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Blue Mountains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

14 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Crossbred Wool Problem

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 28 January 1921 · page 8

Sir,—All raw material of any kind whatever. Is originated and created In Its raw (foundation) state pri-marily us the gift of God, man's…

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Scientific Squab Farm Road to Easy Money Via Crescent Lofts

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 2

There are two ways of breeding squabs. The one is to buy your parent birds anywhere and at any old price so long as they are cheap, and…

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Cows and Rows Rochester Rages Comes a Cropper

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 3

Arthur James Charles Rochester, George Phillips, Cecil Phillips, Stanley Wooten, and Thomas Mawdsley, formed a quota from Blackheath…

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Winter Schools for Farmers

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 May 1921 · page 3

Arrangements have been made for the annual Winter school for farmers to be held at Hawkesbury Agricultural College from June 21 to…

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Down on the Farm What the Sergeant Found

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 June 1921 · page 2

On March 9 Inst a lifting jack was conveyed from Pymble to Hazelbrook. Two or three days after its arrival at the latter station it had…

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Modern Dancing Wail From Wool Wool

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 2

Recently a party of country girls received a special invitation to "an evening" at Coolamon, and, judging by the protest of one of them…

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Local and General Katoomba and Elsewhere Sheep with Flash Teeth

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 4

From a Katoomba butcher's shop comes to this office a sheep's jawbone, the teeth in which are plated with gold. That fact does not…

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Woman Teachers Farming

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 2

The splendid work of Mrs. Cameron in preparing the boys at Arncliffe public school for the land has been brought under the notice of…

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Million Farms Scheme £30,000,000 SUBSIDY

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 2

A letter was read at the Shire Council meeting hold at Lawson on Wednesday, from the Million Farms Campaign Committee…

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Biffed the Butter-man An Indignant Digger Uses His Left

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 21 October 1921 · page 6

A battered butter-man, a humiliated Digger, and amused school-boy, and a non-commital chemist were the four principals in a lively story that…

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Million Farms Is Australia Suitable ?

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 21 October 1921 · page 3

A great and far-reaching scheme naturally calls down upon itself severe criticism. Now criticism is a most subtle thing; since—on the one…

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"Million Farms Scheme" Filling Our Empty Spaces Sensible Suggestions

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 4 November 1921 · page 2

Mr. Schleicher, of Hazelbrook, a valued correspondent, writes at length on the above all important subject:—…

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Real Aristocrats Come a Cropper After a Good Innings

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 18 November 1921 · page 2

There are several boarding-house keepers, and quite a score of sympathetic friends within the municipality who will read the following with…

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Million Farms Scheme

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 25 November 1921 · page 2

"Agricola" replies to the criticism of Mr. Schleicher:— It will be remembered that in my article on the Million Farms scheme…

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