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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

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Dairy Supervision

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 26 February 1890 · page 3

The Colonial Secretary received oil Friday morning a deputation representing the City and Suburban Dairymen's Association, who desired to…

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Baby Farming in Russia. Seventy-six Infants Murdered. [By Cable.] London

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 26 February 1890 · page 3

Baby farming on an extensive and systematic scale has been discovered in Warsaw. It has been ascertained that 76 infants were murdered at…

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How to keep Butter

Macleay Argus · Friday 28 February 1890 · page 3

The following extract from the American 'Agriculturalist' shows how butter can be kept sweet and good for years:--…

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Supposed Baby Farming

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 5 March 1890 · page 3

DURING the past three months three cases of child abandonment have occurred at Hawthorn, Victoria, whilst in the other suburbs also this…

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What Wheat Rust is

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 March 1890 · page 3

Mr. Mackay, agricultural lecturer in connection with the Technical College, speaking at Moss Vale last week, thus…

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The Victorian Farmers and Freetrade

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 26 March 1890 · page 3

Mr. Thompson, secretary of the Goulburn branch of the Freetrade aud Liberal Association, has received a letter from Mr. Samuel Young,…

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The Victorian Farmers

Macleay Argus · Friday 28 March 1890 · page 2

SIDE by side with the strenuous efforts now being made in New South Wales to lure the farmers over to protection with promises of high prices and…

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Cattle Fodder

Macleay Argus · Friday 25 April 1890 · page 3

An experiment was recently made in the United States to ascertain what the effect upon milk production would be if for…

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Enormous Loss of Sheep. SYDNEY

Macleay Argus · Friday 25 April 1890 · page 2

A private letter received this, morning states that Charles and Hurtle Fisher, the well-known squatters, have lost 250,000 sheep through the Bourke…

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The Victorian Farmers Again

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 3

As further proof of the spread of the free-trade movement among the Victorian farmers we quote the following…

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The Proposed Model Farm

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 3

At a meeting of the Orange Borough Council on Tuesday night Alderman Flanigan brought forward a motion requesting the members for the…

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Small Farms mean a Prosperous Nation

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 May 1890 · page 3

The example shown by some of our small farmers (says a writer in an American paper) on 20 to 40 acres of land, the…

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Seed Wheat

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 7 May 1890 · page 3

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

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Preserving Butter

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 May 1890 · page 3

A subscriber to the 'New Zealand Farmer' writes :-The following American plan of preserving butter made in the…

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Victorian Farmers and Freetrade

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 May 1890 · page 3

A PUBLIC meeting was held last week in the Goulburn Academy of Music to hear addresses from Mr. Samuel Young,…

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The Victorian Farmers and Protection

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 14 May 1890 · page 3

AT a meeting held in the Academy of Music, Goulburn, last week, Mr. Samuel Young, President of the Numurkah Group of the Victorian…

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The How Butter Progress

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 May 1890 · page 3

It is well known that the great secret of good butter- making is to get rid of all ingredients which are not butter fat, as it is these things that decay and spoil the butter…

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A Farmer's Experience in America

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 May 1890 · page 4

THE following letter has been received by Mr. Frank Cotton, Sydney, from an American farmer: Vinita, Cherokee Nation, U.S., America…

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A Farmer Killed by a Boar

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 21 May 1890 · page 3

AN evening or two ago a farmer named Wright, residing at Benandra, near Nelligen, was in his house with a little boy who was Staying at his place,…

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Farming, Bee-Farming, and Horticulture to be taught in Schools. SYDNEY

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 June 1890 · page 5

The Minister for Public Instruction has established classes in several of the Public Schools for teaching bee farming, agriculture, and horticulture…

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