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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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Cattle Slaughtering Appeal

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 2

In regard to the appeal made by George Barnier against an order made by Mr Police Magistrate FilZhardinge convicting him of…

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Byron Bay Butter Company

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 4

The manager's report for January show that the butter pay is a record pay both for output and turnover. The quantity of butter…

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Cattle on Unregistered Premiser

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 4

Owing to frequent reminders from the Board of Health, municipal authorities are on the alert to stop the practice of some dairymen of allowing their cattle to graze…

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Timber Trade Strike. How the Butter Industry Is Imperilled

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 4

The outlook in the timber trade dispute is gloomier than ever. All hope of arbitration, legal or private —if it ever existed—has vanished,…

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A Warning to U.S. Wales Farmers. A Dorrigo Pioneer's Observations

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 4

Mr. J. M. Vaskess (says the Sunday Time) one of the Dorrigo pioneers, who recently disposed of his selection on the tableland for a big…

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Educating the Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 2

The necessity of conserving the health of those domestic animals which contribute so largely to the prosperity of the State's primary industries is a matter fully recognised by the Minister for…

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Farmers' Telephones

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 4

Representations were made recently to the Postmaster-General by farmers at the inter-State conference regarding the inadequacy of telephone services in the country…

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Farm, Field & Dairy. Bananas for Cattle

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 3

The use of the banana for any other purpose than that of human food would seem, in these days, when the fruit has became such a…

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Dairying in Russia

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 3

Siberia is the country which must sooner or later (writes an exchange) carry all before It as the cheapest producer in the world. It is a…

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Dairying and Fertility

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 3

Any branch of farming which increases the general fertility of the farm land, while paying a living profit is worth more than another…

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Farming Made Easy

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 February 1908 · page 3

The agricultural tractor will be hailed as a boon by Australian farmers (writes the "Scientific Australian"). Recently some interesting…

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The Farm and Dairy. Study Your Cattle

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 7

Professor Agassiz said: "If you study nature in books, when you go out of doors you cannot find her." The breeder of dairy cattle is engaged…

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Short-weight Butter

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 2

A deputation from the Co-operative Butter and Cheese Factories' Association of Victoria waited upon the Minister for Customs last week…

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London Butter Market

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 4

THE rapid and sustained advances in the price of butter on the London market during the past couple of weeks caused considerable excitement…

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The Age of Cattle

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 7

The specification adopted in connection with the great international show at Chicago for testing the age of cattle by their teeth is as follows, and is worth…

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Farming in Cities

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 7

According to Mr. Fells, the American who has interested himself in the case of the unemployed—there is no need to go very far to get back to the land. The…

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Dead and Dying Sheep

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 6

The Horsham (Vic.) Court was enguged all day recently dealing with two charges of cruelty to sheep preferred against Samuel May, proprietor of May and Millar's…

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Sanitary Dairy Paving

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 12

Under the system of sanitary dairy farm inspection, which has become decidedly exacting in Victoria, and which is most likely to extend to the whole of the States, an…

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Dairy Factories

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 6

At the half-yearly meeting of the Ballina Creamery Company the annual report showed a profit of £719 on the half-year. The quantity of butter manufactured for the…

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The Dairyman's Lot

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 5

The lot of the dairymen, like-that of the comic opera policemen, judging by the speeches delivered at a meeting of the St. Goorge dairymen, held at Rockdale, is…

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