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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

552 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 10 of 28

Seed Wheat

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 1 May 1890 · page 3

Hon. S. Smith said that the Government intended to grant an extension of time for the payments for seed wheat in some cases…

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John Walton's Farm

National Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 1

"Hadn't you better subscribe for it ?" "I tell yon, no. I haven't the money to spare. And, if I had, I haven't got the time to waste over newspaper," said Eben Sawyer,…

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Why Some Farmers Do Not Succeed

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 6

A writer in the progressive Farmer, in giving a list of the reasons why some farmers do not succeed, mentions these: They give no attention to details…

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Farm and Garden

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 6

To make a good warm breakfast for forty fowls: Boil a heaping half-peck of potatoes; mash them; add one quart each of shorts and bran, n teaspoonful each of salt and…

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Butter Five Pence

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 7

How's this? We hear the people who make the butter have to be content with 5d. per lb—it wan so in some instances last week—while the…

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[?]ood Wheat

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 8

Mr. Sydney Smith stated in the Assembly on Thursday that every application from farmers for further time to liquidate their indebtedness…

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Systematic Farming

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 7

Those Brombee modelists have not got it all their own way when it comes to farming on a large scale. Perhaps no more industrious farmer…

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An Item for Farmers

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 8

Mr. Rowland Atkinson has left with us a sample of Hungarian millet, which is growing prolifically and profitably at Slasher's Flat. Mr. Franca…

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The Victorian Farmers and Protection. GOULBURN

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 2

Mr. S. Young, president of the Numurkah group of the Victorian Farmers' Protection Association, and Mr. J. M. M'Lean, formerly lecturer of the same…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday morning. Victorian Farmers Speak

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 6 May 1890 · page 2

Messrs. Young and McLean, the Victorian farmers' representatives, declare from experience that the prosperity of Victoria is due to the amount of borrowed…

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Protection in Victoria. What Victorian Farmers Think of It. Interview with Mr. Young and Mr. M'lean

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 May 1890 · page 2

Naturally considerable interest has been manifested by the people of New South Wales in the recent demonstration of a revulsion of fooling on the part of the…

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Non-Union Wool in London

National Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1890 · page 3

The dock laborers and others in London will block the discharge of wool ships coming form Queensland ports if the colonial unions will supply money in the event of a general strike…

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In Parliament. SYDNEY, Friday. Rust in Wheat

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 9 May 1890 · page 3

In the Assembly yesternight in reply to a question the Minister said that the Agriculture Department are now conducting experiments for stamping out rust in…

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Farm and Garden

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 5

The last two years have witnessed another development of machinery in California wheat culture. Steam power, writes a correspondent, has been…

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Butter Factory

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 12 May 1890 · page 5

The Mudgee Butter Company in but the forerunner of many similar concerns that will soon crop up. There is talk of Mr. J. G. Wurth starting…

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The Annual Sheep Sales

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 12 May 1890 · page 6

At a meeting of the Mudgee Sheep-breeder's Association, held at Messrs. Crossing and Cox's rooms on Thursday last, it was decided to hold the…

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The Butter-making Industry. to the Editor

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 12 May 1890 · page 3

SIR. I notice recently that attempts are being made by some of your would-be leading townsmen to belittle the past effort of our energetic…

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Rust in Wheat

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 13 May 1890 · page 4

We (the Home and Farm) publish the following interesting letter, received by Mr. James Martin, M.P., on wheat growing, and the cause of rust as experienced…

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South African Wool

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1890 · page 3

Paul London, the manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., in writing to the Economist, deprecates the establishment of South African wool factories,…

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The Sugar Crop

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1890 · page 3

The Colonial Sugar Co. expect the forth-coming sugar season will be the most plentiful over seen on the Clarence River…

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