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

Farming & the land, 1907

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Cattle Byproducts

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 3

Cattle furnish, besides food, no end of articles in common use. Your toilet or laundry soap is made from their grease; the curled, hair in your chair…

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Wheat Markets

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 1

Messrs. C. J. Potts and Co., report:-- Since our [?] advised the European [?] have confirmed to reported damage to the American winter wheat crop; reports from India [?]…

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Selection of Seed Wheat

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 2

A bulletin of importance to the farming interests has been issued at the Agricultural College of the University of California from the pen of Professor G. W…

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Dryden's Famous Medicines for Horses and Cattle

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 3

At the Royal Agricultural Society's Show in Sydney, Mr. A. Dryden was awarded the first order of merit for his horse and cattle medicines. A…

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The Markets. Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep Dearer

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 1

At the Homebush fat stock sales this afternoon there were 5269 sheep and lambs forward. They included a fair number of good, useful, trade…

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The One-Crop System of Farming

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 2

The one-crop system, wherever it is practised, means failure ultimately. This has been the story of agriculture since the world began. Of course, when the…

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The Cooper Sheep-shearing Machines and Fair-bank's Morse Oil Engines

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 3

A very fine display was made at the R.A.S. Show by the Cooper Co. Each day a number of sheep were shorn by the Cooper machines, the…

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Farm and Field. Bovine Tuberculosis

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 2

In an address at a recent meeting of the Dairymen's Association of Maine (U.S.A.), Professor F. L. Russell, of the local University, discussed the question…

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The Wool Report

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 4

Messrs. Schute, Bell and Co., Wool und Produce Brokers, 'Sydney, report under date, April 23 :-- A buoyant market was experienced…

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Schute, Bell & Co's Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 1

23rd April—A buoyant market wm experienced daring last week's auction sales, any description shore medium quality commanding particularly keen…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Approved Methods in Growing Peaches

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 2

WHEN starting an orchard, and after the trees have been set, there are two methods of culture or what may be termed cropping. The first consist in…

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Mushroom Farming in Paris

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 3

In daye gone by, before Paris was the collection of magnificent buildings that is to-day, and whilst the capital was in the making, the environs were being dug and…

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Farmers and Politics

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 4

The report of the executive of the Farmers and Settlers Association to be presented to the annual conference on July 9, contains some significant…

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Farm and Field. Waste in Seed Sowing

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 7

It is said of a famous mustard matter that he made a fortune--not out of mustard consumed, but out of that left uneaten on the plates. In like manner if…

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The Dairy. Hints From Nebraska

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 April 1907 · page 7

The cow end of the dairy business is the big end, and the most important. Here is where improvement is most needed, and where it seems slowest to…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 2

A MEETING of the committee of the Young Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held in the secretary’s office. Town Hall, on Thursday afternoon…

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Antwerp Wool Sales. London, April 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 2

At the Antwerp wool sales yesterday there was a fair attendance. Buyers were undecided, and bidding was without animation. Crossbreds were unchanged and merino showed a decline…

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Farm and Field. Fertilisers for Farm Crops

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 5

From a bulletin by Mr Arthur Goss on Fertilisers for Farm Crops, issued by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, the following extract is taken:--…

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The Dairy. When Cows' Teats Leak

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 5

Mr D. Hutcheson, Acting Director of the Department of Agriculture, Cape Colony, in answering a dairy farmer, whose well-bred Shorthorn cow was…

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The Markets. Wheat Markets

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1907 · page 1

Messrs C. J. Potts and Co., report :--The wheat market has coutinued to steadily advance during the past week and n large jun[?]ntity of Australian wheat has been sold at from…

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