Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Farming & the land, all years

Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1894

110 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 6

Thin out the Vegetable Crops

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1894 · page 4

WE are having a very active growing season. Just the sort of time to force vegetables into becoming half-starved weeds unless thinning out is followed very closely. Take the case…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Grading up a Dairy Herd

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1894 · page 4

THERE are hundreds of dairy men whose means are too limited to admit, as they think,the purchase of other than native cows for thier herds. This is repecialy to be seen in the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Benefit [?] of the Duty on Wheat

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 11 April 1894 · page 3

THIS is the genesis of the boon to the N.S.W. farmers conferred by the 6d per bushel duty on wheat: Chapter I: Let us…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Dairying Industry. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 11 April 1894 · page 5

SIR -- Seeing the high place which the butter, exported from this and neighbouring colonies is taking in the markets of the world, and the advantage we have of placing…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Dairy Farmers Association. "The Butter-export Trade. a Dissentient Company

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1894 · page 3

A MEETING of the general executive of the Dairy Farmers! Association, factory directors, and producers throughout the colony was held at the office of the Fresh Food and Ice Company, Harbor-street…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Export of Butter

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1894 · page 5

AT a picnic given to Mr. B. W. Foley, of Foley Brothers, Sydney, on Saturday last, on the occasion of his departure for England and America, the following interesting…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Profit and Loss in Farming. W[?]

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1894 · page 4

In this age of industrial activity, it may be well to direct attention to the present conditions of agricultural production to ascertain the direction in which improvements in…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

A Hint to Butter Producers

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1894 · page 3

A DAIRY company in Cape Colony claims to have discovered a method whereby fresh butter can be sent long…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Maize Crop on the Clarence

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1894 · page 3

Up to the present about 35,877 bags of the new crop of maize has been exported from the Clarence, which includes 23,000…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Assistance for Victorian Farmers

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1894 · page 3

THE Savings Bank Commissioners in Victoria have prepared a scheme for granting loans to farmers and others in…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The World's Wheat Consumption

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 25 April 1894 · page 8

A SINGULAR theory has been put forward by an American newspaper. Nothing less than that the consumption of wheat…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Monster Hay Farm

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 25 April 1894 · page 8

THE 'River Plate Sport and Pastime' gives an account of an immense hay farm, the property of Hon. J. J. Carvagal…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Cattle

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 2

In the cattle sections the dairy breeds were not so numerously represented as one might hope for in a great dairying country like this ; but yet the dairying…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Hastings River Co-operative Dairy Company Limited

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 2

THE half-yearly general meeting or shareholders of the above company was held in Kilmurray's Hall Wauchope, on Monday evening last. There was a good attendance…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Farming and Grazing Notes

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 2

In seeking mea [?] wherewith to resuscitate the finances of Australia, one has to go further a field than mere retrenchment. The properity of the colonies in the past has…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Farm Produce

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 2

The farm produce exhibits are housed in the main pavilion, which is rendered very attractive by the trophies of corn cobs and wheat ears, etc. The Camden Agricultural…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Dairy Produce

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 2

N.S.W. sent to Victoria this year for a batter expert, and they assuredly secured one in Mr. W. H. Vagg, manager of the Melbourne Chilled Batter Company. Mr…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Assistance to Farmers

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 3

THE Savings Bank Commissioners at Melbourne have prepared a scheme for granting loans to farmers and others in…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Queer Scenes in Paris. Some Odd Trades That Surprise the Globe Trotter. Paris a Childless City--Where the Nurse Maids Come From--A Painter of Turkeys Legs--Ant Farmers--Dealers in Second-Hand Bread

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 9 May 1894 · page 2

This gay city is a mine of queer trades, scenes and incidents. The globe trotter's eyes bulge out and his hair stands on end as he noses about in the out of the way nooks…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Through Santa Clara Wheat. [Copyright. All Rights Reserved] Chapter I.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1894 · page 4

IT was an [?] wheat field in the Santa Clara valley, strotching to the horizon line unbroken. The meridian sun shone upon it without glint of shadow, but a times, when…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →