Wheat Rubber
"Four hundred years ago it was noted by one of the companions of Columbus that, the natives of Hayti played a game with balls made of the gum of a tree,…
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Farming & the land, 1910
837 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 42
Farmers' Experiments
The Department of Agriculture has proved that one of the most popular and useful innovations is the system of farmers' experiment plot. An efficient staff of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The World's Sugar Crops
The sugar crop of the world in 1909 is placed by Wil[?]ett and Gray at 14,710,000 tons, an increase over that of 1908 of 244,596 tons or 1.7 per cent. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Butter Market
Prescott, Ltd., report: Outside local business there has been very little doing in the market this week on account of the holidays. Melbourne quotations remain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer Robbed of £1000
London detectives have been busy investigating the circumstances of an extraordinary robbery. Mr. Walter Smith, a bluff, hearty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Keep the Farm Lands Cheap
One of the objects we have had constantly in mind in advocating the opening up of Crown lands in all districts suitable for close settlement has been the keeping of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairying Indu[?]
In an interview, Mr. F. Hi[?] of the Wingham and Upper [?] trict Co-operative Butter and [?] Ltd., gave interesting information [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' Union
The Tyndale and Shark Creek Branch met on Wednesday. The president, Mr. G. A. Watson, presided. The secretary, Mr. W. J. Benson, read correspondence as follows:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mould on Butter
As mould is a tiny plant or fungus, it is important that butter-makers and butter-dealers should know by what means they can entirely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Frauds. SYDNEY
The Victorian Government is making representations to the British Government, urging the passing of an Act to prevent fraud regarding the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter and Margarine. New Regulations
Amended regulations under the Pure Food Act are gazetted. Further provisions are made for securing cleanliness and freedom from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy. Calf Feed
A good calf feed may be made by mixing the following food stuffs:-Blood meal ten pounds, bone meal five pounds, oil meal 20 pounds, oat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Energetic Farmer
A correspondent writes to the "C. and R. Examiner":—Mr. G. Hardacre, of Bucca Creek, has solved the labour problem of the dairy farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Expert Dairying
Recently a Wisconsin dairy expert devoted six weeks to collecting facts relating to 50 head of cows supplying one factory for the year 1908…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Largest Dairy in N.S.W. Milking Machines Used
At Ben Lomond, Mr. T. A. Stirton. the well-known pastoralist, is dairying on a very extensive scale. At present 350 are being milked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Boxes
A MESSAGE from Coff's Harbor says:—The higher prices ruling for butter boxes, which are made almost Exclusively of New Zealand white…
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THE Coff's Harbor district butter factory is making about 2½ tons of butter a week. Visitors unanimously praise the up to the manner in which the factory is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dorrigo Butter Factory
CREAM received at the factory for the month of November last totalled 58,7641b, from which 25,5481b butter was manufactured—or a shade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Butter Boxes Episode
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Inferring to Mr. Coghland's discovery that empty Australian butter boxers were collected in England and refilled with margarine,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Will Sheep Kill Snakes?
THIS is a story told by a Victorian farmer of the behaviour of a flock which he happened to witness. He noticed that the sheep had formed…
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