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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

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Dairying at Koroit Milking Machines Favoured

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 1 April 1909 · page 4

THE Milking Machines have passed the experimental singe in the Koroit district, Vic. A great number of dairymen have installed them, and are well satisfied…

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The Butter Market

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 5

The Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society Ltd., writing on Saturday last, says:-The present flush of supplies cannot be under-rated…

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District Butter Pays

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 2

SIR,-Allow me to compliment you on the last report of the butter factory pays in your issue of 19th March. It was certainly the best get-up report that has yet appeared…

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Argentine Farmers for Australia

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 2

THE following letter has been received by the secretary of the Immigration League of Australia from Comodora Rivadavia-Argentine:—"Sir,—Sening a…

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Up-to-date Farming

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 2

A TOURIST writing in the Adelaide "Observer" says:—We stopped at a certain place in the north, to give the motor a drink, and Mr. Burgoyne…

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Horticultural Experiments. an English From Farms

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 5

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Farmers' Meeting

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 12

ON Tuesday [?] the [?] the [?] called by Mr. [?]…

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Experiments in Butter

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 8

Three thousand pounds of butter were made experimentally in one year, under different conditions, for the Dairy Division of the United States…

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Slump in Prices of Butter. London

Northern Star · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 7

Butter prices have slumped, and the market is completely demoralised. Danish is quoted 108s to 110s, Australian practically unsaleable, choicert 96s to 98s…

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Wages on Dairy Farms

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 8

I SEE by the " S. M. Herald " that the people are commencing to see it is about time that wages were raised by compulsion on dairy farms. At…

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Farm and Dairy

Northern Star · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 6

Every dairy farmer must sooner or later face the proposition of increasing his milk and butter yield. If be does not, his herd is running behind. There are certain things…

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Dairying Thwarts Settlement

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 2

Mr. Daniel Jones, the Queensland cotton expert, says that the dairying industry is thwarting land settlement by creating one of the biggest land monopoly systems…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved) Pruning Apple Trees

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 6

The pruning of apple trees should commence in quite the early period of its growth, and should be done judiciously and continuously. In that…

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Dissatisfied Dairymen

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 4

WOLLONGONG dairymen complain that while milk is selling in the city at 4d per quart, they are being paid only 8d per gallon (says the "S. and S…

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The Dairy Regulations

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 8

A MEETING of farmers at Kangaloon last week carried a motion protesting against the action of the Board of Health in compelling dairy farmers…

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Maleny Dairy Company

Northern Star · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 2

A general meeting of sharcholders of the Malony Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., took place at Maleny on Saturday last. Messrs. Alfred Cook (chairman), James…

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Tester for the Dairy Herd Book

Northern Star · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 4

Applications are invited by advertisement to-day for the position of tester to the North Coast Agricultural Societies' Dairy Herd Book in the Richmond and Tweed…

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Making Soap on the Farm

Northern Star · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 6

There iws wasted annually on the average farm, a farmer's wife remarks, enough materail to make two barresl or more of soap each season. In her experience in the…

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Upper Clarence as a Dairying Centre

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 2

CONSIDERA[?]E attention is now being paid to the Upper Clarence district as a dairying centre. The su[?]s which has attended the eff[?]ts of dairymen already settled in…

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A Dairying Subdivision

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 2

The phenomenal success of the North Coast as a dairying centre has awakened the interest of farmers in all parts of the Commonwealth, and any intimation that…

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