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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
109 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 6
SOIL is the medium in which plants exist, and fertile soil contains food for plants; but this food must be prepared for assimilation, by the delicate absorbing organs of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE the land has become sufficiently dry the plough has been busily engaged turning the soil over for the first time, our farthers rightly anticipating that it would become…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FARMERS' UNIONS, which combine the functions of trade associations, benefit societies, co-operative companies and agricultural societies, have been formed throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THURSDAY of last week was a red letter day in the annals of land administration of New South Wales, for within six short hours of that day about a quarter of a million acres of her territory passed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have on a former occasion referred to the Bonnyrigg poultry farm, situate 3½ miles from Liverpool, New South Wales, established by Mr. Walter Hope. A prospectus is issued to run the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LAST week the Minister for Mines and Agriculture informed a deputation from Gosford that the whole matter of experimental farms was under consideration, and that before long he hoped to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A CITIZEN of Kazan, in Russia (a Mr. Grass), has conceived the idea of organising a system for the insurance of the harvests of the peasants in bad years. The idea is novel; for this sort of insurance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE annual meeting of the members was held on Wednesday. Present—Messrs. S. Hill, T. Bawden, W. A. Manning, G. H. Varley, John M'Pherson, A. Waters; J. F. Small, jun., F. Doberer, J. D. Gray,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS Bill has been withdrawn upon a technical objection. So far, good. Possibly with the result of the debate so far as it went, and the opinions expressed upon the measure outside the House…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE hear that a farmer on the Upper Clarence is going in extensively for wattle culture, and next season will have quite a plantation of wattles. The dissemination of seed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE fourteenth half-yearly meeting of the Clarence and North Coast Farmers' Association (limited) was held in the Theatre Royal yesterday, at which about 50 shareholders attended. Mr. G. Bailey, J.P…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BUTTER factory people have had presented to them recently an improvement on the cream separator, in a machine which extracts the butter itself and not the cream direct from the milk. There is also…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS subject was brought up prominently in the Council on Wednesday, by several questions put to the Mayor by Aldermen Lowe and Beatson, of South Grafton. From the tenor of their remarks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BY the courtesy of the DIRECTOR, OF AGRICULTURE we have before us a copy of the regulations in respect to the national prizes to be offered by the Government. Under these regulations, persons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—Knowing that your columns are ever open for the purpose of advocating right and just principles. I seize the opportunity of laying before the public in general, and cane growers in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the agricultural classes of the Sylney Technical College, Mr. Mackay went into particulars concernthe process of "arrowing" in th[?] cane. Some varieties are much more disposed that way than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT a meeting of the Executive Committee held on Tuesday there were present:— Messrs. G. H. Varley (in the chair), J. H. Munro, G. Crispin, A. Eggins, S. See, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have before us part 2 of the "Agricultural Gazette." Need we say that it is somewhat disappointing? The only subject treated of through the whole 31 pages is the life history of Tylenchus…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GASPAR HILLER, LANCASTER CO., Pa., writes that he knows of old abandoned farms covered with briars and weeds, and too poor to grow fifteen bushels of corn per acre, that have been made to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CIRCULARS are being issued and received by a number of persons setting forth the basis on whioh it is proposed to form a Union of Pastoralists in this colony. Its aims are to protect the interests…
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