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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1902

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"The Examiner." Established 1859. Published on TUESDAYS and Saturdays. Grafton: 18Th October. 1902. a Question for Dairymen[?]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 4

A Bill has been introduced into the Legislative Assembly, and read a first time, about which more information is desirable. In dairying centres in several parts of the…

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The Dairy Industry Bill. " Soon Be Taxed for the Light of Heaven."

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 20 October 1902 · page 4

A LARGE and representative meeting of dairy farmers was held in Sydney to consider the proposed new Dairy Industry Bill and suggest amendments…

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Farms in the United States

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1902 · page 3

There were 5,739,657 farms in the United States in 1900, these having total value of no less than £3,473,893,801. Of this sum £2,732,185,845, or 78.6 per cent.,…

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The Dairy Bill. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1902 · page 1

REFERRING to the Dairy Bill, Mr. Kidd says it is not intended to have a central Government cold store, nor to introduce compulsory pasteurisation…

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Maclean Butter and Ice Factory. Additions and Extensions

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 24 October 1902 · page 4

It is only 12 months since Mr. J. Q. Kempnich commenced operations in the above factory, with a complete plant which was designed to meet possible expansions of the trade. But the…

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The American Ideal Type of Beef Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 6

A report has recently been issued by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, on the American breeds of…

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Address to Cane Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 6

Dr. Maxwell held a field day at the Mackay cane nursery. Upwards of 90 farmers and others were present[?] and inspected all the cultivation…

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The Dairy Bill

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1902 · page 8

Mr. Kidd is in receipt of a number of communications from dairy associations regarding the proposed. Dairy Bill which show that considerable misunderstanding…

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Cane For Sheep

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1902 · page 2

Sugarcane is being largely used for sheep. A mob of 6000 Manuka wethers were brought down to Ayr in July, and fed on chaffed sugarcane tops mixed with molasses;…

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Manitoba as a Wheat Country

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1902 · page 3

From Mr. David Elder, managing director of the New Zealand loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, we (Brisbane "Courier,") have received a copy of the…

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Bargains are Confined to Bread and Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1902 · page 8

The shops down in Sydney are doing bad business[?] from all reports. A financial drought has set in[?] and the average house[?] wife has to utilise her shillings for bread…

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Child Labor on Farms

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1902 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT to the NORTHERN STAR writes:—The abolition of black labor in connection with the sugar growing industry in this district has led to one unforseen result. The…

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Dairying and the Government

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1902 · page 8

Mr. Editor.—I have been lately studying the Bill introduced to the House by Mr. Kidd to regulate dairies and dairy factories. It appears to me the Bill commences…

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Electricity for Driving Cattle

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 31 October 1902 · page 8

THE most recent application of electricity is in a device which drives cattle m slaughter-houses. It is the invention of a Kansas City man, and has been approved of by an official of the…

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Legal use of Cattle Dogs

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 31 October 1902 · page 5

AT the District Court sittings at Grafton Judge Docker give a rather important decision affecting the liability of persons driving trespassing stock. In this case two cattle dogs had been set…

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Dairying and the Government

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 31 October 1902 · page 2

THE manager of the Farmers' Co-operative Co., Sydney, writes:—I have been lately studying the Bill introduced to the House by Mr. Kidd to regulate dairies and dairy…

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Dairymen, Beware!

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 31 October 1902 · page 3

AT a recent meeting of dairymen to consider Mr. Kidd's new Dairies Bill, Mr. Alex. Campbell, M.L.A., said that the object of the Government in…

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Mutilating Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 November 1902 · page 3

Reports have frequently been made in the northern state as well as our own of cattle having been found dead with their tongues cut out. Swagmen and travellers…

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The New Dairy Act. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 November 1902 · page 1

With reference to the new Dairy Bill, Mr. Kidd says there is no intention to interfere with inter-State trade, but merely to grade produce sent…

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How Sheep Gained Their Wool

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 November 1902 · page 8

Our domestic animals were not always domestic. Practically all of them exhibit abundant traces of the life of independence they lived before man enslaved them. Even…

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