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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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Profits of Dairying

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 March 1908 · page 4

A Correspondent to the "Courier" writes:—"There are still people who say the land is no place to send their boys to. This morning I was shown a butter…

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Grass and Crops. Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 March 1908 · page 5

Feed everywhere is in abundance and the maize crop will be the heaviest yet gronw on the river…

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The Butter Market. London

Northern Star · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 3

The butter trade has resumed normal conditions. Colonial is selling steadily, choicest Australian being 116s to 118s and New Zealand 118s to 120s…

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Butter Prices Reduced. a Big Fall. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 5 March 1908 · page 3

The continual decrease in the price of Australian butter on the London butter market caused another meeting of dairying merchants to be beld this afternoon to…

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Our Butter Trade

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1908 · page 2

A pew years ago we were threatened with Argentina. Many visitors returned with loud praises for that magnificent country, its teeming herds and its cheap…

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Butter Explodes at Mafeking

Northern Star · Friday 6 March 1908 · page 2

While awaiting removal at Mafeking railway station a box of impure butter exploded with so loud a report that the officials at [?]rst belleved there had been…

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Bangalow Butter Fat Prize

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1908 · page 7

THIS year's result of the annual contest for the rich butter-fat prize provided by the Bangalow Agricultural and Industrial Society has been…

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Dairymen "Walking on Air."

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1908 · page 3

"THE dairy people of Australia are walking on air," was the terse comment of Mr. R. Crowe, chief of the Dairy Export Department, Melbourne…

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Marvellous North Coast. The Dairyland of the Commonwealth

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1908 · page 3

THE wonderful fortility of soil and splendid agricultural and timber resources, of the Richmond, Tweed, and Clarence Rivers districts, and the Dorrigo, are only…

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Something like a Crop

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1908 · page 3

Mr. J. T. Gibson bus an extraordinary crop of maize. on his farm at Moo Swamp, near Trafalgar, Victoria. In October last ho sowed 3h acres broadcast, and the…

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Farmer and Grazier

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1908 · 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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Butter-Fat Prize

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 4

THE result of the annual contest for the £100 butter-fat prize at the Bangalow Show is as follows :-- 1. Mr. P. Walker's Gentle, 6,01537…

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Growth of the Butter Industry

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 4

SOME idea of the wonderful strides made by the butter industry is afforded by the list of factories of the State, published in the "Agricultural…

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Cheese Versus Butter. an Important Economic Question

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 4

MR. T. H. Day, writing to the "Macleay Chronicle," gives his experience in making and marketing cheese, and contends with some emphasis that…

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Abortion in Cattle. Lecture by Air H. M. [?]AMS

Northern Star · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 2

On Tuesday at the corporation yards Mr. H. M. Williams, of [?]longbar, gave a lecture and demonstration under the auispices of the [?]smore A.& 1…

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The Berrima District Farm and Dairy Co. Ltd

The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 9

The twenty-fifth half-yearly report presented by the directors at the half-yearly meeting of shareholders, held at Robertson, on February 15th, 1908…

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Farm and Dairy

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 8

KEEP the milk pails, strainers, and other utensils clean if you expect to produce good milk. Nothing will taint milk quicker than a foul vessel,…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Pasture Land

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 6

It is a bad practice to now and then lay old pasture land for moving. Excellent fattening pastures have been half ruined by following this plan…

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Farm and Dairy. for Poultry Breeders

Northern Star · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 8

Meat promotes egg production. Stale eggs [?]atch later than new laid ones. Growing chickens should not be allowed…

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Farm Hands From the City

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 8

THE secretary of the Immigration League of Australia having announced in a letter to the Press that he could place 15 or 20 young fellows in…

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