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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1902

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Salt for Dairy Cows

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 2

SALT given cows has effect on the quality of the milk. This necessarily so, the salt aids very dutch in the digestion of the food digested that regulates…

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Government Dairy Expert. to Visit the Manning. Government Dairy Instructor in the District

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 5

MR. M.A. O'Callaghan, the Government Dairy Expert, intends to visit the Manning during the latter part of the present month, and will lecture in Croki Hall, on the dairying industry, on Monday night,…

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Coastal Farmers Co-Operative Society. SYDNEY

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 7

The maize market for prime local grain remains firm at 6s, with stocks and shipments very light. Holders of Argentine are offering stock now landing Ex Margaret at 5s [?]…

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State Butter Competition

Macleay Argus · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 12

WITH a view to encouraging the manufacture of high-class butter for export, Mr. Kidd, Minister for Agriculture, has approved of the State butter…

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Russian Butter Trade

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 8

"Russia in recent years has been creating a large export trade in butter," reports Consul Mahlin, of Relchenberg, to the United States Government department. "The exports in 1897 amounted to…

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Butter Market. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 5

Batter has been reduced Id per lb. all round…

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Cattle Sales. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 5

Cattle.— 727 yarded; values lowest Bullock £7 to £27 10s; cows £4 to £21 15s. Best beef, 48s per 100lbs…

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Farm and Garden Origin an Articles Planting and Caring for Peach Trees

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 3

THE peach tree requires high, well-drained, moderately fertile soil, sandy loam is perferable, and of that kind which contains…

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The New Dairy Bill. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 5

Mr. Kidd will not introduce the Dairy Bill until after farmers have had an opportunity of expressing their view concerning the measure…

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The New Dairy Bill Condemned. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 5

A large meeting, of dairy formers yesterday at Berry strongly condemned the Dairy Industry Bill. The opinion was expressed that the…

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New Zealand Grain Crops

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 8

THE New Zealand wheat crop continues to fall away. During the current season the official estatistics give a production of only 4,046,000 bushels, against 6,527,000 bushels a year earlier…

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New Zealand Dairy Returns

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 3

THE travelling correspondent of a New Zealand paper writes as follows:--They do some most extraordinary things in in the dairying line in the Manawatu, if one may believe…

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Varieties. Eggshell Farm for Children

Macleay Argus · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 14

AN eggshell farm is a part of one of the primary school departments of study in this city. Each child takes an eggshell about…

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Cattle Sales. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 22 October 1902 · page 3

Cattle.—588 yarded, market up 10s, bullocks, £7 10s to £29. 10s: cows, £4 to £19 5s; best beef, 56s 10001bs…

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Latest Telegrams. The Dairy Bill. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 22 October 1902 · page 3

Mr. Kidd says the opposition of country association is mainly due to misconception of the provisions of the new Dairy Bill, which follows the…

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Banana V. Wheat for Bread

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 2

The banana is a true child of the tropics, and grows in the greatest luxuriance, demanding little exertion from those who cultivate it for their…

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Smithtown Butter Factory. an Object Lesson in Successful Co-operation

Macleay Argus · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 6

FOR the past five or six years the Argus at the beginning of the butter season has published a report dealing with the operations of the Smithtown Dairy Factory…

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Planting the Corn Crop

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 3

The time for planting corn is after the seed bed has been so prepared as to furnish the conditions necessary for the germination of the seed and when danger…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Feeding Incubator Chicks

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 3

IN feeding incubator chicks it does not appear so very important what the food is provided that there is plenty of starchy, [?]lbumions and green…

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Varieties. Eggshell Farm for Children

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 3

AN eggshell farm is a part of one of the primary school [?]epartmen's of study in this city. Each child takes an eggshell about…

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