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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

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Pumpkins a Neglected Fodder Crop

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 6

IT is the opinion of Mr. P. J. Carroll, of the Government cool stores, Melbourne, that although pumpkin-growing for dairy cow fodder purposes is…

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Twice-forgiven Wife the Painful Story of a South African Farm

Nambucca News · Friday 8 January 1909 · page 8

The story of a wife whose unfaithfulness was twice forgiven by her husband was told by Mr Barnard in support of t he undefended petition brought on 5th…

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A Shower of Wheat

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 4

It must have been a high wind indeed, that brought a shower of wheat the other day to the villagers in a place on the southern…

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In the London Wool Exchange

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 4

On entering the Wool Exchange sale-room in Colemac-street we find a capacious room or hall seating some 500 persons, with more…

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The Fanning Mill on the Farm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 5

The fanning mill is probably the most useful impliment that is used [?] the farm in proportion to its [?] While it is useful in…

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Need For a Farmers' Union

Macleay Argus · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 10

WE do not deem it necessary to apologise for again introducing this subject to the attention of our readers. The ARGUS has always…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved) Bees: Double Hives

Macleay Argus · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 17

Where extracted honey is mainly worked for, the following method may be adopted: Having selected two strong stocks, remove from one of them all…

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Dairy Science School at Berry

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 14 January 1909 · page 2

A DAIEY science school was held under the superintendence of Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, the Departmental Dairy Expert, at the Berry Butter Factory…

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Lead-wool for Joints

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 5

Lead-wool consists of pure lead cut into strips by machinery, and is put up in pound-skeins of yard-long threads. For making tight joints it…

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Farm and Dairy Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Pasture Land

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 17

It is a mistake to let pasture land take its chance because of harvest work. It is hardly reasonable to expect hands to be hindered when…

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Poultry Farming in Auckland

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 3

The New Zealand province of Auckland is earning enviable fame as a producer of of poultry and' their products. Hark to this. from the…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Co' Factory Report for December, 1908

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 3

The month closed for best butters at 96s per cwt, and a fair demand for seconds, The quantity of butter manufactured…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Co-op. Company

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 9

THE procuring of evidence, examination of accounts, and the occurring of the holidays, have tended to delay further proceedings in connection with the…

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John Vane, Bushranger. [All Rights Reserved.] Being a true narrative of his career--illustrative of varied phases of country life fifty years ago--in which his experiences as bush boy, gold seeker, cattle stealer and a member of the notorious gang of bushrangers led by Ben Hall, which terrorised the countryside in the early sixties, are faithfully depicted. Chapter Xv. We Capture Three Policemen

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 12

SOME days after this, while we were in camp, one of our "telegraphs" rode up and told us that a party of three police had just gone along…

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Wheat-farming to Produce Big Results

Macleay Argus · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 5

By his new method of wheat-farming, Gen. Levitsky, of the Russian Army, claims to produce an enormous yield of grain and unusually stout…

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Farming with Heavy Horses. E. T. Robbins, in the "American Agriculturist."

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 3

Heavy horses are not so well adapted to handling light leads and light machinery at a quick step and over hills and hollows as are the…

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Milking Machine Success. What a Leading Dairyman Says

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 7

One of the best known dairyman in the State. Mr. W. H. Gray, of [?] several years Chairman of the [?] milks 150 cows with the [?]…

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Dairy Meeting

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 7

A MEETING of the Directors of the H. D. Co-Operative Dairy Company was held at the factory on Tuesday last. There were present—Messrs. J. Hesley (Chairman), G. Lindsay, G. Bransdon,…

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Training Farmer's New Scheme by the Minister for Agriculture

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. John Perry) has had under consideration the question of modifying and popularising the scheme of agricultural…

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Disappearance of a Farmer. "Presumed to Be Dead."

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 10

Further reference was made in the Melbourne Courts on Tuesday to the mysterious disappearance of a farmer who went to England, and has not…

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