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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1892

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Farmer. Fancy, Potats in Live Stock

Northern Star · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 1

What are known as "fancy points " are often far too highly valued in improved breeds of domestic animals. But things which in themeed ass have but little value, of…

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The Feeding of Animals. Address by Col. Curtis at the Walden Farmer's Institute

Northern Star · Saturday 12 March 1892 · page 5

THREE should be a negative side to all questions, especially in feeding animals. Do not feed for fat, but musle and strength. An excussive condition of fat in an animal is a sure…

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Complaints about Australian Butter

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 March 1892 · page 4

SERIOUS complaints are arising in London over the uneven weights of the cases of Australian and Now Zealand butter. The parcels of sonic factories are always even and always of full…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 18 March 1892 · page 6

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

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Monthly Reports of the Crops

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 18 March 1892 · page 4

THE Department of Agriculture in at present organising a system by which it is hoped monthly crop reports will be obtained from nearly all the districts of…

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Dairy and Farm. Nows Eating their Young

Northern Star · Saturday 19 March 1892 · page 5

A COMMON practice with saws that have newly furrowed, is that of killing and sometimes eating their young. When once the habit of eating the young is acquired, it is generally…

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How to Make Dairying a Success

Northern Star · Saturday 19 March 1892 · page 5

PROF DEAN, of the Ontario Agricultural Society, at the Annual Convention of the Ontario Association, gave a short talk on the above subject. He enumerated the…

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National Prize Competition. North Coast District—Mixed Farms

Northern Star · Saturday 19 March 1892 · page 2

THE report embodying the results of the inspection by the judge (Mr. J. A. Dospcissis) of the mixed farms in the North Coast district entered for the National Prize Competition of 1891, having been…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 25 March 1892 · page 6

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

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National Prize Competition. North Coast District—Mixed Farms

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 25 March 1892 · page 6

THE report embodying the results of the inspection by the judge (Mr. J. A. Despeissis) of the mixed farms in the North Coast district entered for the National…

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Dairy and Farm. The Butter Extractor

Northern Star · Saturday 26 March 1892 · page 6

IN the Ferndale (Cal:) Enterprise, is a full description of the Grizzly Bluff creamery, put in operation this season. It has a fine building, 2 stories, high, 36 by 66 feet on the ground, with lean-to 16 by 18. It is…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1892 · page 3

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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Hints for Dairymen

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1892 · page 3

How curious it is that so many dairy and agricultural' writers set forth the value and praise of slim milk as a food for calves, pips and colts, and do it in…

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Dairy and Farm. Unconsidered Trifles Agent Factory Dairying

Northern Star · Saturday 2 April 1892 · page 6

YOU, Mr. Editor, may harp away as long as you like, and I may back you on the same string, with very little effect, in the hope of educating the ordinary run of dairy farmers alive to the…

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The Dairy Cow TESTs at Fairs. The Ohio Idea That Has Evolved Itself on This Subject

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 April 1892 · page 6

L. N. Bonham, secretary of the Ohio state board of agriculture. writes: Two objections seem to hold against the common method of testing cows at…

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Farmer. Poultry Notes

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 April 1892 · page 2

A writer says: One of the most important [?]tems with poultry management is a close attention to details. In a majority of cases it is the looking a[?]ter email things that largely…

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[?] Semi-annual Roundup. How the Cowboys in the West Collect and Brand Cattle. Expert Lassoists Who "Heel" the Calvos and Drag Tnem Up to the Fire—Hard Work Accompanied by All Sorts of Privation and Dancer

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 April 1892 · page 2

The word "round-up," ia known by most people to be a Western term, bnt its real significance is not generally known. On the northern rangee in Dakota,…

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Unconsidered Trifles Anent Factory Dairying

Northern Star · Wednesday 13 April 1892 · page 6

HAVING obsorved you have lately devoted much attention in the agricultural and dairy portion of your paper to the Bab[?]ock method of determining the butter value of milk, many of your…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 15 April 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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The Dairy Dairy Wisdom From Maine. Definition or Parfect Butter and Hints About Improving Dairy Cows

Northern Star · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 6

An interesting meeting was planned by Secretary Gilbert recently, at the Maine state college, Orono. The meeting was held in the new dairy building…

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