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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Cultivation to Conserve Moisture

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 7

THE drought in this colony has left the ground with too little moisture for the production of good crops. It is therefore important that…

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Wallamba Butter Factory. Jan. 5

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 7 January 1903 · page 2

A LARGE meeting of dairymen was held in the school of Arts, Nabiac, on Saturday last, at 3 p.m. Mr. Holstoin, the convener of tee meeting, was in" the chair, and explained that as a previous meeting…

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Wallamba River Butter Factory. to the Editor of the M. B. TIMES

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 7 January 1903 · page 4

Sir-- It u evident that your " Wollomba" correspondent holds a very distinct "brief" in the interests of Nebiac as a site for the proposed butter factory, and spares no effort to sway the…

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Wallamba Butter Factory. to the Editor of the M. R. TIMES

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 5

DEAR SIR,—With the advancement in the dairying industry has come the necessity for the establishment of a butter factory on the Wallamba. All are agreed on this point; but, as usual in such cases, the…

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Hawkesbury Agricultural College. the Season's Farm Crops

Macleay Argus · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 11

A GRATEFUL and flourishing verdant expanse greets the eye of the visitor to the Hawkesbury Agricultural College at the present time. The farm proper, which…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Care of Milk During Hot Weather

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 7

NOW the effect that heat or warm weather produces on milk is mainly in the development of certain forms of bacteria that are…

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Stewart's River. Great, Bush Fires ; Crops Destroyed. Jan. 8

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 4

ON Tuesday last a destructive bush fire broke out at Stewart's River, and by Wednesday had enveloped miles of country, causing trees to fall across the roads, and damaging some culverts and [?]…

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The Weather. Record Heat.--120 in the Shade. Destruction of Crops

Macleay Argus · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 9

NEVER before in the history of white man on the Macleay, has there been such a spell of extreme heat as was experienced during the…

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Wallamba Butter Factory

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 14 January 1903 · page 3

IN accordance with advertisement a meeting of those interested in the erection of a Butter Factory was held in the Nabiac School of Arts on…

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Wallamba District Butter Factory

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 14 January 1903 · page 2

In accordance with advertisement, a meeting of those interested in the erection of a butter factory was held in the Nabiac School of Arts on Saturday night, when there was the largest attendance which has…

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Wallamba Butter Factory to the Editor

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 14 January 1903 · page 2

SIR, — Under the above heading I read with amazement in your contemporary's issue of the 10th inst, H. McKinnon's condemnatory remarks on the…

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Wheat From Frisco

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 7

The ship Trafalgar has arrived from San Francisco with 38,824 sacks of wheat…

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Weather and Crops

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 7

After threatening weather during Sunday and Monday, two or three fairly heavy showers fell over has Macleay on Tuesday night, accompanied by thunder and light,…

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Butter Experiment

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 5

THE result of an experiment which was recently made by the manager of the Euroa Butter Factory should convince Victorian dairymen (says the 'Argus')…

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Parti-colored Sheep

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 7

In the Camaroo[?] districts of Africa are thousands of remarkable sheep, and the Germans who have settled there say that they, are useful domestic animals…

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Butter Factory on the Wallamba

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 8

TO THE EDITOR OF THE M. R. TIMES. SIR,--Through your columns, may I request that the minutes of the last meeting of the proposed Butter Factory Co. at Nabiac should be published in full…

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Seed Wheat. Sydney

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 5

Seed wheat will be distributed to n[?] farmers, but only after strict inquiry by the Board…

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Wallamba Butter Factory. to the Editor of the M. R. TIMES

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 8

SIR,--I think you will agree with me that no honest-minded person, having any knowledge at all of the village of Tuncurry, could read the odious references made thereto by Hugh McKinnon, in a letter…

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Poultry Farming

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

Yards for fowls are seldom too large. They should be big enough so that the grass will grow and keep growing. A Plymouth Rock specialist keeps ton to…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Willows As Retainers of the Banks of Rivers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

ONE of the problems that confronts the farmers is the use of proper plants under the varied conditions of soil and climate. Usually the…

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