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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

913 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 46

Motive Power on the Farm

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 4

MACHINERY is the order of the day there is no sense in doing by hand that which can be one better and quicker by the aid of machinery…

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Concerning Dairyman

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 4

IT was noted some time ago that the Board of Health had made an order insisting upon vendors [?]aching their names to all their…

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Progressive Dairying

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 7

While the improving of the milk and butter yielding capacity of dairy cattle has been a foremost question in other dairying countries for some years past, it is a…

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Grafton Dairy Company

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 4

Report for the month ending 20th February, 1912:—Particulars as to operations for the above period are as follows:— Paid for first-class butter, 12½d per 1b…

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Queensland Cane Crops

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 9

Mr. J. R. raddle, general manager of the State-controlled Central Sugar Mils, states that the prospects of the new season's cane crop in Queensland has been…

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Vegetable Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 6

A correspondent of the "Financial Times" states that during recent years cocoanuts have been put to many uses, and in particular the extraction of oil for purposes…

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Farm, Dairy, and Pasture. On the Dorrigo

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 6

Notwithstanding that the past summen has been the driest experienced by residents of Dorrigo, record cheques have been received by dairy farmers. One of the largest and…

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Selecting a Farmers' Candidate

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—At a largely-attended meeting of the F. and S. Association on Saturday morning at Manilla it was decided to invite all the branches in…

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Maclean Mems. Dairy Farmers' Association

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 3

On Saturday morning last, Mr. L. M. Kennedy, organiser for the Dairy Darmers' Association, addressed a meeting of farmers on the objects of…

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Farm, Dairy, and Pasture. The Science of Breeding

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 6

There are two fundamental laws which underlie breeding. The first is that like produces like, and the second that variation is more of less spontaneous…

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Farm and Dairy

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

These notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minter for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of…

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Dairying

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

While the improving of the milk and butter yielding capacity of dairy cattle has been a foremost question in other dairying countries for some…

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The Dairy. the Brood Sow. an English Opinion

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 4

Writing in the "Chamber of Agriculture Journal" (England), Mr. Sanders Spencer states:— "If I were about to start [?] breeding…

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A Profitable Farm

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

Thus the "Stock and Station Journal'" Mr. H. K. Flanders, licensee of Eaton's Hotel, Muswellbrook, has " a model irrigation farm on the…

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Fatal Driving Accident. Farmer Killed. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 5

Henry Wilkinson, a farmer, of Mountain Well near Somerton, with his wife and son, were driving into Manilla, and when going down an…

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Education in Agriculture. Vacancies for Apprentices on Government Farms

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 7

Commencing from the 1st February the Department of Agriculture will have its scheme of training farm apprentices in full going order…

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Butter Ring

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 3

English papers are suspicious of the high price butter is obtaining. In fact, the idea is being zealously cultivated that the commodity, has been cornered. The…

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Butter Boxes

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 3

A THIRTY-SIX week's tests of butter stored in an envelope of paraffin paper packed in an Orgon pine box proved satisfactory to Melbourne experts. The…

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The Butter Market

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 4

Commenting on the present state of the better market yesterday's "S. M. Her[?]" said that "On Friday last the whole sale quotation for butter in…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Rhodes Grass

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 4

RHODES grasses is coming into favor with remarkable rapidity in many parts of Australia. In fact, wherever it is being tried the…

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