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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Pure Bred Poultry Farming

Macleay Argus · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 2

IT oaght not to be necessary to argue the advantages of keeping pure hens rather than scrubs or the very common varieties. But the number…

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Smithtown Dairy Produce Co. Annual Meeting

Macleay Argus · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 7

THE annual meeting of the above Company was held at the local School of Arts on Thursday, March 31st. Following we give a copy of the aunual…

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Mr. O'Callaghan on Dairying

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 April 1904 · page 6

THE lecture given by Mr O'Callaghan at the Agricultural Society's Hall on the first night of the show was very poorly attended, the dairymen in the audience not numbering a…

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Smithtown Dairy Co

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 April 1904 · page 3

ThE annual meeting of shareholders of the above company was held on Thursday last ing the School of Arts. The president (Mr. Peter Knauer) occupied the chair. Owing…

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Secret Butter Commissions

Macleay Argus · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 12

THE Victorian Government having resolved upon the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the rebates of freight alleged to have been…

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Feeding for Butter Records

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 6

THE practice of feeding cows in such a [?] that individual animals succeed in producing extraordinary qualities of milk or butter receives a large amount of attention…

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Our Butter in the Home Market

Macleay Argus · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 13

REPORTS still come to hand complaining of the fishiness of flavour, and that buyers fight shy of such. Danish butter brings up to 114s, whilst our brands only…

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Butter Factory Management. (To the Editor P. M. NEWS.)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 2

SIR.-In connection with the above. I would have asked you to publish a few lines before this, but I refrained from doing so, waiting and watching for a more satisfactory…

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The Dairyman's Commandments

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 6

FOR the [?] of those who have started [?] we reprint the following, with the [?] the farmers will read, mark, carn, and obey them:-…

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The Dairying Industry

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 3

WHEN the dairying industry, in its modern form, was first introduced on the Northern rivers, our farmers, like all their class the world over (a very…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Pure Bred Poultry Farming

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 2

IT ought not to be necessary to argue the advantages of keeping pure hens ratter than scrubs or the very common varieties. But the number…

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Important to Dairymen. Arbitrary Action by an Inspector

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 10

A case of importance in connection with the dairying regulations was dealt with at the Maclean Police Court recently. Alexander Ross was charged…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Growing Sugar Cane for Profit

Macleay Argus · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 2

EXPERIENCE has shown that sugar cane requires a moderately but not too rich soil; sandy loam seems most desirable. Canes…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 14 April 1904 · page 3

The Harald in the "On the Land" column states that Mr. Thomas Wilkins, a farmer in the Dubbo district, as an experiment last year, sowed 20 acres with…

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The Butter Industry

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 14 April 1904 · page 4

THE dairying industry is receiving a large large of attention in all the Southern States at the present time. Both New South Wales and Victoria appear to have fallen…

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The Farmers' Combine

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 14 April 1904 · page 6

DEAR MR. HEAVEY,—The small response to the proposed scheme for advantaging our farmers and producers, has decided me on withdrawing it. Perhaps when our farmers…

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Savoury Butter Pudding

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 7

Mix a quarter of a pound of Scotch oatmeal in half a pint of boiling milk, and stir over the fire for ten minutes. Then mix in a quarter of a pound of sifted…

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Butter Factory Management to the Editor of the Port Macquarie News

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 6

Sir,—In your last issue, under the above Loading, Mr. A. H. Cumpbell launches out his ideas on the management of a butter factory. He evidently has had the intention…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Growing Sugar Cane for Profit

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 2

EXPERIENCE has shown that sugar cane requires a moderately but not too rich soil; sandy loam seems most desirable. Canes…

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