The Farmer
During the past six months the Byron Bay Creamery Company has received nearly £20,000 for the butter sold, or an average of [?]d per lb…
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Farming & the land, 1896
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Hawkesbury Farmers
Mr. HAYES, speaking at Singleton Farmers' Association's annual meeting, said: —"An important item in the railway construction he noticed was that while…
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There are 13,500 acres under wheat in Condobolin district, and looking well. According to the "Gazette" of St. Petersburg, Russia possesses 30,000,000…
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Mr. Cairnes (of Parramatta) sent to London last week a consignment of oranges for Mr. John Bennett, of Ebenezer. The freight on 69 cases came to…
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The amount for distribution of seed wheat to farmers for this year has been increased to £12,700. An Oil Mill Company has been started…
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We were shown at Robertson last week a sample of potatoes which returned 20 tons to the acre last season. This will take a lot of beating…
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Ploughing by steam in America is done at a cost of about 1[?] 11d per acre. The amount for distribution of seed wheat to farmers for this year has been…
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Cauliflowers 7/6 per dozen wholesale in Sydney last Friday. 500 tons of hay and 500 tons of potatoes shipped from Melbourne last week…
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To the Editor. Sir,—A line to correct a statement that appeared in the last issue of your paper[?] "That freight upon potatoes from Tasmania was 9/8 per ton as against 3/[?] from…
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Farm labourers in Belgium receive is [?]d per day. The crop of oranges and lemons at Mildura for the season now gathered is…
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The branding of cattle on the side, instead of on the neck or shoulder, costs the breeders of each colony £200,000 annually…
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The British Co-operative Association spends £2,500,000 in butter annually. [?] Mr. C. W. Dargin, our District Stock Inspector, has a sample of Queensland…
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Sugar beet has been very successfully grown at Tumut. Mr. W. P. Crick's recently-introduced Bill provides that an owner of a stallion…
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Numbers of Victorian farmers are entering the Corow[?] district, and are taking up land there. Thirty farmers near Armidale are about…
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Planter's friend yielded over 34 tons of green fodder per acre at the Hawkesbury College farm with a mixture of super[?] phosphate and sulphate of ammonia…
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The GAZETTE 2/6 Quarterly in advance. Out of 226,000 farms in Denmark, only 1,990 are over 250 acres in extent, and…
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The GAZETTE 2/6 Quarterly in advance. Onions are quoted at from £12 to £16 per ton in Sydney…
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A very fine cedar tree was felled last week on the Upper Macleay (says the Macleay "Chronicle). It measured 14ft diameter at the stump, and the same at…
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1500 sheep have been poisoned at Cobar through eating a weed called wild parsnip. "The Hawkesbury—the garden for…
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IT IS always gratifying to note anything in the district which indicates change for the better—whether it be in the way of new businesses being opened up, new crops sown, or new industries…
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