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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1902

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Clarence Farmers' Union

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 September 1902 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Clarence River Farmers' Union was held at Brushgrove on Saturday. Mr. T. Donelly president, occupied the chair, and there was a fair…

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Farmers' Union

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 3 October 1902 · page 4

AT the meeting at Brushgrove on Saturday there was u fair attendance, Mr. T. Donelly being io the ohair. The report pointed out that little work had been done during the year owing to the apathy of…

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The Wool Sheep and Angora in South Africa

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 October 1902 · page 3

Australia is the greatest sheep-breeding country in the world, because, in addition to the size of her flocks, their general excellence is beyond comparison. Naturally…

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Agricultural. the Butter Business

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 October 1902 · page 3

While the primary object of the conference of dairy farmers, at Albion Park, last week, was to fix for producers an expor price, securing at the same time a proper…

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Cheapening Cattle Feed

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 7 October 1902 · page 2

By the invention of John Kammer, of Chicago, says a telegram in the San Francisco "Chronicle," the whole practice of feeding live stock, particularly cattle for…

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Herd of Dried Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 7 October 1902 · page 2

"In crossing the Colorado desert in Arizona one sees a frightful monument to the folly of the man who thought that he could drive across the desert with such speed that water…

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State Butter Competition. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 October 1902 · page 1

THE Minister for Agriculture has approved of the State butter competition being continued this season. Entries must be made to the Under-Secretary…

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The Dairy Pasture

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 3

THE director of the Iowa Experiment Station says: The problem as our binds become mine valuable will be not how much to do with less grass, but how to get more of it. Pasture lands…

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Dairying in Victoria

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 3

Mr. T. K. Dow, who is continuing his lecturing tour upon dairy stock management in the Gippsland district, Victoria, reports that great interest is being taken by…

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Poultry on our Farms

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 3

(For the "Examiner.") Probably 70 per cent, of the poultry and eggs of this State are produced on farms where poultry keeping is only one factor…

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Review of the Butter Market

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 13 October 1902 · page 3

The Farmers' Co-operative Co. have issued a review of the Sydney butter market during the past winter. The review states that since the beginning of last autumn the…

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Notes From Various Sources. for Farming Readers

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 13 October 1902 · page 3

"Enclosed clipping from the "New York Herald" (writes a correspondent) may interest your country readers. Sorry there is nothing to indicate where…

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Sheep Losses by Drought

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 14 October 1902 · page 3

It is gratifying to find that the State losses in sheep are not nearly so great as was represented or apprehended. It has been alleged that the mortality in the flocks has…

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Cattle Breeding Association in Germany

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 14 October 1902 · page 2

A contributor to the "Agricultural Economist" for August writes:— During a visit I paid lately to the German Agricultural Society's show, in Mannheim, I was…

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Dairy Farming in New Zealand

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 14 October 1902 · page 2

A correspondent gives some particulars relating to dairying in New Zealand, which soon promises to become one vast dairy farm. " There are two methods under which dairying…

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Richmond Maize Crop

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1902 · page 3

THE R. R. HERALD says if the district had been more favored in the matter of rainfall more maize would have been grown on the Richmond this season than ever known before, Large areas of land…

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Millet Crops. (From our Commercial Correspondent.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 14 October 1902 · page 8

The current prices of millet in Sydney are not sufficiently encouraging to induce extensive planting on the northern rivers, and it becomes a question whether or not the…

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Dairy Returns

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 5

THE late rain that has fallen throughout the Clarence has already had a marked effect upon the production of cream. The supply is daily increasing and if favorable conditions prevail for the next month…

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Milk Blended Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 3

The following letter has been received by the Premier:—Commercial Agency for the Government of New South Wales, London, 5th September, 1902. Sir.—The position in…

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Sheep on the Coast

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 6

The Romney Marsh sheep are best adapted for damp, swampy land, as they are not liable to foot-rot or fluke. Endeavours have at various…

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