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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1889

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Dairy Factories. to the Editor of the Port Macquarie News

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 4

Dear Sir,—I will avail myself of the invitation you extend for discussions and information on dairy factories, as possibly the made of organisation, and tho preliminary…

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Farmers and Protection

Macleay Argus · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 6

" I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you."--Shakespeare. PART V. The American farmer has…

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[?]er. [?] Woman's Poultry [?]Farm

Macleay Argus · Saturday 8 June 1889 · page 2

[?] the weak points about poultry [?]ave to do in some way with the ob[?]e fact that the ground which many [?]xens live on will get unhealthy. Even…

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Smut in Wheat

Macleay Argus · Saturday 15 June 1889 · page 8

At a meeting of the Council of Agricultural Education of Victoria, a report was read from Mr. Thompson,…

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

Macleay Argus · Saturday 15 June 1889 · page 3

While America did not export very much, she did not feel the necessity of revising her tariff, which she lately did by reducing her average from 47…

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Farmer. "The Kidney Vetch."

Macleay Argus · Saturday 15 June 1889 · page 2

Kidney Vetch, sometimes called sand clover, is a plant which, within the last few years, has found its way into seedmen's warehouses and its name into seedsmen's…

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

Macleay Argus · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 6

Abundance of evidence showing the poverty of American wheat-growers is to be found in the various Departmental State reports, the whole of…

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Farmers and Protection

Macleay Argus · Saturday 29 June 1889 · page 3

"I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you."--Shakespeare. PART VIII. When the corn laws were in…

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Farmer. Making Unfermented Wine

Macleay Argus · Saturday 29 June 1889 · page 2

WE are often asked, about this time of the year, to give a recipe for preserving grape-juice in its unfermented state--in other words, for making non-alcoholic wine and…

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Farmers and Protection

Macleay Argus · Saturday 6 July 1889 · page 6

"I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you."--Shakespeare. PART IX. Mr. Bright's earliest efforts in public…

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The Dairy. The Making of Gorgonzola Cheese

Macleay Argus · Saturday 6 July 1889 · page 2

In a valuable paper contributed by Mr. Joseph Rigby to the journal of the Royal Manchester, Liverpool, and North Lancashire Agricultural Society, on the dairy…

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Farmer. Will It Pay the Average Farmer to Save His Own Garden Seeds?

Macleay Argus · Saturday 6 July 1889 · page 2

Each of almost all the vegetables now in cultivation has a great number of varieties, and these varieties are generally more or less unstable in quality. Take, for example,…

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Victorian Prize Farms Competition

Macleay Argus · Saturday 6 July 1889 · page 3

The farm of Mr. Henry Aumann, the winner of the second prize for the best-managed farm in the northern division, contains 308 acres, and is sit[?]e about 5 miles from…

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Farm and Garden. Simple Rules far Butter-Making

Macleay Argus · Saturday 13 July 1889 · page 2

Rinse in cold water, all dairy utensils to be used, such as churn, butter worker, wooden butter hands, &c. Now scald with hot water and rinse again…

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Farmers and Protection

Macleay Argus · Saturday 13 July 1889 · page 3

"I will boy with you, sell with you, talk with you."--Shakespeare. PART X. Let it be distinctly understood,…

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Farm and Dairy Properties

Macleay Argus · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 3

400 acres, C.P., certificates held, enclosed, 100 acres ringbarked, 50 acres cleared, 200 fruit trees, 7-roomed house, kitchen, tank, 50 acre paddock,…

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Stations, Selections, Farms Suburban and Town Allotments. for Private Sale Station Properties

Macleay Argus · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 3

40,000 acres, Leasehold. 333 acres Freehold. 250 acres C.P. 1,300 head Mixed Cattle. Immediate possession. 41,000 acres Leasehold, 40 acres…

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Farmer. The Washing of Sheep

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 2

This utilitarian age has no scruples about removing the old landmarks. If any practice has ceased to be profitable, it very soon sets out of date. One of the old landmarks…

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Butter-making

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 3

The following method is given by Baron Jones (manager of the travelling dairy), in the 'Queenslander' :--"Butter…

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Farmer. Don't Fight the Team

Macleay Argus · Saturday 3 August 1889 · page 2

If a horse shows signs of stubbornness or contrariness, just get mad yourself, and you can rest assured you are fixed for the rest of the day, as long as you want to keep it up…

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