made from leguminous crops such as lucerne and clovers, it is generally regarded as preferable to make hay…

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Sheep on the Wheat Farm. Efficient Cooperation

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 7

One of the interesting results of the consistently low price of wheat and the comparatively steady price of wool and fat lambs has been a…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Northern Champion · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 7

Norman Henry Byrnes was charged with having, on 21st May, 1934, at Comboyne, stolen one yellow Jersey steer, the property of George Mumford,…

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Wool Sales

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 5

Wool sold in Sydney between July 1st and the end of December realised £11,015,171, which is £4,758,946 more than for the corresponding six months…

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Farm and Dairy. Dairying. Handle the Cows Quietly

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 6

Milking cows should not be handled roughly at any time. More especially must they be gently handled when they are being driven in to milk and…

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The Farm Home

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 6

The furniture beetle (Anoblum punctatum) commonly infests shelving and flooring, picture rails and household furniture composed of pine…

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