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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 8

May Edith Boon, aged about 18 years, and her father Albert Boon of Dorrigo, appeared before the Bellingen Bench on Friday the former charged with stealing and the latter with…

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Dairying Industry on the North Coast. Auxiliary Forage Crops. No. 3 ARTICLE

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

On dairy farms where the grazing areas are limited or where the pastures may, for such causes as want of fertility, scanty growth, etc., not provide rich, sueeulent…

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Siberian Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 4

A Danish gentleman, who represents a London firm which carries on a large business in Siberian butter, gave some interesting evidence before the Butter Commission in…

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Inferior Butter Shipment

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 5

Inquiries made concerning the announcement made in Melbourne that some very inferior butter had been shipped in Sydney in Victorian boxes by the R.M.S…

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A Record Butter Shipment

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 4

Tho Orontes will take from Sydney to-day 10,000 cases of butter, and from Melbourne 33,OOO cases. It is stated that this is a record shipment. From other…

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[?]Otanda. Prevention of Butter Adulteration

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 4

After the many unsuccessful efforts made in England during the last couple of years to pass a law for the prevention of butter adulteration by milk blending" and other…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Sugar Production in Queensland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 3

The special commissiner of the Brisbane "Courier," who has been visiting Cairns, writes: That there is ample room for the expansion of the sugar industry in the…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. a Girl Committed

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

MAY EDITH BOON, aged about 18 years, and her father, Albert Boon, of Dorrigo, appeared before the Bellingen Beach recently, the former charged with stealing and the latter with receiving. well…

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Rattling Big Socialaitic Farms

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 4

It would be hard to find a profounder believer in capital than Mr. Tom Mann. He wants at least £60,000 or £70,000 of Government money with which to start…

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Partial Failure of Fruit Crops. Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 5

The prospects of summer fruit in the Cumberland district are the darkest for years. The "Sunday Times" says there was not a large show of blossom in spring, and a…

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Bathurst Model Farm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 4

The model farm at Bathurst gives good returns. The area of the farm is 610 acres, of which only 400 are cultivated. Off this the yield was 2000 bushels of wheat, some…

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Australian Butter

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1904 · page 6

There are large increases in the export of butter from. Australia. Since 1st, July shipments from Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and…

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Moisture in Butter

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1904 · page 3

The Iowa Agricultural College recently completed a series of experiments to determine the moisture contents of butter and methods of…

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Farm, Field and Dairy

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1904 · page 3

The dairy brings a revenue which is always cash and almost continuous. It helps to maintain the fertility of the farm ; its product, if…

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Farm Gossip. Why Horses Shy.--Horse Shoeing.--Foal Raising.--Cold Curing of Cheese

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1904 · page 3

The horse seldom fears any object unless it appears suddenly; therefore, the way to break a horse of shyness is not to whip it when it…

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The Butter Trade

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 4

Plenty of bad butter is still being sent to England from Australia. The London correspondent of the Melbourne "Age" says that In thoe beginning of last month ten…

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London Butter Market

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 4

Dalgoty and Co. report —The' butter'mar ket during the past few weeks has beet very quiet; with a'gradtinlly'falHng tendoney for the finer grades,. this tendency…

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Latest Cables. N.S.W. Butter. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 12 December 1904 · page 3

London prices of New South Wales butter are 100s to 104s. SECRET TREATY DENIED. LONDON, Saturday…

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Special Messages. the Butter Commission. a Plague of Rabbits. Destructive Bush Fires. Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 December 1904 · page 5

Last week 50,000 bags of wheat were landed at Darling Harbour. 12,000 bags were exported in one day. Since the Broken Hill mines, now in…

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Farm, Field and Dairy

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 December 1904 · page 3

Do not allow a cow to drink water you would not drink, yourself. Better to have one tilled acre than two acres cultivated anyhow Better…

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