The Maize Crop
A MANNING River farmer writs:—Last year I grow 1200 bushels of maize. It was sold at an average of 2s 6d per bushel. Take 6d a bushels of for freight…
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Farming & the land, 1889
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Advice to Farmers
IN his introductory remarks to the report of the Ontario Department of Agriculture for 1877, Mr. Mills, the president of the Ontario College, rotors to the difficulty…
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SIR,— I have noticed in the local papers some discussions as to the relative merits of factory and home-made dairy produce. The case for each appears to be so well stated in the…
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AT Kiama on Wednesday night David Lindsay Dymock, William Stewart, and George Wood, Jamberoo, were the recipients of a complimentary…
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A MOST interesting experiment culminated recently in the raising of some wheat grown from some seeds as old as the Exodus. The experimenter is…
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A TALL, well dressed portion, who answered to the name of Harriot. Mackay, alias Muir, described as an actress, was (says the European Mail) charged at the…
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KIAMA, Thursday.—Messrs. D. L. Dymock, W. Stewart, and G. Wood, Jamberoo, were lastt night the recipients of a complimentary banquet, tendered by the shareholders and…
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PERORIVING the splendid dairying capabilities of the Richmond River district, and having observed the complete revolution in the European and Australian butter trade brought about by…
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MR. WALTER COLE, of St. Kilda, claims to have discovered a new and improved process of making buttor, and he is exhibiting his novel system at 185 Collins-street east. At…
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A MEETING of shareholders in the above Company was held in the Hall, North Woodburn, on Saturday, May 18th, at 2 p.m. There were present Mr. W. Gollan in the chair and about…
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IN the Assembly recently Mr. J. P. Abbott said our farmers were the most ignorant and slovenly in the world, and now he appears to have attempted to…
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THE usual monthly meeting of the Board of the Clarence River and North Coast Farmers Co-operative Association was held on Tuesday, May 21st. The…
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Garden and Orchard.—No colonial grown cabbage seed should be sawn until after September, as it runs to seed when the plants are ready to heart. The English seed does not run until the…
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IN accordance with promise made, Mr. D. L. Dymock (President of the Kiama Agricultural Association), delivered a lecture upon Dairying, at the School of Arts, on Wednesday evening…
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IT seems an extraordinary and almost incredible thing that of the many Samples of butter examined by the late Professor L. B. Arnold during the last…
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THE "Shoalhaven Telegiaph" extracts from the metropolitan press to show that over 60 tons of New Zealand butter and a large quantity of cheese and meat came into…
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A DEPUTATION, consisting of Messrs. Wilkinson, Lakeman, and Allison, Ms.L.A., and others, representing tho pastoralists of the Central and Eastern…
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SEVERAL weeks ago we (Auckland Weekly News) published an account of the accidental discovery made by an American dairywoman, by which cream could…
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EVERY farmer is accustomed to salt his cattle, but not everyone knows why he does it, unless it is because the stock like it. But a moment's thought will…
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SIR,—Acting on an advertisementin your last issue, I started to attend the above meeting, but found some difficulty in locating the position of it, as the advertisement said…
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