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Farming & the land, 1939

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Shelter for Dairy Stock

The Bega District News · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 6

Where proper shelter Is not provided for stock not only is their resistance to disease reduced, but much food material is wasted in…

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Protests From Farmers Early Running of Milk Trains Redaction of Treatment Costs Claim for More Reasonable Railway Freights

The South Coast Register · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 6

The most representative meeting of butter factory directors and managers ever to be held on the coast assembled at the Berry School of Arts on Friday morning last, when the matter of the…

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Gerringong Junior Farmers Monthly Meeting

The South Coast Register · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 5

Mr. G. E. Chittick presided at the usual monthly meeting of the Gerringong Junior Fanners’ Club on the 18th instant…

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December Show Gerringong Junior Farmers’ Club

The South Coast Register · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 3

At the monthly meeting of the Gerringong Junior Farmers’ Club it was decided to alter the date of the annual club show from March to…

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Australia's Most Modern Dairy

The Nowra Leader · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 2

WEDNESDAY LAST WEEK WAS a red-letter day at Abbotsford, the beautiful old estate on the fringe of the town of Picton, which, from…

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Dirty Butter Creek

The Bega District News · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 1

Some queer names were given to places in the old days. The descent from Araluen Mountain to the mining scene in the gorge below was a…

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Protests From Farmers Early Running of Milk Trains Claim for More Reasonable Railway Freights

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 4

The most representative meeting of butter factory directors and managers ever to be held on the coast assembled at the Berry School of Arts on Friday…

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Butter Market

The Bega District News · Thursday 4 May 1939 · page 3

Prescott Ltd reports on 29th April: N.S.W.: The usual seasonal decline in producuon is in evidence in almost all dairying districts, and supplier…

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Dairy Farmers’ Co. Agrees to Alter Trucks

The South Coast Register · Thursday 4 May 1939 · page 2

The directors of the Dairy Famers’ Co-op. Milk Co. Ltd decided at a meeting later in the day to carry out the alteration in the trucks, and…

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Candelo Co-operative Dairy Society Half-yearly Meeting of Shareholders

The Bega District News · Thursday 4 May 1939 · page 6

The half-yearly meeting of shareholders of Candelo Co-operative Dairy Society was held at the office of the Society, Bimbaya, on…

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’Junior Farmers’ Club Annual Meeting of Berry Branch

The South Coast Register · Thursday 4 May 1939 · page 1

There was a fairly representative attendance at the annual meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Berry Junior Farmers’ Club, held on Friday…

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Butter Market

The Bega District News · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 1

Prescott Ltd. reports on 6th inst.: New South Wales: With pastures and cattle in good condition for this time of the year, production is being…

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Cooma Cattle Sale

The Bega District News · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 2

J. A. Montague, auctioneer, reports that there was a keen demand for all classes of cattle at the sale held at Cooma on Thursday last, 4th inst,…

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Sharp Criticism Millions of Sheep and Cattle Yet Australia Serves Travellers German Sausage Sandwiches

The South Coast Register · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 6

Air mail passengers who dine at Darwin are not enamored of the quality of the meals served to them. In fact, the other day they…

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Dairy Industry. First Cattle Arrived in Australia in 1788

The Bega District News · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 4

Pedestrians and motorists who help make George, Pitt and Market Streets, Sydney, the busiest thoroughfares in that great city, little…

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Butter Quality Local Market

The South Coast Register · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 4

The state butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended May 5, 1939,…

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Local and General King’s Cattle Sale

The South Coast Register · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 2

There was a good attendance at King and Sons’ cattle sale at Berry yards yesterday, when the auctioneers report a good yarding of 80…

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Discomforts of Winter Dairying. Value of Concrete in Their Prevention

The Bega District News · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 6

The wet, boggy conditions occasioned on many farms by the continuous heavy rains of recent weeks have given a fore taste of the…

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Dairy Instructors’ Reports For Month of April

The South Coast Register · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 5

Mr. A. T. R. Brown, senior dairy instructor, in charge of the Dairy Branch district, Illawarra and Southern Tablelands, with headquarters at…

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Helped Found Dairying

The South Coast Register · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 4

With the death of Mr. J. T. Young, of Hinton, Australia has lost one of its most prominent breeders of Australian Illawarra Shorthorn cattle…

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