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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Correspondence. Imported Dairy Cattle. (To the Editor.)

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 10

SIR,--1 notice by the ARGUS that Mr. Wm. Thurgood has purchased a high class bull, bred by Mr. Ramsay, of Bega. It is said that the animal is a descendant…

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Sheep Shearing Machine

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 1

The inventive genius of man is ever at work diving into the hidden secrets of the brain with a view to developing some new idea in the…

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

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 2
Also in Macleay Argus

RAPE is undoubtedly one of the best catch crops, as it will start growing readily at any season of the year, and furnishes a large amount of green feed…

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Progress in Dairying

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 4

Says the Glen lnnes "Examiner":—Nothing more effectually demonstrates the strides that dairying is taking in Australia than the wonderful progress…

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Sowing a Crop

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 7

An exchange'mentions that a large squatter in New South Wales used to annually employ a gang of over a hundred Chows to cut and clear his…

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Farm Implements

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 1

Naturally, Farm Implements present special features of attraction to those who follow agricultural pursuits. Messrs. Nicholson and…

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Avon and Barrington Co-op. Butter Factory. Meeting of Shareholders. Vote of Want of Confidence in the Directors Is Carried by 38 Votes to 25. the Number of Directors Reduced From 9 to 5

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 7

There was a very large attendance of shareholders of the above named company at the meeting in the Gloucester School of Arts on Saturday last,…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Water Contained in Butter

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 2
Also in The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer

SOME experiments have been made which show that working the butter immediately after washing slightly increases the water contained in the butter over that…

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Dairy Cattle at the Show. Views of an Expert

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 4

MR. PARRISH, of Mullumbimby, who was one of the judges in the dairy cattle section, in the course of an interview, said he was astonished to see such a big improvement in the…

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That Commission. Sydney, 16th April, F. E. Fry, Esq., Chairman of Directors, Avon and Barrington But-Butter Factory, Gloucester

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 3

Dear Sir, On the Writer's return to Sydney he found a letter addressed to him from your Secretary, asking the…

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Money in Dairying. £435 FROM 40 COWS

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 4

We hear a lot of what the dairymen of the Richmond are doing in the way of returns, but we think the Manning has some dairymen who have herds…

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Maize for the Dairymen

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 3

Maize, says a contemporary, as a food for dairy stock, cannot be over-estimated. It is the all round best of food. Tests, both in Australia and…

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A Pigeon Farm

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 9

Nowhere in the world, in all probability, can so many tame pigeons be seen in the air as on the pigeon farm or ranch which is to be found near Los Angeles, in Southern…

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Farm and Field. Wa[?]te in Seed Sowing

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 9 May 1907 · page 2

It is said of a famous mustard maker that be made, a fortune — not out of mustard consumed, but out of that left unbaten on the plates. In like manner if…

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The Mortality among Cattle

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 6

Mr. C. Brooks, the District Stock Inspector (Muswellbrook), who has been constantly engaged during the past eight days in the endeavour to…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Approved Methods in Growing Peaches. [All Bights RESERVED.]

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 2

WHEN starting an orchard, and after the trees bare been the trees [?]ot, there are two methods of culture, or what may be termed cropping. The first consists in…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Approved Methods in Growing Peaches

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 2

WHEN starting an orchard, and after the trees have been set, there are two methods of culture, or what may be termed cropping. The first consists in…

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Imported Dairy Stock. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 6

SIR,--My attention has been drawn to some remarks which appeared recently in your journal from the pen of a Mr. T. H. Davey, of Clybucca, who claims--…

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