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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
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THIS morning's Herald contained a telegram that is full of significance to the farmers. It stated that the harvest at Dubbo is abundant, but that 2s 8d is the highest price that can be obtained for wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE latest reports to hand from the United States indicate that that country will have a larger crop of potatoes this year than has ever before been the case. This fact…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. J. L. Dow, the Victorian Minister of Lands, in a lecture at Geelong on Agricultural Progress, stated that the annual value of the agricultural products of the colony,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE year 1889 has not been an unfavourable one to either farmers or graziers of our district, more especially when several preceding seasons are taken into account. The cane crops escaped the frost, to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the third annual meeting held at Coramba, on Saturday, the following report was adopted:— "GENTLEMEN.—It is gratifying to bring under your notice that this Association has now been in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GEORGE E. NEWELL, New York, writes:—Careful experienced housewives, who make the finest of butter daring the warm season, signally fail to produce a gilt-edged article through the winter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE annual meeting of the above Association was held at Coramba on Saturday. The free selecting and mining interests were fairly represented. The President was unavoidably absent, and Mr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT present, when potatoes are at an unprofitable selling rate, the proposal in Victoria to experiment in exporting them to England will prove of interest to the grower. It is estimated that the venture…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Bonnyrigg Poultry Farm, Liverpool, conducted by Mr. Walter Hope, is to be floated into a company with a capital of £12,000. The farm is 35 acres in extent, and fitted up for poultry and pig-breeding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE the new Act came into operation, its provisions imposing cost of survey on the selector, have not been accepted in a kindly spirit. This might have been anticipated after so long an immunity…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. ANGUS MACKAY, F.C.S., Instructor in Agrigulture, writes to the S. M. Herald:— I wish I could join in the assumption that in New South Wales we are harvesting, or have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE 13th half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the above Association, was held yesterday in the Theatre Royal. There was an attendance of about 100. Mr. G. Bailey, Chairman of the Board,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE auctioneers and produce merchants of Brisbane have made a compromise respecting the contention of the latter to give "bags and bales in" with produce. A meeting was held, at which the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ATTENTION has been called to the fact that during the last year New South Wales was compelled to import more wheat than had ever been the case in any previous year, the quantity produced in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Victorian Minister of Agriculture has received a report from Mr. D. Wilson, the dairy expert, regarding the shipments of butter during the season, which, beginning early in October, closes in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In your paper appeared a copy of a letter written by Mr. A. Mackay, F.C.S., to the Herald. He says in this letter that rust in wheat is caused by a parasitic plant, one head so attacked could…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JUST now some of the metropolitan papers are interesting themselves greatly in the condition of the wheat-growers. They want to make out that that section of the community is prospering, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →APROPO of a recent discussion as to the relative production of maize in the Macleay electorate, as compared with that of the electorates of Grafton and The Clarance, one or two facts may not be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MESSRS. E. Vickory, G. N. Griffiths and several other representatives of the pastoral lessees were introduced to the Minister for Lands, for the purpose of formally discussing the position of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT a meeting of the Executive Committee held on Tuesday, there were present:—Messrs. S. See (president), T. Bawden, J. F. Small, A. Egging, G. H. Varley, J. T. M'Kittrick, and the Secretary…
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