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Farming & the land, 1900

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Butter Competition

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 September 1900 · page 3

The Berry Central Creamery won the first prize at Melbourne Show for factory made and salt butter suitable for export…

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Farm and Garden Selecting Good Layers

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 September 1900 · page 1

That the majority of hens are capable of producing many more eggs than they usually do is undoubted. The statements sometimes made that the hens in certain…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1900 · page 2

Arthur Farlow and Charles Bennett were charged at the Moree Police Court on Monday, the 3rd instant, with alleged stealing on or about the…

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Leech's Gully Farmers' Union

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1900 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the above Union was held at the residence of Mr. J. Mansfield last Wednesday night, Mr. W. Goodrich presiding. Correspondence was…

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Farmer & Grazier. Improper Mouthing

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1900 · page 2

The "Live Stock Journal" very truly says that more good horses lose their characters through improper bitting than from any other cause, and…

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Farmers' and Settler's Association

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 14 September 1900 · page 4

THE regular monthly meeting of members of the Sunnyside brunch was held at Mr. Scott's residence on Tuenday evening, Mr. W. Lawlor occupying the chair. The…

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Farm and Garden Gardening

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 14 September 1900 · page 1

Clematis, which are amongst the most showy of town flowering plants, are growing most vigorous this season, and will make good displays anon, when attended…

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A Cattle Driving Exhibition

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 8

It was in what was then the back country of Queenslasd that a young fallow named Lawrence joined me one day in endeavouring to recover some…

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Migratory Sheep

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 September 1900 · page 4

SOME curious facts about migratory sheep are given in an article in the Spectator. The [?]ame flocks of Greece, Thrace, Spain, and even Scotland are migratory. In Scotland their transport…

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Smallest Sheep in the World

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 18 September 1900 · page 4

The very smallest of all the kinds of sheep, says a contemporary, is the tiny Breton sheep. If is too small to be very…

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Meteorological Forecast for Farmers and Gardeners. For the Month of September, 1900 Meteorologist and Astronomer

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1900 · page 4

1st to 3rd.—Atmost here less productive, Weather clondy, cold winds and squally frost and snow in many places, expeciallyin Northern and Southern districts. In…

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Farmer & Grazier. Potato Disease

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 18 September 1900 · page 3

The attention of the Agricultural department having been drawn to the fact that potatoes are being imported into this colony affected by a disease…

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Cablegrams. London, Monday. Failure of Ameeican Cotton Crop

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 September 1900 · page 2

Owing to the short supplies and bad prospects of the American cotton crop, tie majority of the Lancashire milis intend dosing for a fortnight daring October…

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Dairy-work in Denmark

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 September 1900 · page 1

Denmark has done wonders in dairying. That country enjoys a magnificent climate in summer, but not nearly so good a one during the other seasons of the year; yet…

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Farm and Garden. the Best Farm Manures

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 September 1900 · page 1

Manure from horses is worth twice as much as that from cows and pigs. Give the horses plenty of oat straw and let this become fully saturated with their…

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Public Sheep-shearing

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 2

THE formation of public shearing and dipping stations is a peculiar feature of sheep-husbandry in the United States. At these stations many thousands of sheep are shorn, and all the work…

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The Farmer and Grazier. Glen Innes Butter Factory

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 2

A MEETING of the directors of the Co-operative Butter Factory was held on Friday in the Council Chambers. Amongst the business for transaction was the consideration of tenders for the supply of…

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Testing Butter by Photo

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 2

A CHEMIST has hit upon a new scheme which, he thinks, will surely bring the butterine dodgers to time. By a combination of prisms, microscopes, and a lensless camera with a sensitive plate, he has…

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The Wool Market

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 2

AT present everything in connection with the forthcoming wool sales is a matter of mere conjecture. While many, however, take a somewhat…

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Meteorological Forecast for Farmers and Gardeners. For the Month of September, 1800 Meteorologist and Astronomer

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 4

1st to 3rd.—Atmosphere less productive, Weather cloudy, cold winds and squally frost and snow in many places, especiallyin Northern and Southern districts. In…

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