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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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Dairy and Farm. Hogs Sleeping Upstairs

Northern Star · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 3

A neighbour of mine, writes L. B. Rice in 'American Agriculturist,' in building a new hog house made a second floor just above the first, high enough to clear a…

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Milk and Butter Tests

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 3

THE dairy here-book milk and butter test in connection with the Shoalhaven Shown was won by D. Hyam, with his Jersey cow Alice, which gave 56lb, of milk in two…

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The Value of Butter-Milk

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 3

BUTTERMILK possesses many valuable quali?not generally recognised by farmers mid dairymen. Some recent medical tests have proved that ns an agent of digestion…

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Competing for the Butter Trade

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 3

EACH year the marketing in London makes history for the information of Australian butter producers, and each season brings forward some fresh competitor on the…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 3

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

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The Butter Industry

Northern Star · Saturday 24 February 1900 · page 5

THE 'S. M. Herald' writes: Both in this colony and in Victoria attention is being drawn by the agricultural press to the anomalous prices prevailing in London this…

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Dairy and Farm. Cane Cutting Machine

Northern Star · Saturday 24 February 1900 · page 2

Mr. J. P. B[?], writing to the editor 'Louisiana Planter' on December 1[?], 1899, says:— "Mr. Jules Gaussiran is now operating a…

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Butter and London Prices. Serious Fall in Values

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 February 1900 · page 8

THE Melbournes ARGUS says: The subject receiving the greatest attention in the butter trade at the present moment is the question why the prices obtained for…

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The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, 28Th February, 1900 Australian Butter on the London Market

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 February 1900 · page 4

AN extract published in our columns on Saturday,…

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Butter in One Minute

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 3

THE New England Dairying Company, Armidale, of which Messrs. R. Blaxland, and W. B. Higinbotham are the principals, have just added a complete "Radiator"…

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Farmer and Glazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1900 · 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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Testing Process Butter

Northern Star · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 3

IT is always hard to prophecy what the chemist can do. It would seem impossible to tell if a sample of butter, had been melted, washed and rechurned, but read…

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Dairy and Farm. the Sow As a Milk Producer

Northern Star · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 3

THE value of the sow as a breeder (says the ' Boston Cultivator ') depends very largely on her capacity as a milk producer. In selecting the sow to be used for…

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Something on the Danish Dairy Farmer

Northern Star · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 3

Mr. R. E. Lister, of England, the noted manufacturer of Separators, was recently in Winnipeg, Man U.S.A. While there, he gave an interview to the TELEGRAM,…

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Regulations for Butter Factories

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 3

AT the suggestion of Mr. Potts, Government dairy expert in Victoria, the directors of the Tower Hill Park Butter Factory have decided to adopt the following…

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The Jersey as a Butter-producer

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 3

THE Americans are wonderful people for going one better than their opponents in everything they undertake. In most countries Jersey breeders are content with…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1900 · 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 and Farm. My Luck

Northern Star · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 6

"IT'S just my luck," is frequently heard when a horse gets hurt on a wire fence or a hog dies of cholera or any other calamity befalls one. Or "he is lucky!" is…

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The Ayrshire Dairy Cow

Northern Star · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 6

"The Ayrshires have more good qualities than any of the other breeds. Being bred and reared on the hills of Scotland, in a climate much like our own, they are…

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Jersey Cattle and their Merits

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 3

THE Scottish FARMER says :—It would seem that excessive milk production is an existing cause of tuberculosis, or in other words, the lowering of vitality consequent upon…

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