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New England · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

266 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 14

Pastoral and Agricultural Association

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 2

THE usual weekly meeting of the committee took place on Thursday at the Town Hall, the President in the chair; Messrs. P. M'Cormack, J. Healey, G. Carroll, W. Hodges T. Black, D. Bull, J. A. Rada,…

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Farm Items

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 6

LANDS which do not pay a profit for cultivation should be put into grass. If well Stocked with good cattle, they will then at least lose you no money…

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Farm and Garden

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 6

Let no one undertake bee-keeping with the belief that liberal returns are offered without efforts. Always approach a hive from the side or…

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Our Commercial Column. the Wool Sales. London, Feb. 6

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 4

Good wools have keen competition, but heavy and faulty are slow of sale. Titanga sold at 13½d Ulonga 9d., Moira 8½d…

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Armidale Farmers' Union

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 4

THE adjourned annual meeting of the Armidale Farmers' Union was held at the old Town Hall on Tuesday evening, there being a fair attendance. Mr. W. M'Lennan…

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Farmer Murdered by Boys

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 6

AN extraordinary crime has been perpetrated near Ogema, a post office hamlet in Chippewa County, by two boys. A boy named John Anderson, aged 14, left home…

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A New Method of Butter-keeping

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1893 · page 8

ACCORDING to the Mouvement Economique, a method has been patented in France by Mons. Blauchon by which it is said butter can be preserved in a fresh condition for some months…

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Farm and Garden

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1893 · page 6

Isolate diseased from sound poultry. Feed boiled corn meal and potatoes mashed, on which sprinkle a little ground ginger. Keep them in a warm, dry and comfortable…

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Co-operative Dairying

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1893 · page 4

FINDING that Mr. Andersen was about to visit our district, I took the opportunity of looking him up (writes the Hawke's Bay correspondent of the N.Z. FARMER.) Mr…

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Take-all and Dry Blight in Cereal Crops

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1893 · page 8

AN article under this head appearing in the Agricultural Gazette, Vol III., Part 12. by Dr. N. A. Cobb, pathologist to the Department of Agriculture, deals with a subject of such vast…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 4

OUR (Australian Mortgage and Agency Co.'s) auction sale of wool was well attended. Biddings were slightly irregular, but on the whole prices were well…

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Farm and Garden

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 6

Corn fodder that is cut up, husked in the field, then shocked and left to stand until some convenient time to haul in, loses at least one-half its original value before being…

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Bitter Dairy Products

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 6

You cannot make good cheese out of bitter milk; in fact you can scarcely make good pork out of it. Primarily, milk should never be permitted, to become bitter, but…

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Cattle

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1893 · page 5

This was one of the most encouraging sections in the show, and some excellent representatives of the various breeds were exhibited. Owing to the continuous wet…

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Sheep

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1893 · page 5

The sheep exhibited were not of such good quality as would be expected from a district lite this and were not at all a sample of what is to be found in our midst. This…

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Fat Cattle

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1893 · page 5

This section was without doubt the leading feature of the show and a finer looking lot of fat stock it would be hard to find. Mr. Hodges, of Glen Innes, undertook the…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Association

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1893 · page 2

ON last Thursday afternoon the usual meeting was held at the Town Hall, with the President in the chair; Messrs J. Hutchison, Every, Sully, M'Cormack, A. Hutchison, Noble, Holmes Carvell,…

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The Wool Market. London, Feb. 24

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1893 · page 4

IN the Bradford market tops and merinos are very depressed, and prices are easier. There is brisk business in crossbreds…

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Farm and Garden

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1893 · page 6

The mignonette is the national flower of Spain. The potato was taken to Spain and Italy by the Spaniards about 1525…

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How to Grow a Good Crop of Potatoes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1893 · page 8

IN the spring of the present year, the Standard newspaper -- in their periodical article on " Home and Foreign Agriculture" -- made mention of a method of treating seed-tubers practised by a…

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