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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

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Farmers' Experiment Plot Upper North Coast Winter Green Fodder Experiment, 1925

Northern Star · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 10

The following farmers co-operated in conducting winter green fodder trials during the past season:—H. Johnson, Condong, Tweed River…

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Dairying a Sure Foundation for Success in Dairying

Northern Star · Wednesday 27 January 1926 · page 9

Systematic testing of dairy herds is the chief factor in securing efficient service from each cow—fed, milked, and cared for. A herd of profitable dairy cows properly cared for…

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Butter Control Board Replacing Stored Butter Advertising Scheme Orange and Petrol Fumes Melbourne

Northern Star · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 5

At a meeting of the Dairy Produce Control Board it was decided that after butter withheld from shipment had been in cool storage for four weeks the owners…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land the Crop-growing Contests. Extracts from the Judges' Reports

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 6

A review of the wheat-growing competitions, illustrating the value of latter-day methods in an adverse season appeared in these notes last week, the…

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Artificial Wool Not Natural Cotton Fibre. Less Suitable for Clothing Than Wool

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. Dr. Campbell, president of the Victorian branch of the Australian Chemical Institute, and a member of the science…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 4

These notes are issued ovary week by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the…

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Synthetic Wool Dr. Campbell's Opinion Melbourne

Northern Star · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 2

Dr. Campbell, president of the Victorian branch of the A[?]stralian Chemical Institute and a member of of the faculty of science in the Melbourne University, said…

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Synthetic Wool Waste of Good Cotton Melbourne

Northern Star · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 3

Mr. R. J. Fletcher, the well-known analytical and manufacturing chemist, of Melbourne, considers that synthetic wool from Italy is high grade cotton that has lost some of the…

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Best Dairy Display. Australia Wins Medal

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. The Minister for Markets and Migration (Senator Sir Regniald Wilson) said that he had just received the gold…

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Dairy Produce Export Meeting of Board. Concession to Factories

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Dairy Produce Export Control Board, it was decided that, after butter withheld…

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Water Famine. Poultry Farmers Sell Out

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Water Board to-day, it was stated that the residents of Blacktown and St. Mary's were in a serious plight, owing…

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Short of Water Plight of Poultry Farmers Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 6

At a meeting of the Water Board to-day it was stated that residents of Blacktown and St. Marys were in a serious plight owing to the inadequacy of the water supply…

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French Farmers Industrious Citizens Strangely Frugal Lives

Northern Star · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 7

The French farmer is one of the most industrious citizens in the world. His thrift is amazing. No citizen of the republic is more democratically independent. Monsieur…

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Butter Control Meeting of Dairy Board

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 8

At a meeting of the Dairy Produce Control Board it was decided that after butter withheld from shipment had been in cool storage for four weeks the…

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Lismore Cattle Sale

Northern Star · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 6

There was a very heavy yarding at the cattle sale conducted at Lismore yesterday by Messrs. Martin, Frith and Co. A keen market at recent rates was experienced,…

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Guernsey Cattle Fair at Lismore

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 2

The council of the Guernsey Cattle Society of Austalasia last week decided to accept the offer made by the Lis-more Agricultural and Industrial So-…

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Change of Fashions Necessary to Safeguard Wool Industry. Women Should Wear More Wool

Tweed Daily · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday. Senator Guthrie suggests that a change of fashions is necessary to safeguard wool against the synthetic article. The…

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Artificial Wool Still Another Opinion Sydney, Thurday

Northern Star · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 5

Mr. F. B. Hinton, sheep and wool export the Department of Agriculture, declares that sniafil is extremely like wool, except that it lacks its elasticity, and that on…

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Farmer Charged by Cow

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 2

A married man named Robinson, residing at Apis Greek, near Maryborough (Q.), received rather severe injuries to his face the other morning as the…

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Grafton Dairy Co

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 2

The output of butter for the month of December at the Grafton Dairy Coy's factory, was 340,150lbs. (151 tons 17cwt. 61lb.), which was 36 tons 1cwt…

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