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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1889

94 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 5

Protection and the Farmers

Macleay Argus · Saturday 20 April 1889 · page 4

Some figures of great interest to those of our farmers who believe that protection would very much improve their…

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Farmer. Beef. Blood and Bones. Concluded

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 7

Returning to the skinned beast, we find a swarm of human bees taking away the different parts for different purposes. The first run of blood from the cut throat of the…

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Children. Mary's Little Lamb. The Owner of the Original Creature Relates Its Story. How Mrs. Mary E. Tyler Discovered the Helpless Waif and Saw It Develop Into a Good-Sized Sheep-- The Verse Written in its Honor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 7

Mrs. Mary E. Tyler gives the following story of the original " little lamb" :" One cold, bleak March morning I went out with father, and after the cows had been…

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Dairy Farming on the Wilson

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 May 1889 · page 3

Mr. A. Wade, of Camden Haven, has purchased a farm of 130 acres at Telegraph Point, Wilson River, for £700, from Mr. A. E. Pountney--…

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Farmer

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 May 1889 · page 2

[?] is claiming to have the largest poultry farm in the world owned by Mr A. C. Hawkins. From a description of the place given we take a few extracts, as…

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The Dairy

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 May 1889 · page 2

The print is the very worst form in which butter can be put for preserving its delicate flavors. Small rolls stand best in this respect. In both cases the danger of injury is…

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Butter Factories

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 2

MORE than ordinary interest is now given by the farmers of these northern rivers to the subject of butter factories; and there is a growing belief on the Hastings River that the introduction of dairy…

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Pig Farming

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 2

MOST of the farmers on the Hastings River will, we have no doubt, acknowledge that there is' money to be made cut of pig breeding ; whilst many others in…

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Rules for the Dairyman

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT, writing to an American exchange, says :— It is bettor to have a cow that will give you 300 pounds of butter a year for five year and then die…

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Pig Farming

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 4

A WRITER in the Clarence Examiner makes the following remarks upon the above subject:—"I have been advocating pig raising ever since I came to reside on the Clarence; but those I have spoken…

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Farmer. Care of Convalescent Animals. Midy Morgan

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 2

So much has been written and said on the care of domestic animals during sickness, and the varied ills to which they are subject have been so ably and frequently discussed,…

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Farmers and Protection

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 May 1889 · page 3

ON the formation of a branch of the Freetrade and Liberal Association in Kempsey, the Macleay Chronicle notified the event in these words: "It…

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Something about Butter Factories. to the Editor of the Port MaCQUARIE NEWS

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1889 · page 4

Dear Sir,—As we see by the last issue of the Port Macquarie News that there is some prospect of a butter factory being formed on the Hastings River we shall be pleased to…

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Farming Notes

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1889 · page 2

THE cheapest growth is made on young animals after the naturing period the cost of gain increases rapidly If we double the time needed to grow a hog about three…

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Farmers and Protection. Part Ii

Macleay Argus · Saturday 18 May 1889 · page 6

Old as the controversy between freetrade and protection is, however, and thoroughly threshed out as it has been in its main aspects, there are two or three objections to…

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Farmer

Macleay Argus · Saturday 18 May 1889 · page 2

ALTHOUGH scientists are not in perfect accord as to the influence that forests exert upon climatic conditions, nevertheless is sufficient agreement among them for us to…

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Farmer. A Plan For a Woman's Poultry Farm. SS [?]. K. WINANS

Macleay Argus · Saturday 25 May 1889 · page 2

Most of the weak points about poultry [?]ms have to do in some way with the obstinate fact that the ground which many shickens live on will get unhealthy. Even…

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Farmers and Protection. " I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you." --Shakespeare. Part Iii

Macleay Argus · Saturday 25 May 1889 · page 3

"Protection will not maintain a higher rate of wages unless the influx of immigration and the natural increase of the people is stoped."-- vide " Macleay Chronicle " of…

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Why Cattle Require Salt

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 4

EVERY farmer is accustomed to salt his cattle, but not every one knows why he does it, unless it is because the stock like it. But a moment's thought will show where the…

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Farmers and Protection. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you." -Shakespeare. Part Iv

Macleay Argus · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 6

By the census of 1880, the number of persons engaged in various kinds of Occupation in the United States is set down at a little over [?]…

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