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Farming & the land, 1887

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[?] Butter Making

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 23 July 1887 · page 4

PROCESSOR G. H. WRITCHER. Superintendent of the New Hampetire State Agricultural Collage at Hanever sends us the subjoined account of an Experiment…

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Rents of Pastoral Holdings

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 July 1887 · page 2

ON the 7th of June last, this subject formed the ground for vigorous debate and trenchant argument in the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Garrett. [?] in the interests of the country at…

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Dr. Drysdale on the Birmingham Sewage Farm

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 August 1887 · page 4

DR. DRYSDALE, senior physician Metropolitan Free Hospital, writes as follows to the Morning Post:—I have just returned from a visit to the sewage farm of…

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Poetry. The Farmer’s Wife

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1887 · page 2

Farmer Hay[?] talked to a friend Of the ways of country life ; And he [?] nine-tenths of success Depends on a farmer’s wife…

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Ensilage for the Dairy

Moruya Examiner · Friday 12 August 1887 · page 2

ENSILAGE is one of those late farm innovations that has met with persistent opposition from men not only familiar with the practice of the farm, but also from those who make the…

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Poetry. the Best Hand on the Farm

Moruya Examiner · Friday 12 August 1887 · page 4

Up with the birds in the early morning— The dew drop glows like a precious gem ; Beautiful [?] in the skies are dawning, Bat she’s never [?]ment to loot at them…

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The Kiama Dairy Herdbook

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 17 August 1887 · page 2

ON Tuesday last Mr. David Lindsay Dymock took his departure for Adelaide, accompanied by Mrs. Dymock, where they intend to remain a fortnight or three weeks. Mr. Dymock, as…

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Dairy Notes

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 24 August 1887 · page 4

THERE is likely to be some dissension between the country suppliers and the companies who retail country milk in this city regarding the price which should he paid for milk. The…

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Farmers’ Union. Candelo Movement

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 2

THE provisional committee of the proposed farmers’ union at Candelo have so far finished their work, in framing a basis of operations. The idea is that of a…

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Candela Farmer’s Union

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting in connection with the above, for the purpose of taking into consideration the report of the provisional committee, was held at the School of…

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Farm and Garden. Ploughing

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 1 October 1887 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT of the Fresno Republican makes some interesting observation on the subject of ploughing, a function generally neglected in the irrigated portions of…

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Butter Export

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 October 1887 · page 3

THE Herald says: “By the s.s. [?] which left port on Tuesday last, the South Coast and West Cumden Co-operative Company, Limited, have despatched 56…

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Farm and Garden

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 15 October 1887 · page 2

THE Colorado bellow is devastating the potato in Prussian Saxony. THE common ant, it is clamed, is an enemy of the [?] bug. Orchadish have…

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The Rookl[?]Farmer. (American Paper.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 19 October 1887 · page 4

THE [?] farmer is a [?]horse farmer with a [?]to gain a represents for wearing a dirty shirt He will [?]the neighbourhood by…

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Farm and Garden. C[?] Things about [?]

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 November 1887 · page 3

The hive of the honey bee is peopled by three classes of boos. The drones or male bees are charged with worthlessness, and only living to eat what tho neuter or worker…

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The Butter Trade

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 December 1887 · page 3

THE following clipping from the Evening News will prove of interest to our readers although they must not take the freetradors “contention” without the proverbial grain of salt,…

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Abolition of Duties on Dairy Produce and Timber

Moruya Examiner · Friday 23 December 1887 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting under the auspices of tho. A. & P. Society of Moruya, was held in, the Agricultural Hall on Saturday evening last, for the purpose of protesting against the…

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More Dairy Advice

Moruya Examiner · Friday 30 December 1887 · page 2

Cows should be milked by the same milker and the milking should be done as quickly as possibly. During cold weather cows should be…

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