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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

338 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 17

Farm Properties

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 23 June 1899 · page 2

THIS is the time of the year when the bulk of farm properties are leased, and a considerable number are in the market. These are meeting with active inquiry, and owners as a rule have…

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Practical Dairying Hints

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 3

"I believe if we will set the boys to work testing the cows, giving them half that they can increase the butler production of the daley as their pay, that we will make something ourselves, the boys…

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Agricultural Notes. By-products of the Dairy

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 June 1899 · page 3

Probably the latest use of a dairy by-product is the manufacture of sizing for paperhangers' use from skim milk. The manufacture of this…

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Government Dairy Stock at Kirkham

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 June 1899 · page 4

Mr. J. T. Junor and Mr. M'Pherson, of Casino, and party, with Mr. H. V. Jackson, the Manager of the Experimental Farm at Wollongbar, visited the Kirkham Stud…

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A Nambucca Butter Company

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT writes as follows:- In response to an advertisement which appeared in THE RALEIGH SUN, a number of dairymen met at Mr. J. P. Byrnes's,…

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The Escutcheon Theory for Judging Cattle

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 4

IN HOARD'S DAIRYMAN a breeder of Holsteins and breeding for the milk form, writes:—There are a great many signs by which to select a good cow. I place most reliance on the Guenon…

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A Farmers' Protest. Where Bellinger and Nambucca Produce Goes

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 3

AT a meeting of the Macleay Farmer's Union last week(Wednesday) at Kinchela. some information came out which may explain why it sometimes…

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Butter Exhibits

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 5

SYDNEY, FRIDAY.—In view of the necessity for relying upon our Export trade, to provide a remunerative market for our rapidly increasing surplus of butter, the…

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Farm Rentals

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 2

The present month is the usual period in the Clarence district for the renewal of leases of farms, or entering into negotiations for the first time. As a rule, leases in the Clarence…

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Political and Social. Butter in England

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 July 1899 · page 4

A cablegram received this week states that there is a probability of Australian butter soon driving the continental out of the English market. This is good news for the…

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A Milk and Butter Cross. the Holstein Jersey Cross

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 July 1899 · page 8

Though the Holsteins are large milk-producers they are not poor butter cows by any means. They may be described as the other extreme from the Jersey, for though the…

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Butter Export Trade

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 7 July 1899 · page 4

FROM the Board of Trade returns of tho imports into tho United Kingdom for the year ended 31st, December, 1898, it appears that of the butter imported, Victoria supplied nearly 4 per…

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Dairy Instruction in Schools

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 7 July 1899 · page 4

THE Victorian dairy chemist to the Department of Agriculture, Mr. H. W. Ports, has furnished the Acting-Minister with a report upon the results of his recent lectures to State School…

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Pastoral Leases

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 8

Pastoral lessees in the Central division of the colony laid their cases before the Minister of Lands on Wednesday, and asked for some consideration respecting the leases of their…

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The Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton Tuesdays and Saturdays. Saturday, July 8Th, 1899. Our Prospects in the Old Country Butter Market

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 4

The comments made by WEDDEL and Co., the well-known London merchants, in their annual report in regard to the condition and prospects of Australian butter in the British…

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Macleay Farmers' Union

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 3

The annual meeting of this Union was held last week. The report referred to the Maize Council recently formed, and the opinion expressed that this Council should be governed and its members…

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Queensland Sugar Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 3

It is expected that by the end of July all the mills will be in fall swing. Planting has continued in many places during the past few weeks, advantage having been taken of the mild weather to continue…

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The Clarence Model Farm

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 July 1899 · page 2

Mr. John See has been informed by the Department of Agriculture with reference to his letter of June 27 and several previous communications urging the claims of the Clarence River district…

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Model Farm

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 3

MR. JOHN SEE has been informed by the Department of Agriculture with reference to his letter on June 27 and several previous communications urging the claims of the Clarence River district…

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Farmers Co-operative Company

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 8

The eighteenth annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Farmers' Co-operative Company of New South Wales, postponed from June 27, took place at Kiama on…

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