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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1892

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1892 · page 6

UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…

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The Dairy Dairying in Vermont, Useful Butter and Cheese Suggestions at the Dairymen's Meeting

Northern Star · Saturday 8 October 1892 · page 5

One of the leading speakers was Professor Cooke on the subject of cheesemakirig. No factory should make cheese and butter from the same milk. When…

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Wages of Farm Laborers

Northern Star · Saturday 8 October 1892 · page 5

The statistician of the United States has prepared a report on the wages of form labor, the result of nine investigations from 1866 to 1892, with prior…

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Farm Field and Garden Thrashing Grain. Why The American Cultivator Thinks That Late Thrashing Is Safest

Northern Star · Saturday 8 October 1892 · page 5

The advent of horse power and steamthrashing machines has nearly everyWhere been signalized by increasing earliness in getting grain out of the straw…

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Live Stock Hens That Paid a Mortgage. a New York Hen Farm Where No In[?]bators Are Used

Northern Star · Saturday 8 October 1892 · page 6

The stock is pure White Leghorn, with the exception of a few common fowls which are kept for sitters. The houses now number eighteen which…

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Dairy and Creamory

Northern Star · Saturday 8 October 1892 · page 5

Rinse your milk pail or can first thoroughly with cold water, then scald it with boiling water and kill several possible millions of blood poisoning bacteria,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 14 October 1892 · page 6

UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…

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Value of Bees to the Farmer

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 14 October 1892 · page 6

BEES and farmers should always be the best of friends. Very often the bens are of more real benefit to the farm than the owner supposes. Their value is not…

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National Prises for Sugar Farms in North Coast District

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 14 October 1892 · page 6

"WE are requested to announce that persons intending to compete for these Prizes must give their names in writing to the Under-Secretary for Agriculture…

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Tests of Butter Cows. a Man Who Likes Jerseys Collects Notes of Various Experiments

Northern Star · Saturday 15 October 1892 · page 6

The New Jersey station had not advanced beyond the stage of chemical testing of milk when its buildings and cattle were destroyed by fire. The…

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Hints to Dairymen

Northern Star · Saturday 15 October 1892 · page 5

THOSE dairymen who do not patronize the creamery but make their butter at home find an advantage in having the cream upon the pans rise equally in the same length of time, and…

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The Dairy Fine Dairy Products. Good Treatment for Cows and Milk Is the Beginning

Northern Star · Saturday 15 October 1892 · page 6

In starting a herd make proper selections of stock to begin. Milk and board only the best animals, and study the nature and effect of foods, with a…

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Dairy and Creamery

Northern Star · Saturday 15 October 1892 · page 6

An Iowa butter dealer gives this direction for distinguishing butter from oleomargarine: Cut a piece of the questioned butter in halves. If ever it saw…

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Farmers Cooperation

Northern Star · Wednesday 19 October 1892 · page 4

A Victorian newspaper writes: The Rochester Yeomanry Company Limited has shown that it is possible for farmers to combine to run a business for their mutual benefit and make a…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 6

UNDER this beading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…

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Mortality in Shipped Cattle

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 6

WITH regard to the mortality in the cattle shipped by the Federal from Brisbane to Melbourne, the owners of the steamer have received a report…

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The Travelling Dairy

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 6

WITH the view of educating the farming community, and promoting the formation of creameries and butter factories in districts desirous of taking up…

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A Cute old Farmer

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 October 1892 · page 4

OLD Farmer H[?]agle, in Cleming, needed, water for his stock (says a writer in the New York Sun, and began to sink a well. It was a laborious operation. Gradually…

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The Dairy the Summer Campaign. Preparations That Are Always Made by Good Dairymen

Northern Star · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 4

The following are essentials of preparation: If the mille can ia old and corroded with rust, buy a new one for the use of milk, and ase the rusty one in…

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Dairy and Creamery

Northern Star · Saturday 22 October 1892 · page 4

At tbe last meeting of the Indiana Dairy association Mr. J. H. Monrad told the members that on a farm where he had been testing the milk for cheese…

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