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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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Agricultural and Pastoral Horse-breeding on the Clarence

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 3

Judging by the number of sires at the service of the public this season, horsed breeding has once more become a leading industry on the Clarence. Encouraged by…

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Gold in the Jaw-bone of a Sheep

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 6

A doctor at Bethnal Green, in the East End of London, picked up the jaw bone of a sheep which was receiving a dual polish from a dog belonging to one of his friends,…

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Government Dairy Exhibit

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 3

The Victorian Government Department of Agriculture exhibits proved to be one of the great attractions of the recent Royal show in Sydney. Many people expressed…

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Australian Produce in London. Reviving Butter Market. London, August 12

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 26 September 1904 · page 4

A great change, altogether favourable to the prospects of shippers of Australasian butter, has come over the London wholesale butter…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Feeding Cows in Summer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 3

Silage is beginning to be. recognised the words over its the best cow food in the driest season of the your. A cow yielding 'profitable' quantities of milk recluiros a…

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The Tuberculine Test in Store Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 3

The "Stock and Stutlon Journal" writes: The application of the tuberculine test on store cattle is a matter that will he certain to exact, a protest from fatteners and…

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Preserving a Corn Crop

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 6

Farmers in this country would hardly like to have to take the measures to scare away birds that are common in the cornfields in Egypt. Even if they wanted to take them…

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The Butter Trade

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 29 September 1904 · page 8

At a meeting of dairymen and others interested in the industry, held a day or two ago at Bangalow, the advisability of recommending that some action…

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Queensland Cattle Supply

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 29 September 1904 · page 4

The Gladstone meal works, during its recent run of four months, dealt with 8000. head of cattle, and the manager says they are probably the…

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Farm, Field, Dairy

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 29 September 1904 · page 6

A light feed of grain all summer to cows in milk will prove as profitable as at any time of this milking period. It keeps up the condition…

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Farm Gossip

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 29 September 1904 · page 3

The Care of the Mowing Machine-- What is the Proper Amount of Food for a Cow ?--Wobbly Foals --The Influence of Manures on Poor…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Horse Sales

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 3

There was a good attendance at Clarenza yards on Wednesday, when Mr. W. Small offered a draft of Queensland horses. They were of a light description, unbroken, and…

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Black Labour on Dairy Farms

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 3

It would be very unwise to enlarge upon the employment of Indiaus as milkers on dairy-farms. We are sure that the average dairy farmer has too keen an appreciation,…

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Export of Butter

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 October 1904 · page 2

The dairyman's season is at hand-- has already commenced, indeed, as evidenced by the vast increase in supplies reported for the past month…

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The Butter Trade. a Central Depot Wanted. What 18 Thought of the Proposal. Some Interesting Interviews

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 October 1904 · page 4

The question of providing deep watet frontage and cool storage accommodation at which the whole of the butter brought to the metropolis by sea, at any rate…

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The Dairying Industry. Suspicions Circumstances—A Royal Com-mission asked for

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1904 · page 4

At a meeting of the Baugalow A. and I. Society last week the question of the dairying industry and a Royal Commission was discussed at some length. Mr. J. N. Ferguson in bringing the matter…

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Farm Schools in Germany

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 October 1904 · page 3

The primary agricultural schools in Saxony are attracting Increased attention both In 'Europa and abroad, and information in regard to them Is eagerly sought, The course…

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Farm, Field, Dairy

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 October 1904 · page 3

One of the great objections to breeding from young sows at too early an age is that from the time they get in young they cease growing in size. If,…

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Farm Gossip

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

Constipation in Cattle--Purity in Butter--The Bitting of Young Horses--Care of the Young Foal. Constipation means costiveness, that…

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Dairying on the Dorrigo

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 7 October 1904 · page 2

OUR old friend, Mr. W. J. Kirton, who was formerly dairying in the Big Scrub country, on the Richmond River, writes us under to the editor of this journal:— "Knowing…

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