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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

234 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 12

Investigations for Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 September 1897 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture is desirous of having more systematic investigations of a scientific nature made into severul problems of interest to farmers in continuation and…

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Notes and Comments. the Farmer and His Friends

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1897 · page 4

The final report of the Imperial Royal Commission on Agriculture and the grievance of the British Farmer is published. It doesn't and much to the aggregate of the…

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Export of Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 3

Full reporcs, in pamphiet form, are being circulated of the conference instituted by the South Coast and West Camden Company. At that conference seventeen factories and…

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The Diseases of Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 4

Mr. Edwin Harrow, an old resident of Natal, and a gentleman who takes the keenest possible interest in the diseases which affect cattle, more particularly the plagues known…

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A Cattle Trail Hero

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 2

When Texas had cattle to sell, and the North wished to buy them, but had no means of transporting them, except on foot, there was an opportanity for some of the most exciting adventures…

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Political and Social. the Wool Clip

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 September 1897 · page 4

It is estimated that the wool clip for the present season will be quite 80,000 bales short of what it was last season, and as prices are no higher now on the average…

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This Year's Wheat Supply

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 4

Mr. Thompson also told his Wagga audience that this year Australia would have three millions of bushels of wheat to export after providing for the requirements of her own…

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Dairying and Dairy Stock

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 5

Dr. Bowker, an officer from the Board of Health, has been inspecting the dairies and dairy herds in the Northern districts, and in the fulfilment of his duties, has been through…

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Agricultural Societies. Agricultural and Pastoral Shows. Extracts from an essay by Mr. J. J. Miller, awarded first prize at the recent Cootamundra Show

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 3

"Progressive communities are fast realising the benefits that accrue from Agricultural Societies. All efforts to improve our agricultural…

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Tornado in Aberdeenshire. Enormous Destruction of Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 3

A district of East Aberdeenshire has had a visitation not unlike that which recently passed over Essex. On the 2nd August a disastrous hailstorm swept over Premnay…

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Dairymen's Association

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 October 1897 · page 3

The Dairymen's Association of Victoria met last month, and Mr. Argyle (the president), after stating that the season just ended was one of the worst ever experienced, referred…

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The Butter Export Trade

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 5

The Canadians are evidently watching the Australian export trade closely, and though claiming credit for special enterprise, there can he little doubt but that they are…

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Swedish Butter in Great Britain

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 8

Over 23,500 tons of butter were exported from Sweden last year, nearly all to this country, and the quantity is increasing. Our Consul at Stockholm attributes the success…

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The Danish Butter Industry. [The Times Weekly Edition.]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 8

A somewhat lurid light is thrown upon the Danish butter industry in an illustrated essay by Mr. D. Young, entitled "A Land Flowing with Milk and Butter; the Truth…

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Grading Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 3

The leading butter firms in Sydney have issued a circular to those interested in dairying, protesting against Government interference in the butter trade. It is…

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Sugar and Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 4

One of the arguments used by the opponents to the imposition of a countervailing duty on bounty-produced sugar is that the canesugar production should be discontinued in…

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Export of Butter. the N.s.w. Creamery's Scheme. Mr. Fairbairn's Views of the Scheme

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 23 October 1897 · page 8

A meeting of suppliers and others to elect two delegates to confer with the Board of Directors of the N.S.W. Creamery Company re Export Scheme and other matters, was…

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Wheat From Frisco

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 October 1897 · page 4

This week 22,000 bushels of wheat arrived in Sydney from San Francisco. It is the first cargo of the season, and was ordered some months ago in the belief that the…

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The Peasant Farmhouses of Denmark. ["The Times" Weekly Editon.]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 October 1897 · page 2

Mr. Harald Faber, F.C.S., Commissioner to the Danish Government, writes controverting the recent allegations of Mr. D. Young as to the…

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Farming in New Zealand

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 October 1897 · page 3

The close of winter, with the opening of spring, on the North Island, is a convenient period for reviewing the winter record and estimating the prospects of runholders and…

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