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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

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New South Wales Dairying

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 6

THE official returns state that there are in New South Wales 264 dairy factories, using plant and machinery of the value of…

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The Leicester Sheep

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 2

WE think the Border Leicesters are superior to English Leicesters for the Australian Colonies. The rams of the future for crossbreeding purposes must be the Lincoln and…

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Conference of Butter Fastery Delegates

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 3

SEEING that dairying on the Clarence is ar[?] very important Interest representatives from the Directorates of the various companies met at Grafton on Nov. 29, to…

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Rawdon Island and the Dairy Factory. to the Editor of the Port Macquarie News

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 5

Sir,—The Rawdon Island correspondent, in your last issue, has made most discredit-remarks, re the Dairy Company, and its management, which I consider is uncalled…

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Improving Dairy Herds

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 2

A LARGE proportion of the dairy cattle of this country are [?] for the duties required of them. A mistake usually made is being misled by a fancy for certain shapes, colours…

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The Origin of the Australian Dairy Cow

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 3

THIS is a subject which has been long in dispute amongst dairy farmers, as the trace of pedigree was neglected in the early times of dairy farming. Dairy men did not pay so…

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Loans to Farmers. New Scheme by the New Zealand Government. a Revolution in Land Mortgages

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 5

QUITE a sensation has been caused in financial circles in New Zealand by a speech made by the Premier, in which he has laid before the country a novel and…

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The Melbourne Baby Farming Case. Melbourne

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 5

The Victorian Cabinet will give its decision on December 29th with respect to the case of the woman Knorr, convicted of murder in relation…

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To those Farmers who want a Protective Tariff

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 6

THE depressed and unsatisfactery condition of agriculture has aroused the farmers of Canada to the consideration of…

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Cheap Money for Farmers

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 4

THE article which we publish in this issue setting forth the scheme of the late Mr. Ballance to supply loans at low rates of interest to the New…

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The Butter [?] Trade

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 5

A MEETING of district and [?]lter factory representatives, called by the Dairy Farmers' Export [?] was held last week at the New South Wales Fresh Food…

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Improving the Cattle Pastures

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 2

THERE is not one pasture out of fifty, in the Middle and New England States that could not be made to produce an increased amount of feed, and of improved quality. Nearly…

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Long-keeping Butter

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 27 December 1893 · page 3

AN interesting article on this subject appears over the name of F. Blersch, Principal of the Stellenbosch Agricultural…

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"Pure" Butter and Cheese

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 27 December 1893 · page 6

WHO began it nobody knows, but it may fairly be suspected that some schemer or some dishonest person first began to…

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British and American Wheat Growing

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 27 December 1893 · page 7

The Quarterly Review, in a recent issue, treats at length of "Competition in Wheat Growing," and says that "after three years of unremunerative prices, many…

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