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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

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Farming Notes. Herd Testing. Some New Zealand Results

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 8

Several herd-testing associations in the Taranaki province of New Zealand have lately published their returns, and very interesting reading they make…

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Australian Dairying

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 6

Within the last 10 years the dairy cows of Australia have increased from one million to above two millions. The butter produced in a single year…

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Farm and Field. Original Articles. Specially written for this column. Farm Experiments

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 6

To be successful the farmer, to a very great extent, must be his own experimentalist. Take manuring of the various crops, for instance. The farmer…

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An Hereditary Farm

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 4

One of the most remarkable villages in England is Burbage about twenty-four miles from Birmingham. There, under charge of Major Hurst,…

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Cattle Dipping Case

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 2

In the case of the Stock Department versus Gay at Kyogle on Friday for failing to dip cattle for infestation, the defendant was fined £5 and £3 6s…

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Black Wheat. Trouble Looming for Coolamon. Sydney

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 3

A meeting of the Wheat Lumpers and Carriers' Union at Coolamon yesterday decided not to lump or carry with non-unionists after Tuesday. All…

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Dairy and Farm. Methods of Milking

Northern Star · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 2

The art of milking cows is important [?] one wishes to make them come up to their highest possible capacity. Feed, care, housing, breeding, all are factors in milk…

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Farmers' Fowls. the Little Leaks

Northern Star · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 2

Recent years have seen a marked change in the attitude of the average farmer towards the poultry industry. Instead of looking upon the hens as a [?]lance to be…

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Lismore Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. First Anniversary of the Corndale Branch. a Pleasant Picnic

Northern Star · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 6

On Friday a picnic was held at Corndale to commemorate the first anniversary of the opening of the Corndale branch factory of the Lismore Co-operative Dairy…

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Crossing Dairy Cattle

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1914 · page 4

Speaking before the Inverell branch of the Agricultural Bureau, Mr. . H. A. Alexander made some comments on the crossing of cattle for dairy…

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Rural Workers' Demands. Farmers Still Defiant. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 27 January 1914 · page 4

A meeting of 280 farmers at Coolamon decided to withstand the demands of the Australian Workers' Union. It was stated that there were 3000 farmers and their…

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Milk Standard. No Increase at Present. Farmers' Anxiety. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 27 January 1914 · page 5

A number of South Coast farmers representing the Dairy Farmers' Association and the Milk Suppliers' Association waited upon Messrs. Valder, [?]tten and Guth[?]…

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Country Fires. Two Buildings at Manilla. Butter Factory at Temora. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 5

A disastrous fire broks out at Manilla on Monday. Appel's tobacconist's shop was gutted, nail the flames spread to an hotel adjoining. This building was also…

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Apathy of Our Farmers

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 4

In a letter, to Mr. J. G. Hibbard, Secretary of the Tweed Dairyfarmers' Association, Mr. G. R. Davis, general secretary of the Association has the…

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Local and General. The Crops

The Kyogle Examiner · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 2

THE effect of the recent dry weather is apparent in the appearance of local maize crops, the early growths being stunted and unhealthy…

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C.F.S Trade Report. Dairy Produce. For week ending January 23rd, 1914

The Kyogle Examiner · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 1

Butter: Further thunder storms have been experienced over scattered areas, but insufficient rain has fallen to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 29 January 1914 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the…

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MARGARINE v. BUTTER

Tweed Daily · Thursday 29 January 1914 · page 2

[?] a recent meeting of the Bermond[?] Board of Guardians, London, a [?]randum from the Local Government Board on the subject of…

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Dairying. Bad Flayors in Milk

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 29 January 1914 · page 2

Seven rules of the prevention of bad flavors in milk and cream are given in a newly issued book by Mr. G. Sutherland Thomson, who was at…

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The Farm. French Methods and Customs

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 29 January 1914 · page 2

As one who knows dairyfarming through a lifetime of close contact, and who has had the privileges for the last two and a half years of…

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