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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

924 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 47

Tweed Maize Crop

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 11

A Tweed paper states that although this season saw the greatest area of land yet put under maize on the Tweed, the yield is absolutely the…

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Sugar Crops in Queensland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Federal Inspector's report of the Queensland sugar fields states that the damage done by the bad weather in some of the places rose from…

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Dreadnought Farm

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—Twelve youths from England have arrived in Sydney. They form the advance party of boys assisted under the Dreadnought Farm scheme…

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Farm, Dairy and Pasture. Shippers' Complaints. (For the "Examiner.")

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 3

Recently several contributors to the "Examiner" have been loud in the complaints against the currying company that trades between Sydney…

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Maclean Mems. Maclean Butter Factory

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 2

The Maclean Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., manufactured for the month of March 60,360 lbs. of butter, being an increase of 6359 lbs. over the…

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Victorian Butter Exports. a Record Season, Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 3

The exports of butter from Victoria this season have reached 21,606½ tons, valued at £2,268,682, which is a record…

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Coramba Butter Factory

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 2

Our correspondent writes:—Although the local butter factory never nominated for the continuous butter judging competition, concluded at the Sydney…

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Fixing the Price of Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 2

The system adopted for fixing the price of butter consigned to the Sydney market has long been a source of dissatisfaction with a large section of the…

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Farm, Dairy and Pasture. The Government Land Policy

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 2

The future disposal of our Crown lands is a matter that affects every resident in the State, directly or indirectly. The men who desire to…

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Farmers' Experiments

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 2

A green fodder experiment of wheats, oats, ryes and barleys has just been planted by Mr. G. Marks, inspector of Agriculture, on Messrs. McDonald and…

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Dry Farming. Value of Rotation. Rape for Sheep. the Seed Problem

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 4

Several practical papers were read at the Dry Farming Conference recently held in Adelaide. The gathering should have the effect of popularising that…

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Farm and Dairy. Broom Millet Seed

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 3

There is a practice amongst farmers on the North Coast, says Mr. G. Marks (inspector of agricultural), of saving broom millet seed from the…

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Shortage of Labour on Dairy Farms. L.K.G Milking Machines to the Rescue

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 3

We read constantly in the newspapers of the difficulty in obtaining experienced milkers on dairy farms, and the difficulty will…

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Farmers Combining. to Combat the R.W.U.

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 4

An important gathering of delegates from the various district branches of the Farmers and Settlers' Association took place in Tam…

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Dorrigo Butter Factory

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 2

FOR the month of March 54,999lbs butter was manufactured, equal to 24½ tons, an increase of 9½ tons on the output for the corresponding…

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Wild Cattle Creek

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 3

A TENNIS match was played at Ulong Creek on the 22nd inst. between teams representing W.C.C and Ulong clubs. It was a splendid day for an outing, being…

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Sale of Guernsey Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 11

At the Corporation Yards, Lismore, Mr. George Hindmarsh, for Messrs. Hindmarsh, Johnston and Co., and George Barnard, offered for sale the…

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Meeting at Wild Cattle Ck

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 3

A MEETING of Wild Cattle Creek residents was held on the Leigh Provincial School grounds on Wednesday to discuss the question of…

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Farm, Dairy and Pasture. The Buckjumper

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 11

To seat a buckjumper has become quite a profession, and contests of this nature finds a place on sports and occasionally on show…

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Sir William Crookes. White Races and the Wheat Yield

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 10

In the course of some very interesting remarks upon the connection between the predominance of the whites races and the position of the world's wheat yield,…

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