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Farming & the land, 1951

234 stories in South Coast's papers · page 4 of 12

Dairy Produce Board Election

The Bega District News · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 1

Nominations of Candidates for election as members representing Butter and Cheese Factories on the Australian…

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Higher Butter Price Claim Support From Bega A. P. & H. Society

The Bega District News · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 7

The Bega A. P. and H. Society Committee was unanimous in its support of Mr. Cecil Squire's motion that something…

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Rush By Farmers With Rabbits For Virus Supplies Exhausted Before All Inoculated

The Bega District News · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 1

So many farmers went to the Bega. Saleyards, on Wednesday, with rabbits for myxomatosis inoculations that the 200 doses forwarded by the Department of Agriculture were exhausted before all the…

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Crisis Feared In Dairying Industry Special Action Necessary Says Mr. Fraser

The Bega District News · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Unless special action was taken to make dairying more attractive, Australia within a few years would have no dairy produce for export, and not enough butter for unrationed…

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Pleuro Pneumonin Outbreak in Cattle Singleton

The Bega District News · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 1

“An outbreak of oleuro [?] monia has occupled am[?] mob of twelve hundred the Singleton [?]…

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Tobacco Crops Prospects Bad N.w.s. Yields Will Be Low

The Bega District News · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 6

Prspe[?] for this season’s tobacco crop in New South Wales are bad and yields will probably be amongst the lowest on record…

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Strip Farming Demonstration at Bemboka

The Bega District News · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 6

“A splendid demonstration under way at Bem[?]oka, moving the sowing of improved pastures on strip-farming lines and pasture…

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District Studs Sell Cattle

The Bega District News · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 2

District Jersey cattle breeders, although not quite as prominent in this year’s prize list at the Sydney Royal Show,…

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Dairy Farm Competition Minister Outlines General Conditions

The Bega District News · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 2

Details of a new series of dairy farm competitions, which culminate in a State Championship, have been announced by the Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. H. Graham, M.L.A…

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Bega Bean Crops Doing Well

The Bega District News · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 6

With an abundance of heat and moisture, Far South Coast bean crops had done particularly well, reported the Bega agronomist…

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Temperament in Dairy Cows Aggressive Beasts Should Be Dehorned Ob Culled

The Bega District News · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 5

Some cows are naturally aggressive while others are timid; the aggressive beast is a menace in the assembly yard and may…

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Winter School for Junior Farmers

The Bega District News · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 1

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., announced today that Winter Schools for Junior Farmers…

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£16,000 for Dairy Farm Mr. F. A. McINTOSH Buys “Willow Glen”—100 Acres

The South Coast Register · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 2

A great deal of interest was taken in the sale of the dairy farming property, “Willow Glen,” which was purchased by Mr. F…

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Minister's Reply on Butter Price

The Bega District News · Friday 20 April 1951 · page 1

Another innocuous reply has been received from a State Minister over a local attempt to bring to official notice the low…

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Grave Danger of Winter Butter Shortage P.D.S. Gen. Manager Says Incentive Needed To Rehabilitate Industry

The Bega District News · Tuesday 24 April 1951 · page 1

"The Dairy Industry will have great difficulty in meeting the steadily increasing demand if present conditions continue," the general manager of the Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society Ltd., Mr. E. F. Voysey, stated last week. "The position must be forcibly brought before the authorities before too great a drift…

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Winter Butter Shortage

The South Coast Register · Thursday 26 April 1951 · page 1

The General Manager of the Producers’ Co-operative Distributing Society Limited (Mr. E. F. Voysey) says: “Cost of…

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Breeding for Milk and “BEAUTY” (An article by Robert Drummond in “Farming News, and North British Agriculturist,” of January 1, 1951.)

The South Coast Register · Thursday 26 April 1951 · page 4

Write an article an breeding for milk production, the editor said. Frankly, I would sooner show him, It isn’t easy to put…

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Junior Farmer Organiser Full-time Officer to Be Appointed

The Bega District News · Friday 27 April 1951 · page 2

Mr. R. J. Heffron, Minister for Education, has informed Mr. J. W. Seiffert, M.L.A., Member for Monaro, that the…

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“Average Butter Price Too Low” Bega Co-op. Chairman Wants Incentive Price

The Bega District News · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 2

The chairman of the Bega Co-operative Society (Mr. J. T. Rogers) said he thought that the average price of butter was…

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Breeding for Milk and “BEAUTY” (An article by Robert Drummond in “Farming News, and North British Agriculturist,” of January 1, 1951.) (Continued from last issue)

The South Coast Register · Thursday 3 May 1951 · page 4

The bull calf was bought for £100. “Now,” said my father, “when this calf grows up I want you to put him across your…

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