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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

305 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 16

Government Dairy Cattle

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1898 · page 2

Dairy farmers and breeders evince keen interest in the large shipments of stock imported by the Government. Nearly every day the Stock Depertment is called upon to provide a launch to convey a batch of…

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Butter Export Scheme

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1898 · page 2

At the meeting of the Dairymen's Association at Grafton on Friday, Mr, II. Pateson, Manager F.F, and Ice Co., reviewed the results of the export of butter under the Co-operative scheme of tho S.C. and…

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Bloat in Cattle

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1898 · page 4

As the spring is now coming on, and rank clover is growing in. abundance, dairymen should bear in mind tho danger of cattle getting bleated, and the means of saving them should…

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The Sydney Wool Boycott. What the End Be?

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 September 1898 · page 8

The wool boycott will never end! The effect of the evil done will last as long as there is a sheep to shear in Australia. There are men who are silly enough to think that the…

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Experimental Farm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 September 1898 · page 2

The idea of immigration suggests that to properly and suitably bring before the notice of the world the claims of the Clarence River valley, we must possess an experimental…

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Dairymen's Grievances

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 September 1898 · page 8

Last week a deputation waited on the President of the Board of Health and recounted certain grievances, and it was clearly proved that neither the members of the deputation…

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Misrepresentation in Selling Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 5

MELBOURNE, THURSDAY.—A few weeks ago the Minister for Agriculture received a cable message from a firm of butter merchants in Capetown, informing him that…

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Co-operative Export Butter Scheme

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 5

KIAMA, THURSDAY—The second annual conference of Co-operative Factory Delegates was held under the auspices of the Farmers Co-operative Coy. of N.S.W. began…

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The Clarence River Dairymen's Association

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 3

The adjourned Council meeting was held at the Gratton Council Chambers on Tuesday. Present —G. H. Varley (President), D. Beatson. William M'Leod, W. Morrison, D. Baillie. T. M'Intosh…

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Points for Pig Farming

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1898 · page 4

THE squealless pig is the most thrifty and profitable one, for it never has to squeal for food nor from abuse. To get the full value of skin-milk in pig…

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A " Model" Dairy

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1898 · page 4

A SHUDDERSOME kind of dairy was dropped on lately by the Ballarat police in Victoria. The milk was found in old shoe-trunk along with a piece of corned-beef in the last stages of decay…

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Inspection of Dairy Stock. Inoculation for Tick Fever

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 September 1898 · page 8

The Member for Grafton has received the following communication from the Department of Public Health, Sydney, 3rd Sept., 1898:—With reference to the letter from Mr…

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Dairy Notes. a Dairying Calculation

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 3

The best cow is not necessarily the one which gives the most milk or makes the most butter, but the cow that makes the most butter from every pound of food that she eats. A cow that will…

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The Wool Deadlock

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1898 · page 4

THE principal item of interest to the pastoralists during the month has been the dispute which has arisen between the Wool Buyers' Association and the Co-operative Wool and Produce…

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Fodder Crops and Ensilage

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1898 · page 1

ALL stockowners, and dairymen in particular, should now be getting the land prepared for the sowing of summer fodder crops. It is too late to think about such matters when the flush of…

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Dog Farms

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1898 · page 1

THERE are in Manchuria, and in all that part of China adjoining Mongolia, thousands of farina devoted exclusively to the breeding of dogs. Each establishment supports several hundred of…

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Hints to the Dairyman

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1898 · page 2

Skimmings from the Farm and Dairy: The wisest economy with a bad separator is to throw it away. The smallest, extra percentage of butter fat left in the milk will very soon amount…

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Common-sense Farming

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1898 · page 2

Mr. A. M. Howell writes ib the "Agriculturist Gazette": The writer has heard, during the past crop season, a goodly number of farmers declare that they dare not plough their lands deep because…

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Dairying in the South

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1898 · page 8

Writing to the S.M. Herald, Mr. Laidley Mort, Chairman of the F.F. and I. Co., says: In your issue of to-day you have an article on the above subject from your special…

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Butter Export. Co-operation Versus Proprietary Companies. a Reply to Mr. Pateson

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 3

Mr. Editor.—On July 31st we (the Farmers' Co-operative Coy., Ltd.) published in pamphlet form the fall results of our butter export, carried out on behalf of the co-operative factories. In this…

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