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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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Successful Dairying

Macleay Argus · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 8

THE special correspondent of the S.M. Herald who visited Cootamundra, states that dairying is carried on there quite as successful as on the Coast…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Management of Comb Honey

Macleay Argus · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 2

ALL strong colonies of bees when run for comb honey will generally cast a swarm. The parent colony should be set aside and the swarm…

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Farmers and Socialists. But They Don't Know It

Macleay Argus · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 7

"FARMERS," says a Labor Member in the Federal House, "are Socialists without being aware of it themselves. Their every public movement, nearly, is Socialistic, and…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Management of Comb Honey

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 7

ALL strong colonies of bees when run for comb honey will generally cast a swarm. The parent colony should be set aside and the swarm…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Fattening Poultry for Market

Macleay Argus · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 2

THE standard weights of Barred Plymouth Rocks are, cock, nine and a half pounds, hen, seven and a half pounds, cockerel, eight…

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Proposed Producers' Union. to the Farmers of the Macleay

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 25 February 1904 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Under the above heading there appeared in the S. M. Herald, a short time ago, a telegram from Windsor (on the Hawkesbury.) reporting a largely attended…

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How to Judge Beef Cattle

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 27 February 1904 · page 8

No knowledge has greater value to the farmer than that which gives him the ability to select profitable feeding animals…

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Dairy Meeting

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 27 February 1904 · page 2

THE Board of Directors met on Monday last, Mr. J. Hibbard, J.P., being in the chair. There were also present—Messrs. Haley, Andrews, Weddy, Smith, Bransdon,…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Fattening Poultry for Market

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 27 February 1904 · page 2

THE standard weights of Barred Plymouth Rocks are, cock, nine and a half pounds, hen, seven and a half pounds, cockerel, eight…

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R. S. Co- operative Dairy Co., Ltd. Lf- Yearly Meeting

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 February 1904 · page 5

[?]nd half- yearly meeting of the share- [?]Manning River Co- operative Dairy [?] was held in the Federal Hall, Wingham [?] afternoon last…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Dressing Poultry for Market

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 February 1904 · page 2

ALL fowls should be fasted twenty-four to thirty-six hours before killing. Where that is not done the food decays in the crop and…

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Manning River Dairy Co

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 3

THE twenty-second half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the M.R. Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd., was held at Wingham on Wednesday last, Mr. R. Malcohm, (chairman of…

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The Farmers' and Settlers' Platform

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 4

Among the planks in the platform proposed- by the Executive of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association is "closer settlement by compulsory resumption of private estates…

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Population, Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 6

We have been kindly furnished by Sergeant Hogan with the following statistics concerning the population, area of land, and the number of horses and cattle in the Police District of the Manning River…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Dressing Poultry for Market

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 7

ALL fowls should be fasted twenty-four to thirty-six hours before killing. Where that is not done the food decays in the crop and…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Manures and Fertilisers

Macleay Argus · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 3

GARDENERS near the City and large towns are close to a large supply of stable manure and depend almost exclusively upon…

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Coastal Farmers Co-Operative Society. SYDNEY

Macleay Argus · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 11

The maize market remains unaltered. Prime 2s 3d, with good demand, soft sorts according to quality. BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES ART UNION.--The…

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Important Sale of Shorthorn Cattle

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 2

Pitt, Son Badgery, Ltd., in conjunction with Messrs. McKenzie and Hooke, of Stroud, report having held a second sale of the Gloucester Estate…

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Farmer Fined by 'Phone

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 10 March 1904 · page 8

The town marshal of Elnora, in Indiana was called to the telephone recently by John Ketchem a farmer, who lives eight miles away. "You…

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Dairy Farming

Macleay Argus · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 2

A good cow is a good cow the world over, whatever breed she may be. No farmer should keep a cow for milking purposes that does not produce at least…

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