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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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The Wheat Harvest

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 10

The present wheat crop promises to bo the lowest since 1897, excepting that harvested in the drought period 1902-3. In October it was anticipated that 1,631,562…

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Technical Education for Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 4

In connection with the effort, to establish technical education classes in this district, a series of lectures will be delivered in the district this week by Mr. Henry Lord…

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Farms In a Rich District

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 10

Ben Lo[?]nd, a noted estate in the heart of New England, has reached the end of its days as a pastoral property. Recontly [?] the place changed hands, and the…

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Victorian Butter Production. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 3

Departmental reports snow that during the past 13 months 25,465 tons of butter reached Melbourne from the country districts of Victoria, this…

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Orara Co-operative Dairy Company

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 3

The Directors' report to be presented to the shareholders at the annual general meeting on Tuesday next states:- We have much pleasure in submitting…

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Farm, Field & Dairy. Pastures for Fattening Stock

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 2

The profit from, reading and especially fattening cattle is usually much diminished by the necessity of purchasing a large quantity of…

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Dairying Without Drudgery

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 2

This is what every farmer and farmer's wife would like to experience, and in the fullness of time it will be realised. The inventive genius of the…

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The Farm and Dairy. Butter Grading

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 7

Butter grading has again loomed up as a question of supreme importance, and is the topic "in the street" at the present time. The raising of the…

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Farms in a Rich District

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 4

Ben Lomond, a noted estate in the heart of New England, has reached the end of its days as a pastoral property. Recently the place changed hands, and the…

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Plight of the Scottish Farmer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 8

A succession of pitiahle sights meet the eye of the traveller in Scotland and parts of the west coast, and the present rain will bring to a ellmax the misfortunes of many farmers (says a…

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Australia's Cattle King

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 4

The largest cattle station in Australia is Victoria River station, on which over 60,000 head of cattle are depastured. It is owned by…

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Lads for Farmers. (To the Editor.)

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 3

Sir,—A number of city lads and young men are coming ti me, stating that they are anxious to adopt a country life. Some of them wish…

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Co-op. Dairy Co

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 2

A meeting of the provisional directors of the proposed Coff's Harbour butter factory was held. on Monday, 20th inst. Mr. E. C…

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Orara Co-op. Dairy Co

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 4

The Directors' report presented to the shardholders at the annual general meeting, at Coramba, stated…

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Dairying on the Comboyne

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 5

Dairying on the Comhoyne country, which lies between the tipper reaches of the Macleay and the Hastings, is destined to attain very large proportions in the near future. The area is…

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Butter Washing Water

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 January 1908 · page 6

The Kansas State Agricultural College last year conducted a number of interesting, experiments to ascertain the effect of bacteria in the…

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Farm, Field & Dairy. the Calf's Stomach

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 January 1908 · page 6

A calf's stomach is like a cheese vat of milk after the rennet is added. The rennet taken from a calf's stomach coagulates the milk…

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Defect' in Farmyard Manure

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 January 1908 · page 6

There is no fertiliser that can be more profitably used on the farm than farmyard manure, the resulting [?] by-product in feeding live stock of…

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Dairying a Science

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 January 1908 · page 6

If one is clean at milking time, and prevents filth on foreign matter of any kind from entering the milk, and if the milk is thoroughly…

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The Farm and Dairy. Maintaining Soil Fertility

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 31 January 1908 · page 7

Fertility of soil is a thing much talked about, but little understood. To-day eminent students of soil fertility are as the two poles apart…

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