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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

284 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 15

Pastures for Dairying Stock

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1895 · page 6

As dairying becomes more and more a special branch of farming amongst us, attention will, or ought to, he devoted to special arrangements to promote the…

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Farmers, Do Not Hustle

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1895 · page 6

DID it ever strike some of our hustling farmers that there is such a thing as too much hustle? I have in mind a typical example. He has the reputation of…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1895 · page 6

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

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Charcoal and Lime in Farmyards

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1895 · page 6

CHARCOAL should be broken in small lumps and put where the fowls can gut at it, and they will cat it with groat relish. We have seen it fed to pigs…

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Dairy and Farm. Balanced Plant Food. (From Rural, New YorKer) (Continued from last Saturday.). Wood Ashes and Bone

Northern Star · Saturday 8 June 1895 · page 5

We would call the potash in wood ashes and sulphate of potash, pure butter for the sandwich. The ashes represent dairy butter, while the sulphate of potash will represent…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 14 June 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 and Farm. Balanced Plant Food. (From Rural New Yorker). (Continued from last Saturday.) Wood Ashes and Bone

Northern Star · Saturday 15 June 1895 · page 5

A MAN wishes to know whether it is probable that he can raise a big crop of corn by using potash alone. You can see how impossible it is to answer any such question…

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Dairymen's Protest Against the Abolition of Customs Duties

Northern Star · Wednesday 19 June 1895 · page 2

FOLLOWING up the resolutions adopted at the meeting of dairymen held recently at [?]lunes, the following memorial address to members of both Houses has now been sent, through Mr. T. T. Ewing, M.P., to…

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Beet and Butter

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1895 · page 3

IN view of the efforts now being much to establish the sugar beet growing industry in New South Wales, a paper read by Mr. Clement Van de Velde…

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Egg-bound and Crop-bound Fowls

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1895 · page 3

IN reply to a correspondent, how to treat egg-bound fowls, the T. and C. Journal says:—Smear the vent with vaseline a few times, or even with salad…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1895 · page 3

UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish con[?]ibutions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furntshed…

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Dairy and Farm [?] [?] [?] Ashes and Bone

Northern Star · Saturday 22 June 1895 · page 6

IN all these substnces, the phosphoric acid is found in the form of phosphate of lime. We heve already referred to this combination of phosphorus and lime. What's a…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1895 · 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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Farmers' Appeal

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1895 · page 2

WE trust the Colonial Sugar Company will favorably entertain the application of the farmers resident on the South Arm to be permitted to cultivate the Daniel Dupont…

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Dairy and Farm [?]alanced Plant Food. (From Rural New Yorker). (Continued from last Saturday Wood Ashes and Bone

Northern Star · Saturday 29 June 1895 · page 5

Now remember, when acted on by the sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid is combined with one part of lime, and is soluble; when it takes one more part of lime, it is reverted,…

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Wheat for Pigs

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1895 · page 3

THE American Swineherd says:—Since the practice of feeding pigs with wheat has become so universal among swine-breeders and feeders, we have had our…

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The Monopolist and the Farmer

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1895 · page 3

THE Rural New Yorker has a very striking cartoon entitled "The Monopolist and the Farmer." to which the following descriptive rhyme is attached:…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1895 · 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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An Appeal to the Farmers

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1895 · page 8

MR. EDITOR,—It was with great pleasure und interest I read Mr. D. Gillies's appeal to the canegrowers, and, in thanking you for the manly and independent manner in…

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

Northern Star · Saturday 6 July 1895 · page 5

Boneblack is bone charcoal, and corresponds to charcoal from wood. It is used as a filter in sugar making, to take the color and impurities from crude sugar. After a certain…

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