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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1894

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Farming with an Object

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 16 May 1894 · page 3

THE man who goes upon the soil without having some definite ideas regarding the marketing of his produce is not likely…

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The Butter Glut. Necessity for Co-operative Action

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 3

THE EVENING NEWS says that the present heavy stocks of butter, even at this period of the season, owing to the greatly developed production, makes the question of handling the market in the farmers'…

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

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 4

Then she held out her ungloved hand into the hot sunshine bo[?]nd the door with the gesture she would have used had it been raining, and withdrew it as quickly—her hand quite quite scorched…

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Butter fox Canada

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1894 · page 4

THE members of Parliament and others who last week visited the new promises of the Farmers' and Dairymen's Co-operative Milk Company, Limited, in Harris Street, Ultimo…

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The Butter Export Trafic

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1894 · page 3

WE clip the following report from the DAILY TELEGRAPH:— A meeting of the works committee of the Dairy Farmers' Export Association was held…

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

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1894 · page 4

IT was here that Mrs. Randolph, late relict of the late Scripion L'Hommadieu, devoted herself to bringing up her children after the extreme [?] of French methods and in resurrecting a "de" from…

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The World's Wheat Consumption. Maize Coming to the Front

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 30 May 1894 · page 3

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

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Loans to Victorian Farmers

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 30 May 1894 · page 8

IT will no doubt be a source of satisfaction (says the 'Australasian) to the many hundreds of selectors who have not yet…

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Through Santa Clara Wheat By Francis Bret Harte. [Copyright. All Rights Reserved.] Chapter Ii

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 June 1894 · page 4

The next morning Major Randolph took her with Adele in a light cariole over the ranch. Although his domain was nearly an large as the adjoining wheat plain it was not like that monopolized by one…

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Through Santa Clara Wheat. [Copyright. All Rights Reserve] Chapter Iii

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 June 1894 · page 4

"Buy you don't know where it is?" "I shall find it by instinct." "You are spoiling me—you two." The parenthesis was a hesitating addition, but she continued…

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Hastings River Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 June 1894 · page 2

THE adjourned meeting of the above company was held [?] Kil[?] Hall, Wauchope on Monday evening, May 28th, R. Davidson, Chairinan of Directors occupying…

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

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 June 1894 · page 4

ROSE felt that the young man had joined them and was looking at her. In the fear that she should still sec some trace of the startled selfish animal in his face she did not dare to rise her eyes to his, but…

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Rolling Grain to increase the Crop

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 June 1894 · page 4

THE roller is in much more general use in our grain districts than formerly; but, as a means of cultivation, and a most simple one, it deserves to be everywhere available…

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Wheat and Maize

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 20 June 1894 · page 4

DAY by day evidence accumulates that the speech of Mr. Lyne at the Alexandria Hall did more to injure protection on the Macleay than all the…

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Farming on Tribute

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 20 June 1894 · page 8

A LONG step in the direction of the fuller agricultural development of the district is (says the Dubbo Dispatch) being taken on Mr. J. Mack's Browley property. There…

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

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1894 · page 4

The major did not ask her how she had heard of it; it was a[?] business, he thought, but it might not be a total loss. The water may have been only diverted by the shock, and might be…

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On the Choice and Use of Artificial Manures. Leguminous Crops

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1894 · page 3

COMPRISING such crops as the pea bean, lupin, lucerne, clover, vetches, &c., stand midway between the cereals and root crops with regard to the amount of fertilising materials…

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

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1894 · page 4

HE was accompanied by the man who had first led her through the wheat. He gazed upon her with apparently all the curiosity and concern that the other had lacked…

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Farmers Pay the Piper for Protection

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 11 July 1894 · page 6

MR. J. Haynes M.L.A., writes: --The revelations coming from the Victorian tariff inquiries are awakening farmers all over…

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Farming for Women

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 1 August 1894 · page 5

"FARMING as an Occupation for Females in Australia" is the title of an interesting pamphlet just issued by the Lands and Deeds Offices,…

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