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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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Dairy Stock

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 3

WRITING on this subject, Mr. A Hay, of the Berry Estate, says that breeding and calf-rearing is the question which touches the very root of the…

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Fishy Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 4

The price of butter from several factories In N.S.W has fallen some £15 per ton on account of the butter being "fishy" when placed on the London, market. Nothing…

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Grafton Dairy Company

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 4

The annual meeting of shareholders was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday. There was a good attendance and Mr. G. H. Varley (chairman of directors) was voted to the chair…

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Open Column. the Farmers, Rain, and the City Band. [To the Editor of the Argus.]

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 1 February 1904 · page 3

SIR.--At the Hospital sports on Anniversary Day, a farmer friend remarked to me that the City Band was very popular with some of the…

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The Grafton Dairy Co

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 1 February 1904 · page 2

There was a good roll up of shareholders to the annual meeting of the above, held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening, Mr. G. H. Varley…

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Danish Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 3

It was quite, evident that the reputation made by Danish butter is being traded upon by the other Continental nations. Some letters have recently appeared in a…

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Rusted Wheat

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 4

Not only throughout our coastal districts, but New Zealand as well, this season the plague of rust has been prevalent. Climatic conditions of sudden and abnormal…

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The Wheat Y[?]ald

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 4

Around Wagga may be seen the wonderful productivity of the Australian wheat field. This is one of the main wheat centres, Within a few miles are many fields of some…

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Our Grafton Letter Dairy Co

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 4

AT the annual meeting last week the report and balance sheet, a synopsis of which has been already published, were adopted. There were 14 nominated for Board of directors and a ballot…

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Palmer's Island Dairy Co

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 2

THE sixth annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Palmer's Island Dairy Co., Limited, was held in the Protestant Hall, Palmer's Island, on Saturday afternoon. There was an attendance of…

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Maclean Farmers' Union and Progress Association

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 2

The regular monthly meeting of the above Association was held in the Council Chambers, Maclean, on Friday evening last. Mr. T. Grainger was voted to the chair, and there were also present Messrs Dug…

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Profit in Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 4

Mr, Wade engineer, who has lately returned from the U.S.A., remarks that too much importance in Australia is attached to obtaining big results by irrigation. The…

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The Maize Crop

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

Advices from Sydney go to state that the farmers of the larence are ruining their market this season by their own acts in sending maize too green to market. So far no consignments…

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Dairy Co. Progressing. Improvements to the Pioneer Factory

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 5

ON Wednesday last we had a peep at the new additions and improvements recently carried out by the Pioneer Dairy Co. at their Ulmarra…

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Local Interest. Butter Co

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 2

DURING the month of December the operations of the Bellinger Butter Co., at their Raleigh factory showed marked development, the quantity of cream supplied being 36,279…

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Cowboys' War on Sheep

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 8

PERHAPS the nearest parallel in modern times to the cattle maiming outrages which have been brought to light of late is the dynamiting of…

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The Wheat Harvest. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 3

Over a million bags of wheat have been received at Darling Harbour since the beginning of the season…

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Pasteurised Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 3

For several years past Professor Dean, as chief of the Dairy Department of the Ontario Agricultural College, has been carrying on a series of experiments with…

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Logan Farmers and Industrial Association. The Farmer and Consumer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 3

At the eighth annual meeting of this Association the annual report showed that although the market had been a drag on the finances, the object of…

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Successful Dairying

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 2

The special correspondent of the "S. M. Herald" who visiten Cootamundra, states that dairying is carried on there quite as successfully as on the Coast. He…

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