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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
348 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 18
The late J. L. Thompson (Government Agricultural Instructor) some time ago wrote a very interesting article on "Soiling Cattle" to the Agricultural Gazette, in which he said the term soiling in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The effects of pasteurisation upon the milk used in butter-making are shown in the recently-issued annual report of the Ontario Experimental Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In establishing a dairy herd the importance of using a sire descended from a deep-milking strain is admitted (remarks the Australasian), but even when such an animal is provided,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Board of Trade report issued recently shows the rates of weekly cash wages paid to farm laborers, and also their total weekly earnings, inolusiye of all extra payment in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No other rural industry in Australia has been promoted and placed upon a sound basis with less difficulty than the butter export trade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT this season of the year there is some evidence, though not conclusive, that at one particular stage of growth amber cane sorghum is injurious to cattle (says an exchange). The matter,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The visit of the Duke of York is going to be productive of a large crop of asses. Already there are York restaurants and George hair-cutting saloons,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Is there anything more distressing during summer months to the neat housewife than oily butter? Nothing, unless it is flies, and these she can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Scientific American of July 7 is given a description of the present system of wheat cultivation as practised in California, from which it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THROUGHOUT the greater part of the summer there is a fair amount of feed of stock, but however plentiful and promising the grass may be sowing of a few acres of green crops for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →OUR Warrell Creek correspondent writes:—It is to be hoped that your readers are keeping their eyes and ears open to the preparations being made by the freetraders to contest the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serions result of the dryness of the spring season will be the failure of the potato crop. For years past the potato returns proved very acceptable to Clarence farmers, coming at a period when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To the majority of the farmers in the district a visit to the yards of Mr. S. D. Caines, at South Lismore, will prove a revelation. Here pig raising and fattening is carried out on an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eight reasons why some dairy farmers do not succeed- 1. The cows do not get all they want to eat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Kangaroo Valley a couple of weeks ago Mr. C. E. D. Meares, of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Co, said that up to November 13 last year the Sydney market was held at 10d. Despite…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A trial with wheat growing has been made on Wooroowoolgen, where about 60 acres are ready for the stripper. The wheat is well grown, and tolerably free from rust; but it is singular that a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Synod met for the transaction of business at 9 o'clock on Saturday morning. After devotional exercises, the Secretary read the record of the previous Session…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The death is announced or Sir Jonn B. Lawes F.R.S. the greatest farmer of the century. The son of a country gentleman, he developed his life and fortune to the improvement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have heard a lot of late about "unjustifiable" falls in the price of batter of city rings that "rig" the market always downwards of course, and all that sort of thing. Now what is the meaning of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. O'Callaghan, the dairy expert, writes: On the cow mainly depends the first cost of the manufactured article; and if the cow yields too low a butter sverage per year, other competing countries…
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