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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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Selecting and Breeding Dairy Cows. Twenty Important Points Worth Remembering

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 May 1904 · page 6

1. Select the best cows in your herd, or that you can buy, to keep, and dispose of the unprofitable ones. 2. The best cow for the dairy is…

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Farm Gossip

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 May 1904 · page 6

To Cure Warts on Horses--Horses with Brittle Feet--Quality, not Quantity--How to Select Good clover seed…

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Important to Farmers

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 May 1904 · page 5

It will be seen by our advertising columns that the A.M.P. Society is lending money to farmers at 5 per cent, on the security of farming lands, in sums from…

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The Butter Trade

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 3

SOME startling disclosures are being made in the evidence given before the Royal Commission, in Melbourne, now conducting an inquiry into the…

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Tangy Engines on the Farm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 2

A number of farmers and others assembled at Mr. W. Ford's farm at Alumny Creek on Tuesday to witness a demonstration of the capabilities of a Tangyo oil engine for…

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Southgate Dairy, Company

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 4

The extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Southgate Dairy Co., Ltd., was held on Wednesday, and was one of the best attended meetings since its inception.,…

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London Butter Sales. LONDON

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 23 May 1904 · page 2

At the London butter sales to-day the market was steady and prices somewhat better, ranging from 80s to 84s per cwt…

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British Butter Imports

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1904 · page 4

ACCORDING to an article in the new issue of the journal of the British Dairy Farmers' Association, the declared value of butter imported into Great Britain from foreign countries and…

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The Butter Brigands

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1904 · page 3

Even as far as it has gone, the Victorian Butter-Trade Commissioner's inquiry has dug up admissions of trickery and fraud. Into so shocking a state of immorality…

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Sheep Grows its Own Grass

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1904 · page 3

A novel sight is to be seen at a farm just out of Manaia, New Zenald, says a Taranaki paper. A farmer has been feeding a pet sheep on oats, and some of the grain…

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AGRICULTURAL. The Hen for Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1904 · page 3

Everyone would like to have the ideal hen, that begins laying in April, keeps it up all winter, and rears a flock of plump cockerels and good-laying pullets…

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Coastal Farmers' Co-op. Society. (By Telegram.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1904 · page 5

ULMARRA, Monday Night.—Messrs. Meares (manager of the Coastal Farmers' Society), W. D. Warden, of Milton (Chairman of Directors, James, Campbell (Macleay,…

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Dairying in Queensland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1904 · page 3

The cream separator is carrying the industry to remote parts of the country. A report from Rochampton states that in the course of the last six months no less…

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Coastal Farmers' Co-op. Society

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1904 · page 4

The eighth half-yearly report of this Soclety will be presented to a meeting of shareholders at Lismore on Thursday next. The turnover for the six months ending…

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Dairying Matters

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 May 1904 · page 4

Byron Bay Butter Co. made 233 tons of butter last month, and paid 6 78d for A-1, and 5 78d for No. 1 butter. Suppliers were paid £21,000…

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An Enterprising Farmer

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 May 1904 · page 4

Mr. W. Ford, of Alumny Creek, has added a Tangyes oil engine to his farm machinery. A trial was made with it a few days ago, and…

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Local and General. Butter Exports

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 4

FROM June of last year up to the end of April no less than 33,000 tons of butter had been exported from Australia and New Zealand, of which the latter sent away nearly one-half;…

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A Lower Clarence Dairy Herd. Submitted to Auction

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 4

ON the Richmond River, where dairying seems to be regarded in more of a speculative spirit than on the Clarence, clearance sales are common, and prices which, in comparison with values on this river, seem…

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Dairy Bulls and Their Progeny

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 3

O rent interest is manifested in the breeding of dairy cattle, and it is only natural that the seeming failure of South Coast dairy hulls to maintain in their progeny…

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Government Aid in Dairying

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 3

The Canadian Government has, done a great deal to foster agricultural development within Its borders, and in no branch has success been more notable, than in the…

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