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New England · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1878

44 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 3

Need Australia Import Stud Sheep?

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1878 · page 3

THE value for stud purposes of the American merino sheep presented to the Agricultural Society of New South Wales by the Agricultural Society of Vermont, U. S. A., has been the subject of…

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Sheep Directors' Meeting

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1878 · page 4

At a meeting of Sheep Directors for New England, held at Armidale on the 26th inst., the Chairman, Mr. C. D. Fen wick, J.P., opened the meeting by reading a…

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The Yeoman. Need Australia Import Stud Sheep?

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1878 · page 8

THE 'Australasian' says The value for stud purposes of the American merino sheep presented to the Agricultural Society of New South Wales…

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The Yeoman. Selectors' Sheep

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 August 1878 · page 3

AGRICOLA writes, in the 'D. D. Gazette':—There are few subjects that possibly are more deserving the serious attention…

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Registration Ofear-marks Under the Diseases in Sheep Acts Amendment Act

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 August 1878 · page 6

THE Sydney Mail says:—Although a good deal of doubt has been expressed as to the possibility of finding such a number of different legible…

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Pastoral, Agricultural, and Mining Association

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 August 1878 · page 2

THE annual meeting of this Society was held at the Court House, on Wednesday last, 31st ult. The attendance was sinall. Mr. James Clark was voted to the chair, and…

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Sheep Shearing by Machinery

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 3

A BOSTON inventor seems to have discovered the long sought for solution of the problem of shearing sheep by machinery, and his device has been practically tested, with the most…

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The Farmen and [?]raizen

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 3

THE Pacific Rural Press contains an illustrated description of a new harvesting apparatus, the invention of Mr. G. F. Kelly, of Susanville, Lassen County. This is a contrivance by means…

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Farm Flocks

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 3

FARM flocks are not as a rule managed on the most economical system, although there is, no doubt, much to be said on the score of expediency. A small flock, numbering under 500, must…

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Pig Farming

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 August 1878 · page 5

THE Australasian says:--The greatest improvement in pigs in modern times was originated by crossing with the Chinese breed. The offspring of the direct cross having been used…

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The farmer and Graizer

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 August 1878 · page 5

A fact that has come under the notice of a Burrangong journal proving the injuriousness the practise of dumping wool, will be of special interest to many of out readers now that…

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The farmer and Graizer

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 August 1878 · page 5

AN American writer on poultry, Mr. Henry Hales, observes that unless you want a large proportion of cockerels do not set all the largest eggs you can pick out. There are no means known by…

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Barefaced Cattle Robbery, and Smart Re-captore

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 August 1878 · page 3

THE Quinnai reporter of the 'Murrurundi Times' writes:—A cattle theft of the most daring and impudent character was effected from the…

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The Farmer and Grazier. Unevenness of Wool

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 September 1878 · page 5

OREGON'S wool crop is one of the leading products of the state, and it is rising every year to a position of higher importance. Not only is there a steady increase of the wool product, but…

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The Farmer and Graizen Science in Butter Making

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1878 · page 3

Professor L. B. Arnold, writing to the New York Tribune, says:--"Of the great mass of butter, which finds its way .into the general market, and is reckoned as good, the first and…

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The Farmer and Graizen. A Novel Idea in Weeding

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 September 1878 · page 3

FOWLS are, proverbially, enemies to amateur gardening, but a cute Yankee has hit upon ah idea whereby their scratching propensities can be economically turned to account in weeding…

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Local Intelligence. Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 September 1878 · page 4

ON the afternoon of Wednesday last, a meeting of the General Committee of the Armidale and New England Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held, in the…

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To the Sheep Inspector, Armidale. Per favour of the Armidale Express

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 September 1878 · page 6

SIR—Will you be good enough to inform the many sheep breeders in this district who have applied for brands and earmarks, but who have as yet received no…

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Sheep and Grass

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 9 October 1878 · page 3

"If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well," is a well-known axiom, and has evidently been adopted by Messrs. A. and J. H. Hay in connection with the selections taken up…

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Ear Marking Under the New Sheep Act

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 October 1878 · page 3

THE plan of ear marking proposed by the Chief Inspecter of Stock, has met with, such strong opposition throughout the colony, that it is pleasing to find a little said on the other side…

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