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Blue Mountains · Farming & the land
81 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 1 of 5
Shearing by machinery is becoming universal throughout Australia. Even the smaller sheds have long since realised the advantages…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It does not do milk any good to remain in the udder too many hours after it is secreted neither does it do the cows any goo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers do not always expend their labors in the best direction one great fault often noticeable is the absence of a plot for home-grown vegetables. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers do not always expend their labors in the best direction. One great fault often noticeable is the absence of a plot for home-grown vegetables…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our object in submitting this article is to bring before the notice of pastoralists and woolgrowers generally the advantages to be gained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rabbits and mice often cause considerable damage to fruit trees by gnawing the bark. To prevent this, take one peck of quicklime and slake it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the early part of November last I visited Megalong and Gaylong in the Blue Mountains to see how far the well known European sheep-fly,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →That a Russian Orthdox priest should lead a revolt against the constitutional authorities--or such is the definition of a strike in Russian law--is the most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →From a lengthy table giving the results of all public sales of pedigreed beef cattle in the United-States during 1904, published by the "Breeders' Gazette"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New milk, as front the cow, is too valuable a product to feed calves, consequently separated milk has seen generally substituted, on which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There are six cardinal points to be observed, viz.:--(1) Breeding; (2) suitable feed and plenty of it; (3) calving; (4) good water supply; (5) cleanliness; (6)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An impression seems to exist amongst a good many dairy farmers that it is not preed but type, that m[?]es a good cow. "Pay no attention to breed, but look for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr Dawkins, chairman of the Gawier River Agricultural Association, S.A., gave a short address on Diseases of Wheat at a recent meeting of that body…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In response to an appeal for various articles for use on an African farm, a milking stool, with other things, was sent to a mission worker from England. He gave it to a Kaffir…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The secretary of an agricultural society is one of those people who must be specially gifted. Sometimes a society committee [?]ails to recognise this,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It may safely be said that the best of farmers do not farm as well as they know how, while many do not know how to farm as well as they would like. So…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Victorian Inspector of produce in London (Mr Peppard) has forwarded to the Secretary for Agriculture (Mr D[?]fus) the report of an interview he has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In response to an appeal for various articles for use on an African farm, a milking stool, with other things, was sent to a mission [?]from England. He gave it to a Kaffir,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To have a talk with the good farmers in your district is worth a good deal to you. In every district there are some farmers who possess a special knowledge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At every opportunity certain [?] politici[?] representing country districts, and also some of the Government dairy experts to the Commonwealth, make it a point to…
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