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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

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Farm, Dairy, and Pasture. Maize Improvement. Good Results from Manur[?]g

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 7

Reports are coming to hand of the results of the trials of maize on the South Coast and southern tableland farmers' experiment plots. The outstanding feature of…

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L.K.G. Milking Machines.—Great Soon in a Dairy

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 5

SOME of our friends are keeping back their orders for L.-K.-G milking machines because they are unable to pay cash for the total amount of the plant; but we are…

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Dairy Science School at Grafton

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 4

The Minister for Agricultural has approved of a short Dairy Science School being held on the Clarence River, and arrangements have been made with the Grafton…

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L-K-G Milking Machines. Great Boon in a Dairy

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 10

Some of our friends are keeping back their orders for L-K-G Milking Machines because they are unable to pay cash for the total amount of the plant; but we are only too…

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New Dairying Standards

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 7

Regulations have now been gazetted under the N.S.W. Pure Food Act, 1908. which repeal all previous regulations. The standards for milk, cream and butter are as…

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For Men on the Land. (Notes issued under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and based mainly on the experiments of the Department Should any farmer desire information relevant to his work on the band a query addressed to the Under-Secretary of Agricultural Sydney, will be answered, as far as space permits in these columns.—Editor.) Pitting Potatoes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 7

Experiments with various styles of pits for storing potatoes have been conducted in Ireland in the last few years, and the results coincide with the advice given in…

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Dairying

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 7

The influence of heredity in developing highclass herds of pure-bred cattle is a subject of endless interest. Some results of careful investigation in America just…

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Stud Jersey Cattle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 May 1912 · page 6

After doing Sydney Show Mr. Stuart (F. W. Stuart and Co.) made a trip to the Hunter River and secured a very choice line of pedigree…

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A Bacon and Butter Rival

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 May 1912 · page 6

It has frequently, of late, been asserted that the Australian exports of butter and bacon to European centres, and particularly to the United Kingdom, will presently…

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Farm, Dairy, and Pasture. Success on the Land

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 May 1912 · page 6

During the past few months numbers of immigrants have arrived in this State, a large proportion or whom settled on the land…

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Vacancies at Govt. Farm Schools[?]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 May 1912 · page 6

The department's new scheme for training farm apprentices is now in full going order, and apprentices are being trained at various Government farms. There are still…

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Good Potato Crop

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 May 1912 · page 6

Mr. P[?]nn, inspector of the Department of Agriculture, who has just completed a tour of the potato districts of New England, states that the best crop he saw in the…

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Wheat and Wool Traffic[?]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 30 May 1912 · page 7

During the week ending May 18, 582 bales of wool were despatched to Sydney by the railways as compared with 1605 bales that were despatched during…

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Butter Manufacturers' Conference

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 30 May 1912 · page 6

At the annual conference of the Australasian Butter and Cheese Factories' Managers' Association in Melbourne, the president. Mr. S. C. Wilson, expressed the hope…

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Farm, Dairy, and Pasture. Blood as a Fertiliser

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 30 May 1912 · page 6

Fresh blood contains about 3 per cent. of organic nitrogen, with a small quantity of phosphoric acid and potash. In this natural state it would be a good manure, but…

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Improving our Dairy Herd

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 30 May 1912 · page 2

Mr. [?]. Lever[?] of Glenreagh, who settled here about two years ago, is going in for dairying[?] on a systematic scale and devoting his attention sole[?] to the…

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Prices of Butter Boxes

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 8

We have been asked by the New South Wales Box Co., Ltd., of 58 Margaret St., Sydney, to publish the following, re the above: --…

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Farm, and Dairy

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 2

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

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Dairying. Breeding Cows and Milk Tests

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 2

A striking and illuminating remark was made by an American writer recently. He announced his desire to have a bull in his herd that was the…

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Egg-Laying Competition Grafton Experiment Farm

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 2

The Minister of Agriculture has decided to hold another egg-laying competition in addition to that annually conducted at the Hawkesbury…

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