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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

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Dairymen's Meeting at Taree Correspondence with P.P.U. Claim for Increased Butter Price

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 January 1942 · page 2

Following the meeting of dairymen, held at Taree on Thursday of last week, when the question of supplying milk to the metropolitan market was discussed,…

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Straw Pulp New Cattle Food Good Liveweight Increase

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 January 1942 · page 3

Britain's farmers are obtaining excellent results with the fodder now being produced by the new caustic soda straw-pulping process on over 250 farms…

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The Land Girl A Typical Day on a British Farm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1942 · page 2

My working day begins at seven, and for the first time this year I was able this morning to finish my breakfast with the curtains drawn back…

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World's Largest Potato Farm Sends Forces Millions of Packets of Crisps

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1942 · page 2

Two English villages, whose names are recorded in William the Conqueror's Domesday Book, to-day supply Britain's fighting forces with…

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Robbing the Farmyard British Farmers Suffer

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1942 · page 2

Probably because of the war and subsequent restricted rations, British farmers are having to keep a careful watch against marauders, who steal…

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Clothes and the Farmer

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1942 · page 7

Rationing of clothing in Great Britain is giving a few headaches to farmers and farm workers. Farm work in all seasons and all weathers calls…

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Butter Report

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 3

Prescott, Pty., Ltd., report advises: Some very useful rains have fallen on parts of the far northern dairying districts and pastures there…

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Collective Farming in the Soviet Union How It Operates

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 4

Many Australians have heard that Collective Farming exists in the Soviet Union, but few have anything but the foggiest notion of what this…

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Evacuation of Dairying Industry

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 1

Should Australia find itself in the unhappy position of having to repel an attempted enemy invasion, one of the most urgent and vital tasks…

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Evacuation of the Dairying Industry

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 4

Should Australia find itself In the unhappy position of having to repel an attempted enemy invasion, one of the most urgent and vital tasks…

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The Fodder Crops on the Macleay Needed the Rain

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 5

The following monthly report of Mr. J. M. Pitt, senior agricultural instructor, for January, was written before the recent…

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Farmers of the Future

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 February 1942 · page 7

Addressing a recent conference of farmers on the subject of educating the boy on the farm to take his place in the community as a citizen, Mr. C…

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Collective Farming in the Soviet Union How It Operates

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 4 February 1942 · page 1

Many Australians have heard that collective farming exists in the Soviet Union, but few have anything but the foggiest notion of what this means…

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Evacuation of Cattle

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 2

A largely attended meeting in the School of Arts, Macksville, on Tuesday, was addressed by Constable Tomlinson, special officer in charge…

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Dried Butter Pure Concentrated Food for Any Climate

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 4

The following is a talk given by Dr. W. J. Wiley on the A.B.C. National Programme recently. Dr. Wiley is the Officer-in-charge of the…

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In Event of Invasion. the Cattle Will Be Taken to the Inland

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 6 February 1942 · page 6

In another part of this issue mention is made of the arrival of a num ber of policemen at Lismore, on the Richmond River, in connection with…

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Dried Butter. Pure Concentrated Food for Any Climate

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 February 1942 · page 1

The following talk was given over the wireless by Dr. W. J. Wiley, Officer-in-charge of the Dairy Research Laboratory, Werribee, Victoria, for…

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European Dairying Effects of German Control

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

Sidelights on how the dairying industry in several of the German occupied countries of Europe is progressing are given in the following…

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Correspondence Motions at Dairymen's Meeting (To the Editor)

The Northern Champion · Saturday 7 February 1942 · page 1

Sir.—In reference to your report of resolutions to be sent on to the District Council of the P.P.U., and the reply to same from the General…

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Farmers of the Future Encourage the Young Folk

The Northern Champion · Saturday 7 February 1942 · page 4

Addressing a recent conference of farmers on the subject of educating the boy on the farm to take his place in the community as a citizen, Mr. C…

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