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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 7 of 9

Wheat and Flour From California

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1896 · page 8

COMMENTING upon the great importations of wheat and flour from California into Sydney, complaint is made in some quarters that notwithstanding this "there is a difference…

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Musk Valley Slaughtering Works. for Cattle and Pigs

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1896 · page 5

THESE extensive works, erected by the New South Wales Fresh. Food and Ice Company, are situated about one-mile from South Grafton, on the Armidale road, and…

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Political and Social. the Wool Market

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1896 · page 4

THE wool sales that have taken place this week have been very unsatisfactory to the producers, and it is doubtful if any improvement will take place for some time. Of the…

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Dairy Notes. the Food of Cows and the Quality of Milk

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1896 · page 3

In the current number of the "Highland Society's transactions" Mr. John Speir describes the results of some valuable experiments in the feeding…

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Farmers and Producer's Union

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 September 1896 · page 4

MEETING AT LOWER SOUTHGATE.—At a representative meeting on Saturday, presided ever by Mr. A. W. M'Donald, a branch of the Union was formed on the motion of Mr…

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With the Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 September 1896 · page 3

THE drought is down on field and flock, The river-bed is dry; And we must shift the starving stock Before the cattle die…

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The Price of Wool

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 September 1896 · page 4

THIS results of the wool sales recently held in England justify the caution exercised by the buyers at the wool sales that took place last week in Sydney. The…

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The Typical Dairy Cow

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 September 1896 · page 3

THE Rothamsted experiments prove that a typical dairy cows should be as near wedge-shaped as possible, somewhat light in the fore-end, but…

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Political and Social. the Price of Wheat

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 October 1896 · page 4

BEERBOHM'S Circular states that during the year ending next August the importing countries of the world will require 48,350,000 quarters of wheat, whilst the exporting…

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Germs and Farm Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 October 1896 · page 3

THERE is a prevalent idea that bacteria are damaging to vegetation, and are in no way helpful to it. But there are certain descriptions of bacteria that are really necessary to…

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Wool and Manufactures

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 October 1896 · page 4

IT has been contended by many of Mr. Reid's supporters that when produce falls in price manufactured goods decline in like proportion, and that, therefore, low prices for…

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Experimental Farm for Grafton

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 October 1896 · page 4

THERE seems to be un inclination on the part of the Minister for Agriculture to establish un experimental farm in the neighbourhood of Grafton. Considering…

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A Black Sheep

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1896 · page 3

IT is almost impossible for the average individual, clothed in the consciousness of irreproachable respectability, to realise the difficulty with which a transgressor returns…

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Winter Dairying

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1896 · page 3

ALL dairy raen know that during the winter months higher prices for butter rule than in summer. As yet, however, no vigorous movement has been made to provide, in the…

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Clarence River Farmers' and Producers' Union. Meeting of Delegates

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 October 1896 · page 5

A MEETING of Delegates was held at the School of Arts on Thursday. Present— Messrs. J. J. Pearse (president), T. Donelly and J. Bale (Chatsworth), T. Hadfield, J…

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Wheat and Flour

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 October 1896 · page 4

THE wheat market in the United States has experienced a boom, and there, has been corresponding activity, in the markets of Great Britain and Australia. That of course…

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Agriculturist & Grazier. Profitable Dairying

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 3

THE importance of getting as a much money out of dairying as the industry is worth is becoming better understood, but even now there are many things which would be the…

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How to Help Dairying

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 3

IN this district there are many centres anxious to enter into dairying, but not numerically strong enough to give the necessary guarantee to warrant the…

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Sugar and Wheat

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 November 1896 · page 8

Do high prices or low prices benefit the country? This question has been raised in regard to the coming wheat harvest, a preliminary estimate in respect to which we…

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The Farmers Union

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 November 1896 · page 8

MR. EDITOR.—I am not a farmer, but I have sense enough to know that what is the farmers interest is my interest, therefore I watch closely any movement affecting the…

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