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South Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

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R.A.S. Show District Cattle Exhibitors

The South Coast Register · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 4

Australian Illawarra Shorthorns show the greatest increase in entries of any breed at the R.A.S. this year. Among the studs noted…

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Farm and Dairy Items of Interest

The Bega District News · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 6

Output of butter from New South Wales factories in the six months ended December, 1940, was 44,080,000 Ib, compared with 57,717,000Ib for the…

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Coastal Dairy Farm Competition Will be Held

The South Coast Register · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 4

It was announced this week that coastal dairy farm competition for 1941 would be conducted by the “Farmer and Settler” in conjunction…

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Dairy Science Schools 1941

The South Coast Register · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 4

[?] wishing to attend Dairy [?] schools during the winter [?] should make written. application , accompanied by a fee of…

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Proposed Butter Factories’ Association

The Bega District News · Monday 31 March 1941 · page 2

A large and representative meeting of directors of Abutter factories convened by the board of the Bimbaya factory, was held at Bega on Friday…

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Finance and Farmers

The Bega District News · Monday 31 March 1941 · page 4

The Government of New South Wales now proposes [?]o throw a sop to the small man in the country by pushing through a Bill to finance,…

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Farm Drainage. I Sometimes Unrecognised Need

The Bega District News · Monday 31 March 1941 · page 1

It is sometimes thought by formers that unless stagnant water lies on the surface of the land or the area is low-lying and swampy, the soil is not…

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Loss Through Neglect of Farm Machinery

The Bega District News · Monday 31 March 1941 · page 1

A serious cause of loss on many farms is due to neglect of farm machinery. Loss in this connection may be put down to three chief causes:…

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Free Publications on Farming

The Bega District News · Monday 31 March 1941 · page 1

More than 17,000 farmers applied last year for literature issued by the Department of Agriculture. Some 177,000 copies of pamphlets, bulletins,…

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National Value Dairy Farm Competition

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 2 April 1941 · page 6

With dairy products No. 1 on the list of food exports from Australia to Great Britain, efficiency in the dairying industry is more important than…

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Cattle Sales

The South Coast Register · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 4

Messrs. J. N. King and Sons Pty. [?] state that owing to the Sydney [?] falling on their next fortnightly sale at Berry, there will be…

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Good Pasture is Essential To Attainment of the Dairy Farmers Objective

The South Coast Register · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 2

If dairying is to be profitable, such methods must be adopted as will extract from every acre the maximum return. The potential productive…

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District Dairy Report

The Bega District News · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 3

Mr S. R. Ballard, Senior Dairy Instructor. reports for March:— General conditions for dairying throughout the Bega district showed…

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The Farmers’ Column. Oranges in Silage

The Bega District News · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 1

In a recent letter to a fellow member of Bungarby branch of the “Agricultural Bureau,” Gunner A. G. Johnson, on service with the Australian…

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Change. and Diversified Farming

The Bega District News · Monday 7 April 1941 · page 1

“It is an innate characteristic of human nature to resist change, and while at times this tendency may be good in that it breeds caution and is…

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Royal Empire Show Opened On Monday Berry Exhibitors Do Well in Dairy Cattle

The South Coast Register · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 2

The Royal Empire Show opened on Monday last, and gives promises to eclipse all previous records. Entries in many classes are a record,…

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Wheat Prices. Big Increase Unlikely

The Bega District News · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 5

Although the war has resulted in substantial increases in the price of a large number of commodities, including wheat, wheat is unlikely to take…

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Farm Vegetable Garden

The Bega District News · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 6

Vegetables play a very important part in the health of human beings, green vegetables especially being just as necessary as fruit and milk,…

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Soil less Farming. Growth of Plants in Water

The Bega District News · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 6

Farmers too old to plough or to manage tractors and other machinery need never despair. Suburbanites with small garden space may raise…

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The Farmer’s Column. Control of Tomato Aphid

The Bega District News · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 6

Experiments carried out by the Entomological Branch of the Department of Agriculture, have demonstrated that the most satisfactory control…

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