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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1897 · page 3

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 Supervision Act

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1897 · page 2

THE Camden correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, in dealing with the absurd regulations of the Dairies Act, says:—"One of the most experienced dairymen…

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N. S. Wales Creamery Butter Co

Northern Star · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 2

THIS following cricular with reference to the export as home has been forwarded to suppliers, and, unless the Company hear anything to the coutrary by the 5'h'.March, they will consider that suppliers are…

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Dairy and Farm. Pasture for pigs

Northern Star · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 3

EXERCISE, good air, and sunshine play a much greater part in pig raising than most people commonly suppose. It is for this reason that,the Western practice of relying…

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N.S.W. Creamery Butter Co

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1897 · page 3

THE following circular with reference to the export scheme has been forwarded to suppliers, and, unless the Company hear anything to the contrary by the…

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Hints to Dairymen

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1897 · page 3

THE great difficulty is not in the soil, climate or water, but the lack of intelligent ideas of what modern dairying demands. First, the kind of cow that is…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1897 · page 3

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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Visit to Rosewood Poultry Farm, Clarence River

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1897 · page 2

KNOWING that keen interest is taken in poultry farming by a large number of the readers of the R. R. Herald, I have much pleasure in sending you the…

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Dairy and Farm. The Holstein-Frlesian

Northern Star · Saturday 6 March 1897 · page 5

The Holland cow is since the time of Caesar's conquest, at least, has dwelt in the Frieslandmarshes, in the most luxuriant pastures of the world. She has been…

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The Open Column. [This column betas open for the expression of different opinions on public matters, they are to be considered AS those of our correspondents, and not necessarily endorsed by us.] To the Editor of the ' Northern Star.' Sabbath Day Dairying

Northern Star · Saturday 6 March 1897 · page 7

SIR,—A few weeks ago you wrote a leader asking for a discussion on this question, which had been brought into prominence by Bishop Doyle's letter, and by an attempted answer to that letter. We…

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To Keep Butter Cool

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1897 · page 3

A simple mode of keeping butter cool in warm weather, where ice is not handy, is to invert a common flower-put over the butter, with some water in…

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Cruelty in the Cattle Trade

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1897 · page 2

CAPTAIN WALKER, of the new steamer Baltazan, will hardly have earned the gratitude of his owners, Messrs. Henry Fernie and Sons, of Liverpool, by his…

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Breeding for Dairy Purposes

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1897 · page 3

THIS subject developed the following very excellent paper read at a special gathering of agriculturists, held at Cherry Gardens, near Adelaide, S.A.,…

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Sabbath Day Dairying

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1897 · page 8

SIR,-Some weeks ago this question was brought into prominence in Lismere by a letter of Bishop Deylo's to the STAR, by an attempt at reply made anonymously in…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1897 · page 3

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

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Dairy and Farm. Things Worth Knowing

Northern Star · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 4

THAT idle ground gains nothing, and is only a place in which weeds may revel. A bare soil loses nitrogen, and that is where the error comen in when advocating a bare fallow…

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Danish Butter in England

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 3

It is often wondered how the Danish batter can be sold in England at the price which it is, and yet leave a profit to the producer. But the system in…

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Butter Imports into Britain

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 3

A SPEAKER at Glasgow, referring to the increased shipments of butter from other countries, said that it seemed as if the British market were reckoned the…

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The Holstein-Frisian Cattle

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 3

THE Holstein-Frisian Society offered last year prizes to the amount of £200. Thirty-five cows, old and young, responded to the call for champion butter…

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Dairying in the Colonies. Suggestions to Farmers

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 8

MR. SAMUEL LOWE, the representative of Messrs. W. Weddel and Company, read a paper before the Royal Colonial Institute on Wednesday night on "Dairying in the…

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