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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 19 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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The Turk as a Farmer

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 2

Inured as the Turkish farmer has been to a struggling existence, it has had the effect of making him gloomy and taciturn. In place of a neat homestead, we find…

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The 'Anglican Bishops' Pastoral

Northern Star · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 4

THE General Synod at its last session requested the Bishops to prepare a pastoral on the subject of church finance. A pastoral has been issued by the Primate and Bishops…

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Dairy and Farm. Nome Facts Relatlve to Milk, Preservatives

Northern Star · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 3

DR. M.K. ROBINSON of East Kent, England, was recently requested to invetstigate a sudden serious outbreak of illness in a religious house containing live sisters, a cook…

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Milk and Dairying. Milk for Consumption

Northern Star · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 5

WE can apply to milk what Barden so rightIe said of blood —" Blood is liquid flesh" Milk—par excellence complete food.i.e., cause it contains all the elemets of liquified,…

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The New Dairy Expert, Mr. O'Callaghan. Interviewed at Adelaide

Northern Star · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 4

THE recently appointed dairy expert for New South Wales, Mr. A. A. O'Gallaghan, is a passenger by the R. M.S. Parramatts. Mr. O'Callaghan, who is only 28 years of age,…

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Preservitas in Butter

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

A CABLE message states that the health officer of a town in Wales has commenced proceedings against a local firm for selling butter imported from…

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Wheat Growing

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 4

IN a letter in this issue a correspondent draws attention to the suitability of the Richmond River district for the growth of wheat, and advocates the planting of a few…

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The New Dairy Expert

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

MR. A. A. O'CALLAGHAN, the dairy expert for New South Wales, has arrived. He is only a young man, but appears to be an ideal man for the post. Not only…

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Farmer and Grazier

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

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

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Mixed Farming

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

UNDER the above heading, in our last issue, Mr. C. J. M'Rae drew attention to a most important point in poultry raising and egg production, viz., the desirability of…

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Holsteins for Dairying

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 8

IN the course of conversation with Mr. A. Taylor at the Show on Tuesday, as to the merits of the Holstein cattle, that gentleman, who from a long and general…

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Dairy and Farm. Cultivate! Cultivate!

Northern Star · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 3

WHER our first parents were placed in the. Garden of Eden their instructions were to Bill it, and from that day to this sufficient stress has not been laid on the necessity for…

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The London Dairy snow

Northern Star · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 3

THE London Dairy show last year was the largest and most successful over held. There were 108 entries in the milk and, butter tests, but these are largely duplicates. The…

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The Wollongbar Model Farm Exhibits

Northern Star · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 2

THE following is a list of the exhibits which comprised the collection exhibited at the Lismore show on 18th March,1807, and will be interesting to many outside our own district:—…

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Liquorice Root. A Remunerative Crop for our District

Northern Star · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 8

THE Government Experimental Farm exhibited at the last local Agricultural Show two samples of Spanish liquorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra), which, however did not attract the public's…

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Dairying in North Coast Districts

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 3

MR. BEN. Jones, who recently toured Australia as one of the England Cooperative delegates, has assured a London newspaper interviewer that "the…

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Cleanliness in Dairying

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 3

Commenting on the dairy farms in Hoiland a writer says :—The. buildings are kept scrupulously clean; though it can hardly be believed it is hot an…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 April 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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Dairying on the Richmond

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 4

We have received from the Government Printing Office a pamphlet in which Mr W. S. Campbell deals with the capabilities' of the Richmond from an agricultural point…

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