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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

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Dairy Returns

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 17 April 1909 · page 2

CASINO --For the four weeks ending 27th March, the amount of butter made was 159.823lbs first class ; 525lbs second class. The prices paid were 9d for first…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved.) Daffodils in Pots

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 17 April 1909 · page 6

It does not appear to be generally known, especially among amateurs, that for pots, daffodils in variety yield for a comparatively small…

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American Wheat Marrket. London

Northern Star · Monday 19 April 1909 · page 3

At Chicago the wheat market was demoralised yesterday. May wheat slumped to 126 cents, and July to 114 until fifteen minutes before the close of the…

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Butter Market

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 6

PRESCOTT, LTD. Sydney, report:— Since our last report there has been a reduction in prices to 88s for finest quality This has had the effect of bringing in London buyers, and there has been…

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London Butter Market

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 2

MR. SPARVEL[?] of Runnymede, writes to a friend in Casino:— "I on[?]ose you price list of butter which was sent me from London. My father says in his letter that…

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Butter Factory at Dunoon

Northern Star · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 2

A meeting under the auspices of the Whian Whian Progress Associat on was held at Mr. W. McDonald's, Dunoon, on Saturday to consider the advisability of…

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The Silo on the Dairy Farm

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 6

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Farmers and settlers Delegates. [To the Editor.]

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 2

SIR,—A hiteh has oce[?]red in the intinerary of our visiting officers as agreed to at the Casino meeting with the result that I have no afternative but to cancel that part…

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Struggling for Bread. Wheat Speculator's Boast. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 5

The Chicago wheat operator Mr. Patten, prophesies that before many months are past the people of Europe will be struggiing for bread in lamine-stricken que[?]es…

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Experimental Farms

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 3

THE Managers of the State Experimental Farms and their principal assistants are now in Sydney, and have been conferring with the…

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Grafton Experimental Farm

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 5

A FEW days age the Minister for Agriculture intimated that he had sanctioned a scheme for the extension of the Grafton Experimental Farm…

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Farmers and Settlers

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 2

ON Friday night next addresses will be given in the Town Hall, Casino, by two of the delegates from the New South Wales Farmers and Settlers' Association. Messrs…

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Co-operative Dairymen. Inter-state Conference

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 5

A CONFERENCE of members of the Cooperative Butter Companies' Association was held in Brisbane on Friday. Mr. H. Sinclair (President of the…

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Cattle King Kidman

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 3

AMONGST the visitors, and just as inconspicuous as any of them, at the fat stock sales in Sydney last week was Mr. Sidney Kidman. He was there to see…

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Butter Making. an English Opinion

Northern Star · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 4

"They' had a system in Australia, and in parts of New Zealand also, where the farmer had his own separator, and kept his own skim milk, but sold his cream to…

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Fall in Wheat Prices. London

Northern Star · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 3

The price of wheat in London has dropped from 6d to 1s per quarter…

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The Silo on the Dairy Farm. Ii. Constructions [?]

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 10

THERE are so many types of sil[?]s now usual in various parts of the world that I could not attempt to describe them all. There is the co[?]rete, the brick, the…

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The Price of Bread. Wheat Corner Weakening. a Fall in Prices. London, Wednesday Afternoon

Northern Star · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 3

In some of the English provincial markets wheat is selling at 50s. Bread is generally 6½d to 7½d per 41b, loaf…

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Farmers and Settlors' Association

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 4

TO-NIGHT (Friday) Mr. Patten (President of the F. and S. Association of N.S.W.) will address a public meeting in the Town Hall, Casino, on the benefits to be derived by the…

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Dairying on the Richmond

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 23 April 1909 · page 3

THREE years ago, residing with a dairy farmers on the Richmond River for a few weeks (says a writer in the Sunday Times), I came into possession of the…

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