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New England · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

928 stories in New England's papers · page 20 of 47

The Producer. Dairying. Great Record Cows

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 June 1908 · page 2

BREEDING is a great thing but individuality is greater. The individual talent of one child in a family may be great, but how often do we see no particular signs of it in the…

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Electrified Crops

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 June 1908 · page 3

The use of electricity in cultivating form and garden products is not sow but it has made considerable progress in recent years…

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Farm and Pastoral Notes. Tillage of the Soil

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 7

In ploughing the first time where a further operation is intended later on, it is preferable to plough on the dry side, and turn up good-sized…

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Farm and Field. Agriculture in Argentine

Guyra Argus · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 3

As the reports from the Argentine Republic are at present ruling the European wheat market, the following facts from the latest report of the British…

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Durable Home-made Farm Gate

Guyra Argus · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 5

The form gate here shown, is 14 feet wide. It is made of four boards 4 inches wide, the same style as is in general use, by using barb wire between boards…

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Farm-hands From Great Britain

Guyra Argus · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 5

SCARCELY a vessel arrives from the United Kingdom without a small party of agricultural labourers who have accepted assisted passages for the…

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Butter Returns

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 2

CASINO.—The returns from the Casino Co-operative Dairy Company for May are:—First-class butter produced 125, 1871bs; second class, 32951bs. The price…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. ([?] [?]). Mose on Fruit Trees

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 6

Accumulation of moss on the trunks and branches of fruit trees in act only a bad sign, but is injurious to the trees as it blocks up the pores of the…

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Importation of Cattle

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 3

There arrived in this district recently a number of high class dairy cattle, Imported direct from the breeder, after personal inspection…

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COMMERCIAL. The Wool Market

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 6

Messrs. Sehute, Bell, and Co., wool and produce brokers, report under date June 16th: There has been no material change in wool values during the past week,…

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Child Slavery on Farms

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 7

In the course of a strongly-worded article on the above subject, the Sydney 'Daily Telegraph' says:p The evidence comes from too many…

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The Wool Market

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 4

THE associated wool brokers report:—The volume of business transacted in the local wool market during the past week has been small, the general tendency being to await…

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Grazing Price of Wool

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 5

IN a private letter, Messrs, Willans and Overbury, the well-known wool buyers, have written from London, some notes as to the apparent causes of the slump to wool, and…

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Wool Market. Schute, Bell, & Co's. Ltd. Report. Under date 16th June

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 2

There has been no material change in wool values during the past week, business having been somewhat restricted lines owing to tendency to await events at the auction sales…

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Farming. Keeping Dogs for There Years

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 5

A SAMPLE of eggs that have been preserved for nearly three years and are now almost as fresh as when they were first put in cold store has been received by the New Zealand…

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The Producer. Dairying

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 5

IF the dairy cow is properly fed and cared for she will do her best, but she will never do all she is capable of doing withort good care…

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Experimental Farm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 4

As an endorsement of the opinions expressed by Mr. F. J. Thomas, M.L.A, the Minister for Agriculture was certainly impressed with the necessity for improvement…

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Schoolboys Assist Farmers

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 3

AN organization has been formed in the schools of New York City to ararrange for the senior boys to spend their vacation this summer on farms,…

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The Wool Market. (By Wire).—Tuesday

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 June 1908 · page 4

At the Sydney wool sale to-day, the market showed an improvemen[?] Competition was good, and prices were, from [?] to 15 per cent. higher. Greasy realised [?] 10d,…

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Uralla Butter Factory

Guyra Argus · Thursday 25 June 1908 · page 7

At the annual meeting on Saturday 13th inst., the secretary read a report, in which it was shown that steady progress had been made. The amount…

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