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Farming & the land, 1889

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Simple Rules Far Butter-Making

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 1

RINSE in cold water, all dairy utensils to he used, such as churn, butter worker, wooden butter hands, etc. Now scald with hot water and rinse again…

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Farm & Garden

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 January 1889 · page 3

It is called that caterpillars and other pests of trecs and [?] may be destroyed by bolling the stems and leaves of tomato plants and pouring the liquid upon the afflicted…

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Euroa Prize Farms

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1889 · page 4

THE Australasian's Agricultural Reporter referring to the second prize winner says:— Mr. R. Wadeson's Date-grove farm is situated on the main Sydney- road, about seven miles…

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Hornless Cattle

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 3

It is a good thing to have cattle without horns, why grow the horns at all ? For many years my father never raised a calf that had horns. The operation of removing them…

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FARM & GARDEN, Summer pruming

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 3

Heavy summer pruning, or looping off leaves and branches after a good growth has been made always checks more or less the rigor of the plant, and if the rubbing off of tho…

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The Aylesbury Dairy Company

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1889 · page 4

EVERYONE has heard of the Aylesbury Dairy Company, the oldest of the great London businesses of its kind. Before it was started the metropolis was served by dairymen in a…

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Farm & Garden

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 January 1889 · page 3

One part coarse salt, two of lime, and two of good wood ashes mixed thoroughly together makes one of the very best mixtures to apply around fruit trees in the…

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The Aylesbury Dairy Company

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1889 · page 4

The management of the cows is strictly systematic. As soon as one has become fit for milking after calving, usually in about a week, she is taken into one of the large…

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A Supposition. ‘Sulkin’ in the pastoral linc.’

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 3

He had been trying all the winter through To speak the fateful words : and well she knew lie had been trying—but what could she do ! Must maidenly of little maids was she,…

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Farm & Garden

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 3

The Home and Farm gives the following novel method of making cabbage head; it says that when the plants are about eight inches high and have formed woody stalks, make…

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Mixed Farming and Irrigation. Watering Crops and Grass

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1889 · page 4

THE Mincha district occupies a central position in the Tragowel Irrigation Trust, and in this locality the drought of last season was more severe than in any other part of…

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FARM & GARDEN. Experience With Incubators

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 16 February 1889 · page 3

A correspondent at Nilos, cal writes as follows: As the season of incubation work is now approaching, I enclose some of the results of the past reason’s work. In a room…

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Boys on the Farm

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 27 February 1889 · page 2

A boy should thank God for bing so fortunate as to be born and roared on a farm. There is no place on this green earth so well adapted to perfectly develop the mind…

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Help to Farmers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 February 1889 · page 4

The Brisbane Telegraph says:—A most interesting and suggestive paper is the report, just published, of the Under Secretary for Agriculture on "the…

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FARM & GARDEN. Saving Seed

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 2 March 1889 · page 2

Farmers and gardeners should attend to saving their own seed remembering in the. selection that the rule that like produces like applies in the. vegetable world as well…

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Butter Factories Is Dermark

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 1

Now that the Berry Dairy Factory has commenced operations. It maybe interesiding to our maders to learn how each institution are conducted in other countries. The most noticeable…

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Hand Made Butter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 March 1889 · page 4

THE following letter appears in the correspondence columns of a recent issue of the Kiama Independent:—Sir,—I have heard that a discussion is…

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CO-Operative Butter-making in Denmark

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 March 1889 · page 4

AT a meeting in the first week of January of the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, Mr. Saml. Hoare, M.P., read a paper on "Butter-making in Denmark."…

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Mr. Augus Meckay on Dairy Farming

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 1

MR. ANOUS MICHAY, Instructor in Agriculture of the Board of Technical Education visited Berry on Thursday last lecturing under the anspices of the Berry Agriculture Association…

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FARM & GARDEN. Lameness in Horses

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 16 March 1889 · page 3

Probably the moat frequent cause of lameness in horecs is. caused by contraction of the hoof or feet, and this is caused by neglect either in shoeing or caring for the feet…

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