Lower Manning Dairy Com
The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Lower Manning Dairy Company was held at Croki last Monday, between 30 and 40…
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Farming & the land, 1898
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Macleay Farmers' Union
A GENERAL meeting of members of the above Union was held in the Theatre Royal on Saturday last. Mr. E. Rudder (President) occupied the chair, and there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. No. 17--Tobacco--derivation of Name External Description of Plants--cultivation and Preparation--where Frosts Occur--where Drought Prevails--precautions Against Worms--topping--suckers--firing--cutting the Barns or Curing Houses
Tobacco.--This celebrated plant, Nicotiana Tabacum, may properly find a place among those other narcotics which habit has rendered almost essential to man. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →L. M. Dairy Company. To the Editor of the Wingham Chronicle
Dear Sir,—In the report of the Lower Manning Co-operative Dairy Company's meeting at Croki on January 31st, and appearing in your last Saturday's issue, I am…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The L. M. Dairy Co. to the Editor of the M. E. TIMES
DEAR SIR,—In your report of the Lower Manning Co-operative Dairy Co.'s meeting at Croki on January 31st, it reads thus :—"The Chairman said that two dividends were now payable, but the fact had…
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LAST year the F. F. and I. Co. gave three prizes of £50, £10, and £5 for the three best conducted dairy farms on the South Coast from which they take milk. Mr. Gear, of Tullimlear, Albion Park,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Caution to Dairymen
A case of much interest to dairymen was heard at the Kempsey Police Court yesterday morning. Mr. McKell, P.M. and Mr. W. T. Dangar, J.P…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. No. 18.--Tobacco (continued).--TEMPERATURE--DISTRIBUTION--HANDLING--SWEATING--STRIPPING--MANUFACTURE of Tobacco--the Sauce or Liquor-- Drying and Curling--birds' Eye--shag--pigtail--use and Abuse of Tobacco
The temperature of the barn or storehouse should be kept uniform, and too much moisture can be got rid of by small smothered fires of rotten wood and bark…
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A MEETING of the sub-committee appointed to deal with the shipping question was held at Neil's Victoria Hotel on Saturday last. Mr. P. O'Halloran occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Farmers' Union. To the Editor
SIR,--I was much amused in reading your report of the last Farmers' Union meeting, at the childlike innocence of the members of that Union requesting the advice of Mr…
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AMERICAN journals are giving pretty full particulars respecting the losses incurred by Mr. PHIL. ARMOUR, one of the American millionaires who recently banqueted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes From Mondrook. the Crops
AT present some of our fanners are preparing for harvesting the early maize, which will not be as good as was expected at first. The late maize is looking [?], and if the blight does not make an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Flood at Camden. Hundreds of Cattle Lost. Residents Homeless. Camden
About 12 o'clock on Saturday night a heavy south-easterly gale sprang up, and continued with unabated fury till late on Sunday. On Monday morning about 3 o'clock a terrible rush of flood water was heard…
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THE Lower Mantling Co-Operative Dairy Company received for the mouth of January 98,900 gallons of milk, and paid the suppliers of same at the rate…
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A CORRESPONDENT sends us a further letter on this subject. He still wishes us to state that the communication is supposed to have been sent by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. No. 19.--The Potato -- Proportions of Starch -- DISEASE -- Cause and Means of Preventing Curl-- Preserving Processes-- Manufacture of Sugar From Potatoes-- Gum-- Glue-- Spirits-- Propagation of the Potato From Seed-- From Tubers-- Curl Top Disease Described
The starchy fibrin of the potato differs from the fibrous matter of other plants, and the quantity of starch not only differs in the different varieties of potatoes but also in the…
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Messrs. Black Bros, lately finished threshing the locally grown wheat here. The wheat yielded splendidly, some in particular being excellent…
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In our last week's telegraphic market reports, that from the South Coast Co. read as follows: -- "Creamery butter, 8½d to 9d ; factory, 7d to 7½d."…
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NO. 21.—THE POTATO (Continued)—CHAR. ACTERISTICS—HEIGHT AND LEAVES—PETALS AND FRUIT—RUNNERS—EYES—VALUE OF THE POTATO—WHERE…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DAIRYING. To the Editor of the Wingham Chronicle
SIR,—If you will allow me a little space in your valuable paper, I should like to draw attention to the way the suppliers to the Cedar Party Creek…
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