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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Practical Butter Working

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 2
Also in Macleay Argus

In working butter never slide the paddle over the surface, as such treatment injures the grain. The best method is to remove the milk by using a gentle downward pressure…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Flowers During Dry Weather

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 2
Also in Macleay Argus

MOST flowers need but little attention as long as showery weather continues in spring, but they require care to produce good results during the hot, dry weather of…

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Cattle Market

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 3

Cattle values unaltered, best beef 28s per 100 lbs; bullocks £7 to £11 10s, cows £4 10s to £9 14s,…

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To Keep Butter

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 3

Here is the way the French people prepare the butter that is shipped to South America, where there it a great demand for French butter. After working out all the…

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The Farm and Dairy. Ventilate Eggs

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 3

REMEMBER that eggs need a daily siring during incubation, whether in an incubator or under bens. Occasionally a hen will stick so close to the nest as to spoit the…

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Hard Butter without Ice

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 5

An ingenious woman has devised a plan for having, good, cold milk and butter all summer without ice. It is a home made dairy or pantry, so cheap…

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Our Butter Factory. to the Editor

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 4

SIR,—It is a great pity the apple of discord has been thrown into the affairs of the local butter company; and that letters having a tendency to add…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Commercial Fertilisers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 2

OF late years the problem of soil fertility has been recognised as of great importance, inasmuch attention to which is rewarded with success, and neglect resulting…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] I Commercial Fertilisers

Macleay Argus · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 2

OF late years the problem of soil fertility has been recognised as of great importance, inasmuch attention to which is rewarded with success, and neglect resulting…

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Correspondence. [It must be distinctly understood that we do not identify ourselves with, the opinions expressed by our correspondents.—ED. The Butter Factory. (To the Editor.)

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 4

SIR,—In reply to Mr. Pennington's letter of the, 29th December in which he complains that a remark was made at the general meeting of the…

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The Farm Competitions

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 6

THE result of the North Coast Division of the S.M. Herald and Sydney Mail farm competitions was announced on Wednesday last. The prizes are: First, £50; second, £10; third, £5; aud the awards…

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Upper Manning Co-operative Dairy Co. Improvements at the Factory

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 6

RECENTLY a new pipe cooler, of the very latest pattern, was installed in the Upper Manning Cooperative Dairy Co.'e Purfleet factory, making the factory thoroughly up-to-date. The cooler was…

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The Farmer and the Motorist

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 2

The motorcar had reached a nice level stretch of road, and the man in the goggles was preparing for a scorch, when an honest-eyed old…

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Our Export Trade in Butter. OVER £1,000,000 Last Year

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 3

THE butter export trade of New South Wales has made remarkable progress during the past 12 years, and in that respect will compare favorably with any other industry by which the wealth of the State is…

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The Farm and Dairy. Calvis on Skin Milk

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 7

A pasture is good for calves on skim milk as it tends to regulate them and keep them in a bealthy conditions. As a rule calves may be changed from whole milk to skim…

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Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 3

THE Coastal farmers Co-operative Society held its half-yearly meeting at Bega, last week. The balance sheet showed a reduced turnover which was attributed to the poor season and a shortage in…

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Treatment of Wild Cattle

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 5

SOME remarkable instances of the handling of wild bullocks are reported from Brisbane. On a recent occasion, at the Exhibition Grounds, Mr. Lawson,…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Raising Incubator Chicks

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 2

POULTRY breeders generally experience a greater loss in raising incubator hatched chicks than from those hatched and cared for by hens. A larger mortality is…

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