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Farming & the land, 1890

132 stories in South Coast's papers · page 4 of 7

Opening of the Pastoral Leases for Selection

Moruya Examiner · Friday 4 July 1890 · page 2

THE majority of the pastoral leases in the Eastern division will terminate on the 11th July, and as a consequence an extent of and estimated at about eight million acres…

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Feed for Dairy Cows

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 July 1890 · page 2

William Crozier, the well-known dairy. man of Long Island, N. T., says, in the Albany [?] that he does not feed silage his feed consists of out [?] fodder,…

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Farm and Garden

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 July 1890 · page 2

Where, asks the Farmer’s Review, is the advantage of [?]kimming over forty acres to raise 1000 [?] of corn, while the same labor, the same [?], half the [?] and half…

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To Farmers and [?]the[?] Hold[?]’s. Wattles and Wattle [?]Rks

Moruya Examiner · Friday 11 July 1890 · page 2

[Hi[?]s on the conservation and cultivation of Wattles, together with particulars of their value, form No 6 Technical Education Series, Department of Public Ins[?] by J. H…

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Farm and Garden

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 3

If you set duck-eggs under hens, set in on the ground. If frost is entirely out and the weather settled into spring, you can place a cage over the hen, and arrange things…

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Farm and Garden. Vegetable Products

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 3

Plants are endowed with the power of [?] and combining the various substan[?] which are compounded during their growth and forming these into compounds…

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Farm and Garden

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 26 July 1890 · page 3

There are two important points—to keep the water pure and to cut off the ends of the stems as they harden. The water may be kept pure by frequent change, but it easier…

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A Dairying Dispute

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 2 August 1890 · page 1

[?] involving a matter of considerable [?] aliko to suppliers and shareholders [?] the various dairy companies in the district [?] before the Nowra Beech on Tuesday last…

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Farm and Garden. Vegetable Products

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 2 August 1890 · page 3

That portion of the flour of wheat which remains insoluble after the application of water in making stanch is called ginten. It is of a dull white or brownish colour, tough,…

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Water In Butter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 August 1890 · page 4

SOME buyers of very good looking and well-flavoured butter complain that it is too salt, while the maker insists that it has not been over salted. The same buyers say that…

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Farm and Garden, Garden Cress

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 9 August 1890 · page 3

This is a hardy annual plant, supposed to have come originally from Persia and the island of Cyprus, in both of which it is native. This plant produces a number of…

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Farm and Garden

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 16 August 1890 · page 2

Against mildow in the grape vines the French Agricultural Department has recommended the employment of the salts of copper M. Tisserand, Director of Agriculture,…

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Farm and Garden

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 23 August 1890 · page 3

From two feet to thirty inches is a good distance at which to plant tomatoes apart when grown against walls and fences, and they should have a similar space…

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Farmers’ Union

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1890 · page 2

A MEETING was held at Mr. W. Hauscombe’s residence at Numbagga on Wednesday night, according to advertisement, for the purpose of taking initiatory…

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Cattle Raising on Small Farms

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 3

The lime will come when best [?] will be rained on small fa[?], and the food cut and carried to the [?] ins esd of [?] the lend for pasture. The ‘ystem of [?]…

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Farm and Garden. Planting in the Moon

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 3

If there Is any one superstition which is more absurd and absolutely without foundation than another it is the one with regard to the necessity of consulting the phases of…

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Farm and Garden. How Chickens Are Fattened

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 6 September 1890 · page 3

This is the newest way a chicken or duok is fattened. thrust into a cylinder it is kept in darkness for three weeks [?] perdiam a patient food, composed largely of…

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Sweet Ensilage. Mr F. HEDBLEWHITE, of the Grove Dairy

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 13 September 1890 · page 1

Millthorpe Says of his experiment in making ensilage:—if you will kindly insert a few lines on the above subject you will be helping to make public the evidence I have to give as the result…

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Dairy Musings

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 13 September 1890 · page 3

The fast milker has tho fullest paid Cleanliness foes before profit in the dairy the man that figures closely never regrinds that he began winter feeding early…

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Farm and Garden. Poultry

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 13 September 1890 · page 3

Scene farmer ignore profit in beeping hens They want suply enough to supply their table with eggs and broders Others sun for profit as well Market poultry is…

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