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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

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Good Butter

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 4 October 1893 · page 8

"THAT which is worth doing is worth doing well." The little private dairy cannot always make sure of making best…

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"The Butter Secret."

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 4 October 1893 · page 3

IT is reported in America that the butter secret has been discovered. Dr. Vaughn is the man who is credited with…

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The Cranberry Crop

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 October 1893 · page 6

As the Christmas season draws near every one becomes more or less interested in cranberries. A large part of the cranberries grown in the United…

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Butter Making at Low Temperature

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 11 October 1893 · page 8

NEW SOUTH WALES dairymen are striving to get the biggest prices for what is to be exported this year. At a conference of…

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Our Dairy Produce in England. Some Important Suggestions

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 2

THE Minister for Mines and Agriculture has received copies of a report furnished by Mr. Charles R. Valentine to the Agent-General; Sir Samuel, on the grading of butter, and the…

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Farm Notes. Farm Paint

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 6

LINSEED oil, covered with any preferred colouring matter, makes a cheap paint for outbuildings and may be applied every year or two with but little expense. Keeping the…

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To Cool Butter

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 18 October 1893 · page 3

IN warm weather such as we may now look for you will find butter keeps cool and sweet if the boxes containing it are…

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Aberdeen-Angus Cattle

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 18 October 1893 · page 8

THERE is perhaps no other instance in the history of cattle raising where a breed of cattle came so rapidly into public…

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When Butter Won't Come

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 18 October 1893 · page 8

EVERY dairyman has had milk at some time, in which the butter fails to separate from the cream. At such times one…

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Feeding the Corn Crops

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 October 1893 · page 3

THERE is no doubt of the fact, proved as it has been by ninny exhaustive experiments that the use of [?] letter for the corn crop than that [?] The…

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Saltless Butter

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 25 October 1893 · page 3

ON many occasions (says the 'American Dairyman') we have told it as a fact that the best butter used in London and…

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A Profitable Maize Crop

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 25 October 1893 · page 8

WHAT may be termed a really splendid yield of grain (says the Warwick Argus') was thrashed by Mr. W. D. Lamb on the farm…

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A Sheep Farmer Shoots Himself Sydney

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 4

Charles Russell, aged 29, lately a sheep farmer, but recently of no employment, shot himself dead at Watson's Bay yesterday…

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Position of the Australian Farmer

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 3

IT is a pleasure to know that the condition of our farmers was seldom better. Although there has been a wave of…

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The Dairy the Dairy Cow in Winter. Answers to The Rural New Yorker's Questions About Her Camfort

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1893 · page 3

How much exercise does the winer milker need from Dec. 15 to April 15? What should be her stable comforts so induce for to do her best?…

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Australian Advantages for Butter-making

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 3

WHEN we get fairly into the butter export business, it will be found that there are very special advantages in our favour, as competitors for the extra-high prices always…

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The Dairy. Building an Icehouse. How to Make a Good One Without Great Expense

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 6

In answer to an inquirer who wisher to build a dairy under an icehouse, to correspondent to The Rural New Yorks says…

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Making Gilt-Edge Butter

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 15 November 1893 · page 8

IMMEDIATELY after milking the milk is strained through a thin cloth into a can from 12 to 20 inches high, and cooled to 60…

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Butter for London

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 22 November 1893 · page 6

PROFESSOR LONG, the English authority (says a Southern contemporary), thinks that however successful the farmers…

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