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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Soaking Food in Water for Cattle

Manilla Express · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 7

VERY rarely is food soaked in water for horses; but sometimes when horses are worked hard it is found profitable to chaff the hay and grind the grain, and to…

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Farmers and Settlers. Moree Branch. Annual Report

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 6

The following annual report of the Moree branch of tho F. and S. Association was read at the annual meeting, held on the 25th April…

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Farm and Field. Waste in Seed Sowing

Manilla Express · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 2

It is said of a famous mustard maker that he made a fortune--not out of mustard consumed, but out of that left uneaten on the plates. In like manner if…

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SOMERTON. The Weather and Crops

Manilla Express · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 4

The fanners are all busy ploughing, in fact some of them have finished, and are are waiting for a fall of rain before sowing. The weather…

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The Beekeeper Apiary on the Farm

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 7 May 1907 · page 3

Nature has wisely provided for the pollenisation of blossoms of the vegetable kingdom, in the creation of bees. Of the different agencies depended upon to do…

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Selecting a Dairy Herd

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 7 May 1907 · page 3

The young farmer is constantly asking himself if it will pay him to invest his money in a dairy. No outsider can tell for certain whether it will or not, for so…

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A Stone Dairy House

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 7 May 1907 · page 1

It is important that the location for milk-setting, creaming and churning, be apart from other buildings from, which odors of various kinds are likely…

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Farm and Field. Manure for Potatoes

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 7 May 1907 · page 3

The Midland Agricultural and Dairy College, England, has issued a bulletin dealing with the Held experiments in manuring potatoes during the past year…

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This Dairy. Selection of Breeding Stock

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 7 May 1907 · page 3

The general principle of heredity is that "like produces like." There are departures from this rule, but it proves true in the majority of instances, and it…

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Wool and Wheat

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 6

The amount of wool received at Darling Harbor, &c., during the week was 1144 hales. representing a decrease of 336 hales, as compared with…

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Cattle Byproducts

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 4

Cattle furnish, besides food, no end of articles in common use. Your toilet or laundry soup is made from their grease; the curled hair in your chair…

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Wheat. SYDNEY

Manilla Express · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 2

Wheat is firmer from 35½ to 36, second quality from 32 to 33, Manitoba 310…

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Selection of Seed Wheat

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 3

A bulletin of importance to the farming interest has been issued at the Agricultural Collage of the University of Callfornia from the pen of Professor G. W…

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Wool and Produce Reports

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 6

Messrs. Hill, Clark and Co report :— Hides.—Supplies were rather small, but the market has slightly better…

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Dryden's Famous Medicines for Horses and Cattle

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 4

At the Royal Agricultural Society's Show in Sydney, Mr. A. Dryden was awarded the first order of merit for has horse and cattle medicines. A…

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The One-Crop System of Farming

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 3

The one-crop system, wherever it is sactised, means failure ultimately. This is been the story af agriculture since as world began. Of course, when the…

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The Cooper' Sheep-shearing: Machines and Fair Bank's Morse Cil Engines

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 4

A very fine display was made at the R.A.S. Show by the Cooper Co. Each day a number of sheep were shorn by the Cooper machines, the…

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The Conversion Bill. ("Farmer and Settlor.")

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 6

The claims of Mir holders of home-stand selections and settlement leases to the right of conversion, will naturally receive very emphatic endorsement…

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Farm and Field. Bovine Tuberculosis

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 3

In an address at a recent meeting of the Dairymen's Association of Maine (U.S.A.). Professor F. U Russell. of the local University, discussed the question…

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The Dairy. Wet and Dry Milking

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 10 May 1907 · page 7

The question of whether the hands should be wet when milking frequently crops up. Cleanliness counts for much in successful dairying, and the practice…

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