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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1883

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Keeping Butter

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 April 1883 · page 3

PROFESSOR SHELDON'S lecture on "Milk and Butter, and How to Keep Them" has been made the subject of a communication to the Cultivator and Country…

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The Farmer. Tillage and Pasture

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 April 1883 · page 3

The exceptiocally favorable manner in which the season has opened thsi year with respect to a fair supply of autumn train, has enabled the preparatory sowing…

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Keeping Butter

Southern Argus · Saturday 28 April 1883 · page 6

Special interest in the proper place for keeping butter is manifested by at least three classes. First, the producer, who often…

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Annual Sheep Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 May 1883 · page 2
Also in Southern Argus

A COMMITTEE meeting of the Goulburn A., P., and H Society was held yesterday for the purpose of debating the desirability of holding a sheep show annually. Mr. Douglas occupied…

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Professor Sheldon on Dairy Farming

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 3 May 1883 · page 4

AT a recent meeting of the Newcastle Farmers' Club, in England, Professor Sheldon, of the Downton College of Agriculture, gave a lecture upon Dairy Farming, of…

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The Southern Argus. Published in Goulburn. Truth, ever lovely since the world began, The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.—CAMPBELL. Goulburn, Thursday, May 3. the Wheat Harvest

Southern Argus · Thursday 3 May 1883 · page 2

PERSONS interested in the raising of grain are at this season of the year anxiously watching for the statistics showing the yield of wheat in the colonics. By those published…

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Rural Column. the Science of Farming

Southern Argus · Saturday 5 May 1883 · page 4

THERE are a good many agriculturists in this colony who look upon the word "science" in connection with farming as though it possessed…

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Cross Breeding for Rust Proof Wheat

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 May 1883 · page 4

A paragraph appeared in a recent issue of, this journal having reference to a sample of Rust proof wheat, which Mr. J. C. Yeo, has bought for the purpose of…

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Yass Pastoral & Agricultural Association

The Yass Courier · Friday 11 May 1883 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the above society was held on Tuesday last Present--Mr. Rees Jones, (vice-president, in the chair), and Messrs. R. W. Pearson (hon. treasurer), Dodds,…

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The Farmer Tillage and Pasture

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 May 1883 · page 3

Good cultivation will surely pay in the and, and good deep ploughing is one point in good cultivation that cannot be neglected. Land that has been cropped…

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Wheat Averages

Southern Argus · Saturday 12 May 1883 · page 4

Mr. A. Allnutt, London, has published his usual diagram, showing the weekly fluctuations in the English prices of wheat for 1882,…

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The Farmer. Farm Hedges. No. I.

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 May 1883 · page 4

The season for planting hedges being at hand a few re[?] on the subject may not be out of place. Hedge planting has now became com[?] common in…

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Wheat Growing

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 6

THOUGH the low averages of the grain returns in Victoria and South Australia during the last two seasons have, doubtless, disgusted many farmers with wheat-growing,…

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The Farmer Farm Hedges. No. II

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 May 1883 · page 4

Of plants that require to be, or may be transplanted, the African Box, "[?] stands first on the list. by raising the plants in a garden a saving both of time…

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The Southern Argus. Published in Goulburn. Truth, ever lovely since the world began, The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.—CAMPBELL. Goulburn, Saturday, May 26. Wheat Sowing

Southern Argus · Saturday 26 May 1883 · page 2

The present month is the best of all seasons for sowing main crops of wheat, and as their future depends upon the manner in which the seed is got in, a few words in reference…

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The Farmer. Farmers' Gardens

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1883 · page 3

The time is Dear at hand when farmers who powers garden should set about getting them in order and filled with [?] and spring crops; while those who…

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Fodder Crops

Southern Argus · Saturday 2 June 1883 · page 4

As population increases and the demands for beef and mutton for export by the refrigerator ships becomes greater and greater, so will…

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The Crops

Southern Argus · Tuesday 5 June 1883 · page 2

Farmers in the Crookwell, Grabben Gullen, and Wheeo districts have got a considerable area of land under wheat culture this season, and are still engaged in ploughing…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association

Southern Argus · Thursday 7 June 1883 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held in the committeeroom on Tuesday afternoon. Present—Mr. Rees Jones (in the chair), and Messrs. T. Colls, B. A…

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