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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1894

211 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 11

Wheat Growing in the North

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 November 1894 · page 3

PROFESSOR SHELTON, of Queensland, has been experimenting with wheat growing in that colony, and of 30 varieties tried, nearly the whole…

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Dairy Notes. Dairying Farming in Queensland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 November 1894 · page 3

THE Queenslander gives a description of Gracemere, a station property seven miles from Rockhampton, belonging to Messrs. Archer Bros…

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AGRICULTURIST & GRAZIER. Mr. W. Paine's Farm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 November 1894 · page 3

HEARING a good deal about the successful cultivation of sugar-cane on a small farm at Southgate, and as cane-growing is absorbing a very large…

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Diseases in Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 November 1894 · page 3

THERE is much force in the remark of Mr. E. W. Knox (manager of the C.S.R. Co.) to the effect that diseases are liable to die out. We have had…

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The Clarence District. And its Present Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 November 1894 · page 5

A STRANGER passing through the Clarence District after the recent rains cannot fail to be impressed with its natural beauty and the magnificent wealth, and almost…

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Wheat and Dairy Farming

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 November 1894 · page 3

WE learn (says the Toowoomba Chronicle) from our Greenmount correspondent that several of the dairy farmers in that district, and in the adjoining districts, are mowing…

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Dairy Notes. [The experiences of dairymen, also suggestions and interesting extracts relative to the industry, are sollcited for publication in this column.—ED.]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 November 1894 · page 3

IN another column we publish an important article from the Toowoomba Chronicle, on an important phase of the dairy question. That part of the article referring to wheat…

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Blood out of Potatoes. Breeding Pedigree Into the Crop

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 November 1894 · page 3

WHEN young men ask the B.N.Y what they may do to win a business success on the, farm the advice, in a general way, is about as follows:…

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Farmers Wives' Clubs

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 November 1894 · page 7

ONE of the latest developments in the farming districts of the United States is the establishment of clubs for farmers' wives. These are not…

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Export of Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 November 1894 · page 4

THE butted export, business in this province seems to be going to wreck and ruin. Unfortunately the members of the Association that has been engaged in this business…

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Dairy Notes. [The experiences of dairymen, also suggestions and interesting extractives relative to the industry, are solicited for publication in this column.—ED.] Butter Export Association

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 November 1894 · page 3

THE Butter Export Association is defunct, and again uncomplimentary terms are applied to farmers in connection with its demise. The unfaithfulness of, it is hoped,…

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Farmers and Taxation

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 November 1894 · page 4

THE farmers, it seems to me, will not be pleased with Mr. REID'S proposals. They are to have two land taxes inflicted upon them at once—one for Local Government purposes,…

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The Farmers' Lot. Floods, Bad Seasons, Over-production, Low Prices. Collapse of the Potato Market

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 November 1894 · page 4

THE lot of the New South Wales farmer is certainly not a happy one-least happy is the lot of that particular farmer located in this district The former, taken…

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Sir William Farmer Interviewed

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 November 1894 · page 3

SIR William Farmer (who is at present in Sydney) says: " No doubt Church dlsestablishment will come. But it won't come yet; changes are effected very slowly in England…

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The Australian Butter Business

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 December 1894 · page 4

MR. F. LASSETTER, the head of the firm of Lassetter and Co., importers of ironmongery, etc., has just returned from England, and he hus given some valuable information to…

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Baby Farming. The Fearful Story of a Young Burderess

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 December 1894 · page 4

FOR some time past the police have had good reason for believing a system of baby farming on an elaborate and horrible scale has been carried on almost in the heart of…

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Women in the Dairy

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 December 1894 · page 3

PROF. HENRY says that dairying offers an especially inviting field to young women, and I have wondered why some more of them did not see this, and fit themselves for…

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Dairy Notes. [The experiences of dairymen, also suggestions and in teresting extracts relative to the industry, are solicited for publication in this column.—ED.] Milk Testing

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 December 1894 · page 3

IN many factories in Victoria milk below a certain standard is not paid for at all. A case was lately tried wherein the plaintiff supplier sued the Dairy Company for £3 7s…

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New South Wales Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 December 1894 · page 4

MR. ALEXANDER HAY, brother of Mr. JOHN HAY, the owner of the Berry Estates, was entertained at a dinner at Shoalhaven on Thursday, upon his return from a visit to…

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The Vaccination of Land. An Article that should be read by Every Farmer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 December 1894 · page 3

SOME of the most extraordinary agricultural experiments ever undertaken, considered both practically and scientifically, are described in Le…

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