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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

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The Banks and the Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 June 1905 · page 4

Mr. Henley is the representative in the State; Parliament of the district of which Burwood is one of. the centres, und on Piiosday he discoursed to a small number…

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A Butter Bill. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 12 June 1905 · page 3

In response to a special request from the Australasian Agents-General, Mr. Balfour has promised to [?] the [?] of [?]…

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Butter Adulteration

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 8

Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, dairy expert for the Agricultural Department says:—"The news of the Dutch butter frauds has set people thinking on this subject. Some…

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Butter Freights

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 2

Representatives of many co-operative butter factories of the State assembled at the premises of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society last week to deal chiefly with the matter of butter…

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Guernsey Cattle

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 4

The special reporter of the "Daily Telegraph," in an article on the Big Scrub districts, says:—"Speaking of herds it will probably be of interest…

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Carriage of Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 5

The notion of the, co-operative factories in signing the butter export contract with the White Star-Aberdeen-Lund line has caused much surprise amongst those shippers who previously…

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The Future of Wheat

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 3

Great interest is being taken in England and in America, and should also be taken here in Australia, in the question of the future of wheat production in the United…

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Butter Industry. Report of Victorian Commission. Drastic Recommendations

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 1

The following are some of the details of the final report of the Victorian Butter Commission:— It is pointed out that the evidence taken on…

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The Over-run in Butter. the Necessity for a Uniform System

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 2

Although the Government contrived to reduce the sessions of this Butter Commission in Sydney to a broad farce by closing it just as some evidence of real importance to…

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Poultry-farmers and Co-operation

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 3

The movement for co-operation among poultryfarmers, which was first mooted in the columns of "The Daily Telegraph" four months ago, has gradually taken definite shape. A co-operative…

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The Sugar Crop

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 8

The Queensland sugar crop this last year was the largest, but one, on record. With respect to the 1904 crop, which will in the main be marketed, this your, the 147,688…

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Farm, Field and Dairy. The Fanners who Won't Attend Farmers' Meetings

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 June 1905 · page 7

Profe[?]sor Massey, of the "Practical Farmer," U.S.A., when addressing a meeting of potato growers, said that "the meeting was made up…

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New South Wales Farmers in Queensland

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 June 1905 · page 2

"Some concern is being manifested at the fact that so many Richmond River and other farmers from New South Wales having arrived, the area…

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The Farmhouse Churn

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 June 1905 · page 7

Churning at a farm is usually the work of the wife or daughter, unless there is a woman who includes it within her list of duties, or where…

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Dairy Jottings

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 June 1905 · page 7

A Continental paper recently stated that one thousand tins of vegetable butter made from cocoa nuts have been sent on to the hospitals at the…

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Selecting Dairy Stock

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 16 June 1905 · page 3

SOME very remarkable figures are given by the "Scottish Farmers' Album" as to the effect of heredity upon milk production. Four cows,…

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Baby Farming

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 6

A sensational case of baby farming has been brought-to' light at Hobart. A woman, keeping un unregistered home, has had five children dio in her house this your…

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The Butter Commission

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1905 · page 4

Mr. C. E. D. Meares, of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Limited, Sydney, writes as follows : -- Dear Sir, -- I am in receipt of the…

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Short-weight Butter. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1905 · page 3

Sussex-street butter merchants complain that a large quantity of short-weight butter has been placed on the market…

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Butter Box Ring

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 4

A telegram from Melbourne states that the Butter Box Combine has collapsed, owing to a large maker reducing the price by threepence. It…

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