Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved) Hint's on Rearing Calves
Macleay Argus · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 4
On rearing calves it should be made an indispensable condition that they have good loins. A little slackness between the rumps and back ribs in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Training Farmers. New Scheme by the Minister for Agriculture
Macleay Argus · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 13
THE Minister for Agriculture (Mr. John Perry) has had under consideration the question of modifying and popularising the scheme of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Important to Dairymen. Pernicious Deceit
Macleay Argus · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 18
THE following paragraph from the current issue of the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales is deserving of very wide circulation, and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →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 Xvii. Replenishing Stores.--extracting the Bullet.--finding a Human Skeleton in the Scrub
Macleay Argus · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 8
THE same night O'Meally and Gilbert, and Burke, taking two spare horses with them, as "packs started for the township to get a new fit…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Butter Churn
Nambucca News · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 3
gral with an axle and shaft, which extend down into the body of the churn to within an Inch of the bottom. Mounted rigidly on the shaft are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Straying Cattle
Nambucca News · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 4
In response to a request for information the Shires' Association has advised the Copmanhurst Shire that stock and cattle may not be allowed to graze on the roades…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Churns Butter Quickly
Nambucca News · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 3
A Kansas farmer is the inventor of the churn herewith shown. The body of the churn has a cover supporting a movable frame, to which the operating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Important to Dairymen. Pernicious Deceit
Nambucca News · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 5
The attention of the Department of Agriculture (writes the Gazette) has been drawn by its dairy inspectors to the pernicious system of payment for cream…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved) Sterilising Dairy Utensils
Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 17
A very effective method of sterilising dairy utensils is to fill them with water containing ordinary washing soda in the proportion of 1lb. to 20…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Dairy Meeting
The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 2
THE half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in the Hastings District Cooperative Dairy Company was held at the School of Arts Hall, Beechwood, on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer's Fruit Cake
Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 5
Ingredients. -- Take 1 cup of dried sour apples, 1 cup of golden syrup, 1 cup of sugar, one-third cup of butter, ½ cup of sour milk, teaspoonful of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A New Plough. Important to Farmers
Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 19
A CANADIAN, Mr. T. Sawartzky, has patented a plough which turns the surface soil under the sub soil. The plough is arranged to cut two slices…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Coastal Farmers' Co
Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 15
THE Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society holds its half-yearly meeting at Bega at the end of this month. The interim balance sheet for the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →State Butter Factory
The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 3
A REPORT is current on the South Coast that the Government proposes to purchase and conduct the Berry Central Butter Factory. The proposal does not meet with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Failure of a Millet Crop
The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 5
AMONG the crops which have been seriously affected by the droughty conditions prevailing in the State, broom millet has received perhaps the most serious checking. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Lad's Revenge. Shoots His Master and Suicides
Nambucca News · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 7
Warcombe Farm, near Kingsbridge, was the scene of a grim discovery recently. The body of Mr Herbert Baker, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Garden Original Articles, (All Rights Reserved) Grazing Forage Crops
Macleay Argus · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 17
In consuming forage crops on the land where they grow, more especially autumn ones, offers a good chance to give the soil a fertilising. Troughs…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Queensland Sheep
The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 11 February 1909 · page 6
THE rapid increase in the flocks in Queensland of recent years raises the question as to whether the numbers of sheep in that State are not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Farming
The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 11 February 1909 · page 3
An American retired school teacher, who started dairy farming, and managed in a few yeas to increase his income form a 96 acre farm from £200 to £400, says:—"This…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society
The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 11 February 1909 · page 3
THE seventeenth half-yearly meeting of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Limited, was held at Bega School of Arts on Saturday week…
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