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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

131 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 7

Preserving Butter in Brine

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 January 1891 · page 2

A method of preserving butter by immersion in brine for home consumption and for export is thus explained:--…

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Australian Butter in England. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 January 1891 · page 3

Sydney and Melbourne butter sold at £6 per cwt…

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The Tumut Wheat Crop. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1891 · page 2

The wheat crop at Tumut is affected with rust…

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A New Market Opening for Butter

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1891 · page 3

THE arrangements made for the exportation of butter have progressed so satisfactorily that about one-third of the total amount of factory butter…

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Smithtown Dairy Company, Limited

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1891 · page 3

A MEETING of directors was held at Smithtown on Saturday last. There were present Messrs. W. C. Eddis (chairman), Jno. Knauer, and H. W…

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Killed in a Dairy Factory. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 4

At Springhill, near Milton, the adopted daughter of Mr. S. Leary was killed by her dress becoming entangled in the driving shaft of a cream…

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Manager of the Smithtown Dairy

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 4

The manager for this dairy arrived by the last steamer in the person of Mr. F. McCaffery, recently manager of Wauchope Factory,…

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The Profitable Dairy Cow

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 6

Brofessor Stewart says, with reference to the selection of the dairy cow, that the first thing to look at is her capacity of…

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The Warneton Dairy Factory

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 21 January 1891 · page 2

We have been shown a telegram by the Chairman of Directors of the above company stating that the first consignment of butter sent to Sydney…

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Dishorning Cattle

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 3

Professor Williams could not close his address on the opening of the session of the new Veterinary College, Edinburgh,…

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Australian Butter in London

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 3

London city brokers acknowledge (according to the London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus ') a marked…

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Smithtown Dairy Co

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 4

A meeting of directors was held yesterday, when a great many matters relating to the internal arrangements of the factory was dealt with. There…

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A Good Machine for Farmers

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 2

The Queensland Times states that they have been shown an invention, in the shape of a combined corn husker, sheller, cleaner, and bagger, which…

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Australian Wool Export. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 4 February 1891 · page 2

Our wool export from the colonies this season show a decrease of seventy nine thousand six hundred and twelve bales as compared with last year…

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South Australian Wheat Harvest. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 4

The South Australian wheat harvest is far below expectations…

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Opening of the Smithtown Dairy

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 5

A MORE unfortunate day for the opening of a dairy factory could hardly have been chosen than Wednesday last. The heat was intense, and the…

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Prevention of Rust in Wheat. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 11 February 1891 · page 2

Jno. Broderick, of Coughrea, near Crookwell, has succeeded in producing clean wheat on land subject to rust by using Sugar Company's No. 3 manure…

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Cocoanut Butter

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 2

The new Kew Bulletin contains a number of documents describing the preparation of cocoanut butter. The chief of these is a report from the British Vice-Consul at Berlin, stating that…

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Victorian Farmers and Freetrade

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 4

The Numurkah shire council decided at its ordinary monthly meeting on Friday to invite Mr. Murray Smith to deliver a lecture on freetrade in…

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Prizes for Farms

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 6

Messrs. E. P. Dowling, Sydney, G. P. Kerrison Bega, and G. S. Yeo Mulgrave, the judges of the entries in the South Coast district, for the…

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