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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

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Dairy and Creamery

Northern Star · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 5

To get the real test of a dairy cow's value her milk should be both tested and weighed. The test will tell you how rich in butter fat her milk is; the…

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Live Cattle Shipment

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1895 · page 6

LATE advices from London state that cattle brought from Sydney by the Lund line steamer Echuca were found, on being landed at Deptford, to have gained…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1895 · page 6

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

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Hands Of the Butter

Northern Star · Saturday 2 March 1895 · page 5

"Keep your hands off the butter" is not a very elegant precept, but its inelegance is due to the untidiness it forbids. "Touch me not—with your hands" is…

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Dairy and Farm. Whey and Whey. One Kind. Fatten[?] Pigs and Calves, the Other Is Worthless

Northern Star · Saturday 2 March 1895 · page 5

A year or so ago, when dressed pork was bringing four dollars and five dollars per hundredweight, dairymen pork raisers here said that it was beneath the…

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Winter Dairying. The Right Cows and the Right Man Most Come Together

Northern Star · Saturday 2 March 1895 · page 5

If your dairy has not been paying, try and find out where the trouble is before going any further. Yon know that lots of dairymen find the business profitable,…

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From the New York Dairy School

Northern Star · Saturday 2 March 1895 · page 5

When is butter overworked and what is the result of overworking? When the globules are broken. It is salvelike and will not keep well…

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THe Butter Export Trade. Want of Frelght Space

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 2

A GENTLEMAN connected with the butter industry arrived in Sydney to-day, after a flying visit to Molbourne. While there he gained a good deal of information relative to space for butter…

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The Butter Ring

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 6

A PILE of butter is accumulating in Sydney and Melbourne in consequence of there being no shipping space available at this time of the year equal to the…

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The Live Cattle Trade

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 7

ADVICES from London dated 3rd March stated that the Durham cattle brought by the steamer Echuca averaged dead weight, 9401bs…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1895 · 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 New South Creamery Butter Company Factory

Northern Star · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 2

THIS Company's Central Factory, situaled at South Lismore, ia now completed, and regular operations will be commenced on Monday- This Week we made a short visit of inspection, and the general manager…

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Dairy and Farm. Preventing Slekness in Fowls

Northern Star · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 6

LICK gnaw at the vitals— both chicks and hens fall under the iron rule of these blood-sucking 'pests.' Lice kill more young chicks annually than any…

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Field and Garden Stock in Orchards. Low Headed Trees—Panturing With Sheep, Swlne and Chickens

Northern Star · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 6

Following is a report in brief of a paper read at the eighteenth annual session of the New Jersey Horticultural society by Mr. Ira J. Blacknell. He said:…

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Root Crops

Northern Star · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 6

It has been decided at the Ontario agricultural collegs experiment station that white fleshed turnips give better yields than the yellow fleshed varieties;…

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Dehorning Cattle

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 6

"A NUMBER of preparations have bean used successfully for dehorning calves, but as the ordinary farmer seldom has these at hand" (writes an American…

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American Cattle Export

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 6

DURING the first ten months of the year 1894 the United States of America exported 343,393 head of live cattle, valued at 32,363,000dol. Of this number Great…

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Moore's Purple and "Advanced Farmer."

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 8

SIR,—Kindly allow me space to reply to the above writer in your last issue. I have to ask "Advanced Farmer" to be so manly as to publish his name in any other…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1895 · 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 Dairying Industry

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 6

THE South Coast farmers are making another effort to regulate the butter market and to provide for the export of any surplus, and a meeting of delegates is to…

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