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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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Australian Manures Company. The Farmer's Guide for Australia

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 3

lished by the Australian Manures Company, whose exhibit is shown above, states that "There is no need to argue…

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Experimental Farm

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 30 April 1900 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture was also interviewed respecting the claims of the district for an experimental farm Mr. Fegan said that in consequence of renewed representations which…

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Colonial Sugar Refining Company. Ten Per Gent. Dividend. Prospects of Next Season's Crop

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 5

SYDNEY, MONDAY NIGHT.—At the halfyearly meeting to-day of shareholders in the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. Sir Edward Knox, in moving the adoption…

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Farmers' Co-operative Company

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 8

At Kiama on Tuesday, Mr. M'Millan, ex-Colonial Treasurer, addressed a meeting of dairy farmers in support of the new scheme for carring on the business of the Farmers' Co-operative Company…

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Pioneer Dairy Company, Ltd

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 2

The continued drought has materially affected the supply of milk to the Pioneer Dairy Factory for the past month--April 2S days--which was a little under 83,000 gallons to the centrat…

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Dairying Extraordinary

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 3

Francis Francisco, judging from a recent article in Hoard's Dairyman, is a dairy farmer of parts. His place at Newark, New Jersey, is thus…

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The Dairying Industry

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 3

Mr. W. M'Millan (representing M'Arthur and Co., of Sydney) visited the Wollongong district on Saturday, and addressed a meeting of…

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Agricultural Notes. Prospects for Dairymen

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 3

The dairying industry is going to have a bad time on the Clarence during the next few months. Feed for the cows must necessarily be…

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Cattle Shows

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1900 · page 3

THE question of making it a provision that cattle shown shall be on exhibition both days, has often agitated the minds of committees of agricultural societies, and it now seems the matter has…

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Government Horse-Breeding Farms

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 15 May 1900 · page 3

The Australasian Pastoralists Review, referring to this question, says:—It is very doubtful whether uniformity of quality can be secured…

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The Best Dairy Cattle

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 2

In reference to tho letter which recently appeared in our columna from Mr. D. H. Warby, in which the writer favored the Jerseys as the best dairy cattle, a well-known dairyman of…

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Butter Movements

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 3

From 1st April, 1899, to 31st March, 1900, the Victorian exports of butter amounted to 16,916 tons, of the average value of £97 per ton, or a total value of £1,640,852. The…

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Yield of Milk and Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 3

The average annual yield per cow in Denmark is 2101b of butter; over a large area of Canada and the United States it is 200Ib. It is 180 in Sweden and about the same in…

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Farmers' Enterprise

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 3

The letter which the manager of Messrs. Walter Reid and Co. has indited to the Minister for Railways on the subject of Queensland farmers and their lack of…

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Agricultural Notes. Farmers' and Settlers' Association

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 3

Last week the Clarence Farmers' Union resolved to affiliate with the Farmers' and Settlers' Association, which shortly holds its annual conference in Sydney. To be…

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The Illawarra Cattle

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 25 May 1900 · page 6

A VICTORIAN exchange has the following:—The famous Illawarra breed of dairy cattle scarcely held their own at the Sydney Show. They were not nearly so numerous as usual, and in regard…

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Profits of Cattle Breeding

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 25 May 1900 · page 6

Cattle breeding for stud purposes, like every other industry, can supply its instances of success and failure. Frequently, too, the profits of one department are more than swallowed up by…

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Wool from Limestone

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 25 May 1900 · page 5

To get blood out of stone is impossible, but getting wool out of limestone is, says the DAILY CHRONICLE, an accomplished fact, and before long, if certain experiments now being made are…

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Saving Farm Seeds

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 25 May 1900 · page 3

A NEW YORK: contributor to the American AGRICULTURIST, under the above heading says: As a market gardener, in buying seeds my first question is, where were they grown? If this is…

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A Good Dairy Cow

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 3

At the Ontario Convention, a Hol1stein cow made the almost phenomenal record of nearly 4½lb of butter per day, or 29'6lb per week according…

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