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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

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Agricultural Notes. Danger to the Dairying Industry

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 May 1899 · page 3

Writing on the subject of hand separators, Mr. Robt. C. M'Dougall (who has had considerable experience at Singleton in dairying) says:—…

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Local Interest. the Bellinger Butter Company

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 5 May 1899 · page 2

A GENERAL meeting of shareholders in the Bellinger Central Co-operative Butter Company will be held at Fernmount to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, when the directors will…

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A Farmer's Life

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 May 1899 · page 3

A farmer's life in a happy one, Though he toils from day to day, Saving and oft denying himself, In his efforts to make things pay…

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Clarence farmers Union

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 2

A meeting of the Council was held in the Council Chambers, Maclean, on Saturday, Present— Messrs, Hadfield (president) E. Arnold, Bawden, G. Gray, Donelly, Dunnet and Badcook…

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Political and Social. the Wool Boom

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 4

The best news affecting Australia that has been received from London for a long time is the information that the price of wool has gone up from 15 to 20 per cent…

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The Dairying Industry

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 4

SOME settler from the South Coast, with a family of 10, passed here recently. They left their sheep land and all else to the banks and are making their way to the Richmond, begging for food…

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Agricultural Notes. the Conformation of the Dairy Cow

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 3

Mr. Hoard, of Wisconsin, whose name is well known in connection with the journal "Hoards Dairyman," spoke on this subject recently…

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Experimental Farming

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 8

Minister Cook, on his recent visit to the Richmond, inspected the State Farm at Wollongbar, and intimated that a further outlay of £2000 would be made thereon. The…

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Bellinger Butter Company

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 12 May 1899 · page 2

A general meeting of the shareholders in the above was well attended at Fernmount on Saturday last, Mr. F. T. Matthews in the chair. The business was to consider the offers…

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Dairymen's Association

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 May 1899 · page 2

THE Palmor's Island branch of the above met on Wednesday. On tho motion of Mr. Garven the action of the directors he payment to the Association was endorsed. The rules of the…

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Centenary of the Clarence. Necessity for a Model Farm

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 May 1899 · page 6

AS pointed out by a correspondent of a Grafton contemporary the present year is the centenary of the Clarence River, and seeing that such an important event dawns upon the residents of this…

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Export Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 5

SYDNEY, FRIDAY. — Yesterday's S. M. Herald published a telegram from Melbourne, in which it is stated an uneasy feeling is caused by the failure of the…

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Pasteurising Milk for Butter Making

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 3

It has been suggested that pasteurising the whele milk before separating is preferable to heating the cream and skim milk after separating. To see what advantage, if any, might be derived from…

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A Wagga Farmer Abroad

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 6

A well-known farmer sent the "Wagga Advertiser" the following glowing particulars which he was induced to pay to the Grafton district, during the last annual…

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Tyndale Dairymen's Meeting

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 2

THE above meeting was held on Tuesday when Mr. B. Eglington occupied the chair. The latter gentleman was elected the branch delegate at the general meeting. It was resolved that…

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Breeding Dairy Stock

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 16 May 1899 · page 3

Since dairying has become one of our greatest rural industries the hundreds of settlers who have become milk suppliers to factories have been…

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Demand for Dairy Cattle

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 6

THE demand from outside for dairy cattle from South Coast continues. Several persona are scouring the district to supply orders from up north, but find suitable sorts very hard to get…

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Feeding Fat Dairy Cows

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 3

AN American farmer some time ago asserted that feeding [?] to dairy cows, in conjunction with their regular ration, resulted in a corresponding increase in the amount of butter fat in…

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Temperament of Farm Animals

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 6

ANIMALS as well as men are denominated by different temperaments, and they vary inform or type according to the temperament, consequently type is the index of temperament. In the hound…

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Wollongbar Experimental Farm

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 19 May 1899 · page 2

THE chief object of the visit which the Minister for Agriculture with Mr. W. S. Campbell recently paid to the north was to inspect tho experimental farm at Wollongbar (about eight…

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