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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

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Farmers Buy Wine Direct From Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 3

Many farmers and country business men are now buying their wine at a very reasonable price direct from a Sydney vintner. As a…

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Dragged by a Bull Farmer's Shocking Death

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 5

The badly bruised and lacerated body of John Ross, dairy farmer, of North Creek, near Ballina, was found by his daughter in a paddock on the…

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Alcohol From Wheat

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 5

The following news from Canberra should set the curious thinking:— Discussions are proceeding between the Commonwealth Government and…

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Chief Dairy Instructor MR. G. McGILLIVRAY

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture and Forests (Captain the Hon. W. F. Dunn, M.L.A.) has announced that Mr. George McGillivray has been appointed Chief…

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Chief Dairy Instructor

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 14 January 1942 · page 7

Mr. George McGillvray, assistant headmaster in the Department of Agriculture, who is well-known to many on the Macleay, has been…

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Gloucester Cattle

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 5

Cattle values at Homebush last week showed an advance ranging up to 10s. A line of 13 cows from the Cobark Pastoral Co., Gloucester, made to £11…

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Butter Increase Refusal

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 4

In a statement presented to the House of Representatives towards the end of last month the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) set out…

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Macleay Butter Pays Kempsey

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 4

At a meeting of the directorate of the Macleay Co-operative Dairying Company at the factory at Kempsey yesterday pay to suppliers for…

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Cattle Fair and Sales

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 5

Following on the announcement by the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales concerning the impracticability of holding the 1942…

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Butter Output Decline in All States

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 4

The production of butter in all States is declining, states the Dairy Produce Board, in a weekly report on Friday. The position is disturbing in…

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Plans to Store North Coast Butter in an Emergency

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 3

Arrangements have been made to cold store large quantities of New South Wales butter in North Coast areas should any transport…

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Good Dairy Returns on Comboyne

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 4

For the month of December Mr. S. W. Gardiner's (Comboyne) A.I.S. herd of 26 produced at the factory 1014lb. butter. Nine of the herd were…

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Farmers Buy Wine Direct From Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 3

Many farmers and country business men are now buying their wine at a very reasonable price direct from a Sydney vintner. As a…

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New Dairy Chief Mr. G. McGILLIVRAY

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 7

Mr. George McGillivray, assistant headmaster in the Department of Agriculture, has been appointed to the position of chief dairy instructor…

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Moving Industries Dairying Most Vital Premier's Statement

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 5

Speaking in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday on the subject of evacuating vital industries from the seaboard to the…

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Butter Production Costs. Valuable Survey Completed

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 1

Although the Australian Prices' Commissioner has refused to sanction any present increase in the retail price of butter and cheese in…

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Russia's Cattle Podolians Are Utility Stock

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 7

Some facts about the cattle of the Russian Ukraine are given by R.V.B, writing in the 'Australasian." He remarks:—…

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Not Cattle Tick. On Wallaby, Snake, Iguana

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 8

Ticks recently found on a wallaby, a green snake and an iguana, have now been indentified by the Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture…

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Pasture Needs of Milking Cows Grassland Management on the Dairy Farm

The Northern Champion · Saturday 17 January 1942 · page 4

Milking cows require rich, palatable feed. Grasses, therefore, should be fed off when short, as it is the leaf or blade which is most nutritious. As grass…

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Butter Production

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 20 January 1942 · page 2

A few points of rain have fallen in some dairying centres on the far North Coast, but nothing except a good general rainfall is likely to be…

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