Next Wheat Crop
The information furnished by the Federal Statistician with respect to the wheat areaand the condition of the growing crops is of a particularly gratifying kind. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1909
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Butter Substitutes
The Minister for Agriculture is determined to stamp out a practice which is prevalent throughout the State—the selling of butter substitutes as butter. It has come…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dairying Industry
Mr. G. Pearce Sparrow. of the well-known from of Mills and Sparrowpa, Tooley-street London, is a delegale of the London Chamber of Commerce to the great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Experimental Farm
A visitor writes:—The majority of the members of the Sportsman's Creek Branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association aid a visit of inspection to the Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farming Out Army Horses
The War Office has issued a summary of the regulations which are to govern its new scheme for farming out army horses. They are as follows:-…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Butter Market
Coastal Farmers' Co-op. Society, Ltd., report:—Inter-State butter markets have eased to export values. Supplies are increasing here and rates will be 112s on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inadequate Dairy Supervision
It is plain that dairy farmers are not satisfied with the present administration of the Dairy Supervision Act, largely because the inspection chiefly devolves upon policemen who have not…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The New Dairy Regulations
A meeting of dairymen was held at Murwillumbah to protest against the imposition of several of the new dairy regulations which are considered to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grafton Experiment Farm
For the purpose of securing a stock of pure seed of varieties of cowpeas for farmers' experiments this season, in January last one peck of seed of each of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Waratah. What a Farmer Saw. a Distressed Steamer Disappear
The fate of the steamship Waratah, which left Durban on Monday, July 26, bound for Capetown, is still enshrouded in inexplicable mystery. Rumours are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Returns
The C.R.P. Dairy Co., Ltd.. Ulmarra, manufactured in August 19d tons of butter. Cream suppliers were paid ls per lb. nett for first-class butter, and 10½d per…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dairy Inspector
The Dairy Inspector has been flying round (writes "Mick O'Grady" in the "Southern Star"). There was never such a man for cement since the days of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Commercial Matters. Fall in Butter. Sydney, Saturday Night
For some days past the wholesale quotation in Sydney for New South Wales superfine butter was 1s per lb. It has been decided to reduce this…
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Prescott, Ltd., report: It has been impossible to maintain the butter market at 116s this week, owing to the non-arrival of some of the Northern steamers, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Slump in Cattle
A problem confronting the dairymen and stockowners of Northern New South Wales and Queensland is the large increase in and the small demand for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Testing Cream. Payment by Estimated Butter
A question which interests all dairy farmers and which comparatively few thoroughly understood is the system followed by butter factory companies of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Market
Now that the production of butter has commenced to increase in N.S. Wales, and the spring supplies are beginning to make their appearance, Sussex-street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Complaints of Butter Quality
On the above subject Messrs. Weddel and Co. state that the year just closed has not witnessed much improvement in the quality of the butter received from either…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Meetings of Farmers
It has been decided to hold a meeting of farmers and others interested in agriculture and dairying on 7th October at Grafton, immediately after the monthly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Farmer's Death
Alexander Martin, 40, a farmer, a recent arrival in Sydney from Newnes, met with an accident, which resulted in his death early on Saturday morning. Two…
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