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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

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Dairying In England

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1893 · page 6

MR. D. WILSON, the Victorian dairy expert who is visiting England in connection with the export of Victorian daily produce, has inspected Lord Hopetouns's…

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Effect of Floods on Crops

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1893 · page 6

THE April crop report compiled from several sources by the Department of Agriculture supports the views expressed inn these columns some weeks back…

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Unconsidered Trifles in Dairy Practice

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1893 · page 6

IT appears the trade of exporting butter is not sufficiently remunerative to some of the factories that produce the article, but they must ask the Government to…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1893 · 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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Dairy and Farm. Paying for Milk According to Butter Fat

Northern Star · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 5

(AN address delivered before the Ontario Creameries Convention, January 13,1893, by Frank T. Shitt, M.A., Chief Chemist, Dominion Experimental Farms.)…

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The Dairy Some Butter Cows. These Cows Cannot Fling: Feed Into Their Drinking Trough

Northern Star · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 4

The milk is set in creamers as soon as strained. After setting twelve hours we draw it. The morning and evening creams are well stirred together and set…

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Dairy Farmers' of N.s.w

Northern Star · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 8

SIR,—Much credit is due to the dairy farmers for the progress they have made in various ways during the past 10 years, especially in co-operating and adopting the factory system,…

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Farm and Garden Storage for Roots. Opinions Expressed on This Important subject by Country Gentleman

Northern Star · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 4

In making provision for keeping roots through winter, whether in pits or in out door heaps, or in basements or cellars of outhouses, or in buildings…

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Live Stock Percheron-morgan Cross. He Believes This Is the Best Horse for the Farmer

Northern Star · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 4

I have read with interest the discussions in regard to draft horses and common purpose horses as suited best to farmwork. The best horse for the…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1893 · page 6

UNDER this beading 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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Will Dairying under Factory Practice pay

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1893 · page 6

Do the suppliers of milk to the dairy factories ever think or calculate the cost of sending their milk to it, and having it returned? To exemplify this let us figure it out, and see how…

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Dairy and Farm. Laying for Milk According to Butter Fat

Northern Star · Saturday 3 June 1893 · page 6

MR. J. A. ALEN, a chemist of Gothenburg sweden, has made the discovery that Bichro[?] ate of Potassium, when present only in small Quantities, will preserve milk from coagulation…

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Dairy Farais. (Judged by Mr.F. Caffrey.)

Northern Star · Saturday 3 June 1893 · page 4

THE judge makes the following report on the dairy farms entered for National prizes in the class up to 200 acres:— It will be seen from the allotments of points that…

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The Corn Crop of the United States

Northern Star · Saturday 3 June 1893 · page 6

[?] crop of the United States for 1892 is [?] at 1.628 464,000 bushels, grown on [?] 758 acres, valued on the farm at $642, [?] (£133,780,547). The average yield…

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Mixed Farms, Worth Coast District. [Judged by Mr. G. Crispin.]

Northern Star · Saturday 3 June 1893 · page 6

FOR the National prize competition for farms up to 200 acres, tho following is the judge's report on Mr Shem Bartlett's farm. Fairleigh, as published in the Agricultural Gazette:—…

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Dairy Notes

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 6

AN ABNORMAL MILKER.— Mr. Hamlet Philpot, of California, writes to a contemporary as follows :—I have seen a Holstein. Jersey calf, which gives two quarts of milk a day…

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Will Dairying under Factory Practice Pay

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 6

THE ordinary dairy farmers never think or count up the cost of producing and sending their milk to the factory, as the large majority ignore any attempt at book-keeping…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 June 1893 · 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 Dairy the Milk Condensing Industry. "Crazy Uncle Gail's Idea and What Came of It

Northern Star · Saturday 10 June 1893 · page 5

About forty years ago Gail Borden, a civil engineer of New England ancestry conceived the idea that milk could be boiled down in a vacuum till from the…

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Rice as a crop

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 June 1893 · page 4

THE following letter has been handed to us by Mr. E. Soecombe, and will he of public interest. We hope that sufficient will be grown next season, as he suggests, to enable…

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