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Farming & the land, 1890

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

Tricks for a Farmer

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 10 December 1890 · page 4

To try to farm without manure. To plant more acres than can be taken care of. To work with poor tools, and to sow poor…

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A New Wriokle in Dairying

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 13 December 1890 · page 4

IN Queensland, and generally in warm climates, the sepertor is looked upon as an indispensable adjunct to successful butter-making The already wide popularity of the machine and…

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Farm and Garden

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

It is thought and said by some that winter dairying can not be followed as a rule because the cows will not breed in the season required. This is a mistake. Cows are…

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National Farm Prizen

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 19 December 1890 · page 3

IT will be remembered that several months since the Government decided to offer the sum of £1500 as National prizes for farms, ensilage, and dairies in various…

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The Butter Market

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 20 December 1890 · page 1

As the very important industry is at present un[?]tive and prices in danger of a complete places collapse it was thought by the Chairman and Secretary of the Dairy Framers…

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Covered Cattle Yards

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 20 December 1890 · page 4

MR J. W. MOSCROP who writes on this subject the royal Agricultural Society ’s Journal records great advance of agricultural opinion in favoar of covered yards during the period…

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When Wool Grew on Trees

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 20 December 1890 · page 3

In a little account of India, Herodotus says that it is the finest of all the 20 on tries of the East. He says that, with the exception of the horses, the beasts and birds in…

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Farm and Grader. Grass on Lawns

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 20 December 1890 · page 2

A well kept lawn in a thing of beauty but those who take prides in check laws and have plenty of help about their grounds are very likely to over do the mutter and but…

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Threatened Collapse of the Butter Market. (To the Editor of the Brea Standard.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1890 · page 3

SIR.—The arrangements made by the Dairy Farmers’ Association early in October have resulted in the exportation of between 150 and 100 tons of surplus…

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The Farm & Garden of Australia. Illustrated. Grasses

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 24 December 1890 · page 2

TOMATO—KING HUMBERT The King Humbert tomato of which we give an illustration is a nice shaped tomato somewhat resembling a large plum, of excellent flavour and fine colour, and is greatly recommended because of its splendid qualities…

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Original Correspondence. Threatened Collapse of the Butter Market

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 27 December 1890 · page 1

SIR,—The arrangements made by the Dairy Former Association early in October have resalted in the exportation of between 150 and 160 toos of surplus butter keeping the local maket…

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Farm and Garden. Coffee Cochineal

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 27 December 1890 · page 2

The coffee plantations in the department of Amatitlan, Guaternals, have lately been ravaged by a peculiar insect, which M. Adolf Vendrall has ascertained to be a new species…

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