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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

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Stall Feeding Cattle

Northern Star · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 5

The Kansas experiment station, after a trial, says-that it will pay to stall feed. The Canaidian farmer says it pays to fatten cattle in stalls as the most of…

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Dairy and Farm. Care of Pastures

Northern Star · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 5

THE 'QUEENSLANDER ' writes, so far as mere pasture is concerned we, in Queensland, have little to learn from England on the matter of pasture…

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Farm Separators and the Creamery

Northern Star · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 5

THE following queries and answers appear in HOARD'S DAIRYMAN:— We have a large separator creamery, have taken in over 50,0001hubs. milk in…

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The Largest Creamery. Seven Hundred. Farmers Supply It with Cream Dally

Northern Star · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 5

Probably the largest creamery in the world is that at St. Albans, Vt, The building itself is three stories high, with 9,000 feet of floor room. In the cellar is…

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South Devon Cattle

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1895 · page 6

THE unexampled record achieved by Mr. Wroth's South Devon steer at Smithfield, together with the good results attained by other animals of the same herd, has caused…

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More Sheep than Job

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1895 · page 3

AN old Scottish squatter in New South Wales, a widower, with an only daughter living with him, was taken sick, and the doctor told the daughter he would not…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1895 · page 6

UNDER this heading we sall 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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Weighing Tubs of Butter. How the Creamery Man May Know How Much Butter They Hold

Northern Star · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 5

Recently I was shown two account sales, each for thirty tubs of butter, each made by an unquestionably good commission house in New York, both lots…

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Dairy and Farm Balanced Plant Food. (From Rural New Yorker). PART I. Wood Ashes and Bone

Northern Star · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 5

WE begin the study of a "balanced ration" for plants with a discussion of "ashes and bone," for several reasons. Next to stable manure, they are the…

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The Southern Star. Saturday Morning, 20Th April, 1895. Openings for New Crops

Northern Star · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 4

GLUTTED markets and ruinously low prices for all kinds of agricultural…

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Rreasons Why Dairymen Should Apply the Babcock Tent to their Cows

Northern Star · Saturday 20 April 1895 · page 5

In that most excellent little work Milk Testing,' by Adolph Schoenmun, and which should be in the library of every live progressive dairy farmer,…

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Preserving Butter

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1895 · page 6

THE practice of packing butter in brine seems to be gaining ground in several of the countries of Europe, in America, and, to some extent, in Australia, We have in these…

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Condemned Cattle

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1895 · page 4

A MEETING, under the auspices of the Fat Stock Salesmen's Association of Sydney, was held at the Hotel Australia on Tuesday (says the Evening News)…

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Large Live Cattle Cargo

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1895 · page 8

AT the invitation of the owner of the cattle, Mr. R H. Relph, a number of gentlemen interested in the live cattle export trade visited the steamer…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1895 · 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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Dairy Cows at the Show

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1895 · page 6

THE Sydney Mail prize of 10 guineas at the metropolitan show, for the best milch cow, butter test, and 5 guineas for largest quantity of milk (prize by a land finance company)…

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Dairy and Farm. Balanced Plant Food. (From Rural New Yorker). (Continued from last Saturday.) PART I. Wood Ashes and Bone

Northern Star · Saturday 27 April 1895 · page 5

ASHES, then, are a, perfect food—a "balanced ration" for plants No, for they do not contain any of the substances that will pass off with heat What we call nitrogen,…

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Farmers, Use Your Brains

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1895 · page 6

A SYSTEM we have frequently advocated in these columns is thus dealt with by The Setter:—If we would achieve success in agriculture it is just as necessary to cultivate the…

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Good Grass for Dairying

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1895 · page 6

AT the lost meeting of the general committee of the Clarence P. and A. Society, the following letter was read from Mr. E. Seccombe, of the Wollongong experimental farm, Richmond…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1895 · 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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