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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 6

UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…

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Wild White Cattle

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 6

SOME motion of the nature of "wild white cattle" is to be gathered from Mr. J. E. Harting's account of the capture of a white heifer, which belonged to the…

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Maize Farmers Co-operative Union

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 4

SIR,—In replying to P. F. Campbell's and wm. Baillie's letters contained in your issue of 13th, it is a severe loss to any of those farmers, who take an…

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Victorian Farmers and Freetrade

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 6

THE Numurkah shire council decided at its ordinary monthly meeting on Friday to invite Mr. Murray Smith to deliver a lecture on freetrade in Numurkah at an…

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Meeting of Farmers

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 7

A MEETING of those interested in the shipment of butter and other produce was held at Gollan's Imperial Hotel on Saturday afternoon last to consider what steps…

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Farms, Dairies, and Ensilage Competition

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 4

THE following are the results of the competition by farmers of the South Coast district for the National Prizes offered by the Minister for Agriculture, for farms,…

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National Farm and Dairy Prizes

Northern Star · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 6

MESSRS. E. P. Dowling, Sydney, G.P. Kerrison, Bega, and G. S. Yeo, of Mulgrave, the judges of the entries in the South Coast District for the national prizes offered by the Department of…

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National Prizes for South Coast Farms

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 5

THE following are the judges' (Messrs. J. P. Dowling, G. S. Yco, and G. P. Kerrison) reports on Messrs. Lindsay's and G. J. Hindmarsh's farms…

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Dairy Items

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 5

The Holstein cow Tirannia 6716, 7 years old, has completed a seven day's test for butter in which she made 36, pounds ll ounces from 607 pounds of milk. This is 16.54…

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The Open Column. [This column being open for the expression of opinions on public matters we do not hold oursevels responsible for the statements made therein. To the Editor of the "Northern Star." the Appointment of Judges for Model Farms, North Coast District

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 5

As this matter has agitated the minds of a number of the people in this district, from which two of the so called judges, were selected, as a matter of curiosity it would be…

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Cocoanut Butter

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1891 · page 4

THE new Kew Bulletin contains a number of documents describing the preparation of cocoanut butter. The chief of these is a report from the British…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1891 · page 6

UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The results of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…

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A Private Butter Factory

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1891 · page 6

THE AUSTRALASIAN says:—The opening of the railway line between Kilmore and Heathcote was expected to greatly stimulate the dairying industry of the Heathcote…

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How to Pack Butter to Keep

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1891 · page 6

UPON this subject a correspondent writing to the FARM JOURNAL gives the following directions:—Make good, firm butter, and work the butter milk well out of it, then…

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Maize Farmers Co-operative Union

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1891 · page 2

SIR,—Your Codrington correspondent has given me another opportunity to again bring this matter of the endeavour to keep up the price of maize before those whom…

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A Large Farm

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1891 · page 5

THE largest farm in the world is a farm in the south-west of the State of Louisiana, measuring 100 miles north and south and 25 miles east and west. The…

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Proposed Farmers' Union. Public Meeting

Northern Star · Saturday 7 March 1891 · page 2

A MEETING of those engaged in farming pursuits, was held at Gollan's Imperial Hotel on Tuesday last, to consider the advisability of forming a Farmers' Union in the district…

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The Dairy Interest

Northern Star · Saturday 7 March 1891 · page 6

SIR,—The subject of assisting and promoting the internats of the dairy farmers has, as you Mr. Editor are well aware, long engaged my attention, and the, very course now about to…

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The Butter Export Trade

Northern Star · Wednesday 11 March 1891 · page 6

RECENTLY at Wollongong, Captain Bloomfield said that a new kind of chum had just been introduced into Sydney, by which butter could be made in two and a-half minutes…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1891 · page 6

UNDER this heading we shall be glad to publish contributions having reference to agricultural and pastoral matters. The result of experiments made will be published whenever furnished…

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