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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

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Dairy and Farm. Importing Tomato Pulp. Coals to Newcastle. (Herbert J. Rumsey, Boronia, Barber's Creek, New South Wales)

Northern Star · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 6

ACCORDING to the daily papers, Mr. Larke, the Canadian Commissioner, is reported in tlie Canadian, press to have stated that there was a maker of sauce in N.S.W. willing to…

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Butter Yields

Northern Star · Wednesday 20 September 1899 · page 7

THE following figures are from a herd of cows belonging to Mr. C. Cox, of Bloomfield, in West Gippsland. The average weight per day of the milk from 11 cows…

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Butter From Peanuts

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 22 September 1899 · page 3

IN Indiana a large factory has recently been erected for the manufacture of butter from peanuts. For more than a year the Messrs. Lan Brothers, of that…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 22 September 1899 · 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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New Fodder Crops

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 22 September 1899 · page 6

OUT of the many new fodder crops, that have been introduced with great flourishes of seedsmen's trumpets very few have been found worthy of general…

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Weighing Tubs of Butter. How the Creamery Man May Know How Much Butter They Hold

Northern Star · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 9

Recently I was shown two account sales, each for thirty tubs of butter, each made by an unquestionably good commission house in New York, both lots…

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Dairy and Farm. Pigs on Pasture

Northern Star · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 3

The shape of the pig and his tendency to mate flesh instead of fat are largely [?] of breed,and it is easy (the'Leaders' special. American reporter writes) with the varions…

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Sheep-fattening on the Richmond

Northern Star · Wednesday 27 September 1899 · page 4

BOTH Mr. D. J. Allen and "Ex-Victorian" have incorrectly assumed that Mr. W. E. Abbott's articles recommended sheep-breeding. They referred to the possiblities of fatening sheep…

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A Farm Worked by Electricity

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1899 · page 3

ON a farm of 350 acres in the State of New York there is a complete electric plane, which produces a current fur lighting mid heating as well as supplying…

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Progress of Dairying

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1899 · page 3

MR. J. THOMPSON says :—Dairying in the North Coast is making rapid strides, and there is no doubt that in a few years will far surpass the South Coast. It is…

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Hints for Dairymen

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1899 · page 3

THE following rules are worth pasting up by dairymen who wish to get best results:— Select the best cows in your herd or…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1899 · page 3

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

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The Butter Industry

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 8

MR. C. C. LANCE, manager of the N.S.W. Creamery Butter Co., who had been on a trip to England, the continent of Europe, and South Africa, returned to Sydney last week…

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Wollongbar Cattle Sale

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 2

THE said of dairy stock at Mr. Dixon Cooke's farm at Wollongbar, on the 27th September, was very successful, the prices realised on the whole being very good. Buyers from all parts…

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Breeding Dairy Stock

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 3

SINCE dairying has become one of the greatest rural industries the hundreds, of settlors who have become milk suppliers to factories have linen unable to…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1899 · 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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Returns from Cane Crops

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 2

WRITING in the Tweed ADVOCATE in regard to the returns received from cane farming thin season, Mr. Jas. Marshall, of Burringbar, under date September 25th says:—…

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Dairy and Farm. Bone Dust for Young Stock

Northern Star · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 6

Touching trials of bone dust, as fed to young stock, the SOCIETE NATIONALE D' AGRICULTURE of Framce says: The bonedust employed as an addition to the…

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The Tick-inoculated Cattle Experiment

Northern Star · Wednesday 11 October 1899 · page 8

In an interview with Mr. J. D. Stewart, Veterinary Surgeon to the department of Agriculture, we obtained the following information as the latest from the…

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Warwick Farm Races. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 11 October 1899 · page 5

Hurdle Race, about 2 miles.—Argyle, 9st, 1; Her Highness, 9-11, 2; Honeydew II., 11-8, 3. Won by half a length. Time, 4min. 6sec. Farm Stakes, 6 furlongs.—Saraswati, Sat, 1…

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