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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
93 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 5
A VICTORIAN farmer has just given utterance through the press to an enthusiastic testimony in favour of ensilage as fodder, and gives the following particulars of the construction of his silo pit, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING of the members of the recently formed Farmers' Union on the Macleay was held at Kinchela a few days ago. A letter was read from the secretary of the North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CO-OPERATION amongst farmers being in the air just now, evidence of what is being effected elsewhere under the banner of co-operation may be interesting and instructive. In our colony, we…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Macleay Chronicle says that the quantity of rain on the Macleay has caused feed to be plentiful, and the farmers ought to have seen the value of the butter industry, and specially points out that if the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN 1872 Mr. George Hope, then tenant of Fentonbarns, in Scotland, received notice from his landlord that his lease would not be renewed. His family had just completed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. EDITOR.—I am brought into daily contact with the farmers on this river, and I find a feeling existing in many minds that farming does not pay at present prices. To an inexperienced person…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THERE is not a class of men in the colony upon whom the general body of the community are more dependent than the farming class. Hitherto they have shown no desire to pursue any aggressive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE two letters in our last issue upon "How to make farming pay," are deserving more than passing, attention by those most deeply interested in that particular subject. When we say those "most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE crop of potatoes which our farmers are busy unearthing is, generally speaking, a good one, and few have reason to complain, so far as the yield is concerned. The in gathering of the crop has given…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the most important proposals yet brought up in connection with the farmers' co-operative movement is the projected amalgamation of two large Companies doing business with the farmers of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING the sixties and seventies of the present century there was in force an impression which was almost general that there was only one part of this colony in which good butter could be produced, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IF there is much dairying done on the north side of the Clarence, it did not come under my notice during my recent visit to the river. I heard of a small separating plant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is pluming to see that some interest is being taken towards inducing our farmers to produce a greater variety of crops, and I hope that the efforts that are being made in this direction, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I AVAIL, myself once more of the columns of the public educator, the Press, to make known the steady advance which the principle of Co-operation, is making in Sydney and elsewhere with respect…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE efforts that are being made to bring under notice and into practice an improvement in the position of our farmers, are much to be commended. There are, no doubt, many opinions upon that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Sydney Mail's special reporter in his last contribution writes—"Travel slowly during the first part of your journey" is a piece of advice which applies quite as much to farm[?] as to the traveller…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUR reporter who recently visited the North Coast spent a couple of hours on the land which is being prepared, under the care of Mr. Peter M'Donald, for the formation of an experimental farm to serve…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELT the butter in well-glazed earthen pans, at a heat not exoeeding 180 deg. in a water bath, and keep it heated, skimming it from time to time, until the butter becomes quite transparent; then…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the Herald John Jackson writes:—The statistics of New South Wales agriculture show with what quiet and solid development the industry is advancing and grappling with her requirements…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following is 'Bill Nye's' description of the lot of the American farmer. It was quoted by Mr. Samuel S. Cox, of New York, in the American House of…
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