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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

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The Meat and Butter Trade

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 4

A cablegram states that Mr. Benjamin Jones, one of the three delegates from certain co-operative societies in England, who visited Grafton some time ago, has…

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Scientific Butter-making

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 16 March 1897 · page 5

MR. EDITOR.—A good deal has been published in the colonial papers on this subject, and we are advised by Mr. Jones, of the Co-operative Society in the old country, as…

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Political and Social. Bacterial and Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 4

One reason, perhaps the principal one, why the Danish buter commands a better price in the English market than the Australian is that the cream is subjected to treatment by…

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The Dairy Cow

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 3

When we consider the vast interests which are rapt up in the dairying industry of this colony, it is well that we should make a stud of the dairy cow. Just as we are now able…

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Model Farm for the Clarence

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 5

GLEN INNES, FRIDAY.—Messrs, Page, Varley and M'Kittrick had an interview with the Minister for Agriculture in support of the Clarence districts' claims to a model farms,…

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Early Maturity of English Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 3

There could be no better illustration of the widely-differing modes in which live stock husbandry is practised in Australia and in England than a study of the results of the…

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The Cattle Muster By-law

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 4

MR. EDITOR.—Do you know why Alderman Crispin and his followers are willing—nay, anxious—to have the cattle on the streets during the day time? Simply because they…

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Political and Social. the Butter Trade

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 4

In a recent communication I referred to successful experiments that had been made by a chemist in Germany in connection with cultures for imparting flavour to and…

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Rheumatics in Dairy Stock

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 3

Cows are subject to attacks of rheumatism during sudden changes of weather, but more so if they have been exposed to cold and rain after much beat. The disease appears…

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Farmers' and Producers' Union

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 5

The Council meeting of the ahove was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday last. Mr. Thomas see (vice-president) occnpied the chair, and apologised for the…

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Political and Social. the New Dairy Expert

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1897 · page 4

Mr. O'Callaghan, the dairy expert imported from the city of Cork, Ireland, to istruct our farmers how to make butter, arrived in Sydney this weel, after having made a little…

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Dairying in Victoria

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 March 1897 · page 3

A well-known writer on dairying furnishes the following to the Weekly Times:—Ask a thousand dairy farmers what is the best food…

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Cattle Straying

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 8

MR. EDITOR.—The [?] question concerning the operation of the Council's by-laws dealing with this subject is unfortunately the menace to sow ill feeling in the community,…

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System on the Farm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 3

ON many farms the most apparent causes of failure are a want of system, wastefulness, and misdirected labour. It doubtless is far morel difficult for the farmer to reduce his…

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Cheap Money for Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1897 · page 3

Cheap money is, naturally, appreciated by the farmers, who are as keen a body of men as any other in the community. That tue Credit…

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Political and Social. the Butter Market

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 4

A section ot the butter merchants in Sydney are desirous of raising the price of the commodity in which they deal by a penny a pound, but another section declines to agree…

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Political and Social. the Wheat Market

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1897 · page 4

Gables from England and America state that the price of wheat is fulling in both countries; and yet this is taking place in England, despite the fact that the visible…

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Dairying Industry

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1897 · page 5

Mr. Editor.—Having noticed in the papers lately several letters concerning the Dairying industry, in some instances referring directly to the Company which I have the…

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Agriculturist & Grazier. Mr. J. L. Thompson on Spaying of Cattle—1892

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 2

In many parts of Australia it is the practice to spay all heifers not required for breeding purposes, a process involving the removal of the organ of reproduction. The practice…

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Farmers' and Producers' Union

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 3

The Lower Southgate branch met on Saturday; the President (Mr. A. W. M'Donald) in the chair. There were about 20 members present, and the meeting was a protracted…

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