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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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Dairy Returns

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 5

GRAFTON factory treated 44,037 gallons milk last month, producing 18,226 lbs butter, a ratio of 24.76lbs milk to a lb of butte. Te average test was 3.6. One-fourth of the butter was sold locally…

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The Qualify or N.S.W. Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 8

Mr. Editor.—Your article in last Saturday's issue, from the Melbourne "Leader," re the butter industry in Victoria, should be a warning to us. The cause, as pointed out, viz., the home separator…

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Sunday Work at Butter Factories

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 20 February 1900 · page 4

Mr. Editor.—In your report of the Grafton Dairy Co'e. annual meeting, I notice an effort was made to stop the working of the factory on Sundays. Now it will be admitted that, compared with…

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Brushgrove Dairy Company

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 20 February 1900 · page 8

The annual meeting of shareholders was held at the School of Arts on Saturday evening. Mr. T. Henderson, chairman of the Board, presided. The Directors report was as follows:—…

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London Butter Market

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 6

IT is rather unsatisfactory to find as time goes on that our batter does not hold relatively so good a place as it did a year ago in the London market. When writing two or three years ago…

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Local Interest. Bellinger Butter Company

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 2

AT a meeting of the directors of the above company on Wednesday last the following appointments were made :—Mr, James Graham as manner, Mr. W. Tate as engineer,…

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Brushgrove Dairy Co

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 5

THE annual meeting of the shareholders of the above Co, was held on Saturday, Mr. T. Henderson in the chair. The report stated that for the 12 months ending December 31st, the factory received 181,113…

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Australian Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 February 1900 · page 3

Mr. C. C. Lance, manager of the N.S.W. Creamery Butter Co., writes in the Herald: The process of centralisation under the modern system of…

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Advising the Farmer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 February 1900 · page 6

"Why is it," a correspondent in the Leader (V.) asks, "That everybody thinks he can farm? All other businesses, he admits, require some degree…

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The Butter Question

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 4

Victorian butter having fallen into comparative disfavour in England, the fact has led to a great deal of discussion in the sister colony. Many theories have been advanced…

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The Home Butter Market

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 2

The low price of Australian butter as compared with European in the London market has induced considerable discussion of late. Instead of the difference between Danish and Australian…

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Butter in one Minute

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 4

THE New England Dairying Company, Armidale, of which Messrs. R. Blaxland and W. C. Higinbotham are the principals, have just added a complete "Radiator" butter-making plant to…

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Jersey Cattle and Their Merits

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 3

The "Scottish Farmer" says: It would seem that excessive milk production is an exciting cause of tuberculosis, or in other words, the…

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Palmer's Island Dairy Co

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 2

A SPECIAL, meeting of shareholders and others was held on Friday afternoon at the creamery, to receive a report in reference to refrigerating plant. There was a good attendance, including some of the local…

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Dairying in Denmark

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 3

Mr. Chas. F. Nielson, at the request of several persons interested in the Bundaberg Dairy Factory, wrote to his father, Mr. Peter Nielson, in…

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The War and Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 4

It is said that our patriotic action in sending troops to South Africa to help the mother country in her war against the Boers will have the effect of booming our butter trade in England. Out of…

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Soiling Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 3

The term soiling in connection with agricultural phraseology is not generally understood by many of our farmers. In plain language, it…

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Stock and Crops in Great Britain

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 3

The feeding of cattle for the London Christmas market is an industry of some importance in various country districts. This Christmas the…

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Agricultural Notes. the Dairy Shorthorn

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1900 · page 3

The "Farmer and Stockbreeder," England, furnishes an article on this subject which is interesting from various points of view. It…

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Jersey Cattle and their Merits

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 6

THE Scottish FARMER says:—It would seem that excessive milk production is an existing cause of tuberculosis, or in other words, the lowering of vitality consequent upon excessive milk…

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