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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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Farmer and Shire Council

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 5

A CASE William Walker v. Peel Shire Council, which has occupied the attention of the Circuit Court for a week, when Mr. Justice Sly granted the…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Frost on the Sugar Crop

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 6

The loss to the sugar industry by frost in one week in Queensland was equal to the value of the wheat crop in its record year…

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Dairying Records

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 5

A PARAGRAPH has been published giving the record of a Tweed dairyman in regard to work in the yard. These records all depend upon the…

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Butter Boxes from Straw

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 9

In future the boxes containing butter Shipped from Queensland to Great Britain are to be made of straw, and a £50,000 company has been formed to…

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The Gloucester Stud Farm

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 7

The Gloucester Stud Farm just now looks its best; and it is a profitable experience to go over it. generally speaking, the spell of dry…

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Dairying Up-to-Date. Ben Lomond Estate, New England

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 4

A visit to the above estate by a dairyman who knew it under the old regime would be an excellent and instructive visit. To see the large…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved) Chrysanthemum Rust

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 2

There are many amateurs who have observed light brown specks or blo[?]hes appearing, often in great abundance, on the under surface of…

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The Farrer Memorial Fund. a Great Wheat Expert

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 2

FOR some time past the subscriptions to the Farrer Memorial Fund have not been coming in as readily as the Committee could wish. As is generally…

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A Little Farm Well Tilled

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 7

EVIDENTLY Mr. Jas. Grant, of Glen Elgin, Holm wood, near Cowra, believes that there is some profit in a little farm well tilled in a district…

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A Washington Apple Farmer

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 4

LAST season, after the Autumn apple crops were worth little in the American markets (says the London Standard), a Washington…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved) Market Cattle

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 2

The taste of the public for a rather leaner class of meat, whether pigs, cattle, or sheep, has been plowing now for some few years, and breeders and…

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Electrical Farming. Startling Experiments by Sir Oliver Lodge

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 10

Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University, has been conducting a series of experiments regarding the effect of electricity on field…

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Prizes for Crops Grown Under Irrigation

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 9

IN view of the great interest which is now being taken in this State in the question of irrigation, the Minister of Agriculture requested the Royal…

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Experimental Farms

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 7

IN the Assembly on Wednesday last, in reply to a question by Mr. Briner, the Minister for Agriculture said that 400 acres of land wold be retained…

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Macleay River Co-op. Dairying Company, Ltd

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 7

FOR the month of October the Macleay River Co-op. Dairying Company, Ltd., paid suppliers on 1st grade butter 10¼d per lb., and 9½d on 2nd…

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Raymond Terrace Butter Factory Report

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 4

The butter market has been firm throughout the month of October, closing prices being 114s per owt. The output of butter for the month…

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Farm and Dairy Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved] Influenza in Horses

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 4

In many places this has been a very troublesome malady during the past winter, and it must not be looked upon as out of season now, as now is very…

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Farmers and Settlers' Society, UNDERBANK

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 10

A meeting of this branch was held at Underbank, on Friday, November 6th, 1908. There were present—Mr. S. E…

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Silos for Farmers

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 19 November 1908 · page 3

"IXE " writes to the Brisbane Courier —Re silos, who worry the Government for help to build silos when any ordinary man with every day tools can…

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Sale of Agricultural Farms

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 19 November 1908 · page 3

MR. E. W. SPARKE in conjunction with G. S. Hill, sold by auction on October 16th, portion of the late Hon. James Eales's estate, near Osterley,…

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