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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

625 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 29 of 32

The Go-ahead British Farmer

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 November 1904 · page 3

British farmers as a body, are far ahead of the farmers of any other country, and I speak as a wide traveller among both clashes; but,…

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Farm Gossip

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 November 1904 · page 3

Feed and Breed -- Cut v. Whole Fodder -- Butter as Medicine -- Bran as a Stock Food -- On Harnessing the Horses…

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The Price of Butter

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 25 November 1904 · page 2

THE well-informed writer of those instructive articles which appear in the S.M. Herald under the heading "On the Land" says that the position has long been recognised as…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 8

A Boon and his daughter were brought before the Bellingen Bench on a charge of cattle stealing. Fairly lengthy evidence was given by constnble Tvidal, of Dorrige-station; as to the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Cane Bounty Conditions

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 3

At the sitting of the Supreme Court at Townsville, last week, Mr. Justice Chubb delivered judgment in a case in which Chapman, a cane-farmer at Bowen,…

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Dairying Industry on the North Coast. Exotic Grasses for Permanent and Temporary Pasture. Special for the "Examiner" by Fred. Turner, F.L.S., F.R.N.S., etc. No. 2 ARTICLE

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 3

Of all the exotic grasses Introduced into the districts drained by the Clarence and Richmond rivers during recent years, the American paspalum dilatatum has been…

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Sale of a Dairy Hero

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 3

The auction sale of Messrs. Carl and P. C. Basche's dairy herd was conducted by Mr.J.F.Small, at Greenfield, Macleny River. There was an attendance of about…

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German Baby Farmer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 6

The trial at Hamburg of a woman mimed WIese is providing Clermnny with a sensation. This woman, who seems to have lost all human feelings. is accused of the murder of five infants…

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The Experimental Farm Road

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 2

We are requested to state that although the gates on this farm and now left unlocked, the road is not a public one, [?] persons using the road must take the…

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Peculiar Cattle Stealing Charge

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 29 November 1904 · page 2

THE NORTHERN COURIER reports that a resident and his daughter were brought before the Bellingen Bench on a charge of cattle staling. The evidence disclosed that a milch cow owned by a neighbor to…

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Huge Butter Imports

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1904 · page 8

Great Britain (says the Brisbane "Courier's" London correspondent, writing on August 26) is now importing the vast total of 219,000…

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Preservatives in Milk and Butter

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1904 · page 3

The Royal Commission on the Butter Industry of Victoria has inquired into very many subjects -- some important and others more or…

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The Macedonia Butter. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1904 · page 5

In the Legislative Assembly today, the Secretary for Agriculture stated that none of the inferior butter recently found on board the…

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Farm, Field and Dairy

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1904 · page 3

When one has sows, of whatever breed, that are prolific, that are good mothers, that farrow from nine to thirteen pigs at a litter, no…

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Farm Gossip. Vegetables on the Farm -- Selecting Seed Maize -- Be Quiet and Gentle in the Milking Shad -- Value of poultry Manure -- Care of Young Pigs

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1904 · page 3

Many farmers neglect to grow vegetables for home consumption. Usually those used are brought from a distance, and are anything but…

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Ants for the Farmer

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1904 · page 8

"The first instalment of Guatemalan ants imported by the Agricultural Department of the United States seems to be doing better than might…

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Queensland Dairy Bill. Protest From Medical Men

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1904 · page 6

A deputation composed of medical practitioners waited upon the Minister for Agriculture last week. Dr. Byrne presenting the following…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 2 December 1904 · page 2

AT Bollingen Police Court on Friday last, before Messrs. H. Boultwood and L. Gordon, J,s.p., May Edith Boon was charged with stealing one heifer caif, the property of Maria…

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English Farmers and Education

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 2 December 1904 · page 4

SPEAKING at the dinner of the Derbyshire Farmers' Association, the Duke of Devonshire remarked that it was constantly said the farmers were…

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Agricultural and Pastoral the Potato Crop

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 3

The potato yield on the Clarence this season has been fairly near the average. In some places the early planting was light and the very late did not turn out well…

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