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Blue Mountains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1919

10 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Anzac Holswich's Hard Luck. Dairy Herd Poisoned

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 January 1919 · page 4

No, 1. Comp. Sergt. Major Chas, Holswich, ex A.I.F., who runs the Wameela Dairy, Faulconbridge, had his herd put clean out of action, by some irritant poison on Xmas Day…

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Hints to the Fowl Farmer

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 31 January 1919 · page 6

In planning a fowl farm, it is highly desirable that there should be a good fall so that there may be no impediment to surface drainage; without this, good sanitation is impossible…

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In the Poultry Farm. The Moulting Season

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 8

Moulting among adult stock will now be fairly general on the Mountains. Some birds, indeed, will have already got over it. Those are the sorts that are worth keeping an eye…

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Local Apple Exhibit. Glen Farm's Gift. To Prince Alfred Hospital. Growers in Explanation

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 2 May 1919 · page 3

The display of apples in Mullany's window was, without doubt, a credit to the district, hundreds of visitors commenting most favorably upon its excellence. Unfortunately, a…

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Local and General. Knitting Wool

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 4 July 1919 · page 4

At Maples & Powell's. Just opened, a shipment of 4-ply Fingering Wool in grey and heather for knitting sox. Special price while it lasts, 6d per skein…

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Local and General. Knitting Wool

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 11 July 1919 · page 4

At Maples & Powell's Just opened it shipment of 4-ply Fingering Wool in grey and heather for knitting sox. Special price while it lasts. 6d per skein…

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Local and General. Knitting Wool

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 18 July 1919 · page 4

At Maples & Powells' Just opened a shipment of 4-pty Fingering Wool in grey and heather for knitting sox. Special price while it lasts, 6d per skein…

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Red Poll Cattle for Australia

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 3

A copy of the London "Live Stock Journal," which has come to hand, states that Red Poll cattle have entered upon an era of prosperity which is destined to be very…

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Rabbit v. 'Possum Farms

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 September 1919 · page 3

It is said that some men on the land are doing better with rabbits than with sheep, despite the high prices brought by wool. Before long…

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The Farmers' Candidate

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 21 November 1919 · page 7

Mr F. B. S. Falkiner, M.P. for Hume, is the Farmers and Settlers' candidate for the Senate of N.S.W., and President H. Trethowan claims…

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