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Farming & the land, 1890

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Rust in Wheat

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1890 · page 4

WHEAT rust is due to the attacks of several species of minute fungi, and is developed in its elementary stages on weeds. This rust belongs to a division which is…

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Butter Factories and Sunday Work

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1890 · page 2

THE Rev, Mr. Jackson forwards the following reply to the Presbyterian RE the above question:— MR. EDITOR.—It will be generally admitted…

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Bee Farming

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1890 · page 4

THE following interesting letter on the above subject appears in the current number of the Nowra Ms. Journal, and is here reproduced in the hope that the hints contained…

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Farm & Garden

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1890 · page 1

Though quantities of grapes are consumed all through the fall, yet it is to met the demand at Christmas and New Year that the Eastern vineyardist directs his chief efforts…

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Diet of Old Farmers

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 2

In regard to food, the evidence is so uniformly one way that those who advise a simple diet, and these who cry out against meat, must either hold their theories to be above…

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Sunday Labour at the Butter Factories

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1890 · page 2

FURTHER correspondence on the above question appears in the last issue of the Presbyterian Mr. L. Abramowitch, whose connection with the Jewish Mission, has familiarised his…

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Why Farming [?]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 2

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Fruit Farming and Oil and Fibre Yielding Crops

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 1

ON Thursday last Mr. Mackay also visited Berry and in the evening lectured in the Reading Room on the above subject, under the auspices of the Berry Agricultural Association…

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Dairy Farming, How Milk is Made

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 1

MR. ANGUS MACKAY Instructor in Agriculture in connection with the Technical Education Branch of the Department of Public instruction, visited Nowra on Wednesday last, and lectured…

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Farm Small Fruits

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 2

On a small plot of ground enough fruit can be grown, if proper care is given, to supply a family of ordinary size three times a day the year through. I am aware that…

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FARM & GARDEN Raisins in the Foothills

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 2

It does not fellow that raisin making will pay here in the foothills on a large scale, as it does in Fre[?]. There they have perfectly level land. Every bunch of grapes is…

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The Export of Victorian Butter

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1890 · page 4

THE following is an extract from a communication from Mr. D. Watson, the dairy expert, to the Minister for Agriculture of Victoria, respecting the…

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Farm and Garden. In the Dorest Apple Orchards

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 3

In Spring time when the apple trees are blossoming, I have mid that a walk along the lanes of Dorset and West Dore[?]t particularly— is indeed a conational fact for the eye, orached following or[?]atin…

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The World’s Wheat

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 3

The London correspondent of tho North-western Miller recently gave a statement of the Wheat crop of the world for 1889. The title compares as follows with previous…

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Farming in China

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 3

A farmer in China may be hired by the year for from $8 to $14, with food, clothing, head shaving and tobacco. Those who work by the day receive from 8 cents, to 10 cents,…

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Farm and Garden

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 3

The poultry business has also entered upon anew line—tjeraosomg[?]oi broilers for spring.. With the invention o[?] artificial methods for hatching and raising broods came…

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An Immense- Corn Crop

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 3

From the returns at present available it can now be definitely asserted that the corn crop of tho. United States for the present year is the largest ever harvested. It will, in all…

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Uncle Sam’s Farm’

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 3

Since Independence was achieved the United States Government has been the largest owner of arable land on the earths The total area of the ‘public domain,’ sold…

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Leaks on the Farm

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 3

The leaks in the roots of farm buildings are not by any means all the leaks that far-mere have to contend against. Not. a fon farmers buy costly, implements, and, who…

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Farm and Garden. Farm Saving

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 3

Waldo F. Brown, in the [?] Country Gentleman, strives impress on every farmhand the importance of saving and safely investing a part of his wages. If he awes…

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