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New England · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1896

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Farm and Garden Inbreeding

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 10 July 1896 · page 4

In inbreeding, poultry great [?] and good judgment need to be exercised, for the tendency is to intensify traits and characteristics; good qualities are strengthened in the…

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The Pastoral Industry

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 11 July 1896 · page 2

Mr. W. E. Abbott, in his address to the Pastoralists' Union last week, made a statement which cannot receive too much attention. He said…

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The London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 11 July 1896 · page 4

At the London wool sales, yesterday, competition was spirited and prices firm…

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The Clarence Maize Crop

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 11 July 1896 · page 6

During June 44,248 bushels maize were exported from the Clarence, making the amount of the season's crop shipped to Sydney 334,312…

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The Stud Sheep Sales. Sydney, Monday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 5

THE amount realised by the stud sheep sales just concluded was £31,828, the largest total for several years past…

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The Stud Sheep Sales. Sydney, Monday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 5

THE amount realised by the stud sheep sales just concluded was.£31,828, the largest total for several years past…

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Wages Op State Farmers. Sydney, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 5

A DEPUTATION from men employed at the Botany sewerage farm waited upon the Premier to-day and pointed out that a majority of the 400 men employed there were…

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Wages of State Farmers. Sydney, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 5

A DEPUTATION from men employed at the Botany sewerage farm, waited upon the Premier to-day and pointed ont that a majority of the 400 men employed there were…

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 15 July 1896 · page 2

At the London wool sales yesterday competition was brisk and prices firm…

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Farm and Garden Money in Cheap Eggs

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1896 · page 3

'I can sell eggs at twopence a dozen and still make money, with the aid of a good bone cutter and plenty of clover for them to pick both summer and winter. I pay one…

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 July 1896 · page 4

At the London wool sales yesterday competition was animated, and prices were the firmest of the series…

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Slip-shod Farming

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1896 · page 2

THE South African Commissions on Agriculture, Messrs. Halse and Vesser, are now in Tasmania. They were asked: " What has most struck you in your travels about…

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 July 1896 · page 2

At the London Wool Sales yesterday competition was good and prices unchanged…

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Wool Market

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 July 1896 · page 5

The wool sales closed this evening with prices very firm…

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Microbe Farming

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 July 1896 · page 4

The mystery of nitrification is now so well known that any farmer can understand it. Plants live on nitrogen, but apparently have no power to take it either from the air or the…

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Farm and Garden Horse Radish

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 July 1896 · page 4

A corner in the garden may be occupied with this much esteemed root. Plant even roots, straight, without knots, and rub off the fibres. A good layer of manure in…

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Barley as a Cattle Feed

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 July 1896 · page 7

Professor F. W. Woll, of the Wisconsin Experiment Station, writing on the subject to Hoard's Dairyman, shows that barley is the man…

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Dairying in Queensland

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 July 1896 · page 2

No better testimony to the feet that the colony has a splendid asset in its dairying resources conld be furnished (says the Queensland…

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Armidale Farmers and Sugar Beet

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 July 1896 · page 4

WR strongly commend to the care ful perasal of all our agricultural friends the timely letter Bent us by Mr. C. A. Lee, M.L.A., for Tenterfield,…

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The Progressive Farmer

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 July 1896 · page 5

There is a type of fermer to be found in most lo[?]ties who is termed a "faddiet." But it has often occurred to my mind that it…

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