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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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The Price of Butter. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 17 August 1908 · page 2

The Sussex-street dairy merchants this morning held a meeting and decided to further reduce the price of butter by 20s per cwt. from Monday…

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Butter Substitutes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 August 1908 · page 2

The butter famine has provided the manufacturers of various substitutes, such as are termed bu butteriene and margarine, with a golden opportunity to introduce their…

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Moleville Farmers and Setters' Assn

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 August 1908 · page 2

The first monthly meeting of the Moleville Branch of the Farmers and Settlors' Association was held at the Clifden Wine Depot on Saturday, twelve members being…

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Clarence River Pioneer Dairy Co

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 August 1908 · page 2

The hall-yearly meeting of shareholders was held in the Masonic Hall. Ulmarra, on Saturdeay. Mr. J. Retalick, chairman of the Board, presided. The other directors…

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Butter-making Defects

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 August 1908 · page 7

Mr. H. E. Van Norman, Professor of Dairy Industry the Pennsylvannia State College, gives in his book on "First Lessons in Dairying," a notice…

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Farm, Field & Dairy. International Dairying

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 August 1908 · page 7

Improved methods in dairying are now engaging the attention of all the civilised nations of the world. The idea of exchanging ideas in an…

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The Successful Dairyman

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 August 1908 · page 7

"We once knew two patrons of a co-operative creamery " (writes "Hoad's Dairyman")who were striking examples of successful and…

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Heeding Dairy Cows

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 August 1908 · page 7

Some English scientists have been experimenting for many years on dairy cows, and have discovered that when a cow is in full milk and full flesh…

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Advantage of Rugging Dairy Cattle

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 7

A New Zealand contemporary says: "The cow shivering out of doors during the cold nights, or drizzling rain, is shaking butter out of her milk, and…

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Concerning Water in Butter

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 7

The American Standard, allowing 16 per cent water in butter, seems to have a dangerous tendency in its practical operations. The large creameries of the…

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The Farm and Dairy. Modern Farming and Progress

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 7

A farming journal says:—The wheels of progress have been moving very rapidly during recent years, and they are still moving. If the farmer who died 50…

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What a Dairyman Should Know

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 7

The cost of producing a gallon of milk. The cost of producing a pound of butterfat…

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Butter Boxes from Paspalum

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 August 1908 · page 8

Each year the question of butter boxes becomes a more serius one. The cost is gradually becoming greater, and now the boxes cost 1s 3d each. Each year New…

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Queensland Cane Crop

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 August 1908 · page 12

The Controller of Central Sugar Mills (Dr. Maxwell) states that work is proceeding sutisfactorily at all the central mills. On account of the recent frosts the amount of…

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Aboriginals on Cane Farms

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 24 August 1908 · page 2

The following order has been issued by the Department of Trades and Customs under the Sugar Bounty Act 1905 and Bounties Act 1907:--"The…

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Farm, Field & Dairy. Bottled Milk

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 August 1908 · page 7

Mons. Gillett, owner of one of the largest dairy farms near Paris, keeps between 60 and 70 cows for the purpose of supplying milk to the French…

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Farmers' Union. Annual Meeting

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 August 1908 · page 6

The postponed annual meeting of the above was held on Saturday, at Maclean. The President (Mr. McMahon) occupied the chair and there were…

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The Farm and Dairy. Handling the Cow at Calving

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 7

Don't milk a cow before she calves. Give her exercise. A mile or two of a walk is the best thing to loosen up her udder; it also puts her blood in proper…

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Testing Cows on the Farm

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 7

Farmers who have never kept any records of their herds will naturally ask "Does it pay to go to the trouble of weighing and testing each cow's milk?"…

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Lime in the Dairy

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 1

In all Danish creameries (says the "S.M. Herald") barrelscontaining lime water occupy a [?]rominent position. The creameries, which…

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