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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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