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New England · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1886

218 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 11

Sydney Wool Market. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1886 · page 5

WE offered 2000 bales at our wool sale today and sold 1200. The market is still over, except for washed wools, which maintain there position at late rates…

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Farm, Field, & GARDEN. Weight of Farm produce

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1886 · page 7

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Local & General News. Railway Rates on Farm Produce

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1886 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning a deputation, representing the northern districts, waited on the Minister for Works to ask him to take into consideration the question of…

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Roundabout Rambles. a Farmer's Paradise

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1886 · page 6

Among all the varied means provided for spending Anniversary Day in a pleasant manner, there was one which, though overlooked by the great crowd of mere pleasure seekers, offered itself as furnishing…

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The Local Wheat Market

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1886 · page 2

IN our last issue we mentioned that we thought our farmers were justified in asking for a higher figure than 4s. per bushel for their wheat. Since then we have got…

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Cheap Trains for Farm Produce

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1886 · page 7

WE have received from Mr. James Inglis copies of correspondence which has passed between him and the Railway Department on the…

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Farm, Field, & GARDEN. Weight of Farm Produce

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1886 · page 2

THE following are the weights regulated by law. M[?] Oats, 40fts to bushel [?] [?] 20lbs to bushel [?]…

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Keeping Farm Herd Books

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1886 · page 2

THERE are numerous systems of keeping farm herd-books. Every animal may have a number given consecutively. as purchased or dropped. This is a simple, good way…

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Economy in Home and Farm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1886 · page 2

ECONOMY, in everything, upon the farm and in the household, will be needed now we are passing out of a cycle of high prices and probably entering one of low prcies…

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Why Farmers Do Not Succeed

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1886 · page 2

THEY are not active and industrious. They do not keep up with improvements. They are wedded to old methods…

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The Cost of Fattening Prize Cattle

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1886 · page 2

THE result of an important experiment, carried out by Lord Harris, has just been announced. His lordship was of opinion that the fattening of animals to the…

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Farm, Field, & GARDEN. Weight of Farm Produce

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1886 · page 2

THE following are the weights regulated by law:—I Maixe, 561lb to bushed Oats, 10lbs to bushel Brun, 20lbs. to bushel…

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Intelligence by Wire. [Through Greville's Company.] New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. [Lodged 11.15; received 1.] Pastoral Letter

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1886 · page 2

A pastoral letter of the Boman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Australasia in Plenary Council was read in St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday. It occupies nearly…

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Correspondence. to the Members of the Armidale and New England Pastoral and AGRI-New Cultural Society. (Per Favour of Armidale Express.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1886 · page 4

Sirs—No doubt you have read the report in the two local papers of a Bpecial meeting of the above Society held in the old Town Hall on Thursday last, the 25th…

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Hints to Small Wool-growers

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 2

Don't throw your wool together anyhow. A little care in preparing for market will be well repaid. Don't tie your fleeces with string. It…

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Farm, Field, & GARDEN. Weight of Farm Produce

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 2

THE following ate the weights regnlated by law:—Matte, 561bs. to bushel Oats, 40Ibs. to bushel Bran, 20lbs. to bushel…

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The Farmer's Soliloquy

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 5

To sell or not to sell -- that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in a man to suffer His anxious creditors to fret aud wait indefinitely…

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Farm, Household, etc

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 3

To remove oil, resin, gum resin, varnish, or fat, of any kind whatever, use benzine. To clean a small flue bum a piece of zinc on the fire. The fumes will completely clear away the…

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The Current Value of Sheep

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 2

SOME very intersting figures on the value of sheep daring the post ten years (1876 to 1885) have just been issued by the Teviotdale Farmers' Club, to show the…

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Farm, Field, & Garden. [?]

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 2

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