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Farming & the land, 1889

112 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 6

Seed Wheat

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1889 · page 4

Between 4000 and 5000 bushels of seed wheat hare been sent to distressed farmers in Molong, Orange, and Borenore districts…

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Strange Freak of a Farmer's Daughter

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1889 · page 7

A TALL, well-dressed person, who answered to the name of Harriet Mackay alias Muir, described as an actress, was says the EUROPEAN…

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Cleanliness in the Dairy

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1889 · page 7

WHEN cows are stabled all night and the greater part of the day, it becomes a matter of concern how they should be littered so as to secure the most perfect…

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German Sheep

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1889 · page 4

A valuable consignment of German sheep will arrive here by early steamer, some being from the well known German breeder Stieger. They ate intended to…

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Meeting of Pastoral Lessees

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1889 · page 4

A REPRESENTATIVE meeting of pastoral lessees was held in a room off the New Town Hall, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of protesting against some of the…

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The Wool Market

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1889 · page 4

WE (Harrison, Jones, and Devlin) held our usual bi-monthly sale on Monday, submitting a catalogue of 157 bales, comprised principally of Fellmongered…

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London Wool Market. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1889 · page 8

FOR the approaching series of wool sales, four hundred thousand bales arrived. Entries to the amount of three hundred and twenty-five thousand bales are…

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Seed Wheat

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1889 · page 4

The applications for seed wheat were closed last Saturday. Farmers to the number of 1639 sought Government relief…

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Wool Market

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1889 · page 4

The Wool market is quiet but firm…

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An Easy Way to Make Butter

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1889 · page 6

THE following recipe has been forwarded to us (Yass Courier) a sore and easy way of making good fresh batter. Our contributor has frequently tried the…

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Cost of a Bushel of Wheat

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1889 · page 6

AN expert in grain-growing has figured out that the average cost of raising a bushel of wheat in Michigan for the last five years is about 70 cents. With wheat…

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Sydney Wool Market. [Harrison, Jones, and Devlin.]

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1889 · page 4

FOR our usual fortnightly wool sale to-day (Monday) we submitted a catalogue of 134 bales, by far the larger portion of which consisted of scoured wools. The…

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How They Make Farmers in Denmark

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1889 · page 7

YOUNG men are apprenticed to the best farmers all over the Kingdom for two or three years, under the oversight of the Royal Agricultural Society. They work…

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Commercial Intelligence. the Wool Market. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1889 · page 8

MESSRS. Jacomb and Balm offered 12,000 bales of wool at the sale, of which one thousand were New South Wales or New Zealand clips. There was a full…

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The Dairy. Kicking Cows

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1889 · page 3

AN American exchange says:—There is no trustworthy cure for kicking cows. There are devices which by force restrain the cow or make her efforts of no effect,…

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The Wool Market. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1889 · page 4

THE tone of the wool market continues animated with good demand and firm prices for favourite descriptions. 15,000 bales were offered to-day…

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Commercial Intelligence. the Wool Market. London June 19

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1889 · page 6

THE tone of the London wool market is very firm, and the advance established at yesterday's opening sales of the series is fully maintained. Fourteen thousand…

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Will Poultry Farming Pay?

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1889 · page 3

HUNDREDS have tried their hands at poultry farming, and many of them have given up the business with more or less of loss, but there are a few who have…

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The Wool Market. London, July 4

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 July 1889 · page 4

THE wool market remains unchanged…

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Commercial Intelligence. the Wool Market

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 July 1889 · page 4

LONDON, July 9.—In the wool market today good merinos and crossbred were very firm; but middling faulty merinos and coarse cro[?]sbreds incline in buyer's favor…

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