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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1896

163 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 9

Combined Dairying and Farming

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 May 1896 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT to the Queenslander gives an interesting account of Trelawney, a farm belonging to Messrs. Sealy and Malcolm,7 distant,…

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Model Dairy Farm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 May 1896 · page 3

DAIRYING is becoming of so much value to the district, that the fact of a model dairy farm being granted for the Richmond River, gives rise to the opinion that we could do…

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The Reading Baby Farming Case

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 May 1896 · page 8

FOR some years past the finding of dead bodlos of newly-born infants in various parts of London has been a frequent occurrence. In some cases it was hard to say whether the…

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Instruction in Dairying

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 3

THE Minster for Agriculture recognises in his reply in Parliament to Mr. Rose's question that a very general desire had been expressed by leading dairy companies, factories, farmers,…

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The Crops at Copmanhurst

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 3

OUR correspondent writes:—Since March we have had dry weather, and fears are entertained that the coming winter will be a severe one for stock, as already the grass is…

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The Colonies and the Supply of Dairy Produce and Products of Petite Culture

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 June 1896 · page 3

MR.: VALENTINE read a very interest ing paper before the Foreign and Colonial Section of the Society of Arts in London. He said the exten…

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Farming on Halves

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 June 1896 · page 3

THE Town and Coventry Journal takes credit for introducing this system to the notice of Australian farmors and land- holders. The…

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Why Children Dislike Farm Life

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 June 1896 · page 3

IN the first place, theyarenot brought up to love the country; they are early accustomed to hear both father and mother grumble about the hardships…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Returns

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 8

THE returns for the year ending March 31st, 1896, show that the number of holdings in N.S. Wales from one [?]re upwards is 62,653, of which 2124 consist of Crown lands only…

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Representative or Departmental Neglect. Which Is It? What About the Model Farm?

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 4

WE should scarcely wonder if—somewhat like the man of old—the people of this district were to utter with one voice an earnest cry of appeal to a higher power…

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The Colonies and the Scpply of Dairy Produce and Products of Petite Culture. (Continual from Tuesday's issue.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 16 June 1896 · page 3

IN considering the dairy production of these Colonies, their capacity for carrying stock must be taken into account. Victoria, the best stocked,…

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Cows and Butter Fat

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 3

NUMBERS of dairymen on the Clarence and elsewhere hold the opinion that the percentage of butter fat can be increased by certain kinds of feeding, but up to the…

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Wheat-growing on Shares

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 3

AN important development is in progress at the present time in some parts of the country by growing wheat on the "share" or " halves" system. '…

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Model Farm Information

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 4

REFERING to our recent remarks with regurd to the treatment to which this district has been subjected in the matter of a Model or Experimental Farm, we have…

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How to Feed Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 3

HERBET J. RUMSBY writes:—After nitrogen, next in order comes phosphoric acid. It is nearly as expensive as nitrogen, and, unfortunately, cannot be so easily obtained…

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Farmers and the Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 5

IT has been frequently remarked that the farmers in this district take but little interest in the agitation for a tine of rail from the Clarence to New England. The reason may…

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Dairymen's Association

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 8

MR. EDITOR.—Some time ago at one of the conferences of dairy directorates, one of the delegates suggested the advisability of those interested in dairying on the Clarence to…

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How to Breed Dairy Stock

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 3

A DAIRYMAN of largo experience in the States, writes that " I have raised all my cows by breeding good butter cows to a thoroughbred bull. I prefer…

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Farmers' Unions and Associations

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 8

AT present there is a disposition amongst the agricultural and dairy communities of the colony to form themselves into unions, or some such organisation, for their…

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Poultry Notes. Farmers' Poultry

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 June 1896 · page 3

MANY a farmer who breeds his horses, cattle and pigs systematically, and realises that he had better give up breeding them than to let them breed hap-hazard, regards the "fowls"…

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