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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

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Dairying Industry Would Lose £5 Million by Re Valuation POIiCY

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 6

Under a policy of revaluation, the loss to the Australian dairying and meat industries, based on the value of exports last year, would be £l6,2R,OW), said Mr. H. V. Budd, M.L.C., in a "Balanced survey of the advantages and disadvantages of the revaluation of the Australian…

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Horns On Cattle — Cattle Need Horns As Little As Pigs Need Wings Says Expert

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 4

A writer in the "Farmer's Advocate," Canada, (Mr. B. D. Hodgins, Ontario Field Secretary for the Guernsey breed), has spoken…

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Action Underway To Combat New Wheat Rust Strain

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 4

Rust, an ever-present threat to the world's bread supplies, is causing concern in the United States in a new race -- 15B…

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Cutworms In Field Crops And Pastures — Weeds Increase Control Difficulties

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 1

From time to time pastures and field crops in New South Wales are attacked by enormous numbers of caterpillars of the type known as…

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Concentrates Can Increase Production — Dairy Grant Demonstration Shows the Way

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 4

The profitable, Increased production that results from correct use of concentrates for supplementary feeding of dairy…

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Use Farmyard Manure On Lawns With Care

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 24 January 1951 · page 5

Farmyard manure Should be used with discretion where lawns are concerned, warns the Division of Plant Industry of the Department of…

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On and off the farm Medic Seed Harvested By Sheepskin Roller

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 24 January 1951 · page 5

A sheepskin roller, developed and used in Western Australia to harvest subterranean clover seed, has been found also to provide a cheap and effective method of harvesting medic seed grown in New South Wales--according…

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Mouth Swellings In Cattle — Sometimes Taken for "Lumpy Jaw."

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 3

Examination of cattle reported by their owners to veterinarians as suffering from acttino-mycosis ("lumpy jaw") sometimes reveals…

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Upper Bellinger Farmers Back to Packhorse

The Northern Champion · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

Many farmers at Brinerville, on the Upper Bellinger River, whose farms have been cut off by road since last year's big flood, feed their…

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Are They Related? High Dairy Production and Animal Disease

The Northern Champion · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 5

Does high farming encourage animal disease, asks Dr. Allan Fraser in the course of some pertinent questions on the effects of the relentless driving for greater milk production and the increasing problem of infertility in dairy…

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Bank Sponsors School for Junior Farmers

The Northern Champion · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 5

The Bank of New South Wales will again this year sponsor a 10 days school of instruction for 60 selected Junior Farmers at Hawkesbury, or…

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Dairy Grant Demonstrations

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

Two new demonstrations under the Commonwealth Dairy Grant have been Commenced in the Camden Haven Area on the farms of Messrs. G. T…

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Junior Farmers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

Again this year the Bank of NSW will sponsor a 10 days' school of instruction for sixty selected Junior Farmers at Hawkesbury or Wagge…

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Junior Farmers' Clubs Of N.S.W.

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 7

Again this year the Bank of New South Wales will sponsor a 10 days school of instruction for 60 selected Junior Farmers at…

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U.S. Junior Farmers Commended

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 7

At the 29th. National 4 -- II Club Congress, held recently at Chicago, Illinois, and attended by 1,200 boys and girls from farms in all parts of the United States, Donald S. Brozovich, 26, of Lakewood, Ohio, and Phyllis V. Bowe, 20, of Elk River, Minnesota, received the…

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Minister's View on Dairy Co-ops

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 6

The hope that the directors of some smaller dairy co-operatives would see their way clear to amalgamate with some of the larger…

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Lism0re Dairy Cattle

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 1

Within a 22 -mile radius of Lismore, there are 51.500 dairy cattle, kept on 1,092 registered dairies. The total of 51.500 dairy cattle is…

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Instruction School For Junior Farmers

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 6

Again this year the Bank bf New South Wales will sponsor a ten -days school of instruction for 60 selected Junior Farmers at Hawkeshury or…

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Farm Demonstrations

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 5

Two new demonstrations under the Commonwealth Dairy Grant have been commenced in the Camden Haven area on the farms of Messrs. G…

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Cattle Firm Gives £600 to Council

The Northern Champion · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 6

South Grafton Council on Monday night expresed appreciation of a donation of £600 from Goldsbrough Mort and Co…

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