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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

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Clarence River. Farmers', Producers and Commercial Union

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 2 January 1903 · page 4

Sir,—Now that a branch of the above Union has been formed at Tyndale it behaves every farmer and producer in the locality to do his utmost to further the interests of the branch…

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Victorian Butter Market

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 3

The Government Cold Storage Chambers, Melbourne are now filled to their utmost capacity with the present season's butter, and it is estimated now by the traders that…

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Butter That Will Keep

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 3

It may be laid down as a given rule that the longer you churn the more water will be rotained in the butter. On this question the Wisconsin Experiment Station reports that…

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Cattle for South Africa

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 5

Shipping cattle to South Africa is not unattended by difficulty and loss. A member of a West Australian firm sent over 3000 head, and of these only 140 were lost in…

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Shoddy and the Wool Industry

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 3

Extreme monoply is bad; so is extreme competition. Through the latter the consumer has become too "pinched "to always buy the best. The producer catering for…

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The State Maize Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 5

The "Herald" is collecting reports from the different districts respecting the prospects of the ma[?] crops. Bellingen reports—The crops wear a more promising…

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The State Maize Crops

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1903 · page 3

THE HERALD is collecting reports from the different districts respecting the prospects of the maize crops. Bellingen reports—The crops wear a more promising aspect than has been the case…

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Dairy Produce in Scotland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 January 1903 · page 3

Mathie and M'Millan a Glasgow firm report:—Owing to the very mild and open weather which for some weeks past has prevailed over the United Kingdom butters of…

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The Maize Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 January 1903 · page 4

"Cor[?]stalk" writes in the "Evening News":—As the maize crop promises to be a large one, although a late one, there appears to be every probability of a fair…

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The Australian Farmer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 January 1903 · page 8

Is the Australian farmer lazy? The question is suggested by the criticism of an official visitor, M. Nicholas Krukoff, whose mission here is to ascertain, for the information of…

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Local Interest. DAIRYING

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 9 January 1903 · page 2

DURING the month of October last 11, 699lbs, cream was treated at the Bellinger Cooperative Co.'s factory at Raleigh, yielding 5336lbs. butter, for which twenty-three…

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The Sugar Industry. THE C.S.R. Co and the Cane Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 2

The following is a copy of a circular sent to the farmers growing cane for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at all their miles from Homebush northwards(says the…

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Condition of the Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 3

The condition of the greater portion of the maize crops in the Clarence Valley is deplorable. A fortnight of roasting heat and blasting westerly winds has transformed the…

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A New Food for Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 2

A project is on foot by the great packing establishments of Chicago, involving the settlement of several hundred thousand acres of what is at present almost…

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The Wheat Supplies of South Africa

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 4

Sir John See has telegraphed to the other Premiers, urging them to impress upon the Imperial Government that all meat supplies for South Africa should be obtained from…

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Farming by Steam

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 3

ON some of the great farms of the Far Westfarms that may run from 30,000 acres—giant steam automobiles are now used to draw the agricultural machinery. An intensely…

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The L[?]turing Dairy Maid

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 2

Some of the English agricultural societies employ young women students after completing their training at one of the colleges, to visit the farmers in their…

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Farming in Japan

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 2

A correspondent of the "Field" gives the following account of the way in which good farming ls encouraged in Japan: The Japanese have an ingenious custom[?] in…

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Do Our Farmers Work Hard Enough?

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 4

That Russian official, M. Nicholas Krakoff, Commissioner of Agriculture, who is now doing Australia, is getting himself disliked. He says that the Australian farmer is lazy,…

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No Advantage in Mixing Churn Water with Butter Milk

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 2

Some experiments made by the United States Department of Agriculture with the wash water from churns show that there is no advantage in…

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