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New England · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

823 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 42

Horse Breeding on the Farm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 6

ON this subject a practical correspondent of the LIVE STOCK JOURNAL says we one and all look forward earnestly to an early day when every…

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Farmer & Grazier

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 3

It js predicted fat cattle will advance 25 percent, next winter. A cabbage grown at Eden turned the scales at 50lbs…

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Butter

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 3

The Farmer[?] and Settiers' Co-operative Society, Limited., 343-345 S[?]- street Sydney, report for week ondimg February 7th: —…

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Epidemic Amongst Sheep

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 4

Over 600 sheep have died in the Coonabarabran district from some unknown epidemic. The authorities will investigate the cause…

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Wool and Produce Eeports

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 3

The Australasian Morlgage and Ageney Co., Ltd.; John Bridge and Co., LTd.; Harrison, Jones, And Devlin, Ltd.; Hill, Clark, and Co.; Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd.;…

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Serious Sheep Epidemic. to Be Investigated

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 5

Over 600 sheep have died in the Coonabarabran district from some unknown epidemic. The authorities will investigate the cause…

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Seed Wheat. a Ministerial Denial

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 5

Mr. Kidd, Minister for Agriculture, stoutly denies the rumour that the Government purchased seed wheat at a price greatly in advance of that…

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The Butter Factory. (To the Editor of the Inverall Times.)

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 4

Sir.--Kindly allow me the space of a few lines in answer to Mr. A. Bloore's reply to my letter in your paper a week ago, signed "Shareholder." I shall deal with the…

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The Butter Factory Audit. (To the Editor of the Times.)

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 4

Sir,--The labour of the proverbial mountain in bringing forth a mouse was only a circumstance compared with the labour of the chairman and secretary of the Butter Factory in…

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The Butter Factory Audit. (To the Editor of the Inverell Times.)

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 4

Sir,--Mr. M'llveen's defence of the auditors in yours of the 3rd, and his instructions as to the duties of myself as chairman, have afforded me some satisfaction, as it further…

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Imported Sheep

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1903 · page 2

Six Suffolk owes, imported by Mr. R. Alcock, of Glen Innes, are at Bradley's Head; (says the Evening News), having just completed their quarantine term. On Sunday one own gave birth to…

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Seed Wheat

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 13 February 1903 · page 2
Also in Guyra Argus

1000 applications have already been received for seed wheat. The applications are now arriving at the rate of 100 daily…

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Glen Innes Butter Factory

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1903 · page 2

IN our last issue we published a paragraph showing that the Manning River Dairy Company, for the month of December, had paid suppliers at the rate of 8½d per lb for first-gradr butter. Since…

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The Seed Wheat. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1903 · page 5

ABOUT 1000 applications for seed wheat have been received. Applications are now coming in at the rate of a hundred a day…

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The Wool Season. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1903 · page 5

ONLY 397,000 bales of wool have come to hand this season at Sydney, Morpeth, and Newcastle, as compared with 578,000 bales last season…

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Local and General News. Weather and Crops

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1903 · page 2

THE prolonged dry weather has had a serious effect on the pastoral and agricultural prospects of this district. Most of the corn growth that gave such great promise a little while back has failed…

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Sheep Poisoned

The Inverell Times · Saturday 14 February 1903 · page 5
Also in The Armidale Chronicle

Twelve hundred sheep have succumbed while on the journey from Jundah to Greenhill, in Queensland, through eating a poisonous weed…

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Seed Wheat

The Inverell Times · Saturday 14 February 1903 · page 5

Great complaints have been received from many parts of the State in regard to the Government's arrangements for the distribution of seed wheat. The farmers are disheartened,…

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