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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1892

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 16 September 1892 · 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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Wool Exhibits in Chicago

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 16 September 1892 · page 4

At the request of a large number of woolgrowers who would otherwise, owing to the time at which they shear, be precluded from sending forward exhibits…

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Co-oporative Dairy Factories. How to raise Capital, Build and Work Cheaply

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 16 September 1892 · page 6

SCIENCE and invention have made such strides within the last few yours, particularly in aid of the dairy farmer, that the manufacture of butter by…

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Experiences in Co-operative Factory Dairying

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 16 September 1892 · page 6

IT was pointed out in the Rural, a. few issues buck, that closer inspection of the quality of milk supplied is one of the requirements of the factory system. It is…

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The Process of Butter Making

Northern Star · Saturday 17 September 1892 · page 5

THIS essay was one of the several written upon this subject by the class in dairying at Purdue University in a recent class exercise. The writer, Mr. H. C. Beckman, Jr. wrote this in 35…

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What Pays Best, Milk or Butter?

Northern Star · Saturday 17 September 1892 · page 5

IN reply to the question, "Which pays better, to make milk into butter or cheese?" Peter Collier, director of the New York experiment station at Geneya, answers substantially that…

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Dairy and Farm. Seed Corn

Northern Star · Saturday 17 September 1892 · page 5

IT quite customary for farmers to shell the kernels off from the tops and butts of seed ears of corn and plant only the middle kernels, on the supposition that they contain more vitality…

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The Open Column. [This column being open for the expression of opinion on public matters we do not hold ourselves reponsible for the statements made therein.] To the Editor of the 'Northern Star.' Co-operation of Our Dairy Factors Companies

Northern Star · Saturday 17 September 1892 · page 6

SIR,—At a time when every nerve is strained to try and save the merest item of expense in every industry, it is about time the Richmond River district dairy factories adopted some plan…

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The Open Column. [This column being open for the expression of opinions on public matters we do not hold ourselves responsible for the statements made therein.] To the Editor of the 'Northern Star.' in the Name of Protection.—the Wool-scourers' Deputation

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 September 1892 · page 4

SIR,—I see that a deputation of wool-scourers and fellmongers has waited on the Colonial Treasurer and asked for an export duty of ld. per lb. on greasy wool and sheepskins, to enable them to carry…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 September 1892 · 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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The Educational Agricultural Farms

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 September 1892 · page 7

SIR,—It appears these farms are to be discontinued, and perhaps under Mr. Director Anderson's supervision it is just as well or better they were, as from the start they have…

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Meeting for the Formation of a Dairy Company at Wyrallah

Northern Star · Saturday 24 September 1892 · page 2

A MEETING for the above, purpose was held in the Wyrallah School of Arts on Saturday evening last, when there was a large attendance, presided over by Mr. J. B. Stocks, who briefly pointed out the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1892 · 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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Butter or Cheese—Which Pays Better?

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1892 · page 6

THE New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 37, in relation to the subject, "Which pays better, to make milk into butter or cheese?"…

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Experimental Farms

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1892 · page 7

SIR—Mr. Bagot's letter in your last would read very well to those who do not look below the surface, but to those who are in the know, it certainly has the resemblance of "sour…

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Model Farm for the Clarence

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1892 · page 6

A DEPUTATION waited upon Mr. Slattery respecting the establishment of a model farm at Grafton. Mr. See pointed out that the Government had a lot of land…

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Dairy and Creamery

Northern Star · Saturday 1 October 1892 · page 5

Careme, a Holstein cow in Colorado, now 8 years old, has yielded 35.9 pounds of butter in "seven days. There is one thing the agricultural…

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The Dairy Old and New Dairying. Changea All Along the Line and Always for the Better

Northern Star · Saturday 1 October 1892 · page 5

In the sixties cheese was doable in price what it brings now, and makers who knew little abont the business of manufacturing readily commanded…

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Farm and Carden Cutworms. An Experienced Gardener's Methods of Preventing Their Ravages

Northern Star · Saturday 1 October 1892 · page 5

A large number of species of cutworms make themselves highly obnoxious to the gardener by the impudence with which they attack and cut down…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1892 · 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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