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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1892

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Good Butter

Northern Star · Saturday 18 June 1892 · page 6

SPEAKING of good butter an English paper says: "There are five things to aim at in making butter for the best market. These are uniformity in color, in texture, in salting, in packing, and…

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The Butter Export Trade

Northern Star · Saturday 18 June 1892 · page 6

A VICTORIAN paper writes: "News received by last mail indicates that the past season's shipments of butter to England have been the most successful on the whole of any since the trade…

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Dairy and Farm. Now [?]hall We Improve our Dairy [?]

Northern Star · Saturday 18 June 1892 · page 6

DURING a trip through portions of Ontario this summer with the travelling dairy, I was especially struck with the lack of knowledge among the farmers as to what their individual cows…

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ESSAYIST. Queer Scenes in Paris. Some Odd Trades That Surprise the Globe Trotter. Parts a Childless City—Where the Nurse Maids Come From—A Painter of Turkeys' Legs—Ant Farmers—Dealers in Second-Hand Bread

Northern Star · Saturday 18 June 1892 · page 2

This gay city is a mine ot queer trades, scenes and incidents. The globe trotter's eyes bulge out and his hair stands on end as be noses about in the out of the war [?]ooks…

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Evenden's Patent Butter Extractor

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 June 1892 · page 2

ON Saturday forenoon a new churn known as Evenden's Patent Butter, Extractor was submitted to a public trial, at Gollan's Imperial Hotel, in the presence of a large number of dairymen and others. The…

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South Coast Dairy Factories

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 June 1892 · page 4

DURING the past month the Gerringong Dairy Factory received 39,732gal. of milk from which they obtained 19,344lb. of butter. Suppliers were paid 6½d per gal. for milk. The cost of…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 24 June 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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Sweet and Sour Cream Butter

Northern Star · Saturday 25 June 1892 · page 8

Two tubs of sweet cream butter were made. One of these and a tub of ripened cream butter make the same day were brought to Ames for storage and to be…

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The Dairy the Butter Accumulator. a Practical Creameryman's Opinion of the New Machine

Northern Star · Saturday 25 June 1892 · page 8

The latest dairy machine is the "accumulator. which drives the batter directly from the milk. It looks all right, bat is it practicable? At our…

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Farm and Garden Bees in Winter. Suggestions to Farmers Who Do Not Make a Specially of Beekeeping

Northern Star · Saturday 25 June 1892 · page 8

How to Shelter the Dees sarely without too much fussing is a question that puzzles many a farmer who does not make beekeeping a specialty. A…

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Report on the Mixed Farms, North Coast District

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 June 1892 · page 5

MR. J.A. DE[?], who judged the farms for National Prizes of 1891, in the report thus refers to district farms:— Eight were situated in what constituted a…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 July 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 Adulteration iu Ireland

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 July 1892 · page 6

A CORRESPONDENT writes in the STANDARD: According to statements put before the Corporation of Limerick by a deputation of butter makers, a serious danger threatens…

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The Queen's Dairy

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 July 1892 · page 6

THE biggest dairy in the world is at the Queen's model farm, situated about a mile from Windsor. It is the most perfect, as well us the most expensively…

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The Successful Farmer

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 July 1892 · page 6

THE successful fanner of the future must be well grounded in the general technical knowledge of his business. He must took closely and more carefully into…

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Blackleg in Cattle

Northern Star · Saturday 2 July 1892 · page 6

IT having been notified to the Department by Mr. Harris, of Myrtle Creek, Richmond River, that a disease called blackleg had broken out amongst his cattle, and that several calves about…

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Dairy and Farm. [?]ints to Those Building New Creameries

Northern Star · Saturday 2 July 1892 · page 6

THIS office deemed it necessary to publish the following advice to those contemplating the erection of new creameries. It was published in the Homestead, March 13, 1891. The…

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The Northern Star. Saturday Morning, July 2nd; 1892. the Exportation of Butter

Northern Star · Saturday 2 July 1892 · page 2

THE sales of the Springhill Factory Butter in the London market prove satisfactorily that the district-mude article, under the ordinary conditions of manufacture and transit, can be landed in England…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 July 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 One Horse Farmer

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 July 1892 · page 6

The one horse former has a life long ambition to gain a reputation far wearing a daily shirt. lie will alarm the neighbourhood by getting up two hours before day, then set around and…

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