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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

346 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 7 of 18

Smithtown Dairy Produce Co., Ltd

Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 5

THE adjourned annual meeting of the above Company was held at the Smithtown School of Arts on Saturday last. Mr. P. Knauer occupied the…

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Coastal Farmers Co-Operative Society. SYDNEY

Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 11

Maize in plentiful supply, prime dry yellow 2s 2d to 2s 3d, stocks of white accumulating and finds great difficulty in clearing, as heavy percentage being rather soft in…

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Dairying in Siberia

Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 10

THE war between Russia and Japan many, and probably will, says a contemporary, affect the Siberian butter trade, but it cannot altogether stop the wheels of progress,…

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More Serious Butter Allegations

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 13

THE latest allegations made in Melbourne with regard to the butter industry--or rather of some of those connected with it--are of even a more serious character than…

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The Dairy & Stock Inspectorships

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 5

WE hare been requested to publish the following comments on Mr. Bain's motion at the recent Stock Board (from the Macleay "Argus')," requesting that the…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Cold Storage of Fruit

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 2

IN studying the influence of temperatures on some kinds of fruit, duplicate series of apples and pears were placed in a storehouse where…

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An Efficient Dairy

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 10

An efficient dairy, as well as being in accordance with the requirements of the Dairies Supervision Act, is constructed of the cheapest material…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. the Popular Nasturtiums

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 2

THE Nasturtiums are among the most deservedly popular of garden flowers. They are easily grown annuals, patient of drought and…

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Farmers' & Settlers' Co-op. Society. SYDNEY

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 9

Butter--choicest dairy 8d, choice 7¾d; prime maize 2s, while 1s 8d to 1s 9d, potatoes 45s; pigs, back falters, 40s to 60s, baconers 32s 6d to 42s, porkers 18s to 30s…

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Dairying on the Wallamba

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 11 May 1904 · page 2

The recently formed Upper Wallamba Dairy Co. have accepted Mr. Mitligau's tender at £350 tor the erection of their factory at Dyer's Crossing. The building, which is to be constructed of hardwood and…

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Are Pigs Cattle

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 12 May 1904 · page 7

AN appeal was beard before the Full Court last week arising eat of a decision of the Canterbury Sitting Magistrate, by which a carcase batcher named Mac Kay was ordered te pay £35 19s 8d…

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Cattle Sales

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 5

There was a very big yarding of cattle at Wingham on Wednesday, somewhere about 400 head being collected from numerous owners. A…

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What Are Cattle

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 8

This question once more cropped up before the Full Court last week, upon an appeal by a carcase butcher, who had been sued by the inspector…

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Royal Commission on Butter Rebates

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 10

THE Royal Commission which is inquiring into the conditions under which rebates are granted to agents and others in the butter trade satin Melbourne for the…

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Traveller. Manchuria's Wheat Lands

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 3

THERE is an almost unanimous se[?]us of public opinion in England, and for the matter of that in most Western countries, that…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. the Popular Nasturtiums

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 2

THE Nasturtiume are among the most deservedy popular of garden flowers. They are easily grown annuals, patient of drought and…

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Coastal Farmers Co-Operative Society. SYDNEY

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 9

Market is unchanged for maize, yellow maize 2s to 2s 1d, white 13 10d to 1s 11d, both meeting slow sales owing to shipment of some 4000 bags of Maryborough,…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Planting and Cultivating Cowpeas

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 2

IT has been the custom to give very poor preparation to the soil intended for cowpeas. The ease with which they may be grown is responsible for…

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The Farmers' Combine. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 7

SIR,--It was very good of Mr. J. D. Ramsay to give expression through your columns of his opinion relative to my combine proposals, and especially to suggest the refund of "money…

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The Russo-Japanese War. Reported Heavy Russian Loss. Japanese Driving the Russians Like Sheep! London

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 18 May 1904 · page 3

General Kuroki, whose centre is at Fenghuan Cheng, is advancing cautiously on Hai Oheng. On his right is a division of infantry, with forty guns, and 1500 cavalry are thrown out so as to…

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