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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

763 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 33 of 39

The Farm Competitions. an Eulogistic Comment

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 9

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The "Herald" says that the Clarence competitors in the North Coast division of the farm competitions are a hot lot. Entries 16 and 13…

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Unclean Butter Factory

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 November 1906 · page 2

A bottle containing what appears to be a mixture of ink. treacle, and send is in the possession of the officer in charge of the dairy supervision branch of the Victorian…

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Faked Wool Bales

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 6 November 1906 · page 1

From information received, Detective O'Sullivan, accompanied by Senior-ser-geant M'Crimmon, visited a loft at Pyrmont the other day, and saw what…

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Proposed Co-operative Dairy Company

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 6 November 1906 · page 2

About 20 gentlemen met at Joyce's hotel on Friday evening to discuss the advisability of forming a Co-operative Dairy Company for Maclean and district. Mr. T.A…

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Farm Values at Home

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 6 November 1906 · page 6

A correspondent to a Scottish paper writes as under:—Agricul-ture under present conditions does not offer sufficient…

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Potato Drying. Economic Use of Surplus Crop

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 November 1906 · page 2

It is estimnted that in Germany about 860 million cwt of potatoes are harvested annually. Of this crop about 240 millions are used for human consumption, 350…

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Prosperity of the French Farmer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 November 1906 · page 7

Although many French peasant farmers are compelled to live extremely thrifty lives, barely making both ends meet, my experience in France,…

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Clarence River Farms

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 November 1906 · page 4

The "Herald" in its land columns on Thursday waxed eloquent over the Clarence River farms competing for the Herald" prize. They seem to have been an…

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The Farmer and the Grain Bags

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 November 1906 · page 4

The Select Committee on the the grain bag question is taking no end of evidence, but maize hardly seems to get a look in. Commission agent Basche (Basche and Lowney)…

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Farm, Field and Dairy Dairy Cattle Breeding

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 November 1906 · page 6

The question of breeding-up the dairy herd is perhaps the most vital question in dairying to-day. The milk yield of a cow depends chiefly upon…

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Up-to-date Dairying

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 November 1906 · page 6

In Ohio there are 868,000 cow kept for milk. The dairy school o[?] the State is one of the best equippe[?] in the world. The production and…

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Co-operative Dairy Co, for Maclean

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 November 1906 · page 8

About 20 gentlemen met at Joyce's hotel, Maclean, on Friday evening to discuss the advisability of forming a Co-operative Dairy Company for…

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Butter Grading

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 4

THE Bellingen Central Co-operative Butter Co., Limited, whose factory is at Raleigh, have recently decided to have their butter graded by the Government…

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Fine Cattle

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 4

THE streamer "Rosedale" brought to Bellingers, on her last trip 15 head of line forward heifers, and two Ayrshire bulls in charge of their owner, Mr. H. Greer, which as notified…

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Palmer's Island Dairy Co

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 9 November 1906 · page 2

A meeting of shareholders of the above Company was held on Tuesday evening, at the factory, to deal with the question of the erection of a wharf and other matters…

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The Farm Competitions. the Clarence Men

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 7

The Great Marlow Group, on the north side of the river, close to Grafton, comprised Messrs. Arthur Gerrard, Arthur Short, F. E. and W. H. Paine, and J. A…

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Palmer's Island Dairy Company

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 4

At the meeting on Tuesday evening the secretary emphasised that additional refrigerating was necessary, and it was thought possible to meet the requirements of this…

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Cattle Driving. (To the Editor of the "Argus.")

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 12 November 1906 · page 2

Sir,--Cattle are fine things and mighty profitable, but the driving of them, as permitted in Grafton, is quite another thing. Towns like…

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Butter Factory at Maclean

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 November 1906 · page 4

The Mayor presided at a meeting in the Council Chambers on Saturday, which was largely attended. The chairman explained that a previous meeting had decided that…

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