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Farming & the land, 1901

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Progressive Butter-making

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1901 · page 4

The advance in butter-making is in the direction of using pure cultures in the ripening of cream, and there is little doubt that the practice will…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Improvement in Prices

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 20 February 1901 · page 4

At yesterday's wool sales, the recent improvement was well maintained. Greasy wool reached 9d, and scoured 14½d…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Guinea Fowls for the Table

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1901 · page 1

ONE cannot understand why more guinea fowls, are not raised. They are excellent table fowls, possessing a true gamy flavour…

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Developing the Dairy Calf

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1901 · page 1

The calf destined for the dairy should never he fed a ration which will make it put on fat. If the flesh-growing habit is acquired by the young growing animal…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1901 · page 2

Sales were held to-day at the Sydney Wool Exchange, when the quantity catalogued totalled 4758 bales, and the sales amounted to 5033 bales…

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Concerning Dairy Cows

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1901 · page 2

SOME interesting particulars of dairy experiments are given in a recent report of the Ontario Agricultural College. Twenty milch cows were kept in the dairy herd attached to that institution last…

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The Wool Market

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 February 1901 · page 4

MESSES, Dalgety and Company's London circular in reference to the opening series of the wool sales, states that the attendance of both home and…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Southdown Sheep

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1901 · page 1

NO breed of sheep stands so high with mutton-eaters as the Southdown. In quality of meat they stand in the front rank…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 March 1901 · page 4

At yesterday's wool sales the demand was active, best greasy realising 8d and scoured 15d…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. the Jersey Cow

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 2

[?]HE Jersey cow has a record of thirty one pounds--one and one third ounce of butter for seven consecutive days. This butter contained…

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Dairying and the Winter

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 2

SIR,--Would you kindly grant me sufficient space in your valuable columns to make a suggestion with reference to the above ? I have not been very long in your midst, but since my arrival in these…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 4

At yesterday's wool sales greasy reached 8½d and scoured 14¾d per lb…

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The Antwerp Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 5

At the opening of the Antwerp wool sales, crossbreds showed a decline of from five to ten per cent. Merinos were unchanged…

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Commercial Report. Sheep sold in Sydney

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 4

109 wethers, Lampert and Co, rail Uralia, 10s to 10s 2d: 63 rams, trustees G. R. Gill, rail Walcha Road, 9s 4d; 17 rums, J. N. and A. D…

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London Wool Sales. Prices a Little Weak. London, Jan, 25, 1901

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 7

The sittings of the wool trade have proceeded space, the daily sales not being marked by anything extraordinary, save the sad blow which has…

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Improving the Dairy Herd. Progress at Black Mountain

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 5

Messrs. M Lean and Youman, the enterprising dairymen, of Blank Mountain, who exhibited with much success in the farmers' cattle section at the Armidale show, have…

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Sanitary Farming

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 9 March 1901 · page 6

Very sensible suggestion made by Mr. Henry Richmond, of Lytham, in a Manchester paper, deserves the widest possibles publicity (says Land and Water). It is that…

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Milk V. Butter

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 4

A point about milk production that has always seemed to be in need of clearing up is the difference of opinion and practice that prevails in regard to…

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Wool Report

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 2

Messrs Winchcombe Carson and Co., report on 6th instant, as follows:—The wool market is very firm at late rates. We submitted a catalogue of 1500 bales…

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A Pious Scotch Farmer

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1901 · page 7

A pious Scotch farmer once remarked with regard to the potato disease, that at first he 'thocht it was a dispensation of Almighty God, but now he believed…

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