Macleay River Farmers' Union
By our business columns it will be noticed that the Executive Council of the M. R. Farmers' Union propose to hold a meeting next Saturday to reconsider their decision…
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Farming & the land, 1899
446 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 23
The Butter Trade
AMONG the heterogeneous mass of figures presented to their readers by our metropolitan contemporaries at this time of the year, none will be perused with greater interest than those which relate to the trade…
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At a station near Inverell fifteen stud sheep were killed by one flash of lightning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bacon and Dairy Factory. Bacon Factory to Be Erected at Wingham. Croki
An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Lower Manning Co operative Dairy Company was held here this afternoon ; a large number of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lower Manning Co-operative Dairy Company. Amalgamation with Wingham Decided Upon
PRIOR to the meeting of shareholders of the above company in the Croki Hall on Wednesday afternoon last, the Directors held a meeting, and decided to recommend to the shareholders the amalgamation of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. No. 65. Coffee--Description of Tree--Leaves--Berries--Species--Opposition to the use of Coffee--In the East--In Europe --Cultivation--Soil--How to Plant--Queensland Coffee Prospects--Small and Large Berries--Effect of Age on Berries-- Bearing and Productiveness--Aspect of a plantation in full flower--Picking--Koasting--Uses as a Beverage
The coffee tree has been much more extensively grown in Queensland than tea, and yields considerable quantities of coffee berries. Coffee-tea is made by an infusion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Expert on Dairying. Pasteurising Recommended
The Minister for Agriculture has received from the dairy expert a report showing the nature of the laboratory work recently carried out by that officer. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Profitable Poultry Farming
MANY popple on the Macleay express doubts as to whether poultry farming can be carried on here at a profit. We recently gave an account of the operations of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Macleay River Farmers' Union. Gladstone Branch
THE usual monthly meeting of the Gladstone Branch of the Macleay River Farmers' Union, was held at Knauer's Gladstone Hotel, on Friday, 6th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sunflower as a Crop
WE are pleased to note that this year some of the down river farmers are growing sunflowers on the headlands of their maize I paddocks. Although in this colony the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat Yield. Molong
Harvesting has been completed in the Obley district. Mr. Andrew Starborn, of Wandoo Wondong station stripped one hundred acres for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Macleay Farmers' Union. Executive Council
A SPECIAL meeting of the Executive Council of the above Union was held at Neil's Victoria Hotel, Kempsey, on Saturday afternoon last. There were present:…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 66. Coffee (continued)--Its effects when used as a beverage--Cocoa--Description of Tree--Leaves, Flowers, Fruit--Seeds--Pulp--Chocolate--How Chocolate Cakes are Made--Vanilla--Employment of Pods--Description of Plant--Propagated by Cuttings--Immune From Insects--The Hop Plant--Suitable Soils--Mode of Planting--General Culture--Hop-Picking
Coffee possesses both an aromatic and narcotic principle. The flavour and taste, which are both rather repulsive, become by habit agreeable and grateful. Its effects…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence. Although always willing to ventilate matters of public interest, we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed. a Farmer on the Middleman. To the Editor
SIR,--In the interests of the producers of the North Coast, I ask you to find space for this short letter. The time has arrived when the farmer must look to some other…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Local News. Farmers' Union Excursion
The much-talked of celebration of the anniversary of the inauguration of the Macleay River Farmers' Union will eventuate on Anniversary Day,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Coming Wheat Tax
DESPITE the glowing accounts of the revenue returns as communicated officially to the daily press, there is a very uncomfortable feeling current in freetrade circles that when the Premier next meets…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nine Reasons for Supporting a Butter Factory
THE following nine reasons why farmers should support the factory system of dairying will be read with interest by Australian milk growers:—You will improve your land by changing from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Macleay River Farmers' Union
A meeting of the sub-committee appointed to arrange details for the excursion to be held on 26th inst., was held at Neil's Victoria Hotel on Saturday last. Mr. A. B…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Sales. SYDNEY
At Homebush this week prime fat bullocks fetched from £6 to £8 8s, fat cows up to £4 10s. Fat calves, prime vealers sold up to 35s, good 21s to 26s, others from 13s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Methods of Common-sense Farming
A PLAIN, practical talk with practical farmers—so to term an article of this purport —cannot prove otherwise than engaging, if not entertaining and instructive. Discussion,…
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