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Farming & the land, 1907

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Butter Fat

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 7

IN his book on Canadian dairying, Professor Dean emphasises that fat is the most variable portion of milk. He agrees with the majority of experts,…

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What Does Butter Cost?

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 8

How many dairy farmers in this country face the question of how much their butter costs? Do they realise that as fanners they must buy every pound of…

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The Dairy Dairying and Child Labor

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 8

Complaints have been made from time to time about the employment of child labor in tame of the dairying districts of Victoria. It appears that a similar…

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Farm and Field. Potato Experiments

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 September 1907 · page 8

The Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station has issued Bulletin No. 97, entitled "Potato Experiments." The bulletin makes the following…

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Butter Freights

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 13

THE following circular letter has been issued to Dairy Factories represented at the recent Conference: -- We have pleasure in advising that…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articled Setting Strawberry Plants. [All Right Reserved.]

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 2

Strawberry plants should be set every eighteen inches in rows about three feet apart. Clean cultivation should be maintained at all times, and…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Growing Tomatoes

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 16

The preparation of a field for tomatoes does not differ materially from its preparation for corn or potatoes, except that after being ploughed and…

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Police Court. Wingham, Wednesday, Sept. 3. Before MR. A. GATES, P.M. Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 4

E. W. M. Wallace and C. J. A. Wallace were before the Court, on remand, charged with killing a steer, the property of G. C. Cooper, with intent to steal…

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Dairying

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 September 1907 · page 16

Very often where people fail to make a success of dairying, it is because they have so many other things to attend to. They try to carry on too…

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The Dairy. Dehorning Cattle

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 12 September 1907 · page 2

The two methods of dehorning usually practised are (1) the removal of the borns after they have reached their growth, by means of a saw of clippers,…

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Dairying on Shares. a Demand for Farms

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 12 September 1907 · page 2

THE Intelligence Department reports that the weekly batches of immigrants from the Old Country contain a fair proportion of men with growing…

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Butter Factory, Stroud

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 6

The twelfth half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the above factory was held in the School of Arts Stroud on Friday night, August 30th,…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Crowing Cowpeas

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 2

The increasing popularity of the cowpea is due to the fact that it gives a heavy yield of the very finest hay for stock feeding that can be produced…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Setting Strawberry Plants

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 5

Strawberry plants should be set every eighteen inches in rows about three feet apart. Clean cultivation should be maintained at all times, and…

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Dairy Produce

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 7

"One hears periodically of new countries which are regarded as likely to become keen competitors in the world's market for dairy produce,"…

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Work on the Farm

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 2

Wheat sowing is pretty well over now for the present season, but the majority of fields planted require something' or other doing to them, and on that…

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Poetry. If I Were Not a Farmer. By Warren A. Teed

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 2

If I were not a farmer man, Who labours in the dirt With pant-legs tucked in boot tops high…

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Poetry. If I Were Not a Farmer

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 4

If I were not a farmer man, Who labours in the dirt With pant-legs tucked in boot tops high…

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Dairymen Condemn Tariff. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 11

At the South Coast Dairy Conference yesterday a resolution was passed condemning the tariff as crippling the dairy industry…

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The Tariff and the Dairy Farmer. to the Editor of the M. R. TIMES

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 3

DEAR SIR,--Your issue of the 4th instant has just reached me, and in it I notice a letter under above heading over the signature of W. Robb, in which he states he has written, asking me to use my influence…

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